{"id":435,"date":"2005-04-20T17:58:52","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T16:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.com\/skodarallyblog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2005-04-20T17:58:52","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T16:58:52","slug":"somerset-here-we-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Somerset here we come&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. Saturday is the Somerset Stages, which I&#8217;m really looking forwards to.  Firstly, it&#8217;s a forest rally, so there&#8217;s reason enough to look forwards to it!  But it&#8217;s a BTRDA 1400 round, which means that the 1400s go first, so we&#8217;ll get good roads, being 44th on the road rather than 144th.  I&#8217;d still think the roads will be cut up, &#8216;cos there are some serious machines in front of us, but hopefully not like the Sunseeker was.<\/p>\n<p>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&#038;DCC (Thanks Dean!), so I&#8217;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&#8217;s just say I was on hold for OVER TWO HOURS before giving up on Competition Car Insurance.  Fortunately I&#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p>This will probably be my last event for quite a while.  I&#8217;ve decided that I&#8217;m going to stick to forest events because SV events aren&#8217;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&#8217;ll probably do Caerwent again, as that&#8217;s a different kettle of fish, but I&#8217;m mostly going to stick to forest stuff.  Which is expensive, so that means I&#8217;ll be doing less anyway (I&#8217;m broke!), and also there&#8217;s not really a lot until October, so I can concentrate on getting a great deal of other things done instead&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, is providing that I don&#8217;t throw it off of Porlock Toll Road and into a ravine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. Saturday is the Somerset Stages, which I&#8217;m really looking forwards to. Firstly, it&#8217;s a forest rally, so there&#8217;s reason enough to look forwards to it! But it&#8217;s a BTRDA 1400 round, which means that the 1400s go first, so we&#8217;ll get good roads, being 44th on the road rather than 144th. I&#8217;d still think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skoda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}