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| slippy |
Riponian Stages 2009New date anounced for the 14th/15h of March
So who's coming to play out, speccy, take snaps, marshall etc ??? |
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| club sec |
I'll be at race retro. | ||||
| slippy |
Speccy info, entry list etc now back on the Ripon MC site
http://www.riponian.co.uk/
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| Gav Taylor |
I'll be somewhere in Langdale forest mate on a survival expo so wont be able to make it 
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| slippy |
Simple, change the forest then you can kill two birds with one stone
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| sparky2i |
very feeble Mr Taylor thought you might be able to come up with a better excuse than that with that book of your being so large |
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| Simon |
I'll be out and about in Roppa most likely. Slippy is on my target list for Mr Neal at the Gazette, so hopefully you'll make it as far as me at least once  
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| sparky2i |
hopefully simon where going to finish this one i hope
think i need to try to keep him calm any ideas anyone |
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| club sec |
Chloroform in his helmet lining. 
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| Gav Taylor |
The crew I'll be with arent into rallying so thats why I wont be able to make. Will save meself for the MW the week after
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| slippy |
Fear not Simon the new Slippy for 2009 and is a more mature, more focused individual Besides I've bet me father a tenner I'll finish this one 
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| club sec |
William hill would offer some canny odds on that. | ||||
| slippy |
Howay Sec man you should be encouraging your fellow members to suceed
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| club sec |
Slippy to finish an event with Gaylor to take up rallying and Brokeback to make it past the first corner without going off, that's some treble. | ||||
| slippy |
I'll hold my end up so to speak
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| Gav Taylor |
£10 then then to see you finish in the top half of the 205's bro. |
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| slippy |
Top half overall or just in class ? | ||||
| sparky2i |
if your going over to watch the wilson the week after mr taylor you will be about 2 weeks to late mate as it is this weekend | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
aye oops I know mate. all in hand as the gynecologist would say
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| Gav Taylor |
O/A wiould be nice like wouldnt it mate 
top 5 then in class? |
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| sparky2i |
put ti away mate to early unless you got a lass to hold with hand or a set of lips |
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| slippy |
Your on
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| Gav Taylor |
game on!! | ||||
| slippy |
Car is ready and stickered up for Sunday lets hope we can keep it one piece for a change
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| club sec |
Photography lesson #1, don't stand with the sun behind you and the object!
Simon will be along to reprimand you soon.... |
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| slippy |
Shadow tastic I know, I was just quickly snapping with my camera phone as I more concerned with getting ondoors and thawing out it was fooking freezing out of the sun yesterday | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
best of luck old boy
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| slippy |
Thank you Gavin | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
any chance of FCD times? I'll be traveling back on the sunday so might call in to watch a stage or 3? | ||||
| slippy |
FCD | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
First Car Due ...weak Slip
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| slippy |
Sunday am
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| club sec |
Taylor is just making stuff up now. 
What's wrong with car 1? |
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| Gav Taylor |
car 1?
thats so, like, 2008 Sec
get with it man!! |
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| club sec |
Sorry, I forgot you were an exper rally organiser/ competitor
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| Gav Taylor |
dont let it happen again. | ||||
| slippy |
Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiatchyaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!! | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
when you've as many WRC world titles as me slip son then you can comment
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| slippy |
XBox/PS3 don't count son real men do it in the woods not the lounge | ||||
| joe_the_waiter |
well, Gav is doing it in the woods on Saturday.... with his mates... comes 'before' rallying apparently.
oh dear.... i'm degenerating the topic...... sorry guys |
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| Gav Taylor |
says the man doing his first ever forest on sunday 
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| Road Rally Dave |
Can't make it on Sunday 
So GOOD LUCK to Slippy - make sure you make it to the finish (in your 205 under it's own steam !) 
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| slippy |
Thank you Double R D I intend to finish ths time | ||||
| club sec |
presure's on
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| Simon |
At least make it through Roppa once, so I can get a shot or two of you !
