My First Rally

[HowMuchLonger]

Thought I would share some photos of the first rally I have ever attended. It is great to be able to stand so close to the action, and not have to jostle with loads of other people.
The black Subaru won the award for loudest and fastest.
The little box car (Suzuki) won the award for slowest and most stupid ignorance of directions.
Please tell me what the red and white one with MOBIL stickers is...very nice.

Edited by HowMuchLonger on Saturday 17th April 18:03

[Mr AJ]

Red+White = Escort (Mk1/mk2? Not too hot on escorts so someone will have to delete as appropriate.)

[MX7]

Mk1 Escort. Someone will be along in a minute to tell you exactly what model, and what optional extras were available.

[Lanby]

Mk1

[Adam205]

The black hawkeye impreza looks to be a proper ex-WRC car. Brrrrrr bang pop pop pop.

[HowMuchLonger]

Adam205 said:

The black hawkeye impreza looks to be a proper ex-WRC car. Brrrrrr bang pop pop pop.

Not quite, it was more like: BRRRRR BANG POP POP POP.
As I said before it was easily the noisiest and fastest there.

It was rather amusing when the poor little suzuki went off the road. It was going so slowly that most people put their cameras down as it came past. Full credit to the driver though. At least he had the balls to drive, as opposed to us spectators who just stood there in the rain watching.

[AWRacing]

MX7 said:

Mk1 Escort. Someone will be along in a minute to tell you exactly what model, and what optional extras were available.

Mk1 Mexico, mmmmm

[Albert Bridge]

Cool pics

[HowMuchLonger]

Many of these cars have roof scoops. What the purpose of these, when the engines are all in the front?

[K50 DEL]

HowMuchLonger said:

Many of these cars have roof scoops. What the purpose of these, when the engines are all in the front?

Directs air into the cabin to offfer the crews a small amount of cooling.
It gets mighty hot in a competition car, and whilst you don't notice it so much on stage, the road sections can be a killer.

[matty_doh]

HowMuchLonger said:

Many of these cars have roof scoops. What the purpose of these, when the engines are all in the front?

Get a bit of air into the cabin maybe?

Rally cars get very hot inside and many have there heaters removed.

[XG332]

matty_doh said:

HowMuchLonger said:

Many of these cars have roof scoops. What the purpose of these, when the engines are all in the front?

Get a bit of air into the cabin maybe?

Rally cars get very hot inside and many have there heaters removed.

yep