Nick Elliott and David Price took a resounding victory on the Mid Wales Historic Stages (Sunday 2 March), the second round of the West Wales Rally Spares R.A.C. Rally Championship.Over 55 miles of classic Welsh forest stages, made slippery and extremely challenging by steady rain, Elliott and Price took control from the opening stage at Pikes Peak. With a 28s lead going into the final stage, Elliott took a steady approach and that helped Matthew Robinson/Sam Collis to pull back 10s to leave the margin of victory at 17.6s. Meirion Evans and Iwan Jones made it three Ford Escort Mk2s on the overall podium before the flying Sunbeam Lotus of Owen Murphy/James O’Brien.With 75 registered contenders starting the rally, the Newtown-based event set a new record for the R.A.C. Rally Championship and fans packed the stages to watch the action despite poor weather.Once again, Ray Cunningham and Gary McElhinney (Mini Cooper) were the stars of Category 1 as they saw off a very strong field to take the spoils and maximum points in the Aldon Automotive Mini and Imp Cup. Meanwhile, David Stokes and Guy Weaver (Ford Escort Mk1) made a strong championship debut to win Category 2.Other category winners included Darren Moon/Alan Walker (Ford Escort Mk2) in Category K and Simon Crook/Alister Crook (Opel Manta) in Category O.Category winners were:Category 1: Ray Cunningham/Gary McElhinney (Mini Cooper)Category 2: David Stokes/Guy Weaver (Ford Escort Mk1)Category 3: Nick Elliott/David Price (Ford Escort Mk2)Category K: Darren Moon/Alan Walker (Ford Escort Mk2)Category O: Simon Crook/Alister Crook (Opel Manta)The West Wales Rally Spares R.A.C. Rally Championship is the only championship that runs historics first on the road on all events.The Mid Wales Stages was organised by Newtown and District Automobile Club. A more detailed event report will be circulated during Monday (3 March).