Im back
Had a great day yesterday , didn't start off too well as I did the first leg on the wrong tyres , went out on super soft slicks but it was too slippy and greasy and dropped loads of time , was 85th after the first stage !
Got back into service and fitted wets , the Hankook wets work really well on damp as well where other make wets would rip to shreds , so got on the pace with the wets on , put in some good times , stage 5 was the best one of the day , put a very good time in on that one , caught the Escort WRC car that started in front of me , caught and overtook and dropped him by the end of the stage
We could have finished up with a better result but the tyres went off on the last stage , I should have gone 10-15 seconds faster than the stage before as they were the same stage , but it was getting a bit sloppy on the stage and ended up only going 2 seconds faster , we had a few moments getting it sideways as the tyres weren't gripping properly so backed off a bit , we were only 6 seconds off 3rd in class and had been taking time off him so I was confident we could have beaten him , but it didn't happen , so ended up 4th in class and 21st overall , considering I was 85th on the 1st stage i'm very happy with that !
Engine ran faultlessly so big thanks to Fred , the difference in the way the car pulls now is huge , was so much faster , which a lot of people commented on , the nav in the WRC escort came over to me in the service area and asked ' what the fook have you got in that ' lol.
Cars had a jet wash today to clean all the mud off it underneath , its on the ramp now , dropped the oil in the engine and box so will fill it with new tomorrow , going to fit the Laguna rear hubs I bought a few months ago as the genuine renault discs and bearings I fitted have play in them , it will have another spanner check and were ready to go to Ireland on thursday .
Have uploaded stage 6 in which we caught a 2.4 escort by the end of the stage , he said he could believe it seeing me in his mirrors , he said I must have been flying to catch him , he was gutted lol , tried the GoPro camera and was only fitted last minute , so its not in the best position , my son fitted his suction mount to the roof and it wasn't low enough so you can't see out ahead properly , but still , what you can see is fun
Enjoy !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=76_p4cACYI4