Monday, 10 November 2008

Back to 4WD...

After the the disappointment, I turned my attentions to the Pendragon Stages. I was doing the Pendragon stages, based at Penrith Truckstop, with Paul Miller in his newly built Escort Cosworth.

The event featured stages at the tough Warcop Army Ranges, Lowther Wildlife Park, and Lowther estate. We started off well, having 2 clean runs through the 1st 6 stages. It was then off to service, with only 10 minutes left, we relaised a shaft was damaged and had to use 5 minutes of out lateness to fix it. With the shaft sorted we set off to the next 6 stages. We had two more clean runs through warcop. But things started to go wrong on our 2nd run through Lowther wildlife Park, about a quarter of the way into the stage, the front left lower arm came apart meaning that the front left wheel was just hanging freely, and was getting caught in the wheel arch. We managed to make it out of the stage, but had to use five more minutes of our lateness to fix it and get it to the next stage. But unfortunately the propshaft snapped on the start line of the stage. And that was us out.

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