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| Gav Taylor |
Teesside Autodrome Stages Rally 4th may 2009Whickham & District Motor Club Ltd are pleased to announce that in an attempt to help competitors with cheaper events, we are to hold the Autodrome Stages at Teeside Autodrome on Bank Holiday Monday 4th May. The event will be a National B all tarmac format, similar to Three Sisters, of approx 24mls for 40 crews. It is hoped we might attract new crews to their first Stage Rally. Costs will be kept to a minimum.Further details will be announced as they become finalised & Regs will be available from the website nearer the time. I know it is a few months yet but one to put in your diaries It is anticipated that we will attract a full entry & anyone wanting to register their interest in the interim can forward their email address to autostages09-rally@yahoo.com Organisers will come from Cheviot & Border Counties Teams. |
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| Gav Taylor |
sweet. |
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| club sec |
Cheeky feckers coming in to our patch! Stil do it though! | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
surprised you didnt know about it?
nows a good time to bolster our banners around the circuit 
and not the .com ones!! |
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| Gav Taylor |
just realised this a week before our TOH 
different type of entrant tho I would think. |
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| joe_the_waiter |
Teesside autodrome stages rally????? 
surely it would resemble a sprint? |
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| club sec |
Excellent. 
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| slippy |
Bitter sweet for me
Nice to see a local venue being used but I would say it's a shade on the small side for a proper event, will see what the entry fee is
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| club sec |
You know you'll be doing it. | ||||
| slippy |
Yeh probably
Ideal venue for Gaylor to make his debut |
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| club sec |
Gaylor and rallying debut do not compute | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
if i find a pot of gold on the way home from the pub tonite I'll be there.
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| joe_the_waiter |
maybe if you didnt go to the pub in the first place might be a help. quite simply...... total annual alcohol expenditure might be a significant amount of a rally budget | ||||
| slippy |
He obviously doesn't want it bad enough JTW
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| club sec |
Aye , no passion for the sport.
I bet he's a prawn sandwich munching man U fan. |
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| Gav Taylor |
very true £30 tonight, £30 tomora and maybe a few bottles of vino during the week so thats about £75 a week 75 * 52 = 3.9K a year shocking. but fun. |
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| club sec |
Mmm, that would buy a 205 alright, eh mr Slip? | ||||
| slippy |
Indeed it would buy a nice Challenge car Mr Sec
Maybe it's not the money he's bothered maybe it's the fact that he might get shown up as been a tugger
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| club sec |
I think the term is "timewaster" | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
yeah right. live the dream boys x | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
who's time am i wasting like? 
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| slippy |
Ours with your pityful list of excuses
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| Gav Taylor |
didnt ask for any of your time bro!
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| slippy |
Or out else for that matter | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
maybe half an hour with ya bird like
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| slippy |
Ok mate as long as you dont want to lend the Pug that's fine | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
ha is that you rating your 205 higher than the bread knife is it? | ||||
| slippy |
Yup
I can get in my Pug and abuse it any time I like with no wining, dining or DIY'ing, Mr S is a different kettle of fish
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| Gav Taylor |
does the pug have a set of bangers though?
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| slippy |
True
They are both loves of my life, both cost me a fortune and both fustrate the life out of me 
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| Gav Taylor |
your not doing it right big lad
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| joe_the_waiter |
well i guess your not doing it at all Gav |
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| club sec |
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| Gav Taylor |
very true mate I'm now single and dont have a rally car. your observational skills are quite simply awesome Dave |
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| slippy |
Those skills would make JTW ideal co driver material | ||||
| joe_the_waiter |
well apart from the fact i have no interest in being a co driver,..... quite simply... if it was with Gav... i would be waiting a very long time to see the start line.
i too would like to be a driver, but dont have the money (i just dont earn enough)... but, while its not possible.. i put my energy into organising and marshaling.... even servicing |
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| slippy |
It aint cheap like mate we are toying with the idea of doing the Riponian but just totted up what it's goig to cost and it's near enugh £700 by the time we have paid the entry, tax, insurance, fuel etc etc 
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| club sec |
#359 taken from the Gavin Taylor book "1001 reasons why I don't do motorsport" Do what we all did, start at the bottom and work up, 12 cars, autotests, PCT's, get some experience along the way. My first event was a road rally, What about slipster? Sally's was an autotest, Skodaman karting, no one jumps into stage events. |
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| slippy |
Began doing 12 cars and night events in a 5 dr Bell End Burgundy 1400 astra which I paid £370 for and £40 for for my licence
Then bought a GTE (The White Lightning) which I then sold on for more than I paid for it 
So as the learned secretary states there is no excuse really and road rallies are good craic if ridicolously tiring, I once was so tired doing the Westmoreland I was halucinating I was weaving down the road when my nav asked why I was going side to side and I answered "To avoid all the rabbits" to which he replied "what f**** rabbits"
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| club sec |
I know how that feels, I fell asleep as the wards were handed out on the Costa, propped up on a bar stool. | ||||
| slippy |
TBH it was one of things that put me off but 12 cars are about as cheap as it gets to be fair and normally done and dusted by about 1 am | ||||
| club sec |
So to conclude, you don't need pots of cash to compete in motorsport, but it does help. | ||||
| joe_the_waiter |
your quite right about 12 cars etc, but my car is really unsuited to doing events like that in any competitive form. I wanted to enter my old Audi Coupe in a 12 car many years ago with S&DMC, but was told i couldnt as it had more than 4 forward facing lights. If i had a different vehicle at the time.. i would of started years ago.
