Results confirmed, Dan and Steve won the 205 Challenge round and were second in Class finishing 14th Overall. Great weekend, not quite enough beer, but plenty of excitement. Looking forward to Swansea Bay now.

Provisional results

Dan is showing 14th overall and 1st in the 205s. Yipee
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Update

Andy has suffered an engine failure. Dan has gone out from the final service with everything running fine and the rear valance re-engineered by Gaffer + Cable motorsport engineering ltd. He made contact with a tyre wall at Mallory.

If he keeps it all together and stays calm he is in for a win.
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Dan is leading 205s

Looks like dan is leading the 205s by 12 seconds after Mallory this morning.
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Latest update

Andy has an engine rattle and has retired.
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Andy is OUT!

Just had a call from Andy. He has retired at Bramcote. We don't know what the problem is yet.
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Big Changes

Latest reports say Andy is in 4th place but unfortunately Dan has dropped down to 21st. Dan has contacted us to say he has problems with his electric fan after one of the watersplashes.
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They're Away

Both cars away on day 2. Serviced on the side of the industrial estate and off to Merryvale for the cattle grids and bumps. Then onto mallory park for some smooth tarmac onto MIRA for who knows what.

Back to service around 11:00. Hopefully there will be nothing to report until then.


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6:35 am and the housemates......

Early start from Ade's. Steve has already left, Ed is up and walking round in his pants and the rest of the world is emerging.
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Family thing

Dan just walked up and was really proud that he had second fastest time on the Argents Mead stage. But was a bit deflated to find that Andy had fastest time!
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After 5 stages

Dan is in 19th place on 15:44 and Andy is 9th on 15:26. No problems with either car. Andy's new engine is breathing some oil and there is some play developing in Dan's front struts.

Dan had a close encounter with a chicane at Mallory but has only scratched some paint. He said not to tell Paul so I won't say anything.
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Early report

Andy is through the first 2 stages and in the q for stage 3. All going well.
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Teas up

Set up in service waiting for the cars to come in.
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Safely arrived

Both cars here and ready for scrutineering
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Rally of The Midlands

There should be a better chance of posting to the blog for this event. So here is the first attempt.

Well I am sat eating breakfast then there are a couple of things I need to get done before I set off to Cornermotorsports HQ to load the van and get off up to Hinkley for the Rally Of The Midlands. 5an is starting car 40 and Andy starts car 13. Ade will be in with Andy for this event and Dan has Steve McNulty in with him. Spectator info and other details are on www.rallyofthemidlands.co.uk.

I will post news here as I get it. We should have had a preview article in the Banbury Guardian and have been promised a results article.
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