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Hytorc Stages Ingliston 13/3/10 - GMSC Members Results
This single venue event run by DCC at Ingliston showground was won by Bruce Edwards and Jim Smith who were fastest on every stage in their Darrian T9. But they are not GMSC members so we won’t even mention them.
45 started, 27 finished.
Congratulations on second overall, which is a career best (so far). Though after I wrote the previous sentence, I heard that last week Ross won the first round of the East Ayrshire CC Rally Time Trial Championship at Kames.
Broke an inner track control link taking the yump at end of stage 4 flat in 4th, and so struggled for last 4 stages with poor handling and steering because of the broken joint. Still second or third on all the stages bar one.
There was gloom in Downing street last night, after the news of another disappointing day for the tank tape and cable tie industries, just when they expected a wee boost to help the long climb out of the recession.
Congratulation on another career best (so far) with their first top ten finish.
Oooh!
Stage 1 - The idea was to start off at full pace and make an impression but we lost a nut on one of the linkages and got stuck in 4th, then lost the brakes. The vertical hydraulic hand brake I spent all week fitting was leaking causing a loss of pressure so we tightened up what we could and headed back out with all our gears.
Stage 2 - Went 3 seconds slower. Still nae brakes but we disconnected the linkage again since it makes you go faster. Stripped back all the hoses and refitted them during the longer stage change over which seemed to work but the pedal was still a bit close to the floor.
Stage 3- Settled down a bit since Baillie told me I was 5th overall after setting his car on fire (thought he was joking, I would of been happy with top 10!) had a clean run but wished I had put the bigger torsion bars on the rear as it was rolling around a bit much.
Stage 4 - Starting to run out of tyres after getting Ronnie to turn 2 round on the rims and swapping front to back and any other way we could to get more out of them but the times were starting to suffer because wire doesn''t grip. A few small problems up to this point but I hadn''t hit anything yet so everyone was happy! [I think amazed is the word you are looking for? Absolute despair in Downing Street. Ed]
Stage 5 - Slipping down the board now with very little grip (front or rear) so I did the best I could but couldn''t bear wasting all the hard work from Stuart and my Paw in the off season by finishing any lower.
Stage 6 - Ronnie sorted us out with some new front tyres and we went out 3 seconds behind the car in front fully intending to make that up until car 29 pushed us wide onto the grass then held us behind him for the rest of the lap.
6th overall and 2nd in class after some time sheet drama was a good result for our first tarmac event of the season and a nice reward for all the time spent under the car in the freezing cauld! Thanks to Ronnie Thom, John Murray and ma Daddy/Stuart Bell for all the help.
Next event : Borders next weekend!
Lacky
14th overall 2nd in class 5.
18th overall and second in class 2.
Retired after a fire.
Started well and after the first 4 stages were lying 8th overall, comfortably winning the needle match with class rivals Kev Monaghan / Chris Purvis (with whom there has been a lot of banter on the web) by beating them decisively on all four stages. Then the gearbox broke, but if you can''t take a joke you should play.
Second overall on the first stage! But only finished two stages then retired with engine failure.
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