{"id":460,"date":"2004-09-20T11:18:35","date_gmt":"2004-09-20T10:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.com\/skodarallyblog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2004-09-20T11:18:35","modified_gmt":"2004-09-20T10:18:35","slug":"its-own-up-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s &#8220;own up&#8221; time&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. &#8216;cos the next event is at Caerwent on Sunday.  I&#8217;ve just had the finals through the post, and to my horror I&#8217;ve found that we&#8217;re seeded 91st out of 101!  I&#8217;m not sure whether this number has been arrived at by confidence in our abilities from our previous results, the Welsh &#8220;sense of humour&#8221; or the random throwing of runes.  Whatever it&#8217;s down to, I&#8217;m scared!  Some of the stages are 13 miles long, so with 30 second start intervals and with a 2 litre 16v Astra and a few more 2-litre cars behind us, I&#8217;m thinking we&#8217;ll be in the way.  Oh dear.  <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Caerwent is infamous for attrition &#8211; it&#8217;s said that 2\/3rds of the entrants won&#8217;t finish because if you make a mistake you hit an 11&#8243; concrete kerb.  Which is GAME OVER.  So I&#8217;m hoping that the attrition will help us out. Or something&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>On the car front, the cracked strut-tops which needed replacing were a surprise when I went to purchase them from the local Skoda garage.  Not only were they in stock(!), they cost ?11.50 for the pair!  Bargain!  Unfortunately I need to fit them, and I can&#8217;t get to the garage as the dead Focus in in the way.  And it&#8217;s raining today so that won&#8217;t be getting done.  Poo.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise there&#8217;s little to do, really.  Just take up some eclectic religion which will provide safety for its followers.  And maybe 25 bhp&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Arse!  Why did I start this?  Answers on a postcard to &#8220;You utter dick competition&#8221; at the usual address&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;. &#8216;cos the next event is at Caerwent on Sunday. I&#8217;ve just had the finals through the post, and to my horror I&#8217;ve found that we&#8217;re seeded 91st out of 101! I&#8217;m not sure whether this number has been arrived at by confidence in our abilities from our previous results, the Welsh &#8220;sense of humour&#8221; [&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-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skoda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","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=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}