Rally Great Britain 2009

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Originally Posted by bluuford

Well, seems that you are having hard times with DST. If you go to bed at 11PM then the stage starts in 10h and 28 min:-) To make it in stone: you go to sleep at 11PM then you sleep 4 hours until 3AM, then you wake up and turn your watch one hour back to 2AM, then you sleep until 5 AM, that is another 3h. Then you wake up, brush your teeth, eat, take warm and waterproof clothes and leave room at 6AM that is another 1h. Now you drive yourself to the stage for another 1h (now the time is 7AM) and then you have another 1h and 28 min to wait for the first car.
So, in conclusion: From 11PM until 8:28 AM next morning you had 4h+3h+1h+1h+1h28min=10h28min.
If you do exactly like I advised, then you should be out of trouble ;-)

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lol :)

Thanks bluuford. Trouble is, I'm camping overnight at Port Talbot so all those times mean nothing to me...I'll be lost, tired and late.

Whatever will I do? ;)

Car camping overnight is the best option overall I always think.

Don't worry about the clocks going back, it does give you an extra hours sleep and as long as you change your clocks before going to sleep all will be fine in the morning :D

I have still to decide if I will go but am tempted to go down for the full event if I can speak to my boss in the morning :s

we will be sleeping in our car on thursday night, im not looking forward to that bit to be honest!

whats the weather been like down in wales this week?

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** “surprise driver” - confirmed **

The North Wales Car Club is pleased to announce they have confirmed an additional surprise driver for the Cambrian. All will be revealed on Friday afternoon at Scrutineering in Llandudno. Make sure you're there!

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This message was posted on Cambrian rally's website few days ago. Could Loeb be labelled as "surprise driver" being such constant most of the time... ;-)

Weather has been ridiculously good recently - very dry and concerns of tyre wear.

I'm camping in my van for the 4th year running - get a real sleep on the flat with a nice warm sleeping bag with lots of space. I take a nice butane gas hob to cook some nice egs, bacon, beans etc.

Really looking forward to it now!

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Originally Posted by alexlake

whats the weather been like down in wales this week?

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Warm dry and sunny - honest!! - summer happened in the spring and for the last 6 weeks!! Long range forecast for the rally is a low of 4C at night and highs of 14C daytime, cloudy and sunny intervals

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Originally Posted by MJW

Warm dry and sunny - honest!! - summer happened in the spring and for the last 6 weeks!! Long range forecast for the rally is a low of 4C at night and highs of 14C daytime, cloudy and sunny intervals

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cool! sounds very un-wales like :D last year i slept in the car at -4 to -6 degrees. It was sooo cold!

I remember that - it was officially -8 at Port Talbot! I was more worried about the potential last-minute cancellation of the stage though, especially when I slid over numerous times on the icy path to the stage!!

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Originally Posted by pettersolberg29

I remember that - it was officially -8 at Port Talbot! I was more worried about the potential last-minute cancellation of the stage though, especially when I slid over numerous times on the icy path to the stage!!

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All part of what makes rally gb exciting!