2012 Quit Forest Rally Busselton & Nannup 30/3 - 1/4
 

Round 1 of the WA State Rally Championship and Round 2 of the Australian Rally Championship is due to kick off on Friday the 30th of March in Busselton. The Quit Forest Rally will start with a tarmac special stage around the Busselton foreshore on Friday night, before the action heads to the forests of Nannup on Saturday for the rally's gravel stages.
The QFR is run as two heats so the action is repeated on Saturday night in Busselton and Sunday in Nannup.
There is a lot to watch on this year's event. Not only is there a field of 58 widely varied rally cars, the ARC has introduced side by side racing (Can-Am & Polaris off road vehicles) with a further 5 entries and also a Trail & Quad bike section too.

Of particular local interest are the teams of Tom Wilde/Lee Tierney and Nic Box/Ash Ridden. The two teams are this year contesting the ARC and have been waving the WA flag high. On round 1 (Rally Calder), Wilde/Tierney and Box/Ridden were 1st and 2nd respectively. Maybe not of so much interest to P-WRX members, both teams are competing in Lancer Evo's.

All info including entry lists & spectator guides can be found on the official WARC website: [URL="http://www.rallywa.com"]www.rallywa.com[/URL]

Yawn.......Is that mad cnut in the green GC-8 gunna be there again sideways everywhere, brakes glowing chucking rocks and making the moistys moist?

No, he's too busy adjusting his hair in the mirror to be making the moistys moist

Along the same topic, the Rally Calder highlights show is on OneHD tomorrow from 12.30pm.

And they showed sfa of Tommi wilde in the coverage, the winner of the event, because he didnt pay the rediculous tv package amount at the start of the year...

But we have 25 minutes of honda! btw HONDAS RALLIED AT CALDER. what a joke.

Those guys and those also mentioned here on post #100, which includes

Some of the names competing this year, apart from the regulars of Hynes, Wilde, Bates et-al, Dale MOSCAT (sic) or Dale Moscatt, previously sat beside Novikov up until one too many offs, so he has a really big set. Doug Tostevin (speaking of big sets) is also driving, which makes a nice change from being behind a camera (eg at Targa)

Another former Subaru name competing is Cody Crocker, (in the SxS class) Hopefully the predicted rain settles the dust, and makes for a great event.

[QUOTE=Andy;663982]..........But we have 25 minutes of honda! btw HONDAS RALLIED AT CALDER. what a joke.[/QUOTE]

It is amazing how rules and regulations can be altered and re-written before, during and after a rally to accomodate the teams who have the $$$$$.

I know if I needed to repair my brakes in parc ferme during a rally I'd be excluded.

Front wheel drive rallycars, they can understeer even while stationary!

[QUOTE=dtrally;664150]It is amazing how rules and regulations can be altered and re-written before, during and after a rally to accomodate *certain teams
I know if I needed to repair my brakes in parc ferme during a rally I'd be excluded.

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Agreed Dougie. Or be excluded from the previous heat 3/4 of the way through the next day after the Stewards had their meeting the night before and the results from the first heat had been ratified....

[QUOTE=johnvk7;663976]Along the same topic, the Rally Calder highlights show is on OneHD tomorrow from 12.30pm.[/QUOTE]

Rally Calder was a wank. There was only one highlight....Batesy's RA40:D If it wasn't for that I would have asked for my money back!

White in the old Monaro was entertaining. " Car wasn't ready so we borrowed this to do skids. Everyone loves skids! " lol.

Doug, you should have no problems attracting the cameras, just keep Damo busy and out of the way.

Headin down for sat/sun workin the road closures... Stayin at the nannup hotel for the night but will have to head over to busso sat night for the special stage.

Curious as to were everyone else coming down will be stayin and downin a few alcoholic beverages afterwards? Anyone headin down for the day and have a stage in mind that they will be viewing?

Pretty sure the nannup special stage is during the day so I will miss that one :( will just have to get the missus to drive into busso sat night so I can drink a few unless theres some bus runnin people back afterwards?

Either way will be a good weekend away!

Driving down Friday arvo. Majority of our team are staying in cottages in Nannup, others are camping/caravans. Will be on Ellis Special Stage and looks like I'll be Post Chief at the start or arrival control. Feel free to say hii (I'll be the one wearing the blue bib that looks like a dress on me haha)
Can't wait :D

Hehe ye was originally going to be in your team but they changed us to another team cuz you had enough road closure crews and we are now on the ferndale stage I believe.

Still not sure were we are on sunday...

What you got planned for sat night steph?

Ooh yeah fair enough!
Not too sure... I'm hoping we are going to sit around a camp fire, have a bbq and a few drinks like we used to... but we will see. Pretty keen to have a drink tho! Might even head into town to the pub seeing as I can :P

Ill be heading down either late tomorrow or sometime on Friday and staying somewhere in busselton and helping out with the super special on both Friday and Saturday night then going Lewana way for setting up and doing a couple stages on Sunday.
Cant wait to see them under way!!

