Organisers Arnold lane and Cliff Morrell had the god of the weather on their side for Falcon's Brickhill Trial on 15th October. There had been a fair bit of rain during the preceding week. But it was dry for the setup on Saturday and a calm, pleasant day for the trial itself. Competitors were to see some different sections, as Brickhill also gets used by some of the local 4WD clubs and the wood in particular was heavily rutted. However, for every section they damage they open another one up so it doesn't work out too badly.

There was an early morning disaster when the catering van didn't show but this was soon forgotten once the event got underway. The early morning dew made the grassy sections very slippery and Dave Smith took an early lead in his Tempest, with John Parsons snapping at his heels. Brickhill master Mike Pearson had an uncharacteristic bad morning, battling with Simon Robson for third place. As the day wore on there was more and more grip and the organisers progressively tightened things up. This certainly suited JP who was able to put the power and grip of his Type 4 engined Buggy to good effect in the sandy areas.

Dave held onto his lead and went into the last round having only dropped 20 marks, five fewer than JP. Then there was a gap before Mike Pearson, Simon Robson, Geoff Hodge, Ross Nuten and Keith Oakes who were all within five points of each other. It looked as if Dave was home and dry but everything was to change when an inspired JP went clear on all but hill six while Dave lost a succession of marks on five of the eight hills and Mike Pearson went clean on everything.

So JP was the overall winner, followed by Mike Pearson who won the award for Best Falcon and Geoff Hodge who won the class. Elsewhere, Mark Tompkins won the other Clubsport class and David Holmes the national B event.