Wales Rally

[John Boy]

As a regular reader but never a contributor to this site I'm now turning to the fountain of knowledge out there to ask for help.  Me and the wife are planning to go to the Wales Rally this year but have no idea where to go.  Therefore can any one recommend a good plan of attack for the saturday?

[rcutler]

As a regular reader but never a contributor to this site I'm now turning to the fountain of knowledge out there to ask for help.  Me and the wife are planning to go to the Wales Rally this year but have no idea where to go.  Therefore can any one recommend a good plan of attack for the saturday?

Have you tried Wales! 

Sorry couldn't resist.

[John Boy]

I new you guys wouldn't let me down.

BTW how do I put a picture on my person profile?  Does it need to be uploaded to a website so that its got a URL?

[Andy Zarse]

Do you mean the Welsh Rally or the GB Rally of Wales?

If the latter, I definitely wouldn't bother. It's massively overpriced, chav-ridden, the traffic is beyond ghastly (reckon on queuing for about four hours to get into the stage) and the is action mediocre at best. You'll either get soaked or covered in dust yet be well back from the action. Anyway, the cars aren't all that if you ask me, not when youve seen Grp B in action. Compared to the wonderful old-time five day long RAC rally, it's a pathetic shadow of it's former self, like cutting Le mans down to a 1000km race on the Bugatti curcuit.

Aviod like the plague, but if you do go I'd be interested to see what you make of it.

[John Boy]

I do mean the GB Rally.  Just as I'm from the "land of my fathers" I like to think of it as our own.  Looks like I've got no choice but to go.  My wife used to go and watch the old RAC when she was a kid with her dad, in the days when it used to venture east of Offa's Dyke, and she's really keen to go again.  Its her fault I got into this whole motorsports lark, but can't complain.  I wouldn't have discovered Le Mans otherwise.

[termietermite]

Tell your wife that Andy makes a good point - she will find it a shadow of its former self (Kielder anybody?) so hope she won't be disappointed (no, she will).  My dear old Dad used to take me to race meetings and marshalled on the RAC years ago.  He did unto me what her father did to her! Can't say I converted the old man though, he was a petrolhead when I met him.

[smokie]

Anyone care to make a positive contribution to this thread? Please?? 

[RS2 Babe]

 

Well I would take any and all chances to get to the GB Rally - any motorsport event in fact - and how refreshing that it is your wife who encourages  such a passion.

Yes it has changed heaps but it is still thrilling to actually be there getting soaked, covered in dust etc. than watching it on TV. Same as watching a match on TV or being in the terraces........I won't go on

Is that positive enough for you Smokie or did you mean that you wanted some positive solutions

Lisa

[amazing 1]

I think that I would go,positively.

[Steve Pyro]

I think that I would go,positively.

That's because you're Welsh, Mr Prewett           

[amazing 1]

I am what I am.

Speaking of Wales I saw a movie the other night.This town somewhwere in Wales was trying to get on a map by making a local hill into a mountain by adding more dirt to the top.Fact or Fiction?

[mgmark]

It is indeed a far cry from when as a lad you could just nip over a fence somewhere in UK (Sutton Park stage in Birmingham in the 70s for me watching Roger Clark etc).   And you have to pay now.  And you have to plan ahead to move between stages.  But - you can move between stages because of its centralised locations (which you couldn't do easily in the "good old days") and you can still get into the forests.     And most of the info you need is at:
http://www.walesrallygb.com/artman/publish/index.php

The sight, sound, speed, smell etc is awesome.  Pick your places carefully and you will not believe how fast, loud and brutal it is.   No contest . Go at least once.   Enjoy  - you just have to plan ahead and time things early enough.   Oh and make sure you have plenty of warm kit and waterproofs!

MG Mark

[termietermite]

Anyone care to make a positive contribution to this thread? Please?? 

Seb Loeb.  Awesome.  That do?
Amazing 1, I believe "The man who went up a hill and came down a mountain" was, as they say, based on a true story.

[termietermite]

I am what I am.

Speaking of Wales I saw a movie the other night.This town somewhwere in Wales was trying to get on a map by making a local hill into a mountain by adding more dirt to the top.Fact or Fiction?

Garth Hill, nr Cardiff.

[concept]

http://www.britishrally.co.uk/

Try this for more info