I love how Paul refers to me as "boyband" in his post above lol.
I felt really confident going into this rally, especially thanks to the club event we did a couple of weeks back with the early WRC cars in Finland. I think this helped me immensely with knowing the stages. All I really had to do was see how the old N10 went on gravel, having only driven it before on tarmac.
SS1-4 - Went absolutely perfectly. No real mistakes and I felt I was driving well within my limits. Fast but safe.
SS5-9 - ran wide on the last corner on SS5 and clipped the fence on the outside of the corner rearranging the front suspension. This meant I had to back off for the rest of the loop because the car was pulling under braking. I would say that was my only proper mistake in the whole rally.
SS10-11 - suspension repaired in service everything was back to normal. I don't like Autiovaara so I took it easy through there and pushed a bit harder through the best RBR stage of all time Sikakama.
SS12-14 - Again no problems, I ran wide on a couple of corners through Autiovaara and the first sector of Sikakama. That woke me up so I tried to make sure I didn't make a mistake and got it to the end. Did a celebratory handbrake turn over the finish of the last stage lol.
Overall I'm happy. I think the old girl lacks a bit of punch on these fast stages, particularly in the dry. ( I think I was actually quicker on the damp stages ). For the organisers, for some reason I'm missing a split time on the last stage but I've got an overall stage time, I'm not sure if that'll cause a problem or not but I'll email the HTML file with my times along with my replays.
Good luck to the guys still to compete, I had a blast! Can't wait for the results ( fingers crossed )