i know many of you will now go on about how my Frontera would be ok for a 12 car... but it would be like entering London Marathon wearing a bear suit...... might be fun for some, but is not competitive and not practical |
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| club sec |
#128 My car is not suitable. | ||||
| slippy |
A reliale RR car wouldn't cost the earth mate, bar we putting a hole in a farmers fence that Bell End Astra was the most reliable 'competition' car I have ever owned
Off to search eBay for RR cars for JTW and Gaylor |
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| club sec |
Gaylor's Vectra would do the job. | ||||
| slippy |
V6's allowed ? | ||||
| slippy |
PROJECT
I'll even lend you my tailer to collect it
if I had the gear to fettle it I would look into it mate. |
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| Gav Taylor |
handling is truely dire, gearbox on the way out.... |
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| slippy |
CHEAP CHALLENGE CAR
Stick some seats on the back and run it as RR car initially then world is your ostrich |
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| Gav Taylor |
not bas mate that like, could get into proper stage rallying for 3k all in? | ||||
| club sec |
You can anyway, theres loads of log booked cars out there under £3k. |
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| Gav Taylor |
just need 3k now
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| club sec |
Looks like you are stopping in for a year. | ||||
| slippy |
Did we calculate thsat you could save that in 12 months of curbing your drinking then you said something about showing me how it's done etc etc ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..............
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| Gav Taylor |
true mate
may need to ponder my position to be fair, why p1ss it all up the wall?? |
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| slippy |
Life to short to be sat in a boozer in 30 years drunkenly telling people you couldhave been a contender
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| Gav Taylor |
true captain and to be fair I'm getting a bit bored with it | ||||
| slippy |
Howay then son time to step up if I can do it anyone can 
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| Gav Taylor |
nectar! | ||||
| slippy |
Thatr Challenge car has been for sale for a while as well and he needs rid so reckon you could bid him in the stones | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
might have a dabble.
anyway bro whens your first event in the easyjet? |
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| slippy |
Going to try and get one in before the Challenge begins which is not till May so possibly the Riponian though it's going tobe expensive so might just do another test day then maybe do Melbourne or similar | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
doing all the rounds like? | ||||
| slippy |
If the funds allow matey bubble
Rd 1 Twyford May 2nd Rd 2 Plains May 16th Rd 3 Midland rally June 19/20 Rd 4 Swansea Bay July 18 Rd 5 Lindisfarne Sept 13th Rd 6 RAC Kallkwik Nov 14th |
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| Gav Taylor |
sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
have you budgeted for any offs like son? |
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| slippy |
Nope
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| Gav Taylor |
could be an early bath if you go off in the first couple of rounds then big lad...best take it easy.
get her moist first before you bring out the big guns so to speak
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| slippy |
Told you the plan mate
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| Gav Taylor |
just make sure you stick to it old boy! | ||||
| slippy |
Best laid plans | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
True. | ||||
| slippy |
When do you want to borrow my trailer then
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| club sec |
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| Gav Taylor |
when I've got the money to but a car please
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| club sec |
Mastercard! | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
expensive way of borrowing that Seccy!! | ||||
| club sec |
well you either want to do it or you don't, it's that simple. | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
sounds like a D Day for gaylors rallying career this 
why is 2009 so important? |
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| slippy |
It's the year of the Ox that's why
You obviously an enthusiast Gaylor so it's time to step up mate even if it's just a project, a 12 car banger, an eBay special that needs a bit of tlc or even a Kart whatever it is you need a petrol injection so go for it
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| Gav Taylor |
ha truth cappo, truth. | ||||
| slippy |
Yup for once the Captain talks sense
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| slippy |
http://www.britishrally.co.uk/classifieds_view.php?id=528
http://www.britishrally.co.uk/classifieds_view.php?id=577 |
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| slippy |
You better not be down the pub Gaylor 
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| Gav Taylor |
nah not a monday man!
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| joe_the_waiter |
looks like he's just got in from the pub | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
what at quarter to ten? where do you drink?? the whacky warehouse! | ||||
| joe_the_waiter |
of course.. i was wrong.... he's still IN the pub using his mobile to reply. | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
ha Dave ya dick. no need for the pub on a mondee son. In fact I'm just preparing a slow cooker meal for 2mora night.
if thats not gay as what is. whens the next rally BTW JTW? |
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| slippy |
Saving money Gaylor I like your style son
Just got offer of a late entry on the HAYE PARK RALLY SPRINT with Mr Andy Burton headlining
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| Gav Taylor |
reckon you can keep up?
Tis a screamer the old boy has got but I'd give his nav one any day of the week
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| Gav Taylor |
see the sec has entry with sal on the notes
scared of proper rallying or what big lad??
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| club sec |
Er, I frankly don't know how you dare "Mr I won't even have a go at at a 12 car". | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
**rattled**
I'll expect nothing less than a podium then peacock with your experience of that circuit.
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| club sec |
You can bust your competitive chery at the autosolo on Sunday, then I would hold your comments in marginally less contempt. | ||||
| Gav Taylor |
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| Gav Taylor |
i would but A: my handbrake cable is still snapped 7 B: i was in that carpark on monday afternoon eating fish & chips with my bird and its got some canny bumps in it like!! |
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| skodaman |
Funny, my 1971 Triumph managed okay last time and finished 5th overall. Never used the handbrake once either!
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| club sec |
Despite a lack of communication by the host club, I am reliably informed this event is on and I am in it. | ||||
| joe_the_waiter |
I think lack of communication is becoming a big problem now and i think we should really have an AGM with a major discussion point being the future of the club and how we run it. I think this should take place soon after ToH. (this isnt the first time i've called for this). We are singing from the same hymn sheets... but we are singing different verses | ||||