Higgim
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Jul 21, 2004 12:24:15 GMT
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...Navigating on the Prom Stages Rally in New Brighton on the Wirral. 45 miles across 12 separate stages of closed public highway. Everytime I think about it I get the butterflies. Its our first ever event so not really sure how we'll do as there is a lot of high class competition. I'll be happy to finish as its quite tough on the cars. We are car number 82, an Escort Cosworth. Here is a link to the events website: www.promrally.bun.com/Introx.html |
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Last Edit: Jul 21, 2004 12:25:13 GMT by Higgim
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Jul 21, 2004 12:55:49 GMT
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There's quite a few Cossies in it - is yours in the 2004 entries page?
Good luck!
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Higgim
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Jul 21, 2004 13:07:30 GMT
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Yep ours is the one at the end of the second row. Neil Furlong and TBA. TBA because the driver still can't spell my surname!! I've only known him 12 years ;D www.promrally.bun.com/Entries_2x.html |
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Jul 21, 2004 13:15:09 GMT
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Right 50
Straight 100
Left Tightening 75
Or something,....
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Jul 21, 2004 13:51:13 GMT
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Fantastic! Done quite a bit of rally navigating myself, but Road Rallies, so it's slightly different.
I *might* be going tot he Prom Stages. Not sure yet, but if I do I'll try and come say hello!
Last year's was great! I got lots of piccies, I'll put them up here sometime...
Good luck!
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Higgim
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Jul 21, 2004 14:00:15 GMT
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Excellent. Its a great event, been to spectate since I was a kid.
Do pop along and say hello if you go, I'll be the one looking pale and anxious!! ;D
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Jul 21, 2004 14:20:00 GMT
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Excellent. Its a great event, been to spectate since I was a kid. Do pop along and say hello if you go, I'll be the one looking pale and anxious!! ;D I know the feeling well... For me it gets REALLY bad an hour before our start time... Constant trips to the loo, mild tension headache... Strong desire to just go home and not do it! Then once you get going, the adrenalin kicks in, you're too busy reading the map to be nervous and you realise why you do it...  |
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Jul 21, 2004 18:48:29 GMT
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Cool! A big rally fan myself. One I intend to enter when the Imp's finished is the McRae Forest Stages, I started going not long after it started, the other year Colin McRae turned up with a Cosworth turbo powered mk 2 Escort as the course car. There must have been at least 12 RWD Escorts, loads of Opel Kadetts, about 8 Cortinas, a BMW 2002 tii, yet no Imps! Time to change that don't you think? ;D
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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Higgim
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Definately get that Imp entered!! It would be a definate crowd pleaser and you may embarrass some much more powerful machinery.
We might be doing the Tour of Mull this season aswell. Now that IS a cracking event. The whole island gets involved and many of the major roads are closed for the stages. The major winner over the last ten years has been a local guy called Callum Duffy driving a Mk2 Escort. The car is very well sorted. Beats Evos, Imprezas and Cossies regularly. Knowing the roads up there is a big advantage.
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Jul 22, 2004 12:53:05 GMT
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An old car's far more dependable anyway, don't you think? Put it this way. If you're in an Evo or Impreza, and hit a post or a tree going straight on in a corner, you end up with a steaming, sparking mess, which you can't get fixed, because you'll have to replace all the computer etc... and they're not as well built as an older car so the bodywork's wrecked. One time I was doing a bit of a test session on a bit of waste ground in the Imp, and the brakes failed (just after I thought I had repaired them, turned out to be a dud servo!) leaving me to plummet into a brick wall at speed. We managed to get it home to it's lock-up with the aid of the ol' man's Volvo 740, and checked it out, and only the bodywork was damaged, and even then it fixed up with a hammer, a tup of Isopon, and a pair of new indicators (that and it gave me a chance to fit the fibreglass bonnet I had picked up for it as the steel one got wrecked.) Of course there isn't anything mechanical in the front of an Imp, but I dare say an Escort, a Saab, or anything else front-engined could survive almost as well.
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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