Ok. Day 1.... Four stages... The first three dont count towards the results and have very easily achievable base times. I.e the speed limits on the roads are 100 or 110. Average 90 kph and you will clean the stage. I.e. If the base time is 4 minutes and you do it in 2 minutes you get zero advantage over the guy that did it in 3:59.
A guy was killed a couple of years ago so they went one step further on the first stage today and put a minimum time in. In this case 2:30. I.e go faster than 2:30 and you get a 1 minute penalty. So for the first stage minimum time 2:30, base time 4 minutes. Just aim for something in the middle. It was something like 5 km's... You get the picture... I think at least 7 people including jason white (who is a pre event favourite) went too fast and copped a 1 minute penalty.
Second stage no minimum time but very achievable base time. Something like 7km and base time of 5 minutes. Need to average 80 odd kph. A father son team in a bmw 2002 had a monumental shitmixer / argument with a tree and lost. Ambulances, broken legs etc. not pretty. Stage got downgraded so no racing.
Stage 3 was about 6 km with a base time of 4 minutes. Had half a go and did 3.22. No problems.
Next is the traditional prologue stage which is effectively a dick measuring contest no dissimiliar to malaga in targa west with heaps of 90 degree corners except it is through the middle of a town and the public come out in their droves... This year it is the first proper timed stage... We were going along fine and bang.... Fucking intercooler hose again.... Made it to the end but dropped 40 seconds... In the scheme of things it could of been far worse but still a major piss off given we have had the exact same problems last time...
Biggest field ever 351 cars....
The sweep car.... Mclaren P1
Lots of classics. 911 for dayz.... So many 71 rs's.
This are the photos of the lead we had to put in the boot. We also put in the 25kg bash plate under the front.
I cant work out how to post photos from high ipad but here is the link.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/snio3qsmgw...72233.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5cdirxlzub...81034.jpg?dl=0
This is the map of tassie with all the stages. Just to give you some idea of how big the event is.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pdj4y3d4eo...74735.jpg?dl=0