Co-Drivers Course

Emma Clarke

Emma is Phil’s daughter and has been around rallying all of her life and had navigated on Motor Club scatters and a road rally previously before applying for her Motorsport Licence and attending our very first Co-drivers Course.

In 2023 Emma applied for and was accepted into the MSUK Co-drivers Academy and was asked to return for a second year in 2024. In 2025 Emma competed in 22 rallies including The Roger Albert Clark Rally, Killarney and Mull, all first class bucket list events for drivers and co-drivers – all of this alongside a full BTRDA season alongside John Bannister in a Subaru Impreza.

Marc Morgan

Marc had absolutely zero experience of co-driving and he also attended that first course. Marc’s first rally was the 2023 Phil Price Rally School Woodpecker Rally, very fitting we thought! Alongside Colin Griffiths he finished 25^th Overall in Colin’s Subaru Impreza STi N9, not your normal rally debut car!

Colin was so impressed with Marc’s preparation and organisation that they have now become a regular team on Welsh events, their best result being 9^th overall on the 2024 Wyedean Stages.

In 2025 Marc applied for and was accepted into the Co-drivers Academy. Since then, Marc has gone on to co-drive on national rallies, aided M-sport in WRC events around the world, and co-driven for Junior World Champion Romet Jurgenson on a development test.

Yvonne Walton Davies

Yvonne attended a course in June 2023 as a complete beginner. This is her story:

“Rallying has transformed my outlook on life, and I shall be eternally grateful to you Phil for your down to earth, inclusive manner in delivering your co-driver training course. The confidence you gave me at the outset inspired me to push on with the learning curve.

This year (2025) I have gained masses of experience over 26 rallies. I’ve done a few single venues, but prefer the bigger rallies, the closed road asphalt and the forest/gravel rallies. I’ve used all note systems, and am confident in switching between them in an instant, and have learned to translate them in my head whilst comparing notes with other co-drivers to iron out any queries or anomalies.

I’ve used a variety of timing systems too, including international FIA Timecards. I’ve also encountered a vast array of characters and temperaments of drivers and service crew.

I have learned a new degree of patience, diplomacy and calming(almost therapeutic) skills! Every crew and every rally has taught me a new and interesting dynamic, but on every event I have carried the knowledge that you instilled in me.

That foundation has empowered me to jump in feet first and do a meticulous job, both in the prepping and on the day, ensuring I’m always an asset in the car.

I’d love to think that I could inspire ladies of a certain age to try something outside their natural comfort zone, not necessarily motorsport related, but just something they may have thought was impossible or inaccessible to them.”

Ruth Birkin

Ruth attended a course in June 2024, she had experience of some Historic Regularity events but no special stage rallies. This is her story:

Ruth did her first stage rally, The Castle Combe Circuit Stage Rally in September 2024 co-driving in a Toyota Celica GT-4 with Graham Capper, they finished 48^th O/A & 6^th in Class.

On the 6^th May 2025 Ruth sent the following message to Course Tutor Phil Clarke.

“I just wanted to let you know my latest news. I did the Lincoln Green Stages at Fulbeck on Sunday and we were 3^rd O/A & 3^rd in Class.

The driver put a post on Facebook on Thursday as his co-driver had to pull out at short notice; I messaged him and got the seat! I’m so glad I did. Of course my best result and his too.

And when I produced a summary and schedule he said he wasn’t used to such professionalism!!

I’m hooked and its all thanks to you and John (Caine, long time instructor and now owner of The Phil Price Rally School).”

But then Ruth announced that she was going to be taking part in Britain’s most challenging special stage event the 2025 Roger Albert Clark Rally, over 300 stage miles in 5 days across Wales, England & Scotland.

Ruth would be sitting by Colin Smith in his Vauxhall Astra GSI 16V and was really looking forward to the challenge that five long days, including a forty mile last stage would bring!

Despite the ice, snow, fog and some mechanical gremlins the crew managed to bring the Astra home in 108^th(EWRC Results) from a seeding of 120.

Ruth on her Roger Albert Clark Experience:

“Your course was absolutely invaluable and I even had a couple of debates with marshals!”

Driver Colin said “Attention to detail in your management and service plans was excellent and appreciated by all, full of the exact information needed and your updates during the rally were spot on. In the rally car your calmness and professionalism was brilliant and certainly filled me with confidence at all times. I should also add that the road sections were so relaxing due to your total understanding of the route.”