By Tim Finch

After Chris deciding to crash not once but twice on the Granite City rally first time out in his new Evo 6, we took delivery of the car on the Sunday evening before the Jim Clark!! Not ideal but his choice of cheap (but very slow) Bodyshop helped save him a tenner!!!

So with 6 days to go we had a miracle to perform, I wont list the job list here as it would make for the clubs longest ever newsletter!! but you get the picture. Changing from gravel spec into tarmac spec alone would have been tight regardless of the half stripped car we had to virtually rebuild and with a busy week with other work anyway we were up against it. So it was a hectic week getting the car ready and by the Saturday lunch time we had a mint ready to go rally car, quick trip up to Keith Taylors caravan site at Jedburgh saw us finally relax in the pub, our driver though left Italy as we left Carlisle!!! Continue reading →

By Fiona Gourlay

I was looking forward to this event with it being in my home town. When we went to scrutineering it was a cool Saturday afternoon, the cut out switch didn’t work – that was a bad start. The readers who know the car will recognise it by the mirrored window in the back and rear, we were told new legislation from the MSA say’s you must be able to see in and out of the all windows – scrutineer said “take this coating of before you start”. However we were allowed to leave it for this event as we said the car would look bad but it must be off for next event. The cut out fixed and checked we then went to get tracking system fitted – two and a half hours later we got home for tea. When car was started next time the oil light and other things happened with electrics in the car. David reckoned it was tracking system we had fitters look at it in morning and there was still a few issues with it beeping on an off (some competitors had problems with there peltor intercoms) – not good at 100mph when you don’t know what was is happening. We disconnected it at the start of stage 4 and no one looked for us so guess it hadn’t worked from the start!

Got up at 6.30 on Sunday and the rain was stotting, David said this had started at 4.30 I didn’t hear it as I was asleep. We went over the start line at 9.40 at no 82 with 15 miles to travel into the hills for the start of stage. Continue reading →