The debut of the Repsol-Jolly Club was quite successful when Alberto Ruiz Gim�nez, accompanied by his co-driver Jaime Segovia and driving a Lancia HF 1300, came in at an overall third in the general classification; at the same time, Eladio Doncel with his co-driver Ren� (Manolo Fern�ndez Parero), using the same car came in fourth, while the third vehicle of the Repsol Motor-racing team, the Lancia Zagato, driven by Jaime Lazcano was forced to abandon the circuit when his car veered out of control resulting in his co-driver, Ricardo Mu�oz, having to be rushed, unconscious, to� hospital in Barcelona. Fortunately the future driver and journalist was not seriously hurt in the incident.

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The season continued with the Vasco-Navarro Rally, an event which proved particularly difficult in 1969 due to the persistently heavy fog covering most of the route. This race saw Ruiz Gim�nez finishing in third place once again, with Doncel right behind him, while the Lancia HF, driven by Lencina, was forced to drop out due to a broken petrol injection pump.

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In the meantime, the circuit results were quite different both in terms of the Porsche 907, driven by De la Pe�a, and the Porsches 911 L and R, driven by Julio Gargallo and Jaime Lazcano. These drivers were defeated not only by the superior techniques of their rivals, but also by mechanical faults which plagued the team cars. General all-round success was only achieved in autocross races, principally abroad, with� Alberto Ruiz Gim�nez coming in first in the Cesana-Sestrieres and Trento-Bondone races, and third in the Mont Ventoux, etc., while in Spain the Asturian, Julio Gargallo, won the race in Naranco, and� Jos� de la Pe�a, shone in the mountain passes of Canencia and Morcuera, located in the province of Madrid

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As the season advanced, the Spanish Rally Championship became more and more complicated for the Repsol-Jolly Club Team, which realized that the technology of the Lancia HF, rented from the Jolly Club, was just not in the same league as the Porsche 911. This is why, in a rally like that of R.A.C.E., Ruiz Gim�nez was unable to better his fourth position and likewise in some of the other most important rallies such as Firestone, comparable to the Costa Brava, the R.A.C.E. or the European Championship in terms of importance, it was Eladio Doncel who came third in an Alfa Romeo GTA with 160 horsepower. In his second season driving the Porsche 911, Ruiz Gim�nez was forced to abandon the race when the six cooling cylinders literally fell from the engine to the ground, a twist of fate that was to cost him a lot at the end of the season.

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The 2000 Virajes and Barcelona-Andorra rallies were not particularly splendid for the team ambitions either. In the former, with the crucial point situated in the city of Manresa, Jos� Manuel Lencina showed that he was still capable of squeezing the Lancia HF 1300 for all it was worth, ending in fourth place, a position which he managed to repeat in the Barcelona-Andorra rally, but this time in the seat of an Alfa Romeo GTA of the 2nd group. However, bad luck prevailed for Doncel and Ruiz Gim�nez, whose Porsches experienced mechanical problems in both rallies and were forced to abandon the races as a result of broken clutches, alternators and transmission axle shafts. It was also in the Barcelona-Andorra Rally, when� Ruiz Gim�nez, who had strong possibilities of gaining fourth place, lost any chances of the 1969 championship when, in the last lap, a bearing of his 911 broke.

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The season was coming to a close and there remained little to do for that year. Nonetheless, the strong presence of the Repsol-Jolly Club team made itself felt in the last Rally of the championship, participating with no less than four cars: two Porsche 911�s and two Lancia HF 1300�s, although all effort was in vain as the last event of the season ended in farce, when all four drivers abandoned the race; Alberto Ruiz Gim�nez (Porsche), due to an accident caused by the fog; Eladio Doncel (Lancia Fulvia HF), as a result of electrical failures and brakes problems; Jos� Manuel Lencina (Lancia Fulvia HF) because of lack of attendance in the Jolly Club, and Julio Gargallo (Porsche 911 R), thanks to a bearing breakage.

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The season of 1969 was, in all, one in which everything was tried. There were numerous participations in foreign events, only one of which was successful, that of the 10 lap, 72 kilometre circuit of La Targo Floria in Sicily, which saw Ruiz Gim�nez, in a Lancia Zagato, come in first in his class, and Doncel, in a Porsche 911-S, won in an higher category, the GT.

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The effort had been made, but the final result of the Spanish Rally Championship of 1969, saw Jos� Mar�a Palomo, of the Tergal Motor Racing team,� take the title in a Porsche 911 RS, while the head of the Repsol Motor-racing Team, was classified third in the championship.