Who is doing what ?
Tavern are running the Finish in Speech House again....
Denise and I will be running a bit further back than Will so we will see tavern at Speech House a bit later on.
Andy Stephens and Nick Eccles are service/management crew for the day.
Speech house looks brilliantly different this year
Will,
it is always worth knowing where Lee Harding is going to be watching because he goes to potential accident spots. He will be in Chepstow Park in the morning about 2 miles in. On the notes it is on page 3 near the bottom reading "5L + 4L ! > C" (or something very similar). Apparently this is very deseptive and the trick is to keep on the inside of the bend.
If/when I find out where he will be in the afternoon I will try and text you. I won't know till Saturday during the event and even then it may be too late for you (being so early on the road).
Have a good one.
How many times have you gone round there with no problem without knowing it's on Lee's list?
All through noise test and scrutineering OK. After restuffing the exhaust because Denise thought it sounded a bit loud we passed noise with 92dB. Speccies will not hear us coming on the stages. We were at Chepstow in plenty of time and were 10th in the queue in the sun instead of snow this year.
Spoke to Pauline & Phil Wilkinson from Tavern.
As I type this the car is in the car park at Chepstow race course and hopefully will still be there tomorrow.
Rally report on Sunday.
A good day generally. A great morning and a couple of problems in the afternoon including hitting a tree. Managed to keep or position we had held all day of 2nd in class and 61st overall.
The Serridge and Speech House stages are worth building a rally car for own their own. Serridge was ballistic. We spent more time flying than on any other stage ever. I spotted we were pulling 7500rpm in 4th gear on the tarmac section which equates to 97mph. We hit the same speed on the gravel in Serridge and probably over 100mph in Speech House.
It was good to see all the Taverners out competing, marshalling and watching the event.
Hopefully I will do a fuller report tomorrow.
Patch is fine thanks.... just been back to the eye hospital to have the rust removed ... all ok just a bit itchy now !!
Servicing was good with Andy for Alan and Denise, especially as the car was reliable meant no hassle for us leaving plenty of time for Bacon/breakfast butties !
I saw the aftermath of the Evo off and i'm glad i didn't see the accident. Not the sort of thing I'm interested in seeing.
Lets just say the co driver is a very lucky lad.
A list of all the tavern members we knew were in the Forest of Dean yesterday.
Competing - Alan + Denise, Will, Jim + Dave, Simon + John, Phil Wilkinson
Marshalling - BT, Phil + Maureen, Milko, Steve (Eccles)
Servicing - Andy , Nick, Mundens crew???
Watching - Lee, Shaun, Steve (Conner), Keith
Others - Pauline Gullick
20 + members. Not bad!
Sorry if I have missed anyone.
Okay so not a great event. All was looking good. Julian was giving a well measured push through Chepstow Park. We caught Middleton just after the mid-point and so we backed off slightly more to get through the first one. As we passed him, the diff decided to try and get out through the casing, and so it was game over (Same problem which we had on the North Humberside). We managed to get through the stage, fastest 1400, but to no avail really. It was seriously muddy in there, but we were really focused for serridge and speech house. Never mind, there's always another day!
Stupid off. I couldn't get my brain to tell my foot to come off the brake pedal.
mind you if I had hit the tree with the side of the car at the same speed there would have been a hell of a lot more damage.
I found a better clip. This one has Andy Burton going off at the beginning of the clip and us getting it right at the very end (last car in fact).
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_qGfJz_zX0g
You were right it does sound loud on the stages but at home on Sunday taking it up to 4500rpm as per noise test it sounds OK.
Alan i have found 2 more clips of you but dont know how to do a link
1st GTAMADDOG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sKBebYMM-E sallowvallets? 1min 21 secs in
2nd dodger 1275 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-WHN2elo8 just you in speechouse
And there is a good compilation by Forester TV Highlights and Crashes(not serious)
Enjoy
I didnt know it did the links for you clever stuff.
The bottom link is wrong and doesnt work so just search for dodger 1275(you tube obviously) and you will find his full clip at 6mins+ and a couple of single clips including 1 of yourself.
Thanks Keith there is some good coverage here. Looks like there are some very good places to watch in Serridge too!
Good to see Alan & Denise going well and getting a good result,the engine rebuild and modifications all worthwhile.
Would have liked to have seen you go through Speech House but after 30mins had passed after the accident and still no sign of the stage restarting we decided to call it a day.
Link to the report in my local paper The Wells Journal. They always put a report in if I write it.