I spent yesterday out in the wilds of North Yorkshire watching some odd people hurl expensive cars at trees. What an odd hobby...
Yours truly made the classic mistake of assume shooting spots used in other years would still be there. Thanks to some fairly serious logging activity i was completely wrong and had to make do for the first run of the day...
1. Barry Jordan's colourful MK2 Escort.
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2. Peter Stephenson pedalled his Focus WRC to 3rd Overall.
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3. Chris Birkbeck's Mazda RX7 gave us a pleasant change from the usual stream of Ford Escorts in the Historic class.
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4. Would you believe it?...another MK2 Escort.
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5. Oliver Mellors in a Proton Satria Neo S2000. IMVHO this is the direction the WRC should have taken rather than 1.6 Turbo Cars..
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6. Winners for the 3rd year in a row, Charlie Payne & Craig Thorley in a Ford Focus WRC. This car was a sight worth seeing on the 2nd run through Roppa...i believe "Maximum Attack" is the phrase...
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7. A MK1 Escort in Gulf colours. Most acceptable.
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8. Alex Lund had entertained us all with a superb display a few weeks earlier at Croft, but he retired after stage 9 this time around..
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All the above were shot with the 1DMKIV and 70-200 2.8L IS II.
Thanks for looking!
