..........WE ARE NOT MEETING AT THE CARPENTERS TAVERN - SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS..................
In previous years this event has been a round of the BTRDA Championship but it is not a qualifying round in 2008.
It is however a round of the ASWMC, ANWCC and Welsh Rally Championships.
The whole event is on one day with the first car away from the Rally HQ and start at Walters Arena at 10:30 and due to finish back at Walters at 14:45 having done 6 stages, Rheola, Walters Arena and Resolven twice with one service, no management cars, 43 stage miles and 62 road miles.
Denise and I have managed to be entry number 1 and I have spoken to Jim Munden and he is planning on doing it with the Subaru. I assume there may be other entries from the Munden crew as well.
It would be a good event to go and watch or marshall so hopefully we will see some of you there in four weeks time. I had better get on and put the car back together after hitting a tree on the Wyedean.
So far Tavern entries are me, Jim, Simon & Richard Baker (Tavern???)
There are only 28 entries so far for the event so I hope it runs.
Apparently there are now over 40 entries although only 35 show on the wqebsite.
The minimum entries is supposed to be 60 but the organisors say it will definately run.
The car is fully ready to go just needs a few tyres swapping over on rims. This is the first time the car has actually been ready to go before the last couple of nights for as long as I remember. The event had better run.....
Anyone coming to watch?
The seeded entry list is on the website and it is a strong but small entry of 52.
I am seeded 42nd and 5th B10 which I am not very happy with. I am behind a crew from Dovey Valley MC and 3 crews from Port Talbot MC. What a suprise!!!!! I beat the B11 crew in front of me by over 2:30 on the Wyedean.
Jim has a good seeding of 19th and Siimon as well is 30th.
No incentive needed to prove them wrong then !!
All the best I hope you have a good run and take the B10 class .....
Well done Alan & Denise for the class win
and also to Tim & Kit ... hat happened on the last stage as you must of been inclose for top 2wd ?
Had a great day today! A difficult morning where Denise was not quite on the notes and I was not quite in the groove. Overshoots on stages 1 and 3 cost us 45-60 seconds and we both thought our day was spoilt. With the pressure off we had a really good afternoon with no real mistakes (50 seconds faster on SS4 than SS1). We were really surprised at the finish to find that we had won B10 by over 2 minutes. Well done to the organisers sticking with the event even though it was undersubscribed and I can't remember the last event I did with no hold ups at all. It was slick from beginning to end with friendly marshals and officials. Bad luck to the other two Tavern MC crews Jim Munden/Andy Frost cracked the Escorts sump on the rough downhill section on SS4 and Simon Munden/John Leigh blew a turbo on their Subaru on SS2.
Tim and Kit broke a driveshaft on the last stage but managed to limp through the stage dodging the marshals clearing up and marshals cars on the stage to find that the finish clock was (to quote Tim) ".....about to bu**er off!". They were not very happy as you can imagine.
Yes well done Alan and Denise it makes all those hours in the garage worthwhile.
Gutted i couldn't make it over to spectate but 4 rallies in 5 weekends was pushing it.
So Tim did you get a time,i haven't seen the results yet.
---The-Fat-Albert Stages---28 October 2012...........