Well having driven the scoob an hour down the motorway with just enough fuel to get me to work thanks to my lovely wife :roll: completed a days work in the office, I then set off in search of V power before making my way to the event itself. Rolled into the shell garage having got a little lost on fumes filled up both car and me :lol: and set off for the barracks themselves.
I arrived at the barracks with it absolutley slinging it down to be met at the gates by a nice gentleman and lady and 2 matching sa80's. I was pointed to a yellow puma in the car park with "you with the rally people? If you are I think thats the person you need to talk to"
the nice lady in the puma gave me a pass and said follow him ( him being a stripped out 106 rallye). I followed the rallye to what at this point just looked like a army test area masquerading as a lake with the odd cone here and there.
Having never done an event like this and knowing nobody I was to say the least both nervous and starting to question what I was doing here. The cars that turned up next did nothing to help this feeling when 3 full rally preped mark 1 escorts turned up. As the field turned and after up I signed on (in the rain) a few people started to talk to me and showed me how the event worked. One of the drivers whilst walking the course gave me some pointers and gradually I started to feel a bit more at home.
I was warned a few times "the surface is like glass" and "I would be careful opening her up on this surface" and to be fair they werent wrong I had no grip and my first run I realised id be lucky to get into 2nd gear
. After 4 runs I was grinning from ear to ear, the car looked like it had been rallying and I hadnt a clue where id come. The runs felt good except for one where i clipped a cone and despite the weather had had a great evening. After the event we headed off to the pub to chat and have some food etc and I found out at this point much to my surprise id actually come 3rd in class and 12 overall:-
http://www.loughboroughcarclub.co.uk/re ... July09.pdf
Suffice to say I will be going to the next one as for
