Results now posted

HERE

Again, I am afraid we made a slight c*ck up at the prizegiving. The Class 1 results announced were incorrect and should have been:

3rd John Sales & Carl Hurst - 1800 points
2nd Alastair & Phil David - 1950 points
1st Chris Abel & Simon Wilkinson - 2350 points

Congratulations to the David Brothers for an excellent result on only their second Challenge outing.
Apologies to Glynn Yates & Barrie Gee for presenting trophies that didn't belong to them.

Championship tables will be posted tomorrow.

Neil,Glynn was made up now you gonna upset him,Let saley tel him,
Carl.

Was a very good event,very physical for us co drivers but i enjoyed it,
Thanks to all organizers and marshals,
Carl.

Absolutly spot on, really good site, really well laid out.

We got away lightly with 3 punctures, smashed windscreen, head gasket, front cover, front winch solenoids, rear winch motor and a front winch cable.

Many thanks to neil and the team.

Excellent event , hard but enjoyable only a broken brake light for damage and well done
to Luke my co driver as it was only his 2nd time off road. Many thanks to Neil and his team
for a great day

Great day, brilliant site, technical sections, thanks to Neil and the team who set out.

I can't remember a day when I winched so much or nearly rolled so often.

James must be knackered having run up and down all day.

Very tough for us. Co driver is knacked!
Broken screen, bent (strengthen) drag link, bent steering guard, broken wing mirrows (again)
Big thank youto everyone who helped set out, we didn't get to see too much of of what you had done, but i bet yor legs ached after doing that all day.
Best start getting ready for next one then

Woops that would be my fault then. What Neil has very kindly forgotten to mention is that he had his YTS scoring trainee at the controls.

Apologies to all. It will not happen again.

BB...

Oh and we broke the tow vehicle auto box, doh

Top event, really enjoyed it, thank you Neil and team. Cheers Nick for a great day out and Chris and Graham for endless supplies of food! Legs a little worn this morning, think i will leave the running until later! (and its raining!)

Some great punches and a good site to compete on, not sure i would want to organise one there though a lot of potential for 'issues!'

Neil - just to check did you get my email?

We had a great weekend despite a few problems!
The site was brilliant, and the punches were well set out with plenty that made us think twice about doing them!
We did have a little roll at the top of the hill on punch 18 that could have been quite nasty but luckily a tree broke the fall and Simon was quick enough to jump out the way before the truck rolled on top of him!
Well done Mr Turner for 1st overall , I still got more punches than you ! If only I did the other special...

Hope there are plenty of pic’s and YouTube video’s.
Many thanks to the marshals and organisers for such a fantastic event.








So who else rolled this weekend?

Hope you all enjoyed yourself. The site is amazing, and despite the problems with the camping it all seemed to go well... Next time you have a lie down Chris, make sure it isn't at the top of the mountain...

My HW pics are here: click-click.

Apologies that I can't get pictures of everyone, you all move to quickly..

Good to meet gaflad too, hopefully there will be some good video appearing. Did anyone get Saley's roll?? Rumour was someone did...

Roll on Walters, gonna be really good!

This was our first big event and we were pleasantly surprised at how well we did - joint 28th!

Damage - brake exploded of the front 8274, totally shredded Britpart trailing arm bushes (new a month ago!) snapped the center winch rope twice and possibly bent a rear spring.

Oh, and we have a death wobble fron the front that requires a drive home at no more than 30 mph! (Swivel shimming to be checked this week).

Great event, and a great shock to the system to find all thoses one way in / out punches. Not used to being made to go a certain way to achieve a punch!

Many thanks to the organisers and marshalls.

Looks like fun

Were there points awarded for driving along gullies on your door handles 'cos everyone seems to be at it in those photos.

Chris Able caught on video here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Q2hUkzHYM

Yes, thanks James

Nice video Glaggs!

Cool video! Its a really anoying when the rope keeps wraping round the drum the other way, Free spool drum definitly needed!

Looks like fun

Were there points awarded for driving along gullies on your door handles 'cos everyone seems to be at it in those photos


Should have been! my doors dont look the same

Well done Adrian, Chris rob and Richard, Excellent results.


What was the special you did Chris? Adrian told me about the one he did where he had to hit the balls.

Looking at the results it does seem that anyone doing the SS1 was at about a 400 point disadvantage to anyone doing the SS2. How was it decided who did which one as this would seem a bit harsh if it was purely down to chance?

