Skoda Rally Blog

… usually on the Sunseeker as a local crew, I have an early scrutineering time, meaning we have to get down to Canford Arena early (usually just as the crew are getting there, in fact), noise test quickly and then get down to the Littledown Centre for scrutineering. But this year it’s different – we’re in the last-but-one slot of 14:30, meaning a leisurely start to the day, but it also means that I have to sit around and wait for scrutineering and anyone who knows me will know I’m not exactly Mr. Calm at this time. Never mind…

There are big, big bonuses to doing the Sunseeker. One of the major ones is it being local – the event is much cheaper for me to enter as I don’t need to trailer the car anywhere, get accomodation and all the other stuff. The service area is 1.5 miles from my home, which is great. If anything goes wrong (and thankfully in the last 3 attempts nothing terminal has happened) I’m near home. But there’s one thing I’d forgotten about, and that’s seeing the ever-lovely Jemma Pink to get my stickers from. Unfortunately I had no excuse to make any more than a moment’s conversation. Perhaps next year I’ll feign a serious injury or something.

Anyway, the car passed noise test (at 95dB which is nice and throaty!), and I then came home to put the stickers on the car. Unfortunately my ordered-up stickers of “Jones/Burley” for the rear windows haven’t arrived, so at the moment I’ve left the big “Jones” in the rear window, but if Burley’s not happy with that, they’ll be coming off later!