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Some photos and a video from the 2007 October-7 Midvale Speed Event Series with Elliot driving the EJ22 FWD of doom.

Last minute additions to the car, stickers – so maybe I at least look fast?

A rally practise day is held by the local CSMA car club, West Middlesex Group and this was to be my first taste of pushing the 205 around something like a rally track – April 13th 2008. And it was a great event, well organised and good value for money (£80 for a whole days practise). Uniquely to events I’ve done the day allowed for a co-driver to practise with you, or in my case give tips. With a large turn out of cars ranging from Lancia Stratos kit-cars, a Metro 6R4, Escorts, road cars and a whole host of 205’s – a surprising number of runs through the morning and afternoon course could be had. But damn it was wet again! haha. And this caught quite a few out, a couple of flats, a few bent panels and broken steering arms on the curbs.

Expecting an 80% tarmac day and deciding to save wear on my tarmac tyres I luckily turned up with a set of average gravel/mud rally tyres on. And first look at the stage and endless mud boy was this the right tyre to have today! More like 80% mud/gravel and some clean, but largely rough, tarmac. With a keen co-driver from the Farnborough Car Club I did quite a few runs, a small number of times maybe pushing my knowledge of the car and surface a bit far – but learning a lot. As the course dried up for a period in the afternoon it all felt a lot quicker and neater; a breif 10 minute shower washed that feeling away as the mud and tarmac again became an ice skating rink.

Good fun. Now I definately want to do it for real!

Hopefully a few photos will follow as there were some photographers there on the day. Next investment might have to be an in car video camera system.

My photos of some reasonably muddy cars;