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Old 4 Apr 2005, 08:09 (Ref:1269516)   #1
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Mini Tempest - Longcross.

A great days rallying at Longcross - despite our 'eventful' first stage

The first stage was definitely 'interesting', somewhere on the first circuit we lost our oil filler cap, I then screwed up on the notes and we took a split the wrong way (oops ). The car then started filling up with smoke and throwing clouds of it out behind us as the oil escaped from the top of the engine, we got back to service popped the bonnet and found a small fire burning merrily on our exhaust wrap! A quick burst from an extinguisher (thanks to the very keen bloke servicing next to us!) soon put that out. We borrowed a filler cap from someones Focus (thanks whoever you were!) and cleaned up the car before heading out for the next stage.


After a somewhat eventful first stage things settled down a bit (once we'd got the oil off the brakes) and we had great fun in the afternoon when we had the car working nicely and the tyres were really giving us some grip. We eventually finished 46th (if it hadn't been for our maximum on stage one we'd have been higher up ) but after the first stage we were just glad to still be running.

Thanks to all the organisers, marshals, Allen and Tim for servicing, the bloke with the extinguisher and the very generous chap who let us use the filler cap off his road car Great fun

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Old 4 Apr 2005, 08:35 (Ref:1269529)   #2
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ss_collins should be qualifying in the top 3 on the gridss_collins should be qualifying in the top 3 on the gridss_collins should be qualifying in the top 3 on the gridss_collins should be qualifying in the top 3 on the grid
bloke with the extiguisher was Sevenoaks Motor Clubs Iain Gibson!
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Old 4 Apr 2005, 08:49 (Ref:1269534)   #3
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bloke with the extiguisher was Sevenoaks Motor Clubs Iain Gibson!
When you see him next can you thank him again for us please Sam, it was much appreciated (he seemed to relish the opportunity to use it!). Good to meet you too.
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Old 4 Apr 2005, 10:33 (Ref:1269644)   #4
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I wasnt there but does anyone have any pictures up yet?
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Ah so it was your car Bert...at least you weren't the car that blew up and covered the second and third corners in oil!
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Ah so it was your car Bert...at least you weren't the car that blew up and covered the second and third corners in oil!
We seemed to keep most of the oil on/in our own car there was smoke inside the car for the rest of the day as we burnt it off but fortunately it was nowhere near as bad as the first stage - I'm not sure how bad it looked from the outside but my driver couldn't see anything behind us and there was a distinct fog inside the car.

We did have a spin on some oil at one of the chicanes too - we clipped a pallet and removed a rear light lens and bent the bumper a bit (but we got the light back after the next stage ).
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I wasnt there but does anyone have any pictures up yet?
Not yet, but I'm working on it. I took over 200 but it was on Bertmk2's driver's digital SLR.
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A great days rallying at Longcross - despite our 'eventful' first stage :
Please excuse the ignorance - I've been wanting to know this for some while - where is Longcross?
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Old 4 Apr 2005, 21:17 (Ref:1270245)   #9
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Longcross is adjacent to the M3, just round the corner from thorpe and Chertsey.
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Mini Tempset Stages - Longcross, a few pics

Here's a selection of pics taken on Sunday of the Mini Tempest Stages at Longcross. Was a very, very good day.







http://www.astra-mk2.com/allenmead/M...5/IMG_0325.JPG
http://www.astra-mk2.com/allenmead/M...5/IMG_0345.JPG
http://www.astra-mk2.com/allenmead/M...5/IMG_0399.JPG
http://www.astra-mk2.com/allenmead/M...5/IMG_0406.JPG
http://www.astra-mk2.com/allenmead/M...5/IMG_0421.JPG
http://www.astra-mk2.com/allenmead/M...5/IMG_0442.JPG
http://www.astra-mk2.com/allenmead/M...5/IMG_0443.JPG
http://www.astra-mk2.com/allenmead/M...5/IMG_0447.JPG
Careful if you click on the image above as it's full size and is not 56k friendly.

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Nice pics... you dont have any of a Darian (car number 3) do you? ...
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Old 5 Apr 2005, 12:00 (Ref:1270770)   #12
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Hi Cougar, I think I did get a few pics of the Darian. I'll have a look.
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you got any pic of car 62?
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This is the only one i have



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