we had a really good weekend in tassie and are happy we got the premier league points which was the aim for the weekend.it was a last minute decision to do tassie but i have never been and i always wanted to try a tarmac rally so on the day the entries closed i rang dasher(darren williams) and asked him could car be repaired from the off in batemans bay i got my answer quickly and twas a BIG NO....a miracle happened and the boys made the impossible possible and we were 3 hours late for scrunity thats how last minute the final car assembly was.......
we improved all weekend so i was happy and 7th on sunday and we were well ahead in the premier league..i had trouble with recce on weather to write the notes as i would drive them in the rally or the way i drove them when the roads were opened to the public some bends are severe when you are driving them on open roads but by cutting and staying out wide they become less severe..i wrote them as we drove on open roads and just took it as it came in the rally it took most of saturday to get the driving line someway right as i was coming in to tight on the tight stuff so eoin kept telling me to use the full with of the road on entry and exit so i got a little better.....
we had some excitement on saturday we left service heading for savage river stage ...all set and came into the first turn and stood on the brakes and a full bottle of gatorade went flying in under the brake pedal so that was a scary moment we drove the whole stage wit the bloody bottle in under the pedals so we lost a bit of time....ill save everyone the trouble and call myself a massive tool for not securing the bottle.....
into service no problems 2min left to get to time control and went to start the car and nothing we thought twas low on petrol so we pushed the car backwards through the service park and into time control and then into refuel ...still not starting panick station but dasher and dave found a faulty solonide on the kill switch and bypassed it and away we went 11mins late.we were really lucky it happen in service and not the top of savage river where we had lunch for two hours ....
sunday was brilliant the best stages of the weekend and i had a blast driving on the tarmac we had a big moment on sunday (5.30 in on clip below) and i was thankful that the tyres found some grip and just barely pulled the car away from the rock bank......
so that was our rally tas i had a great weekend ...
thanks a million to dasher and dave for putting big hours in to get the car ready and all there advice on set up throughout the weekend.....my brother paul for driving the service truck to tas and to mick ryan for his support and help with some parts we needed to get car done in time
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