Mark
03-08-03, 09:54 PM
Just got home an hour ago for Epynt.
Finished last - Whoopee!! - At least we finished. Went out on the first stage, half way round hit a jump, landed then 100 feet down the road the left side rear spring which had obviously been damaged on landing snapped in half and exited stage rear. Bugger :o
Got to the end with a respectable time, went on to the next stage but had to drive at 40 MPH all the way and got passed 7 times. Bugger :o
Got back to service and had 10 minutes - nowt we could do so carried on for another two stage - slowly - got back to service again for lunch in which time we managed to 'BORROW' a standard spring from a friends nova and continued on for the last three stage.
Managed very respectable times considering the terrible handling and made up 12 minutes catching 9 cars.
Finished 4th in class and 2nd in championship, so a nice set of points and well worth making the effort to stay in.
On a bad not there were 8 right offs today and two crews had to be airlifted to hospital, hopefully not too serious but a lot of money's worth of cars destroyed! :roll:
Finished last - Whoopee!! - At least we finished. Went out on the first stage, half way round hit a jump, landed then 100 feet down the road the left side rear spring which had obviously been damaged on landing snapped in half and exited stage rear. Bugger :o
Got to the end with a respectable time, went on to the next stage but had to drive at 40 MPH all the way and got passed 7 times. Bugger :o
Got back to service and had 10 minutes - nowt we could do so carried on for another two stage - slowly - got back to service again for lunch in which time we managed to 'BORROW' a standard spring from a friends nova and continued on for the last three stage.
Managed very respectable times considering the terrible handling and made up 12 minutes catching 9 cars.
Finished 4th in class and 2nd in championship, so a nice set of points and well worth making the effort to stay in.
On a bad not there were 8 right offs today and two crews had to be airlifted to hospital, hopefully not too serious but a lot of money's worth of cars destroyed! :roll: