C2R2 Test

Submitted by tomw on

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Well the new car was finished (mostly) last week and this weekend Jamie Hickman and I tested it in Wales.
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We hired a small area of forest near Lampter in mid Wales for the day and had our very own rally stage about 1.5 miles in length. At each end was enough room to pull the handbrake and go back the other way. Our 'stage' had a hairpin and a square corner as well as some high speed bends and a varying surface with some rough and smooth bits. The venue was exactly what we needed to shake down the car.

VK - DERBYSHIRE 31/3/07-1/4/07

Submitted by jaggsie on

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Gordon and went up to do the VK as the Greenleaves in Wales was that extra 3 hours travelling time. We had a good run up with the car on the trailer, around 3 hours door to door. Had a fish and chip supper in Chesterfield and was through noise, scrutineering and signed on and plotted by 9pm so had a couple of hours shut eye. We were seeded car 28 and left the start 00:13 hours. Overall the rally was pretty uneventful for us, the organisers clocks on the event were slightly different to ours which was set at the start so we found we were coming in often seconds into the next minute.

The tour of Caerwent

Submitted by redz on

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.

Targa Rallies

& Gymkhanas

CMC ran Javalin's Jumbo Jymkhana at West Raynham Airfield in Norfolk for many years while it was available, and then Gymkhanas at Woodbridge, Bentwaters, Honington, and Debden Airfields in Suffolk & Essex. The events included driving tests similar to our historic and endurance road rallies.

Targa Rallies are a new category of event introduced in 2013, which just involve driving tests on private land - this allows us to continue to run single-venue tests events WITHOUT any skill tests.

Upcoming events:

speedy hire stages

Submitted by redz on

Event Report, first real tarmac test of the year !!

Had a cracking day on the speedy hire stages at Rockingham yesterday, Darky pulled a few strings and got Tudor Jenkins to sit in with me for the whole day, From the outset we agreed to not look at times and use the complete day as a test session.
Stage 1 was dry, stage 2 was cancelled due to a non challenge pug crashing in the tunnel at the stage start, then the heavens opened and it poured down all day, to Tudor’s delight!! That’s it boyo, just what we want.

Taunton Open

Submitted by jaggsie on

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Gordon and I entered the Taunton Open, having decided to contest as many of the ASWMC events as calendar and time allows. Also first proper outing for the 106 1300cc Rallye apart from two course drives of the Derek Stone.
Nothing untoward on way down apart from seeing a woman clearly being given driving instruction in a 318i on the M4 couldn't stay within the nearside lane at all, then a big big Merc doing 90 in outside lane with a space saver wheel on the front, and I thought there was 50 limit!

Derek Stone

Submitted by jaggsie on

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7th February - Gordon P and I drove route in the 106, did whole route door to door in under 90mins so 45 miles route looks fine. Found a road closed at Stow Maries will monitor this. Identified locations for all controls.
w/c 12th February - started doing clues thanks to Bob Blows and Paul Barrett for checking them, started to gather and confirm marshals. Final instructions sent out.
18th Febraury do last minute route checking and control locations on pretence of 'looking at houses for sale'

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