R.A.C. Rally this weekend, all over the North and into Scotland!

[tommyb]

The Roger Albert Clark Rally is on this weekend, proper rallying with all the old favorites mk2 escorts, porsche 911, lotus cortinas, lancia stratos, oh yeah :nod:

the stages start on friday night at temple newsam in Leeds, then saturday they repeat the stages in leeds then off to the north yorkshire moors at dalby forest and olivers mount sprint cuircuit in scarborugh, after a repeat of the dalby and olivers stages they head off up to penrith in the lake district for some night stages in Greystoke forest :D sunday there around Dumfries and newcastleton and then onto keilder complex for the monday...

some more specific info here http://www.rogeralbertclarkrally.org/RAC_2008/Spectator_info.htm

im going to the dalby and olivers mount stages then up to penrith for the night time stages, which if you haven't experience before is absolutly brilliant theres such a great atmosphere watching them at night :nod: a nice nostalgic warm up to the WRC in wales next month

anyone else going?

[s14_dave]

think im going to the olivers mount stages

[Matt]

maybe going to olivers mount, not sure yet as im quite busy with jobs

[tommyb]

got any tip on where abouts to watch from? i've not been to olivers before...

[SILBEAM]

thanks for the free plug for the rally ,i will be marshalling on sat ,sun and monday keep an eye out for my mate philip burton in his mk 2 he been out testing and thats on youtube thanks for the suport ....

[tommyb]

weathers looks great for the weekend :D silbeam what stages are you marshalling on? on saturday...

[SILBEAM]

saturday stage 3 , 4 temple newsam ,sunday i will be at stage 19 , 23 twiglees ,monday stage 25 , 28 bewshaugh

[tommyb]

should be fun, was going to pop over to the temple newsam stage tonight be didn't have time in the end. you wouldn't have any stage maps by any chance would you ;)

[SILBEAM]

sorry we only get map references of the stage starts and finishes .

[Ari Vatanen]

Im off to Temple Newsam then on to Olivers Mount.

Not been to either before but Ive heard/seen loads of old clips of spins & crashes at the Hairpin on Olivers Mount :)

[s14_dave]

olivers mount hairpin is a treat

[Ari Vatanen]

Just got back home from spectating at Temple Newsam & Olivers Mount, what a brilliant day we had, it was definately worth it!!!

Got to Temple Newsam at about 7am and we were the only car is the car park so we though feck it, lets go to the Elland Road service stop, drove straight into the service area and parked next to a motorhome, a guy pops his head out of the window to see who we are and its only Malcolm Wilson :wack:

His car was on the other side of the motorhome and it was immaculate :notworthy

Then we headed off to Temple Newsam and onto Olivers Mount, I will post up my better pics later :thumbs:

MK2 Escorts at full pelt on stages = :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy :D

I will upload some pics in a bit, there not great but quite good for a 4 yr old £120 camera :wack:

[Ari Vatanen]

here ya go :)

Malcolm Wilson in his immaculate MK2 :notworthy :notworthy

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b111/Vatanen/Roger%20Clark%202008/mw.jpg

Malcolm Wilson on the top of Olivers Mount

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Steve Perez's Lancia Stratos

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b111/Vatanen/Roger%20Clark%202008/stratos2.jpg

MK2 at a very familiar angel ;)

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b111/Vatanen/Roger%20Clark%202008/mk2.jpg

911 in the early morning service park

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b111/Vatanen/Roger%20Clark%202008/911.jpg

Phil Collins (Pink Sierra RS Cosworth) / Nicky Grist Opel Ascona 400 :cool:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b111/Vatanen/Roger%20Clark%202008/Ascona400.jpg

MK1 Escort on top of Olivers Mount :)

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b111/Vatanen/Roger%20Clark%202008/mk13.jpg

Another Mk1

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b111/Vatanen/Roger%20Clark%202008/mk1.jpg

[tommyb]

nice pics :thumbs: not sure how well the asconda looks now as they rolled it on one of the stages on sunday :cry: i've got some pics just need to upload them from my camera...

[tommyb]

well what a great day out! the sights, sounds and smells of the good old days... :D

the plan was to visit the Langdale stage in the morning but we were cutting it fine by the time we got over there partly due to not getting up early enough and partly that the butty shop was a bit swamped when 10 of us turned up at 8 o'clock :D so we bumbled onto oliver's mount and had a good look round the track. it was the first time i've been to the mount and i have to say its a cracking little track and i shall definatly be going there again :nod: a few highlights were Martin McCormack coming of the bank on two wheels after out breaking himself on the run upto the straw bale chicane, and almost everyone who left the breaking too late on the run down the hill to the hairpin that was covered in leaves :D

at 5 we set off upto Greystoke forest near Penrith following a few escorts and support crews on the way up we got there about 9 after a quick pitstop at scotch corner and headed up into the forest in the dark. surprise surprise Malcolm Wilson, who ownes the forest, was noticable faster than the rest even on the short bits that we could see he had so much more commitment that the others who certainly weren't taking it easy, fantastic driving right on the limit in the pitch black, awsome! he made up 35 secs on the two runs through greystoke... :eek: one of the escorts out braked himself coming into the square left at the bottom of the first hill and bundled into the crowd! nobody was hurt as he was only doing about 5 mph at that point but was exciting all the same as everyone jumped out of the way he drove the rest of the stage with one spot lamp pointing into the sky :D

all in all a great day, you missed out :nod: next on the list is Grizedale forest in the Lakes on the 29th then onto Rally GB on the weekend of the 5th-7th of dec, can't wait...

[tommyb]

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[pure~escort~mk1]

did u see the MK2 Escort playing music from a icecream van

[tommyb]

yeah :D he had a flashing ariel as well this time...