Loren works closely with the rest of the HQ and on-event support teams to deliver memorable rally experiences for our members and competitors, with a focus on the hospitality side of our events amongst her varied responsibilities. 

Loren has travelled extensively around the world over the last 20 years, with notable highlights including trekking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, watching the sunrise over the Himalayas and an up-close encounter with a baboon in Lake Nakuru National Park!

With son Mark as principle navigator they enjoyed great success, culminating in winning the Safety Devices Road Rally Championship in 1997.  Since then Dick has competed regularly on continental road rallies with the Mini, notable results including a win on the Poppy Rally, 1^st 1300cc on the Monte Carlo Historique, and 4^th on the Horneland Rally.  When he retired from his work as a Civil Engineer in 2008 he started to specialise in navigating course cars on longer rallies for Historic & Vintage cars.  He now spends much of his time navigating, route checking and reporting in the advance cars on major events having done two Trans Americas, 2 Peking to Paris and events in South America, South East Asia and India as well as many events in Europe including 7 Winter Trials.  He finds the ‘adventure’ exciting and the contribution to making a rally ‘perfect’ for the competitors most satisfying.

John and Gill have been competing regularly in rallies at all levels ever since, both as a team and separately. They competed in the early days of historic rallies including many of the late, great Philip Young’s events, with John having navigated 5 times on the Monte Carlo Challenge. Gill navigated Alastair Caldwell to victory in the 2002 London to Athens, and Jane Edgington to 8^th overall in the 2012 London to Cape Town World Cup Rallies. Gill has also co-driven on many International rallies including 3 RAC Rallies.

Over the years both Gill and John have been involved in the organisation of rallies, Gill having been Secretary of the UK’s biggest Rally Championship for 15 years. Their involvement in organisation of long distance rallies started in 2015 when they joined the “Road to Mandalay” team, and since then they have been on the team of a number of events. 

Having made so many friends in the “rally family”, they are really looking forward to exciting new adventures with the Rally the Globe team.

After his early rallying career, he decided to take a break and instead focus on, in Rikki’s words, “girls and horses”.

Rikki returned to rallying in 1990, taking part in a couple of historic road rallies before he started Historic Stage Rallying.

He has won numerous rallies in Great Britain and has also been British Historic Champion (Category One) many times. Rikki’s most memorable rally experience is winning his class on the Silver Fern in New Zealand.

Rikki has many favourite tales from his rally experiences – which he is happy to share over a gin and tonic in the bar at the end of a rally day!

With the advent of the HRCR and Classic rallying Paul dug his ageing MGB out of the shed and embarked on driving with son Matthew navigating. They competed in many events in the UK, and a number of overseas events, with regular top 5 positions. 

Paul has also helped organise more than 30 local club rallies in the South West, including the Palladwr Rally which developed from a road rally to a classic road rally, and the Great Bustard Rally, an endurance event.

He developed a warm relationship with Philip Young whilst competing in Philip’s World Cup Category and Endurance Category rallies in his MGZR Endurance rally car.  Since retiring from full-time work, Paul has been part of the organising team on many long distance events, including three Peking to Paris, two Trans America, The Road to Mandalay, The Road to Saigon and many others. Roles have included deputy clerk of the course and advance car. He has also driven a course car on 6 Wales Rally GB’s.

Paul was a Partner in one of the global accounting firms but unsurprisingly finds rallying much more interesting than auditing. He still competes now and again in the MGZR,and also the trusty MGB.

Jack started working for himself 10 years ago, specialising in the preservation and reliability improvements of vintage sports cars.

He has also taken part in a number of rallies all over the world, as both a co-driver and as mechanical support crew.