Friday 7th November 2014

Wales Rally GB: Pic Of The Week

Bring on the mud - Wales Rally GB starts next week and POTW gets in the mood

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Most motorsport events contrive an air of glamour, with sun-kissed locations, bikini-clad brolly dollies and glitzy grandstands housing expensively catered hospitality suites. Not so Wales Rally GB. Windswept hillsides. Hardy spectators with flasks, Gore-Tex and bobble hats getting showered with mud, gravel and water. And sideways cars all wearing the same grey-brown uniform of Welsh clag, sponsors' logos buried beneath.

And that's the way we love it, right? You can keep your dust clouds!

OK, so PHer Thomas Middleton - the lucky winner of our Wales Rally GB competition - will be getting the full VIP treatment. But even that can't guarantee he won't be touched by the odd raindrop. Congratulations also to runners up Alun Denbury, Scott Bishop, David Harrison, Martin Wright and Robin Lovelock who all get passes to the RallyFest stage at Kinmel Park.

To get us all in the mood for the event POTW celebrates last year's winner Sebastien Ogier, flat out in his VW Polo WRC in typically Welsh conditions. Enjoy!

For all the info on the event see the official website. PH will be there and reporting back once we've washed the gravel out of our hair.

Traditional (4:3)
Computer widescreen (16:10)
TV widescreen (16:9)
Portrait (smartphone, etc)

Photo: LAT Photo

[anonymous-user]

I'll be there next week. Can't wait.
Entry list looks very tasty

[anonymous-user]

unpc said:

Used to watch rallying religiously as a kid (70s) but haven't watched it for many years. Where did it all go wrong?

If you go and watch it live it is far from wrong. These cars are faster round the stages than Group B and the drivers are a different level.
I mean obviously watching a Quattro is more fun than a Polo....but when you are actually watching it none of this matters.

[anonymous-user]

Any suggestions what the best viewing spot is for Saturday (with a forest stage pass) ? Assume there is a lots of awesome places in the forest, I just have no clue as I have never been.

Do I need to be there before the crack of dawn?