The Boss – Rick Smith – rick@xenogamy-plc.co.uk Rick is not only the C of C for the event, but also responsible for arranging all the major sponsorship and marketing activities on the event. So if you want to benefit from an association with possibly the biggest rally event in England then get in touch

Advertising & Sponsorship – Alex Mellon - alex.gmellon@yahoo.co.uk - Alex has been actively involved as a sponsorship and public relations consultant in motor sport for over 30 years; he is  one of the prime movers in establishing this event as being the most professionally run National Rally, in his capacity as Promotions Manager, coordinating sponsorship and advertising sales around the event. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigious Fairman Trophy for his efforts and services to motor sport generally

Competitors – Chrissie Chorley rallye@xenogamy-plc.co.uk - Chrissie has been involved in motor sport for over 30 years, both as a competitor and as an administrator. She has been involved with this event since 1984 and she is the competitors' first port of call for all information

Safety Officer – Neil Roden - safety.officer@rallyesunseeker.co.uk - Working with the Chief Medical Officer, the Radio Controller, and the Spectator Safety Officer, and in liaison with the police and ambulance services, I ensure that we have good safety and contingency plans, and that fully-trained medical, radio, rescue and recovery personnel are deployed to handle any incident on the rally

Route Public Relations – Chris Powis - chrisnjan@cpowis.fsnet.co.uk Route Public Relations involves ensuring that the local authorities and residents on the route are aware of and content with what we do. At an individual level it entails notifying some 65 residents within the forest boundaries and 450 Forestry riding permit holders individually of timings and the route through the forests. Three weeks prior to the Rally, we place about 300 notices at forest entrances and footpath/bridleway access to the stage routes advising forest users of the event. It is also our task to make sure that as little trace as possible remains after the event.

CLO – Rob Alderman - rob@alderman86.freeserve.co.uk - Rob Alderman has been involved in rallying for over 20yrs, he started his career with navigational rallies, he then moved to stage rallying where he has competed in both seats, currently preferring the driving seat. Rob has worked for Prodrive for 12 years, he has worked on the Subaru WRC Team and the Honda and Ford Mondeo Touring Car Teams. Rob now manages the Electrical department where he has a team of 9 Technicians, building all of the WRC and Race Wiring Looms

CLO – Mike Broad - mikeandsue2727@hotmail.com - Motorsport..President of BTRDA,and Quinton M.C.Ltd. .Vice President Southern Car Club Ltd.Chairman of Rally Championship Steering Group and member of MSA Council.Former BRC Champion Co-driver with Russell Brookes in 1985.Former Works co-driver for amongst others,  Walter Rohrl,Simo Lampinen,Per Eklund,Tony Pond,Andrew Cowan,Malcolm Wilson,Dave Metcalfe,Jimmy and Colin McRae.

Security & Car Parks – Bryan Maddern - bryan@bkssecurityservices.co.uk Bryan has been involved with the Rallye for the last 5 years, initially just supplying uniformed security officers from the security company he set up with his wife namely BKS Security, last year he was invited and joined the organising committee as the security and car parks manager. A cool calm collective individual with all the flare and passion that we the organising team needs .

Business Manager –Chris Morford (Morf) business@rallyesunseeker.co.uk . Responsible for operation of the Business Club and providing support services to the Marketing Team, Motorfair and the events commentary team. He has also worked on events in the British Rally Championship, Belgian National Championship and Caribbean Championships. As a co-driver he has competed on events in the U.K, Europe and the Far East .

Chief MSA Scrutineer – Lee Fowler- lee@rallyesunseeker.co.uk He has been a Scrutineer on this event since 1987 and took over the roll of Chief in 2004, in charge of team of Scrutineers responsible for checking the mechanical state of vehicles both in regard to compliance with the Regulations and the latest MSA safety requirements and ensuring that vehicles are maintained in an eligible and safe condition throughout the event.

Chief Marshal – Matt Fowle - mattmdfowle@yahoo.co.uk Rallye Sunseeker requires around 1000 volunteers to run. 750 of these are stage marshals and it is the chief marshal's job to recruit these people. This starts by finding a stage commander for each and they will normally supply their own start crew from their club. I will then find a finish crew for each stage and the marshals to man the post with in the stage. Many of these come from the south's motor clubs.

