Border counties rally

[ScoobyAndy]

Good evening all. just got back from the rally. bumped into a couple of people. Saw Andy F walking past, met sum1 from Galasheils (black 59 prodrive) and the owner of B 1 DOB that found it very hard to shake me off his tail.

Hope everyone had a great day.

Andy

[corsa]

Official statement

"An incident occurred in Kielder Forest on the Buck Fell special stage of the Brick & Steel Border Counties Rally at 10.15am on Saturday morning. Alan Barr the driver of a Subaru Impreza suffered a suspected heart attack and, as he was nearing the end of the stage, elected to drive to the finish. Within 200 yards of the finish, the driver collapsed causing the car to leave the road and roll over.

The rally emergency services were on the scene almost immediately and took both crew members to the ambulance rendezvous point in Kielder village. From there, they were airlifted to Newcastle General Hospital where the driver is currently receiving treatment."

My thoughts and best wishes go to Alan Barr and hope he is well and makes a speedy recovery.

Davie Hatrick

and all at GMC-MOTORSPORT

[ScoobyAndy]

Here here! best wishes.

[MCCRASH]

I was hardly trying mate - damn road angel kept falling off the dash and had one hand on that trying to fix it in place - Only so fast you can go on such a windy road. Still you did well - credit where its due.

Someone told me the guy had died during the day so very glad that was not true. Also hope those involved in the road crash are ok too.

Very well organised rally and a good day.

[imprezapete]

Sorry to hear about this, Andy was telling me when he was coming back from the rally.

Hope he has a speedy recovery

[ScoobyAndy]

lol damn road angel's more trouble than it was worth today then! thanx for that, cant wait to get my scooby the "wee toasters" boaring now. tho was having fun kepping up with u. take it your fairly local then going by where u turned off the 68 at? iam down in dalkeith.

as far as iam aware anyway those concered survived. here's hoping that it stays that way!

[paulc555]

thoughts are with alan...and bill ....

corsa I touch goats.

[corsa]

Just to let the rally world know that Alan barr lost his fight for life at 4am this morning.

Our thoughts are with his wife Moira and the kids and all at Albarr rally team at this very sad time.

From all at GMC-MOTORSPORT

[p3dro]

Sorry to hear that.

[2559B]

sad news mate

[wrxmania]

A real shame - not good for his family or for the morale of the sport

[spooks]

Sorry to hear this

Thoughts go out to friends an family.

Spooks

[derek_robertson]

Sadly missed,my thoughts are with his wife & family.

Rallying has lost another sporting gent

Del

[gordon_kerr]

Extremely sad news, i am sure i speak for all when i say our sincerest thoughts are with his wife and kids, god bless you all !!!

I would like to arrange a one minutes silence in Alans memory on sunday at the march run, i will start another thread to make sure this is observed.

Condolences once again.

Gordon

[corsa]

This was a reply posted by Alan barrs navigator and long time friend Bill Ballantyne on one of the rally forums;

"As you all know, Alan suffered a major heart attack during last weekend's Border Counties Rally and despite all efforts, died at 4am on Friday 25th March.

Our thoughts must now be with Moira, Ashley and Pamela, Alan's mother, sisters and family.

At times like this, people always say to "remember the good times". It shouldn't be too hard; with Alan, they were all good times. I'm fortunate to have 30 years worth!

We would appreciate it if you could leave a goodwill message or your thoughts in our guestbook at Book of Condolance as well as here. We also hope to have this thread saved to allow your messages of sympathy to be passed to the family.

Details of the funeral arrangements will be posted on our website in due course.

Once again our thanks to all involved in caring for Alan over the last week.

Bill Ballantyne