84 cars entered the rally but sadly only 41 managed to finish. The event lived up to its reputation as a bit of a car breaker with 8 stages cover 80 miles we knew we were in for a long hard days rallying, but what a great venue a bit like a massive west Rayham with tight single track, good quality tarmac roads, deadly kerbs, hundreds of derelict buildings, old ammo bungers and railway lines. This was going to be a very technical rally with lots of braking and low gear shifting on every 90 turn and there were hundreds of them.
Stage 5 or 6 we picked up a bad sound and loss of power half way through the stage and got overtaken by 2 cars when back in service we found that we has snapped a gear box mounting bracket which pulled the exhaust of the manifold, the service crew had there work cut out but Darky waved the magic wand and got us back ready for the next stage on time.
We keep it neat and tidy for the rest of the afternoon but was suffering from a lack of power, Then we had our moment !! going through the fast double right hand bend under the railway bridge on stage 7 (which had already killed a 1.6 pug) the back end stepped out and we spun hitting the deadly perimeter fence at about 50-60mph, fortunately not much damaged was done, we spun the car around and only dropped about 10 secs. We eventually finished the day 33rd O/a and 9th in class.
Shane had another busy day on the notes and must have had a sore neck by the end of the rally, perfect like always mate !!

Roll on round one !!!!