Warren Dawes
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Wow, this result was a shock, I expected to not be on the podium this time. Looks like another lucky one. It may look like a victory for Mr Plod (just driving safe and steady) but it was far from that, it was just that I was able to recover from my crashes and finish.
Things looked grim for the night when I ploughed straight ahead into the scrub at the first turn of Stage 1, resulting in needing a helping hand to find the track, then restart the car and plough on with it stuck in 2nd gear. I later had a few pretty fast stages going and managed to bounce of bumps and roll it just before the end of the stages.
The Focus seemed pretty quick, but kept biting me with violent oversteer at the worst times. I had to just breath on the handbrake.
Well done to Adam (very unlucky) and Cam for the podium.
This was a very enjoyable Rally though, quite interesting and demanding (even without foul weather). Thanks Andrew for another well planned event.
Thanks to Cam, Glen and Andrew for the TS fun again, and watch out for Cam on top of the podium soon, he was very quick most of the night but unfortunately had a couple of unlucky retirements.
Things looked grim for the night when I ploughed straight ahead into the scrub at the first turn of Stage 1, resulting in needing a helping hand to find the track, then restart the car and plough on with it stuck in 2nd gear. I later had a few pretty fast stages going and managed to bounce of bumps and roll it just before the end of the stages.
The Focus seemed pretty quick, but kept biting me with violent oversteer at the worst times. I had to just breath on the handbrake.
Well done to Adam (very unlucky) and Cam for the podium.
This was a very enjoyable Rally though, quite interesting and demanding (even without foul weather). Thanks Andrew for another well planned event.
Thanks to Cam, Glen and Andrew for the TS fun again, and watch out for Cam on top of the podium soon, he was very quick most of the night but unfortunately had a couple of unlucky retirements.