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Higgins writes about RT10 in his blog

Postby Pac77 » March 29th, 2010, 9:56 am

Check out what Higgins had to say about us

http://www.creativetalentphotos.co.uk/higgyblog/

Mark Higgins wrote:Rally Trinidad
Posted by MH Mon, March 29, 2010 13:53:59

Well, it's definitely been from one extreme to another in terms of temperatures for me. Last time out rallying, in China, it was minus 35 - and now I have just finished a rally in Trinidad in temperatures as high as 42 degrees in the sun!

Rally Trinidad was going to be a bit a fun, but once myself and Nicky Grist saw the stages, we realised it was going to be a proper rally! We arrived on Wednesday evening, and on the Thursday had a two hour tuturial on driving and co-driving for many of the crews in the event. Once this was done we moved on to the recce. The stages for this gravel event had everything! It had parts of New Zealand, Portugal, and Australia of old all mixed together.

The car we were driving was a Group N Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 9 and our main competition came from three World Rally Cars including a 2007 Ford Focus and an Subaru Impreza S12B so it was always going to be difficult.

That said, we were second overall in the first stage, but unfortunately we had a problem with our braking and kept locking up the rear. There wasn't a lot we could do apart from slide a lot. It was an easy way to drive, but definitely not a fast way.

During the day the mechanics got to work on the car after we heard a gearbox noise which meant they had to change the box and also the front and centre diff. They were a great bunch, and did all of that in good time without us getting any penalties for lateness.

Once we got going again, the car felt much better and the times also came better because there must have been a problem with the centre diff. We were now on the pace of the leading WRC of John Powell.

Despite further gearbox mount problems, we managed to hold on to second place until the end, winning Group N. The event actually finished with a separate timed run around a packed town, but unfortunately our gearbox mount did not allow us to compete in the Mitsubishi as it was very close to failure.

But John Powell, who originally invited us to the event, asked if I would drive his S12B instead! Of course I said yes and managed to set the fastest time. Apparently on the Trinidad forums people from the event were posting as soon as I came up to the start line in the WRC, so it was nice to create that kind of buzz at the event. It was also fantastic to be back in a WRC again, and to finish what had been an extremely hot event on such a high.

I would like to thank our sponsors Shell for their support, the club of Trinidad and also John Powell, for what was a great event.

I'm now back in the airport again, just about to head to Sweden for some driver training. The temperature there is about minus 20 at the moment, so my body is going to wonder what on earth I'm doing going from one extreme to the other so much!

Catch up soon

Mark


Be sure to visit Mark Higgin's website at http://www.markhiggins.co.uk/
and also be sure to check http://www.nickygrist.com/

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Postby Duane 3NE 2NR » March 29th, 2010, 11:55 am

sweet! good read 8)
I added the links at the end of your post to their website

Check more VIDEOS of Rally Trinidad 2010 on 2NR TV's Rally Channel here
http://www.trinituner.com/videos_rally.php
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Postby Mr Gear » March 29th, 2010, 12:02 pm

Apparently on the Trinidad forums people from the event were posting as soon as I came up to the start line in the WRC, so it was nice to create that kind of buzz at the event


Duane, he was talking about you.

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Postby foss » March 29th, 2010, 1:06 pm

great article!
I did not manage to get his autograph :x
but i got Nicky's, John's, Ansley and Neil :mrgreen:

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Postby Midnight_Demon » March 29th, 2010, 1:18 pm

foss wrote:great article!
I did not manage to get his autograph :x
but i got Nicky's, John's, Ansley and Neil :mrgreen:


lots o ppl had me taking pics for them with higgins n grist. no one offered to take my pic for me :(

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Postby foss » March 29th, 2010, 1:30 pm

:( if i had see you i woulda take one for u buddy
i did manage to get a pic with john

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Postby Daren 3NE 2NR » March 29th, 2010, 1:58 pm

Apparently on the Trinidad forums people from the event were posting as soon as I came up to the start line in the WRC, so it was nice to create that kind of buzz at the event

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Postby De Bench » March 29th, 2010, 2:37 pm

Great to hear one of my supporters reporting so positively about RT10 !!!

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Postby poddy » March 29th, 2010, 5:19 pm

an boy you need real support

i don't think Loeb could help you

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Postby Scort » March 29th, 2010, 5:41 pm

Poddy boy, i wish you had come to the service park so that you caould have seen Bench's new machine and how nice it's set up.!! :wink:

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Postby poddy » March 29th, 2010, 5:46 pm

are u referring to the Clio?

If yes then I believe i did see it, know i saw it crawling on the stages

it may still be too much car for Bench to handle
i think he got the prize for loudest car


good machine though, would have been one of my choices

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Postby De Bench » March 29th, 2010, 6:18 pm

Scort wrote:Poddy boy, i wish you had come to the service park so that you caould have seen Bench's new machine and how nice it's set up.!! :wink:


Thanks Scotty, glad to have seen you behind the wheel again !!!

Hopefully we'll see you in the Escort soon :)

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Postby sio » March 30th, 2010, 12:35 pm

The TTRC would like to say thanks to all who made this event happen. Marshalls, CARS job well done, could not do it with out you. To the Spectators many thanks, Police , all the camera men and women etc thank you.
Drivers and co-drivers well done

Free RT10 souvenir magazines can be picked up at Rallymac Motors

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Postby Rooki3 » April 4th, 2010, 4:48 pm

Peter solberg for the next event :mrgreen:

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