Well today I head off to Bath for my first competitive rally and I am so excited. The plan is to drive down there check in to the B&B and then head off for some dinner to meet my support team. I arrived in Bath to find out there had been a problem with the booking and it had been made for 2016 so this was not a good start. I rang around and found a B7B near by that was available so headed off to it. After I had checked in I then went off to meet Bill Gwynne and the two other guys, one who was in charge of the car and the other, Bellworthy, who was going to have the fun job of being the co-driver.
Morning of the rally was a 6 am start, due to having to go to scrutineering and a driver briefing. Got my first look at my little Nissan Micra rally car and was surprised to see it was left hand drive but it did at least have my name on it.
The format of the day was 10 stages, which were down in pairs of two. so you got to at least try the same course twice before it was changed, alas 4 of these stages were to be done in the dark which I was not looking forward too.
By the end of the rally I was amazed at a few things, one I had survived where about 20 other cars had crashed out and also how hard physically and mentally the day had been.
Overall absolutely loved the day and was 9th in class, I cant wait to do my next four races, and again a huge thanks to Bill and his team.