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A few were running VERY low on 98RON leading up to the stages. Topping up with just enough jungle juice to get through the stage, then splash and dash of 98 to get to the next stage and so on.. Someone cottoned onto this however and a fuel tester was manned at the end of some stages.

Fkn cheaters....... why do some people go to these lengths? Do they realise they're just cheating themselves, and the the sport?

Name and shame I reckon!

Yep - just going to look into whats involved in changing everything - arms, hubs, bushes - EVERYHTING.

And ANY hoses in the engine bay that are original.

And anything else I can think of that shouldn't ever break but seems to on my car!

Fkn cheaters....... why do some people go to these lengths? Do they realise they're just cheating themselves, and the the sport?

Name and shame I reckon!

Agreed Ben...it should be made public to further discourage. I was surprised to see fuel testing at the end of Pelverata yesterday morning and from what we could see it was a targeted swoop as there was a spotter relaying car numbers to the actual testing area a further 100m on.

Well some of the cars simply didnt smell right. On the stage were Snowie was trying to go the moon running over 3 bar and we had to slow...a car overtook us and i thought we had popped the engine because of the cars exhaust smell...very oil and strange smell. May have simply been E85 but who knows

Congrats to everyone for making it through in one piece, even if some of the cars didn't.

Big tick for Roy for finally getting some balls and jumping into the *real* seat of a rally car :P

Brilliant to see Dan on the podium - I have a choice photo of Dan & his champagne which I'll have to post later on (unless a suitable bribe comes my way today)

And hey how good was one Mr Stuart Benson in his first run at Clerk of Course?!

Big tick for Roy for finally getting some balls and jumping into the *real* seat of a rally car :D

And hey how good was one Mr Stuart Benson in his first run at Clerk of Course?!

Meh, i am Reg Kramer re-incarnarted. I dont know what that makes Snowie for using me as his RIO???!?!

And, great to meet Stu in person....thanks a million for all the help gettting me registered and entered at short notice. Made it all look easy which i am sure wasnt the case given the lateness of the change . :)

Here's a link to the stage where the arm finally snapped (we think - we are just going by the fact that the "noise" became a clunk after this stage). Looking at the footage I can't tell when it happened exactly as the car was handling crap from start to finish. LOL

Still - given all of that the stage time was only 17s off the class leading time! (and only 5s slower than Adam and Dan LOL).

But you can get a good appreciation of how well the blood nut in the mad seat did given his short notice call up.

Another thing people may have noticed was that the R35's weren't "as fast" as last year.

Interestingly they have ALL now switched to the Toyo's (which I think are crap). I wonder if that played any part or if the Lambo and STi have just jumped them now?

Snowman did you guys do much/any recce???

We got to cover all the stages once (lucky TWP is technically only 9 stages with a few repeats - that are all close to each other and base camp). So Thursday and Friday between doing all the other things we had to do either officially (scrut - drivers briefing) and getting Troy sorted (licenses, suit, helemt etc) we found the time to check, change and in some cases write the notes and have a bit of a practise run.

So it was all good. I was just happy to be there having some fun which was why I said to Bris I was happier having him in the seat than some proven expert, as win or lose I didn't care as long as I had some fun along the way!

Plus - short of killing him - had I been unfortunate enough to vernture off into the bush I knew there was no way I could inflict more damage than he has done to himself over the years! :P

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