Jason Pritchard and Phil Clarke emerged to take a fine victory on the DMACK Carlisle Stages (Saturday 21 June), the fifth round of the West Wales Rally Spares R.A.C. Rally Championship.From a field packed with quality, Pritchard (Ford Escort Mk2) topped a fierce battle that raged over six dry and dusty stages in the Kershope region as the top three crews were covered by 23 seconds and less than a minute covered the top six.Second to Pritchard were the very rapid Matthew Robinson and Sam Collis, while Meirion Evans and Iwan Jones turned in a fine performance on unfamiliar stages to take third overall. Crews were fulsome in their praise for the event, with first class forest stages and a compact format that included limited road mileage. The pace at the head of the field was tremendous and it could have been a different result had stage one pacesetter Matt Edwards not gone out on stage two with ignition failure.Graham Waite and Gill Cotton had a fine run in their Volvo Amazon to take Category 1 from the Lotus Cortina of Paul Mankin/Desmond Bell. However, a battle with the Mini Cooper of Ray Cunningham and Andrew Bushe ended when the Mini suffered a broken driveshaft on the penultimate stage.David Stokes and Guy Weaver turned in another accomplished performance to win Category 2 in their Ford Escort Mk2, while in Category O brothers Simon Crook and Alister Crook (Opel Manta) took another victory.Category winners were:Category 1: Graham Waite/Gill Cotton (Volvo Amazon)Category 2: David Stokes/Guy Weaver (Ford Escort Mk1)Category 3: Matthew Robinson/Sam Collis (Ford Escort Mk2)Category K: Jason Pritchard/Phil Clarke (Ford Escort Mk2)Category O: Simon Crook/Alister Crook (Opel Manta)In the concurrent DMACK Carlisle Modern Stages, victory went to the Ford Focus WRC of Quintin Milne and Martin Forrest from the Subaru Impreza of William Bonniewell and Neil Ewing.The DMACK Carlisle Stages was organised by the Roger Albert Clark Rally Motor Club Ltd. A more detailed event report will be circulated during Monday (23 June).