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by **Mr Revhead** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:05 am

its on!!

http://www.silverfernrally.co.nz/

coolest event of the year!
unfortunatly my plans to make it fell through but ill be there next year!
i know of one TSer involved..... any others?

by **Adamal** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:27 am

Netball? I'm starting to worry about you Warwick!

Waits for it

by **Mr Revhead** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:34 pm

homo

been a few stages cancelled over the last coupla days, too much snow! also some pretty damn rough roads apparantly.
check out the pics on the website, very cool!

by **Meadzy** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:05 pm

saw a feature on it on the news,

it shows why you dont rally old porches :lol:

"ROLL"

by **fangsport** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:37 pm

i'm hepling Carl close and run the better of our local stages. would have gone on a timing crew if a ozzie mountain(read as hill) didn't get in the way.

mint event and i hope that it progresses into something far better.

by **B1NZ** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:23 am

Wish I had the time and money to do this event :cry:

by **2LTR Rona** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:44 am

Meadzy wrote:saw a feature on it on the news,

it shows why you dont rally old porches "ROLL"

Or Escorts for that matter....they sink

by **strx7** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:04 am

Go Dermot in the Baleno Sedan!!!!!!

by **Meadzy** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:51 pm

2LTR Rona wrote:
Meadzy wrote:saw a feature on it on the news,

it shows why you dont rally old porches "ROLL"

Or Escorts for that matter....they sink

rofl ahaha yer they do sink

by **fangsport** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:24 pm

some nice bits of kit in the event. my boy was pretty pissed he missed the Audi.
a few scarred cars , but that's rallying.

by **rolla_fxgt** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:21 pm

was good to see a few around town the other day, saw a few triumph's an Rx7 & more than a few escorts.
Didnt get to see the WRC escort though, i remember that car from one of the forst rallies i went to, i think it was the one where it was written off big time at an otago rally

by **99gtt** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:13 pm

my mate stumpy is down there with his escort ,he went off a bank and rolled due to the snow.

by **rolla_fxgt** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:58 pm

herd about stumpy, wasnt even on a competitive stage, was just a touring stage apparently due to the weather

by **99gtt** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:06 pm

rolla_fxgt wrote:herd about stumpy, wasnt even on a competitive stage, was just a touring stage apparently due to the weather

yeah the cancelled the stage while he was doing his drive thru

by **DriftMonkey** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:34 pm

Anyone see one news tonight?

*roll*

P1 "are you ok?"

P2 "yes i'm fine"

P2 "How are you?"

P1 "I'm allright"

Sounded like smalltalk at work or something, calm as voices :lol:

Back on topic, me and dad are going to the Nelson stages, gunna be $&#$% awesome!! (BDA's + Forest = awesomeness)

by **Cahuna** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:20 pm

Just arrived home from the rally (was servicing for car #25 - Toyota MR2). It was one hell of a week!

I'll be diarising the week in the next few days for our club mag and will post it along with some pics, but in the meantime:

Highlights
* Not working
* Seeing some of the most spectatular scenery in the world up close and personal
* Beautiful cars up close and personal
* Watching Stig's driving.

Low points
* The 14 hour engine change from hell in the MR2 causing us to miss all of day 5, finally finishing it at 9pm then driving from Chch to Blenheim and arriving at 2am.
* The wind. I'm totally over it! :lol:

* Driving solo, flat out all week trying to keep up with the service schedule. 90-95% of the miles I covered in the 4WD over the week (full lap of the South Island) was at full throttle.
* Getting a speeding ticket driving home today while driving the slowest I have all week!

Murphys Law in action.

Stumpy did roll on a SS that had been cancelled, everyone had to tour through it. However the organisers didn't change the target times, meaning the crews had approx 75 minutes to tour a 91km twisty gravel stage, service and then tour another 13km to the next stage. Where he went off it was basically white-out conditions - the car had actually stopped but he was teetering on the edge, slipped and rolled 7 times. Not a happy camper!

You guys probably saw the yellow Mk2 Escort in the river on the TV news... he was a mate from the car club, they managed to dry everything out and get the car going again for day 5. Funniest thing was the service crew were all geared up to wash the car at the end-of-day service and he brought the car back completely spotless!

It was definitely an interesting week. Right now I'm so tired I don't know if I would do it again but I'm sure in a few weeks I'll have forgotten all the crap parts :lol:

by **Mr Revhead** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:28 pm

awesome
post up the diary stuff when you can!!

im DEFINITLY doing it next year! i hope! :lol:

by **nzae86** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:26 am

I think the road was a bit like this , we had no problems with time to get through but the road had iced over in a couple of places.
Not a bad week of skidding really !

by **TRD Man** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:51 am

Managed to get down to watch the last 2 days and attend the after match function.
It was like a reunion of many old rallying mates from the the 70's & 80's.

Great spectacle with some really nice machinery.

Doesn't run next year Warwick. Scuttlebutt is that they'd like to run again in 2 years time. It remains to be seen whether that's possible.

2001 Toyota Gaia · by **BlakJak** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:56 pm

Some of the comms guys had a bit of fun:

http://www.silverfernrally.co.nz/photos ... m=14&pos=0

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