15th April 2007
Well we got of to a bad start at Driffield !! At the start line we were warned of the dust into the chicane along the back straight, umm to much speed to much dust, missed my braking point, the back of the car stepped out and we nudged the hay bail side ways, no big problem it had happened to lots of other crews, but when reversing in the dust I managed to whack a sturdy sign post causing quite a bit of panel damage, Then straight into a long sweeping right hand bend the car spun 180 and stalled dropping loads of time.
The day was filled with 205s banging into hay bails and 70% of the field picking up some form of panel damage. We tried to keep it clean and tidy for the rest of the day and nearly did until the final stage, firing on only 3 pots, we were caught by one of the beamers at the end of a long straight, looking into his dust storm, again missed our braking point and bumped over a bit of rough terrain, picked up a puncture and limped off to the finish line .
Not at great day overall, did not really like the venue, all the hay bail chicanes were destroyed after stage 1 making this a very fast event in places, with us not bothering to fit the 4.8 diff over the winter put us at a great disadvantage to the other crews In our class. Power problems, sticking brake pedal, and bad rear brake set up resulted in a bad day for the redz racing team. Thanks to Paul Dark rallying for working so hard on a very hot day.