Rally GB aims for fan-friendly route

QUOTE=Mintexmemory;1132800]Well that looks compact and testing - no doubt the FIA stewards will complain about the lack of 5 star accommodation, I'm genuinely excited. I have my accomodation booked at Halkyn for Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday nights and just the one in-car 'slumber' on Friday night, Dyfnant I think.

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Halkyn indeed, where are you staying as I live in the next village !!

regarding the unannounced parts of the route I think people will be pleasantly surprised when they do find out in due course....must say exciting times for this part of Wales as we also have Rally of the tests starting from Mold two weeks before aswell...

This might sound like an odd request, but does anyone know where I might be able to see maps of the Gwydyr and Penmachno stages (or all the stages to be used)? They both pre-date me by some time; Gwydyr was last run twenty years before I was born, while Penmachno was discontinued when I was very young. I'm curious to see what they look like.

Google earth is possibly your best bet, there are different ways you can run the stages..

Yeah, I found the forest and the roads running through it, so it's a start.

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This might sound like an odd request, but does anyone know where I might be able to see maps of the Gwydyr and Penmachno stages (or all the stages to be used)? They both pre-date me by some time; Gwydyr was last run twenty years before I was born, while Penmachno was discontinued when I was very young. I'm curious to see what they look like.

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Imagine there is video from the Cambrian rally of the Penmachno stage on Youtube and a map on the Cambrian organiser's website (I haven't looked).

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If he doesn't hit a wall. I see I'm not the only one to have thought that!!

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Yep but Honi soit qui mal y pense. :D

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QUOTE=Mintexmemory;1132800]Well that looks compact and testing - no doubt the FIA stewards will complain about the lack of 5 star accommodation, I'm genuinely excited. I have my accomodation booked at Halkyn for Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday nights and just the one in-car 'slumber' on Friday night, Dyfnant I think.

Ticket price news?

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Halkyn indeed, where are you staying as I live in the next village !!

regarding the unannounced parts of the route I think people will be pleasantly surprised when they do find out in due course....must say exciting times for this part of Wales as we also have Rally of the tests starting from Mold two weeks before aswell...[/QUOTE]

Travelodge!! - Booked before the route was announced I'm there on the Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday nights. £64 total!!! Many years ago I worked for Courtaulds who owned the Halkyn Haffren mining company which was a water source for their viscose plant (which I had to audit a number of years after the plant had shut down and become a business park) - I also stayed there in 2011.
Maybe a beer one evening? ;)
Regarding the unannounced route I am interested to know which locations but on the days in question I'll still prefer the forests or the Orme. BTW I understand that Penmachno on Sunday will be the power stage (semi-official source)

Looking at Google Maps, Gwydyr looks pretty interesting. Some open bits in there and some in the trees. Think i'll go in there on the Sunday. Not a fan of Penmachno since my last visit on the 2011 Cambrian Rally. Very narrow and rough stage.

'Making the event more attractive to the wider audience now within easy visiting distance of the rally, both Saturday's and Sunday's schedule will include a family-oriented 'spectator stage' designed to bring the breath-taking action closer to the public. Details of these two very accessible venues will be confirmed in the coming weeks.'

Anyone have any ideas what/where these are likely to be ? Stately homes, race-tracks, street-stages ?

I seem to recall the organisers saying something about running a parklands stage, the kind they used to se in the 1980s to let people get close to the cars. They were very popular, even fi the drivers hated them.

However, I think it will be a brand-new stage, rather than an old one revived.