About Pennine Land Rover Club.

 

Pennine Land Rover Club was one of the 1st Off-road clubs formed in the UK.

Having been set up in the mid-sixties by 2 brothers from giggleswick, near Settle in North Yorkshire.

The influences of Pennine LRC were far reaching from the start : it was a founding member of the ARC (now the ALRC) and the

club helped to think up many of the trialling rules and some more of the unusual events such as point-to-points.

The club reached its peak intake in 1985 when it had an impressive 500 members and 100 associates, Although numbers are currently

down on that to around 100 members, Club Chairman Mark Barnes has noticed that interest in the club is `getting better all the time`.

The proof of this is that hits to its website www.penninelrc4x4.co.uk is increasing all the time to hundreds of hits per day. Club member

Chris Hadaway and his daughter Jemma took over the websites development early 2007 and by keeping the site regularly updated and

 having Shot In Digital - Motorsport Photography looking after its galleries it continues to draw in the crowds with new spectators turning up

to each event. Many of which leaving the days action with thoughts of building there own Trialler to compete in, and if building a

motor of your own sounds a bit drastic, there are events* where budding competitors are permitted to sit in as a navigator to get a taste

of what its all about  (*Subject to day membership and at the request of any driver choosing to allow a new navigator to help out).

 The club atmosphere is relaxed but competitive. Someone's always there if something goes wrong. If a competitor breaks down, there will

always be a bunch of people around to help you carry on and lend as many hands as it needs to try and repair your motor.

The rules are also quite relaxed - The normal trial rule  of "Stop and you're out" doesn't apply. Pennine normally allow a three-second rule,

Where you can keep going as long as you're trying.

Keen to form an alliance with other Land Rover clubs in the area, the Northern Trialing League was invented to get northern clubs to play

together. Since becoming chairman one of Mark Barnes's biggest project has been to reinvigorate this event by encouraging more clubs

to join Pennine. An increasing number of clubs are entering, this years Northern League starts at Haggate on the 15th & 16th of March.