Big thanks to the marshalls ,mitsimog crew and everyone else who joined in to help get us out of punch 19, really wasn't the moment for the winch to stop working .

Ian & Emma

I decided to do the trials special, i thought i would have enough grip on the grass but it was more like driving on ice! It's just one of those things, i should have looked at the other one first
I did manage to get through the second gate once i built up some speed with 4 seconds to spare!

SS are teams choice as to which you do, i do know that trying to start a special stage with 10mins of the comp left is not a good idea though.....

in which case I suppose it is fair in so far as you made the choice and it wasn't made for you. Still a bit of a downer if you picked SS1 on the day

We do have the oportunity to look at both options during the day and read the rules sheet. Our problem was that we didn't find ss2 until the very end of the day so there wasn't time for us to have our alloted 12mins.

Obviously if we had the leader board would look quite different.

nah - i dont think they could have penalised us!

Yes i have some pictures of Saley that i shall post when i get home later in the week and someone def. got it on vid. He did have a good sense of humour about it even as he hung helpless from his belts.

totally agree. awesome site, awesome event, awesome weekend. thanks to everyone for making it happen.

We were the marshalls on SS2 we didnt get a break in proceedings all day, people kept saying they didnt fancy SS1,
we set out the balls in such a way that as you drove to one "easy" one for 50 points you hit the tree and lifted the ball, a few worked out to go sideways or reverse to it. one or two drove to it with the bonnet open

after watching a few of the competitors it became obvious there was an easier way to the hidden blue ball, as some smart arse drove next to it and opened the door to claim it.

great weekend thanks all.

what the first looser said...


cracking site/day/event -- may I ask for nice weather for the next event please.

What a great site. Very steep and really slippery after the rain.
As it was my first time as a wench, I got half way through the first punch and wanted to die as I was breathing so heavy! Dafydd was wetting himself laughing at me.... I have a new found respect for co-drivers now as I now have parts of me hurting I didn't know I had!

Big thank you to everyone who helped organize the event and everyone for being so friendly. It was great to put a few faces to names and see a few old friends.

Paul (off to join a gym) McCleary.

Just watched the video again with sound this time!

we were running out of Diesel up that particular gully hence me reving the engine to keep it alive.

Think i should get some 2 way radio's!!

I'd buy some Diesel first

good video glaggs. glad everyone liked the site sorry it was a bit steep in place's. not a very (bitch) friendly place.


its not steep just get up there
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bnre4L4uN4U

kev

i reckon you drained it during the night or the sheep did!!

That was a steep climb, the video clip does not really show the angle, but you can see Simon struggle to climb the hill!
cool video, have you got any clips of hydraulic winched truck's climbing that hill?

We din't get to do that punch chris,We got the long section at the side about 3.30 and the red trialer was in so we left it and went to another,
Carl.

chris ive got a few vid's to up load. just having prob's with pc. keep geting booted

Just watched a vid on youtube with Steve Lait and myself rolling but don't now how to do the linky thing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7aOn6inU-c
This should be it,
Carl.
WARNING RE MUSIC ON VIDEO IF YOU ARE IN AN OFFICE

Nice one Skin's

Another cool video! I like the music!

I also liked the little roll John, I almost did the same thing on that punch
Im glad im not the only one to test my cage at the weekend!

If i order a few of the pictures that simon took will they be of higher quality than shown on the website?

I think they will, but check with Neil. When i upload them they are fine, but the display seems to make them fuzzy...

I thought it was the cider did that Simon?

a little harsh i think! ah, you'd know! remind you again next month!

According to PhotoBox, the res Simon uploads at (1600x800) is good for up to A4 size.
Apparently there is a colour indicator alongside your order showing green if the res is OK for your order through to Red if its not.
If you need them bigger then Simon should be able to upload a larger file.

lol...

you shall not stand in my way to another jacket or t-shirt...

don't forget to bring enough fuel with you.. it could be a rather long walk otherwise.

More photos here

http://s306.photobucket.com/albums/nn250/J...?albumview=grid

Some good photos there of saleys bad driving,He still blames me for the roll,Any chance of putting them on a disc so i can have them printed,can get it of you at walters ,
Thanks,
Carl.

Does that point count, your bonnet is over the immovable barrier (blue rope) after the roll