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| |  | Posted: Wednesday 25 June 2008 - 12:08:23 |    |  | | | | |  Friday the 13th and we are going rallying, it’s bound to go wrong! Everyone and everything arrived on time at scrutineering, no problems, documentation no problems, we were done and dusted by 5pm. Car back on the trailer and away by 5:15pm and back at our hosts (Aux service crew Rob and Helen) in Tuxford by 6pm. No maps to do, as we were going to give the pace notes another go. In the pub by 7:30 and a dinner of curry and everyone was resting easy. With VH1 on in the background the scotch out we talked on into the evening, of old friends and rallying tales. As the grandfather clock in the hall chimed twelve we started to think it was about time to retire and rest ready for trials of the next day.
Helen had kindly offered to put sandwiches up for everyone. With Friday the 13th out of the way and Saturday the 14th now 15 minutes old, we turned in for the evening and Helen popped out to the 24 hour Tesco a few miles away for provisions. The 24 hour Tesco is no longer 24 hours, it closed at midnight, okay maybe Friday the 13th was just trying to have the last laugh.
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| | | | | Posted: Sunday 08 June 2008 - 14:29:24 | | | | Sherwood Forest is all well and good but it is a bit point and squirt and 1.4 mile stages. Perhaps that's why we were doing quite well before we broke the car. So for a stiffer challenge why not try a real forest like Radnor!!
An event with just 5 stages doesn't seem like value for money, but when you consider SS3 Radnor was 18 miles long, this was from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Determined our rallying was now well and truly based on the social aspects, we would not be interested in how we were doing the next guys time etc.... (yea, right!). We found a fantastic B+B just north of Builth Wells, had curry and beer as part of the pre-event preparation, everything was going to plan.
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| | | Posted: Tuesday 11 March 2008 - 13:31:50 | | | | | | | Following almost 3 years in the wilderness (without a rally car in sight), Neil Andrew and Mark Spavin climbed back into a rally car last weekend. The Sierra was a bit rippled from all the previous excitement, but the rebuild had seen the old “trick” 12 valve V6 replaced with a fairly stock Cosworth 24 Valve V6 giving an uplift in power to around 280BHP.
The car had nearly been out of action for as long as the crew, getting it's first MOT for 3 years just 3 weeks ago. A few easing back into action teething problems surfaced, starter motor would not engage to turn the engine, alternator failed, and the cooling was a bit unknown??
The starter motor, battery and alternator were replaced with new (rare for us) and the week before the event the bits for the MSA changes for the past 3 years, turned up. With all the requirements for MSA complete we even had time to fit a new handbrake lever, one of those posh vertical jobs next to the gear lever (you know that this will all end in tears one day!!). The car had a few squirts up and down the lanes of Staffordshire, to claims of "God that is quick!" (maybe we are getting slow?).
So it with a lick of paint, new engine, some flash bits added, the same old driver and navigator were to be re-installed!!!
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| | | | | Posted: Sunday 25 March 2007 - 16:08:25 | | | |  The championship tables have been updated following the March 12 car. The results are closed but the scribe (article submission) points have not yet been awarded in the championship standing.
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