Matt started competing in road rallies in the 1980's and by the early 90's had moved on to forest events and the Peugeot challenge; he won his class on the BTRDA championship in 99 and 2000. For the last few years he has mainly done Enduro events - wining the 2004 Lombard rally. A total of 250 rallies from national B up to WRC, at minus 30 degrees in Norway to fair to hot in Barbados . As well as driving he also navigated the winning car in the 2004 HRCR championship. He joined the Rallye Sunseeker team as Chief Marshal in 2003 having been a stage commander for a number of years.

Motor Fair Manager/ Somerley – Penny Mattocks - Motorfair@rallyesunseeker.co.uk Motor Fair Manager Penny Mattocks has been in motor sport administration for 14 years, at Rally, Circuit, Hillclimb and Sprinting events of all grades - from F1 to small Club meetings.  She has worked for car manufacturers and clubs and represented competitors, trade, sponsors, organisers and media.  She will endeavour to understand your requirements and work for your best interests.  Just ask.

Deputy Clerk of the Course – Administration - Rob Pike - Robert@pulmolink.co.uk As one of the Deputy Clerks, Rob's main responsibility is to oversee and co-ordinate the administration of the event, away from the stages. As such, Documentation on the Friday falls within his remit, where his experienced and helpful team will endeavour to help you pass through the necessary signing on process as efficiently and painlessly as possible. During the event, Rob will be on hand around the Service Area Regroup Controls. Working alongside the CLO's, Rob investigates and deals with any judicial issues or competitor queries that may arise. “It is always our intention to deal with any problems as soon as they occur in a professional, fair and even-handed manner to avoid unnecessary delays and confusion at the end of the day's sporting activity”. Rob's final duties involve providing the Stewards with the requisite pre- and post event documentation.

Rob started competing as a road rally navigator for his father, Derek, at the earliest possible age of 14, moving up to stage rally co-driving, marshalling and organising at 16. His subsequent two dozen years of motorsport participation include competing on gravel and tarmac events from single venues to International modern and historic rallies in Belgium and Holland, as well as assisting the Media Services facilities management on WRC's and Formula 1's British rounds. His “petrolhead” son, George, who celebrates his 4 th birthday during the week of Rallye Sunseeker, has already earmarked his dad as his co-driver for Rallye Sunseeker 2021

Service Area Manager - Paul Smith - serviceboss@rallyesunseeker.co.uk My name is Paul Smith and I am the Rallye Sunseeker Service Area Manager.

I've been involved with Rallye Sunseeker , in one way or another now, for over 20 years and competing and organising in Motor Sport generally for nearer 35 years. I hope I bring my experience in the Sport to good use to produce, with my dedicated team of helpers, a well set out and organised service area. A lot of you will already know me not only from Rallye Sunseeker but also from my work with the results teams on most of the other ANCRO rounds and several BRC rounds as well.

I will be at the Service Area all the time that it is open so if you have any problems while you are there please do come and find me so that I can help you out. As in previous years I will try and make contact, prior to the Event, with all Team Managers so please make sure that you give a clear email contact on the Service Form when submitting your entry.

If you have any early problems or are in need of any advice over service arrangements prior to the Event please contact me via my Rallye Sunseeker email address of:  serviceboss@rallyesunseeker.co.uk Hoping to see you, old friends and new, in February 2008.

Scrutiny Operations Manager - Bill Russell - billrussell@ntlworld.com Bill has had a varied career in Motor sport since the late 60's. He mainly competed in road and stage rallies as Driver then Navigator but also took part in PCT's, Auto tests and Autocross. He's been involved in the organisation of the same range of events and has been stage commander on a number of RAC stages including the big ‘Spectator' Stages of the 70's/80's. Now retired, Bill has taken on the more gentile role of managing the Scrutiny Operations. With a dedicated band of marshals the aim is to get competitors and their cars smoothly through the scrutiny process. Although failure to comply with the MSA Technical regulations may cause a few individual problems.

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