Skoda Rally Blog

So far, it’s been going OK. Everything has been mocked up using cheap, thin tube before anything’s been cut, and that’s been good.

But the rear of the cage is the next bit to do, and the pictures I’ve been working to have a problem – the rear stay mountings aren’t FIA-compliant because they don’t offer a 60cm2 area of attachment to the bodyshell. To do this, the rear bar that goes between the two struts at the back needs to be lower than in the pictures. And therefore the tubes they’ve sent me (which have zero margin for error) are too short.

I’m waiting for a phone call back from Custom Cages at the mo, but needless to say I’m a bit crestfallen. I don’t think this will ever get done, let alone in time to enter WRGB.