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Run To The Sea – September 2015

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By Martyn, Graham & Shaun Petry, What a better way to end our school summer holidays than have a run to the seaside. Helen & Nigel had organized a great mystery trip to the sea as one of the motor clubs outings. Setting off…

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Run to the Sea – September 2015

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By Eric & Linda Ritchie 10am on Sunday morning 6th of September, saw us in our 1960 Austin Healey Sprite on the M74 heading North. Nothing ahead of us on the road, and one car approaching very fast from behind. Mind you when you…

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The 4th European Austin Healey Tour – Part 2

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By Linda & Eric Ritchie Because of our mechanical problems we had long since abandoned the official route and travelled to Inverary Castle for afternoon tea. A visit to my old friend Peter Semple who owns the Renault garage in the village brought back…

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This weekend sees a number of Spadeadam crews across at Croft Race Circuit for the Christmas Stages on Sunday. Winter weather at Croft is often challenging... though there have been a few years where it has been dry and sunny.... like 2013. For day 15 of our countdown, we have Peter Taylor out in the Focus WRC, Barry & Michael Lindsay were in the 106 and Geoffrey Harkness & Caroline Lodge were in the Corsa. . . 📸 @hrharkness . . #Motorsport #StageRally #singlevenuerally #TarmacRallying #NorthOfEnglandTarmacRallyChampionship #FocusRSWRC #FordFocusWRC #Focus #RallyCar #Peugeot106GTi #PeugeotSport #106GTi #Rallying #RallyDriver #Vauxhall #VauxhallCorsa #CorsaGSi #MotorsportPhotography #Spadeadammotorclub #RallyCoDriver #Rally
With snow and blizzard conditions forecast for the weekend, we thought it was only right to have some winter wonderland rallying for day 14! In 2010, the Nova of David Rutherford looked quite at home in the snow, on the stages of the Armstrong Galloway Hills rally. . . 📸 B. Lindsay . . #Rallying #RallyCar #RallyDriver #RallyCoDriver #armstronggallowayhillsrally #gallowayhillsrally #ScottishRallying #Snow #MotorsportPhotography #scottishmotorsport #Spadeadammotorclub #Vauxhall #VauxhallNova #Nova #RallyNova #opelmotorsport #StageRally
Day 13 takes us to Hallburn, near Longtown. What was one of many world war 2 airfields in Cumbria, became for a number of years, a base for Spadeadam events, such as Autocross, autotests and stage rallies. It was laterly used by South of Scotland Car Club to run a single venue stage rally on. Conditions on the broken concrete and gravel/mud often proved tricky. This #throwbackthursday shows Spadeadam member, Fiona Gourlay navigating for Andrew Borthwick in the Mk2. . . 📸 @hrharkness . . #Motorsport #StageRally #Mk2Escort #FordEscort #FordMotorsport #Mk2Magic #RWDRallying #RallyCoDriver #RallyDriver #rallycars #Rallying #Sideways #SidewaysToVictory #UKMotorsport #singlevenuerally #GravelRally #stagerallying #Spadeadammotorclub #HallburnStages #cumbrianmotorsport
Day 12 and we're soapbox racing!!! Spadeadam has a history of soapbox racing, we even featured in a centre spread in a national newspaper in 1960! We've raced in a number of different locations and variety of "vehicles". The competition is always tough and the competitors are always fearless.... especially the younger ones! "It's faster if you corner on 2 wheels...." 😱 . . 📸 G. Petry / B. Lindsay . . #SoapboxRacing #Soapbox #GravityRacer #SoapboxDerby #Kart #FearlessRacing #DownhillAtSpeed #FunForAll #Billycart #BogieRacing #Guider #spadeadammotorclub #GrassrootsMotorsport #NoFear #FasterOnTwoWheels
Is #TyreSmokeTuesday a thing? If so, we're ok with day 11's photo! Nigel Harkness just about holding on to it, during a sprint at Kames circuit in 2013. Sprints are comprised of 3 or 4 practice runs of the circuit or course, then 2 or 3 timed runs (though it depends on the event). The fastest time counts. So clean, precise, and controlled driving style is preferred.... (Yes, he ended up in the gravel!) . . 📸 @hrharkness . . #Motorsport #sprint #sprintrace #MotorsportSprint #ModifiedSaloon #Vauxhall #CorsaB #CorsaGSI #TyreSmoke #Spadeadammotorclub #corsabgsi #opelmotorsport #UKMotorsport #kames #kamesracecircuit #MotorsportPhotography #Sideways #gravelrash #RaceCar #BecauseRaceCar
Day 10 on our Christmas countdown...The 3rd round of the British Rally Championship 2017 - the Scottish Rally and a sideways Skoda Fabia R5! With @fredrikahlin at the wheel, and @torsteineriksen on the notes!! . . 📸 B. Lindsay . . #SkodaFabiaR5 #skoda #ca1sport #MotorsportPhotography #RallyDriver #RallyCoDriver #spadeadammotorclub #GravelRally #ScottishRally #rsacscottishrally #Sideways #BritishRallying #BritishRallyChampionship #UKMotorsport #r5rallycar #prestonebrc #brc17
You can't have a Christmas countdown without some Christmas Trees! Day 9 sees us on Otterburn for the Tyneside stages 2016. Rory Young, being navigated by Allan Cathers. The R5 Fiesta is sporting Rory's "Scottish Christmas Trees" livery. The pair finished 7th O/A on this event, and 6th in class B14. They would return in 2017 and 2018 to take 2nd O/A both times. 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲 . . 📸 B. Lindsay . . #Rallying #RallyDriver #RallyCodriver #RallyCar #fiestaR5 #Fiesta #r5rally #fordfiesta #FordMotorsport #Msport #spadeadammotorclub #tynesidestages #Otterburn #rallycars #eatsleeprally #MotorsportPhotography #UKMotorsport #BritishRallying #TarmacRallying #TarmacStages #scottishchristmastrees
The 8th day in our countdown takes us back to 2012 and into Grizedale forest! (Which a few of our members have been in today too!) In 2012 Caroline Lodge was navigating for David Edwards in the Astra. They finished 18th O/A and 3rd in their class. The weather looks slightly better 6 years ago than it was today! . . . 📸 B. Lindsay . . . #Motorsport #Rallying #BritishRallying #RallyCar #RallyDriver #RallyNavigator #GravelRally #GrizedaleStages #GrizedaleForest #Vauxhall #astragsi #spadeadammotorclub #UKMotorsport #WomenInMotorsport
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