I competed in he SMC stages, but we had to retire due to keep breaking drive shafts on the front left wheel, and we decided it was best to quit while we still had the car in one piece.
Two weeks after weeton, I did the Lee Holland Memorial at Anglesey, with Darren Doherty in his N10 Impreza. We had a cracking weekend, and managed to get 6th overall. This was while having to avoid using 3rd gear after the 4th stage as it semed alot nosier than the rest. We also got 2nd in class D.
Things seemed to go quite after the Lee holland, until I managed to get a late ride on the RBS International Manx , and by last minute I mean 2 days before I had to sail across to the Isle of Man. Unfortunately, we didnt have time to do a proper recce, but this was the least of our problems, as we had to retire on the 4th stage with fuel problems. This mean that we would leave the island a day early having covered less than a quarter of the event. I did the event with Lee Perry in his Escort WRC.
2 weeks after the Manx I got a phone call asking me to do the Jim Clark International with 2007 Citroen C2R2 UK Champion, Martin Laverty. This was to be my 1st International event. After some franctic running around to get everyting organsided in just 2 days. We set off on the Thursday night. Having never meet Martin, sat in a C2 or used International timing, I could tell it was to be a challenge.
We didnt have the best of starts to the rally, when on the 1st 2 stages, the intercom wasn't working meaning that Marting had to drive the stages blind. At service we managed to sort the intercom woes out, and then have 2 good stages (the 3rd being cancelled). But then after 2nd Service, we hit trouble which would plague us for the rest of the event. Un be known to us, the fan wasnt working, this caused the car to overheat. But we didnt realise it was the fan until the last 3 stages of the event as our thoughts were all on fuel problems. We managed to finish the event though in 37th, but we had to incure major penalties to keep the car running. We also dropped 20 minutes in just 4 stages on SAatyrday and about the same again on Sunday.
I will update you with my most recent events: Dukeries Rally, Ypres Rally and Quinton Stages later this week....
