2-Day Team Trial Past Events

The 2-Day Team CCV Trial is an annual event hosted by Southern Rover Owners’ Club in Smuggler’s Country of deepest, darkest Sussex. The concept of a Team Trial was originally started by Ron Baker in 1994 to add a different element to CCV Trialling, where outside assistance is encouraged with team members allowed / encouraged to guide & direct each other through the sections, obviously without endangering themselves.

2026 2-Day Team Trial

The 2026 event is now done and over.  For 2026 the event returned to Deudneys Farm in Herstmonceux in Sussex, a site that has been used before, and will be the site for the 2027 event.

Yet again, the overall trophy was taken by drivers who travelled from elsewhere in the country to take part.  Our congratulations go to Connor Bruce and Richard Rowley (a collaboration between Midland and P&D) for winning overall.  The highest placed Southern team were Martin Leonard and Ben Green who finished 5^th overall.

We were blessed with good weather all weekend. Thanks go to the Clerks, Terry Buss and Dave Green who put in hours of work to provide the drivers with 20 sections to challenge their skill.  The sections offered a mix of thought-provoking sections with lots of choices to make and sections with big banks (up and down) and some with both in the same section.

As always, an event like this could not take place without a myriad of volunteers, some more visible than others, but all equally valuable.  The Event Director was Tom Constable and the Event Steward was Charles Darby.  Other officials were, Ron Baker, Graham Bridgeland, Diane Buss, Rod Catt, David Constable, Jake Farrington, Hilary Finney, Jaie Firrell, Dave Green (Ashford), Stephen Greenwood, Maxine Jarvis, Mark Legg, Deborah Luxford, Steve Smith, Chris Stokes, Jenny Tanton Brown, Alan Taylor, Greg Willig, Holly Willig and Judy Wilson.

The Sprit of the Event Award, decided by the Clerks of the Couse was awarded to Tom Constable for taking on the Event Director’s role and stepping in and completing every other task identified as without an ‘owner’ regardless of whether it was strictly in his ‘job description’.

For those who like to take a look at the Results, head over to our ‘Results Page’ where you can check out all the details.

2027 planning is already underway.  We will be returning to the same site, Deudneys Farm, and have Clerks in place, with Ron Baker, Greg Willig and Jamie Firrell stepping into that role.

So, for 2026, that’s a wrap – see you next year.

2025 2-Day Team Trial

So that’s another 2-Day CCV Team Trial in the can. Whilst the weather forecast was at best grim, the threatened thunder storms and downpours held off allowing for a couple of days of proper, tough trialling. As the saying goes, “give ’em enough rope and they will hang themselves”; Mick, George & Garry Chick and Steve Smith certainly gave them plenty of rope, options and choices galore but not all beneficial. Whilst those four guys were the Clerks, they couldn’t have done it without the support of the team behind them so here goes the roll call:-

The other Group Leaders were Thomas Constable (who also assisted with some of the laying out) and Dave Green (Ashford). The Steward was Paul Barton and the Scrutineers were Dave Canham and Charles Darby. Our Score Marshals were Diane Buss, Jenny Tanton Brown, Steve Greenwood and Tracey McCartney and our marshals that sometimes stood on a lonely outpost waiting for a customer to arrive were Jaime Firrell, Holly Willig, Graham Bridgland (another who did a lot to help lay out the event), Jake Farrington, Chris Stokes, Paul Davis, Judy Wilson, Dave Constable, George Baker, Ted & Bronwyn Greenfield, Chris Horn, Alan & Rhys Taylor, Shaun Lillywhite and Hillary Finney.

Some did one day, some did both, but we had lots more marshals on the Sunday than the Saturday. Maybe this is because word spread about the donation box at signing on for a Marshals Draw which raised nearly £100. Everyone that was signed on each day went into a draw and Thomas Constable and Holly Willig went away £50 better off. Paul Barton won the bodywarmer. Charles Darby won the Spirit of the Event award for doing some of those unsung jobs in the background and stepping forward and filling a breach when he saw one.

And finally, we must thank Madam Event Director Dawn Davis, supported by Ian Davis, who held it all together, spinning all the plates to keep everything moving along.

We also need to say thank you to our sponsors, Medway Fabrications and Westbury Signs.

Here are the results and well done to Neal Mellish and Richard Rowley for taking the trophy home, again. Whilst the organising machine may be taking it a bit easier at the moment, rest assured plans are already afoot for 2026 when we will do it all over again.

2024 2-Day Team Trial

Well that’s a wrap for this years edition of the SROC 2-Day CCV Team Trial. We had a full entry, a fantastic site and were blessed with some good weather. To put it simply, the sections were fantastic and as the saying goes, give someone enough rope… and there were plenty of top drivers hanging themselves. As the scores will show, a gentle scenic drive it certainly wasn’t, they had to work for it.

But it wouldn’t have happened without the commitment and effort put in by club members and a special thanks to those from other clubs that helped marshal.

So, the role call:-

• Event Director – Dawn Davis
• Clerks – Mick, George & Garry Chick
• Assisted by – Steve Smith, Charlie Newland, Dave Green, Thomas Constable and especially Graham Bridgland who was awarded the Spirit of the Event Award
• Steward – Paul Barton
• Scrutineer – Dave Canham
• Other officials – Jenny Tanton Brown, Stephen Greenwood, Tracey McCartney, Ian Davis, Franklin Ashe, Diane Buss, Ron Baker, Chris Stokes, Chris Horn, Dave Constable, Jamie Firrell, Judy Wilson & Hilary Finney from P&LRC, Deborah Luxford, Alan Taylor & Shaun Lillywhite.

Some had more than one role and hopefully we haven’t missed anyone. We couldn’t have done it without you.

We say thank you to Medway Fabrications and Westbury Signs who supported us and Nikki’s Burger Bar that fed us & the Kent Mobile Bar that watered us.
Of course we express our thanks to Libby & Chris Lawson who let us come and play on their land and who have invited us back next year.
And finally we should thank those that travelled from far and wide to take part, we hope you had a safe journey home or if you have stayed on for a couple days, enjoy your holiday. You have been gracious in your praise and we look forward to seeing you again. The planning is already underway. In the meantime here are the results from this year’s event and here are some photos.