Berg Cup 2012- Eschdorf report (media heavy)

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Crazy Vauxhall Nova with an exhaust running through the car to get it really low. Notice how they've built the cage to support the floor pan around this area!!
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Owned by one of the most polite and helpful racers I have ever met :nod:
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Who needs Brembo's?
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Tyre jackets with markers to indicate their position on the car :) Such a great idea
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This guy stopped us whilst we were looking around his car and said "Are you guys English? If there is anything that you would like to know, please ask" !!! This is a top spec European Hill climb car and there were seven blokes climbing all over it, under it and inside it all taking photos! At a UK track you wouldn't be able to get this close, let alone get the owners consent to bug him about the spec and parts. Legend :D
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Where's Fletch?
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New school muscle
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Big enough brakes?
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Jamie's favourite arch mod
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Inspiration for Mafia Mike?
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In the words of Rolf Harris, "Can you tell what it is yet?"
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It had to be running different sodding wheels, didn't it? :)
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The above three cars also compete in the Belgian Superlap Battle
The Golf's interior
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406 WTCC car
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AP twin caliper set up
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Never heard of this guy..............
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I think this was a Murtaya chassis but instead of the normal Subaru flat four it was running a rear engined bike powertrain.
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Perfection
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Opel DTM goodness
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Some serious photographers there too :)
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Monster prototype race weapons were everywhere
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For all you JDM lovers, here's something to make you feel a little more happy amongst all of this German stuff.
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Recognise it?
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Any easier?
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How about now?
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I had to go and sit down after this Evo. I was in danger of trying to abduct it!
From one beautiful yellow race car to another
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A wonderful classic 911 parked up in a side road
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Something for Phil, Adrian and Pete
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More Evo porn (notice the side exit set up; a proper missile launcher on overrun)
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Porsche RSR and heavily tuned 355 in a side street? Only in Eschdorf
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A 'proper' spec Seat Cupra
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More my kind of thing :nod:
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This GT3 Cup car nearly killed Trev when the owner decided to do an impromptu donut on the grass!
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It would have been a shame to lose Trev but at least it was a Porsche ;)
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Everyone's favourite Polo
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This one sparked a comical bitch fest between Trev (NA fanboy) and Jamie (Supercharged lover) The sound effects of the playfights were creative and amusing (especially when drunk)
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Best part of 800hp of Porsche
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Fast moving Renault Twizy
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The brand new GT3 Cup car brought an end to Friday's photos.
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As you can see, the weather was making a bit of a descent and it started to shower later on. This got quite heavy quite quickly and my tent was starting to look a bit.......dead. Oops.
Beer would help :nod: Beer and Ribs :nod: Lots of it...... I got back to the camp and was really getting depressed about bringing my cheaper older tent, instead of my crazy spec Outwell one. Trev kindly offered me a seat in his lovely T4 camper whilst the raining tried to put the stupidity of my tent choice out of doubt. After an hour of entertaining me, I bid Trev goodnight and tentatively (geddit? :) ) got in to the now wet tent and my now damp sleeping bag. Arse!! This was to be a long night.
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Saturday
After a pretty good nights kip, bearing in mind the water ingress, I got up, whinged about the tent to anyone that would listen and made my way to get some coffee with Rob. I'd previously discussed getting up to the start line early but that was in doubt now, as the rain had started already and I couldn't face another day of being wet and all of my kit also being wet too. With that in mind, Rob and I asked Marc about a chalet and he had one left that we could have for a great price and it was big enough for all of us :D :nod: Like Morecambe and Wise we done the deal and rushed back to the site to tell the others. Trev and Mike held strong but the others caved in easier than Tottenham's defence and we were soon in chalet 110 :D
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Only we weren't!! In my haste (and the sites questionable security) we had got in to the one next door instead and moved everything in!!

Arse!! 111 was pre-booked to someone else, so just when everyone was ready for a days racing, we had to unpack everything and move it next door.
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Double arse!! Forty minutes later, we rocked up at the race and poor old Rob found that he still had the chalet key for 111 in his pocket, so he and Pete went back and the rest of us waited at the start line to see the action in the wet.
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Yes Gareth, that is an old RX7 behind Herbie. No Gareth, it didn't win anything.
The only Rotary in the village
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Much more tomorrow peeps :)
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Great pics and write up Stu. Looking forward to the next installment tomorrow.
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