Skoda Rally Blog

…. Saturday is the Somerset Stages, which I’m really looking forwards to. Firstly, it’s a forest rally, so there’s reason enough to look forwards to it! But it’s a BTRDA 1400 round, which means that the 1400s go first, so we’ll get good roads, being 44th on the road rather than 144th. I’d still think the roads will be cut up, ‘cos there are some serious machines in front of us, but hopefully not like the Sunseeker was.

As mentioned earlier, I have a new navigator for the event, my mate Paul, who is much bigger than Kev was, so I had to find a new seat, which proved to be far more of a trial than I would have expected it to. In the end I had to borrow one from a member of B&DCC (Thanks Dean!), so I’ve got a throne big enough to fit him in the car, and everything else on the car sorted out. Including insurance, which is another long, boring story in itself, but let’s just say I was on hold for OVER TWO HOURS before giving up on Competition Car Insurance. Fortunately I’m now insured with someone far nicer, with better service, more mileage and for less money! Not a waste of two hours after all, then!

This will probably be my last event for quite a while. I’ve decided that I’m going to stick to forest events because SV events aren’t the right balance of action to sitting around for me; a forest event is pretty much full-on all day, whereas on an SV you tend to spend most of the day sat around, and then do a 10 minute stage. (or in my case, a 15 minute one). I’ll probably do Caerwent again, as that’s a different kettle of fish, but I’m mostly going to stick to forest stuff. Which is expensive, so that means I’ll be doing less anyway (I’m broke!), and also there’s not really a lot until October, so I can concentrate on getting a great deal of other things done instead……

This, of course, is providing that I don’t throw it off of Porlock Toll Road and into a ravine!