We had a great run, cleaned some sections, failed some we shouldn't have and wallowed in the mud for a few high scores on a couple more. Not Sandale though. Got the bug wound up and we hit the muddy bit flat out in first without any wheelspin. The ruts kept us on the track through the restart area and we maintained enough speed to require some heavy braking when we got to the road. Epic :-)
Nigel Jones had his sump guard fall off on the first section and being a gentleman I stopped to help. After that we were running pretty much towards the back of the field and experienced quite a few delays as the marshals extricated competitors from some of the muddy sections.
We felt sorry for John, June and Alex who were marshalling the last section and hadn't seen a car for ages when we arrived. Poor Johns face really dropped when I told him there were at least half a dozen behind us!
Got to the food at the finish about 5.45. One or two bogs, sorry sections, apart we really enjoyed it though. Its my 4th Northern and I plan to be back next year.
How was your Northern Trial?
Thankyou so much to everyone who competed and marshalled on the Northern yesterday making it such a success. The executioners axe will just have to gather some more rust! Purely from the competitors viewpoint this must have been my best trial result ever with, amongst other cleans, zeros on Little Cockup, Sheepfold, Lord's Seat and Sandale. Such a shame that Routen Romp had to be cancelled just after I went up as I cleaned that also. There was grip where I wasnt expecting it and I had imposed some tyre pressure limits on myself that may have helped out. In addition I had 15 stone of John Blakeley on board which may also have helped. Shame about Colin Perrymans problems on and after Black Hole and Stuart Bartlett got close up and friendly with a mature specimen on Ladyside. Should point out before it causes him some problems that it was a Forestry Commission specimen. The wing and headlight became ever so slightly second hand!
ReplyDeleteOnce again, many thanks to all for your committment to the Northern.
I should point out that my John Blakeley is Chris Veevers son in law and not the other one. Hes not quite 15 stone!
Cheers,
Myke Pocock
Chairman
Fell Side Auto Club
Results?
ReplyDeleteFinal Results https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-fgJRbDV1lUeFVXdkdGbTFTRXFRaHhCR0ZSYWtqQQ
ReplyDeleteDont know how he does it but Dave Cook manages to capture superbly the essence of the trial in his photos. Magnificent. Well done to Fred Mills for interpreting the scores from all the soggy score sheets. Organising a trial doesnt finish when the last car crosses the finishing line. Far from it!
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