Melvyn Evans co-driven by Aled Davies will contest his first ever gravel rally in a 4 wheel drive car when he drives the ex-Will Nicholls car that has recently been acquired by customer Berian Richards.
Having won his class last time out on a gravel rally which was the 2002 red kite stages, Evans came fouth overall in a Escort Mk2. Melvyn will be seeded at Number 1 as the crews will tackle 4 different stages than normally used as the rally was initially postponed due to bad weather in january. They will tackle Brechfa west which has recently been used in the WRC, and a stage around Caio forest, which has been used on the quinton rally frequently over the last few years in the BTRDA, providing 2 tough stages repeated twice during the day.

2 Cars from the Melvyn Evans Motorsport rally team will travel over for the 2009 PAPERCLIX Jersey Rally, The team also has a special guest member for this weekend with former navigator of Colin McRae and Juha Kankkunen, Nicky Grist sitting in with Peter Lloyd at car 2. At Car 8 in a Subaru Impreza GpA is Jersey rally regular Berian Richards who will be co-driven by Frank Curtin, Richards has come close to winning in Jersey in the past and hopes to finally clinch it this weekend. Peter Lloyd is strong favourite to take the win, but stiff competition will be received from Simon Mauger and many more drivers. The results after Day 1 are:

Peter Lloyd/Nicky Grist 45.53
Simon Mauger 45.59
Anthony Wilmington 46.06
Leonard 47.22
Harvey 48.10
Berian Richards/Frank Curtin 48.29
Dave West 48.30