This event used to be awesome back in the seventies and eighties when it went on for 6 days throughout the day and the night stopping for about 2 hours rest a day. Spectating in those days was awesome as you didnt have to pay to get into the forest stages, you could just turn up, watch the first 20 cars through then hack to another stage to do the same.
You'd end up doing a vast amount of miles in your car following it through wales, yorkshire moors, lake district and scotland, sleeping in it where possible and having a complete blast with CB radios and the like.
Now it is just a sanitised mini rally where you have to stand behind taped off areas herded there by the marshalls. Still awesome seeing and hearing cars doing silly mph on gravel past you spraying you with the gravel as they pass.
Love it.
Mind you it is more fun in the cars doing these stages :whistle: .... one day I will dig out (or rather find them from the safe place that they are) my rallying photos of me in the Mk1 and Mk2 Escort and the Pug 205