Oh, and if you are going to bin it, at least do it in front of me so I can get a picture of that as well! Only kidding Slippy - have a good 'un (and a safe 'un). Simon. |
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| Simon |
School boy error I'm afraid....
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| slippy |
Cheers Simon | ||||
| club sec |
More pressure to come soon, both Sally and Skodaman today signed up for their BARS tests to be taken in a couple of months. | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
looks like he through ok the results like
good effort slip son
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| sparky2i |
think we did ok cheers Mr Taylor 58th overall and 3rd in class. oh and can i say we actually did finish aswell as you can tell by the results | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
cracking work team. how did you find it? | ||||
| slippy |
Road book
Was a cracking day and a good result though our final position was somewhat aided by attrition but we will take it. A FINISH AT F*CKING LAST !!!!!!!!!!!!
Howaty then Simon I kept my end up where are the snaps ??? any proofs would be appreciated michael.ord2@ntlworld.com |
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| club sec |
All the spam you can handle heading your way. | ||||
| sparky2i |
was a good day the navagtor was a little slow but got there in the end and like slippy said we FINISHED that was the aim so we just needto improve all levels of the game from know onwards |
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| Road Rally Dave |
Excellent Result
I bet you would have been more than happy with 3rd in class before the start ! |
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| slippy |
Cheers chaps, yup your dead right we would have took third on class at the start, we were nipping for the last few stages every noise or rock we hit we were sure would be a show stopper but thank fully the old girl stood up to the punishment
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| joe_the_waiter |
Well done. a clean drive to the finish. I was at j4 of SS5 and everyone was going off. Most got straight back on but some didnt. as it was every car doing the same thing, i tried to get a message to you to warn of that junction, but couldnt. As it happened, you took the same line as the top guys and never had a problem (about 70% took a different line and went off). was good stuff. I was on the final stage and i have to admit, when the last few cars were going through, i thought you werent going to show........ then you came round the corner still looking well. Good stuff.
Great spectating yesterday... saw SS1, SS5, SS9, SS11 & SS12 (SS12 saw last 30 cars.. went to make sure Slippy made it). Furthest drive between stages was 10 mins and every stage i did, i parked car within 50 meters of the stage. Lots of spectators, this is a Quality rally for both spectators and competitors alike. |
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| Simon |
I doubt that I have enjoyed an event as much as this one. Everything about it was, for me, just about perfect. Great weather, some amazing action, very committed driving throughout the field, and some good company across the day. Now, if only every event could be like this.....
#1 The historics were first through, in some wonderful spring light. 
#2 Next came the modern cars. Tim Pearcey was running first on the road, and appeared around the corner carrying way too much speed. He threw the car sideways to try and scrub at least some of it off. 
#3 But he was past the point of no return, and hit the temporary hay bale chicane pretty hard. Amazingly, the only sign of damage on the car was a broken headlight! The incident didn't slow him down much either, as he set joint fastest time on this stage and finished second overall. 
#4 The afternoon brought a fantastic slection of sideways driving. 
#5 The Porsche 911s were at it as well. 
#6 As was the MG S2000 of Peter Stephenson 
#7 Even the BMW's decided to join in 
#8 One of my favourite cars from the day - an imacculate Escort mk I Twincam. 
Cracking day - if you missed it, I reckon you might just have missed one of the best events to be held this year. Simon. |
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| Simon |
Of course, I have to post a couple of pictures of Slippy and Sparky2i from the event, so here you go guys.
The car looked great, although I was a little concerned as you came out of the hairpin in Roppa second time through - it sounded like you were struggling with gears and set off up the long uphill straight in a higher gear than you wanted to? Cheers, Simon. |
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| joe_the_waiter |
Looks like J,M,Latvala driving and (for those over 35) co driven by a character from 'Chips' | ||||
| slippy |
Thanks for the pics Simon
We were, sorry, I was having issues with gear selection so left it where it was rather than fishing for gears and losing our momentum, just been watching some outside video and it looks pedestrian 
Couple more 
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