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[minisi35]

We did thanks Peter, just a pity I couldn't meet and chat to you at the finish.
The car drives straight so all being well it's just front end panel damage.
We learnt quite a lot and will hopefully get the hang of regularity

[CMXCVIII]

Maybe if you go to the start ... and offer to marshal you might get a nice control to marshal. It's god to be a part of it.

 

 

I've met marshals who go mad with their little bit of power, but not you too!?  

 

Jon

[Cooperman]

 

Maybe if you go to the start ... and offer to marshal you might get a nice control to marshal. It's god to be a part of it.

 

 

I've met marshals who go mad with their little bit of power, but not you too!?

 

Jon

 

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What is amazing is that there was a total of almost 200 marshals out on the event. Personally I feel I am putting a bit back into the sport which gave me so much fun and pleasure over so many years from when I started rallying in November 1959 when I was just 18.

 

the Tour of Cheshire is great too because I meet a lot of my old friends from 'Ecurie Cod Fillet' (Google it if you don't know what it is) who turn out to help.

[CMXCVIII]

 

the Tour of Cheshire is great too because I meet a lot of my old friends from 'Ecurie Cod Fillet' (Google it if you don't know what it is) who turn out to help.

 

 

Talk about poachers turned gamekeepers!

 

When I went road rallying in the 1970s, I heard stories about the far wilder and more competitive era of a few years before!

 

So I guess if any competitors on the Tour of Cheshire found that code boards had been removed or a gate mysteriously chained and padlocked, it wasn't cheating as such, just the Sector Commander keeping his hand in for old times sake!   

[Cooperman]

Don't mention closed gates on rally routes, I hit a closed steel 5-bar gate on a historic rally in the Lake District in my 'S'.  I came around a 60 degree left in the middle of the night driving flat out and the b****y gate was closed. The regs say all gates must be open and manned, but this one wasn't. I took out both of my big PIAA driving lights, bent the bumper, broke a headlight and, I think, destroyed the gate.

I agreed with the organisers that I would fix my car and that they would buy the farmer a new gate. 

With the lack of lights I then went off on a sharp left and got a puncture which cost us more time. We dropped from 2nd to 10th overall. That's rallying!