For those of you who can't make it, but want to check the results, (which are billed as live results) [url=http://d.rallylive.com.au/]Rally Live Powered By Honda[/url]

Douggie was 5th in stage 1, early days but only 6.1 seconds behind Tom Wilde in his Evo X, with Stone, Hynes and Del Toro in between.

But really its all up to tomorrows and Sundays dirst stages.

Well that was a good spur-of-the-moment weekend.
I drove down to Bussleton SS on Saturday arvo and watched the cars start from the Start/Finish line with Steph and Lockie
(Lockie who has been involved in every event I have been to for the past 6 months... this guy doesn't sleep I tell you!).
Then Sunday I signed up for a road closure on one of the stages and spent that day with Adam and Nat (silver_opal) watching the cars cover us in dust.
Tom Wilde was amazing. On the Busso SS he was power sliding it an inch from the concrete barriers
and on Sunday's stage I can promise you his car was the fastest going past me and the latest to brake into the following corner!
Bloody quick and I understand he was running a restrictor too so he can 'get used to' the car.

Anyway... time for some pics. More pics + vids to come in the next few days.

[COLOR="Red"]PS:[/COLOR] I know Im not a great photographer but if you want pics just ask and I'll send you hi-res ones. Have respect and don't just copy'n'crop these without permission.

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[I]That[/I] mad cnut in the green GC-8 who was going sideways everywhere with brakes glowing, chucking rocks and making the moistys moist.
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[COLOR="Red"]This is my mechanic and hence I cannot show his face on the internet.
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A wild Tom Wilde appears – he's super effective. or something.
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Man of the hour...
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Not so good a weekend for the All Star guys

A few more of the all star evo,

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Holy shitballs!!!!
Great fotos!!!

The allstar boys are seriously lucky. I think Nick broke his elbow but no hans devices and no high sided seats.

Brendon

Holy crapballs.
That is crazy!

Wow! Massive off! Hope all are ok!

I saw the off on the 6pm news last night and fuck me they are lucky to be alive !

Bad one for Nick...broken elbow isn't ideal but it could have been much much worse!

Reading via the instant news feed that is FB, they said it came off the road at 170. Scary shit.

bog roll looks to have gotten a bit of use... definitely a pants moment there!

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIUOHsl-BBM&feature=player_embedded]Nic Box, Ash Ridden, Heat 2, Stage 5 Crash, ARC Forest Rally 2012 - YouTube[/url]

Who was driving?

[QUOTE=RUSSGT;666240]Who was driving?[/QUOTE]

Nick...

[QUOTE=American Dave;666232][url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIUOHsl-BBM&feature=player_embedded]Nic Box, Ash Ridden, Heat 2, Stage 5 Crash, ARC Forest Rally 2012 - YouTube[/url][/QUOTE]

farrrrrrrrrrrrk!

Think I'll keep to my double skid pans at RAC..........

Great to hear they both walked away.

[QUOTE=ALEX.;666156]I drove down to Bussleton SS on Saturday arvo and watched the cars start from the Start/Finish line with Steph and Lockie
(Lockie who has been involved in every event I have been to for the past 6 months... this guy doesn't sleep I tell you!).
[/QUOTE]

It was no joke i was up at 1:30am and at the start line of Brockmans by 2! then just to see Helium (the other stage i helped set up) cancelled after that stage alone took 2 hours to set up :(
were you driving back to Nannup in a 3 car convoy with a silver liberty wagon [H3 WRC] at the tail, then had some random join onto the tail? That was me :P

Just to add some humor...
Someone needs to have "the" chat..
"always on the navigator side"!!!!
It's clean as... Jokes aside, hope the boys get well soon..

The in car footage would be intense if it ever gets around...

LOL I will be giving Mr Box the fatherly head shake when I see him next.

Some of my photos from the weekend.

I was taking photos for Leigh Hynes who again had a disappointing result. Was on the Healthway stage when the "all stars" came off, saw them start, but failed to make the spectator point again, and little was said when they were missing.

I do have photos of all the cars that made the Nannup Oval stage, and all the cars, bikes and SxS on Heathway for the first time on Sunday, and they'll make it up to my smugmug site in the next week or so.

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dougy you rockstar

Great photos, nice n sharp!

More pics!!

Was a good weekend, although I'm taking my Liberty down next year as the RS Clio sucks on rough dirt roads. Makes an STI feel limo smooth.

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[QUOTE=lachy294;666286]were you driving back to Nannup in a 3 car convoy with a silver liberty wagon [H3 WRC] at the tail, then had some random join onto the tail? That was me :P[/QUOTE]

Cheers for blinding us! Dad actually folded his wing mirrors in haha fix ur head lights :p