[Kevan]

Rally reports - 29th June - TT Grandstand & Little Druidale - 

Holiday, injuries and medical treatments put paid to a good turnout tonight.
…nevertheless there were still four of us, we decided to drive five cars each so 20 cars on the Rally stages.

   

Standard class had a big boost tonight, Mike B ‘brought the wrong box’ which turned out to be a blessing in disguise, the Suzuki Swift is a lovely smooth runner.  It was also nice to see a Seat (Abarth) 131 in Standard Classic along with his regular Ninco Ford Focus (I must get mine prepped for action).

Ninco Porsche 911’s were popular, three were seen, Brian’s has SlotIt running gear and goes nicely.  The other car he’s been working on is a DeTomaso Pantera, unsure of it’s performance after working on it turned out to be his second best car tonight, sitting between his Peugeot 206 and Renault Megane.

Chris didn’t think his Alpine A110S was going to be easy to drive but ended up his best car tonight.  That Honda Civic has been a great conversion, always a competitive performer and well worth the effort to upgrade it.  Now that Ford Fiesta ‘I stopped using it because it has problems, but I can’t remember what’...it was the guide (just like Brian’s Hyundai i20)

Kev brought the Volvo and Scooby out of retirement, both being overshadowed by the Opel Manta.  The proxy Jag XK120 shone again as did the Fly BMW M1 which ‘flies’ round albeit a little noisy.

   

Eight Standard, eight ProStocks and four Open class cars.
ProStock 2WD was most popular as usual, closely followed by Standard 80’s and Open 2WD.

   

Comparison chart

   

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Next week is Mosler ‘Club Challenge’ #4