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Re: Loeb vs Hirvonen
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Re: Loeb vs Hirvonen -
10-23-2009
, 11:06 AM
So who's it going to be? *I'm off to Wales tomorrow to find out  Plus I'm getting chauffered around in a nice new shiney Merc C250 (or summat like that) so I can enjoy a few bevvies out in the valleys. *Luvly jubbly. Anyone else going? |
providing the lazy arse postmen deliver my sodding cover note tomorrow
then I can tax the car...
Mike P
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So who's it going to be? I'm off to Wales tomorrow to find out Plus I'm getting chauffered around in a nice new shiney Merc C250 (or summat like that) so I can enjoy a few bevvies out in the valleys. Luvly jubbly. Anyone else going? |
the Millennium Centre. 30 second walk to where everything was going on.
Got all the signatures apart from Mikko's. Collared him as he was
walking back to his car. He came over, was about to get his pen out then
some fucking corporate knob accosted him so didn't get it.
Went to Sweet Lamb.
If you went to Sweet Lamb and were slightly observant, you may have seen
the car I was in. Renault Espace with Gumball 3000 stickers on it and a
homebrew roofrack with 10 aerials of various sizes on top. We had a seat
in the middle of the car absolutely covered in scanners and PMR radios
listening to everything from everyone from the helicopters through to
the teams and down to the rally officials.
For example,
Start of Stage 1, when asked if everything was going OK, the officials
said "Yeah except for the Japanese who always seem to be a pain in the
arse".
Henning Solbergs car was running shit because nobody in their workshop
can solder for shit and had done a piss poor job on a relay. When you
hear them referring to soldering as welding, you don't hold out much
hope.
The 6 minute gap in the running of the Group N was because one of the
co-drivers kept passing in and out of consciousness so everyone got
backed up.
Also heard Mikko saying he'd not had much confidence in himself the
first time through, hence the low times and was going to get himself
sorted over dinner.
Stage officials were as funny as hell on the radio once they'd closed
the stage down after the first run through. There was some right stuff
going on.
If you go again, you really need to take some radio gear with you. Adds
greatly to the experience when you get to hear whats going on which
doesn't make it to TV or the commentary.
Funniest part: Watching a long line of people in suits walking through
the mud at the bottom of the stage tip-toeing through the shite in their
best office type footwear as they were trying to get from the
hospitality tent to their cars and watching one of the morons thinking
he was clever walking outside the taped path set up and then coming
across a quagmire he had no choice but to go through.
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Conor
www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk
I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
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"Conor" <conor (AT) gmx (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message news:MPG.254cea58fd8fd87e989886 (AT) news (DOT) eternal-september.org... In article <7kc3kfF390bb5U1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net>, Carl Gibbs says... So who's it going to be? I'm off to Wales tomorrow to find out Plus I'm getting chauffered around in a nice new shiney Merc C250 (or summat like that) so I can enjoy a few bevvies out in the valleys. Luvly jubbly. Anyone else going? Me. Went to Cardiff and stayed in the Travelodge just over the road from the Millennium Centre. 30 second walk to where everything was going on. Got all the signatures apart from Mikko's. Collared him as he was walking back to his car. He came over, was about to get his pen out then some fucking corporate knob accosted him so didn't get it. Went to Sweet Lamb. If you went to Sweet Lamb and were slightly observant, you may have seen the car I was in. Renault Espace with Gumball 3000 stickers on it and a homebrew roofrack with 10 aerials of various sizes on top. We went to Halfway then shot down to Rhondda. Fecking hell was it wet, proper Welsh weather, luckily me and my mate started on the Vodka early which kept us warm!! Since we had the females with us we didn't watch the whole field, but I guess we saw about two thirds at Halfway, but only the top ten at Rhondda. We went by some jumps at Halfway, and once everyone pushed past the tape and ignored the marshals we didn't get a bad view, but to be honest it wasn't overly exciting. By the time the Group N's and 1600s were coming through things had slowed right down, with some looking like they were on a Sunday drive (more money than telent!!) and that's when we decided to make a move. Had a good drive across the mountains in the two cars (Merc C250 CDi Sport twin turbo and a Subaru Legacy GTB twin turbo), although we were held up for a bit after some tit in an Imprezza decided it was a good idea to take a detour down the side of said mountains - luckily it was down a relatively small 'hilly bit' rather than a cliff face but had to wait for a crane to pick him up. At Rhondda we took shelter in the woods by a 90-left which was a good little spot as it was after a long straight and the cars flew in at huge amounts of speed and came out the other side with a good dab of oppo! Unfortunately by this point it was torrential sideways rain and the trees in the woods looked like they were about to fall on us. My other half decided to stay in the car anyway and the other were winging about being wet so we called it a day after the big names came through. Was going to go into Cardiff today for the finish today, but the weather put us off in the end so just watched the stage times come up on wrc.com. Must try and lookout for the Dave re-run of their WRC show to see todays action, but the Welsh get much better coverage on S4C, shame I cant get it here. Took a few photos, but my camera was getting soaked so not sure how they've come out. Will sort them out in a min. Hmmm, a bit cack TBH (rain all over the lense is my excuse), but here they |
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23178174@N06/sets/72157622537278165/
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Fecking hell was it wet, proper Welsh weather, |
Bit pissed off at Loeb winning. Mikko nearly had him.
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Conor
www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk
I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
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