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After competing in the prelimary rounds on the 29th September 2009 and having a great drive I have now had confirmation from Silverstone Rally School that I am one of the lucky 10 (out of 130) who have been offered back to compete it out in the final on December 15th.

The winning prize for this will be a fully sponsored seat representing Silverstone Rally School competing in four events next year.

The ten finalists are:

Sam Strong - Kent
Simon Shepherd - Lincs
Simon Banks - West Sussex
David Green - Thetford
Kon stantinos Kyritsis - Swansea
Andrew Turner - London (CMC)

ROUND ONE MANBY MOTORPLEX 26.3.08

Just a quick blog to let you bloggers know that we have up dated our web site
www.redz-racing.co.uk with a few pictures of the new car.
We had a great test day last week up in Blyton, this is a fantastic test venue with a tarmac stage,gravel stage and a skid pan, a full days training for £55.00, this is open to non-challenge people so would be good to see a few CMC crews next year.

Shane has bought himself a challenge spec peugeot 1.4 and will be competing in this year 205 challenge, good luck mate and thanks for dumping me !! LoL

I flew out to Sweden on Wednesday last week for 4 days of snowy petrol heaven, Shane and Neil picked me up in Elevrum which is about 1.5 hrs from Oslo international airport, I had booked a C class car which ended up being a WRC 1.6 diesel Nissan Note!! But hey what a great car it proved to be, with Shane and Neil in a 1 series beamer we had the best of both worlds.

Wow what a weekend!

My first Stage Rally began on the road at 9am Friday travelling to Weston Super Mare.

Lunchtime and we were in the Pub just outside Bristol - 11 of us - we met up with the Rayner crew! Had a laugh and a beer over lunch and it seemed this would be how the weekend was going...

Arrived at Brean Leisure Park for scruiterneering - no probs there. Got our various caravan keys and agreed a time to meet in the bar!

Bars Test Passed. Done it this week. Can’t wait to get out and drive my first Stage.

Sorry for the delay in posting this report for round four.
I just could not be bothered to think about the rally let along do a write up and was on the brink of joining the Tom Ward cutting back crew.
Have now decided to get to the end of the season and review it then, we needed to score points at Swansea to stand any chance of not picking up the wooden spoon, but hey with only two events left this year, A Duth international event and sweet lamb we still have a chance of pulling ourselves back up the table.

For those of you who are wondering why I haven't reported much lately it's because there has been nothing to report.

After blowing the C2 engine on the Pirelli, we couldn't get the parts in time to enter the Jim Clark. After this Jamie has decided due to personal reasons that he can't continue.

I was looking forward to this event since our roll on it last year and when the time came we only lasted about 4 miles !!THAT WORKS OUT AT ABOUT £200 PER MILE !!!!

ROUND TWO TWYFORD WOOD. 27th May 2007

A very wet Twyford wood was the venue for round 2 of the Peugeot 205 challenge, having never been to the venue before but hearing loads of war stories about the place I just wanted to get going and going we did.

SS1 Nice and steady, picked up a puncture at the end of the stage dropping a bit of time.

SS2 Clipped a curb or hole which pushed us towards a small tree although no panel damaged somthing was not right and the car felt very unstable and noisy, ah punctured front and a broken/lost