Fantastic Cotswold rally

[paul kelley]

Hi all

Just like to thank Geoff Ives and the team for a fantastic day.
Weather great.
Roads great.
Route great.
All the members smiling.

Just like the old days.

Have fun

Paul Kelley

 

[CLIFFWILKINS]

WELL PUT PAUL.
WE COULDN'T AGREE MORE AND ARE LOOKING FORWARD NOW TO THE YEAR AHEAD.
WELL DONE GEOFF AND TEAM

CHEERS
TRACY AND CLIFF

 

[david_yorkshire]

arrgh !
I was packing boxes in readyness for a house move all day.
I did wave to the lot of you as you passed through the village where I live, Sibford Ferris.
nice 997 C4S in Guards.
next year...
David

 

[John Sims]

ORIGINAL: paul kelley

Hi all

Just like to thank Geoff Ives and the team for a fantastic day.
Weather great.
Roads great.
Route great.
All the members smiling.

Just like the old days.

Have fun

Paul Kelley

Ditto the above ++

The Sims family had a great day nicely finished by getting a family award, being part of the 944 Register winning the Register Award and R11 winning the Region Award [].

But as I said elsewhere - if it wasn't for all Geoff's hard work (and that of his helpers) there wouldn't be an event to receive awards at.

Another great rally.

It is this event, and other great opportunities to have fun with Porsche related friends, that mean we could never sell our Porsche.........there are times when I wish I could [] (or even give the damn thing away).......but then you have an event like todays. [][]

 

[ianfiat]

Thanks to all for the great day out !


How many others sailed past the turning for Sibford Ferris and had to turn round ?

 

[Diver944]

ORIGINAL: ianfiat

How many others sailed past the turning for Sibford Ferris and had to turn round ?

We did [8|]

My Navigator was tucking in to the muffin from his packed lunch at the time

Thanks Geoff, we had a great day

 

[RSGulp]

We had a great day too. Particularly enjoyed some 'spirited driving' on the way back to Moreton in Marsh. Congratulations to Geoff for including Fish Hill on the route - fantastic piece of road!

Just like at yesterday's London Marathon, it seems Cotswold Rally drivers fall into one of two camps - the fun runners and the fast sprinters. Can't think which one we fell into... []

Can somebody list the awards presented - we had to leave before the 4.30 presentation.

 

[John Sims]

ORIGINAL: Rich Claridge

..... Particularly enjoyed .... Fish Hill on the route - fantastic piece of road!

Ditto again on that - I could have gone up and down that hill most of the day. Not sure that would have been well received by the Sims clan though. [8|]

Just like at yesterday's London Marathon, it seems Cotswold Rally drivers fall into one of two camps - the fun runners and the fast sprinters. Can't think which one we fell into... []

Not sure I can agree with you there Rich. I actually suggested to Geoff that he might include an award for "Knob of the Day" for one particular idiot. It isn't a race! [>:]

Our group of four made very enjoyable "discrete progress" on the way back to Cornbury. We made good use of the many empty roads when they became available but drove sensitively when there were other road users about.

Because of the number of cars involved this event becomes very high profile for the Club in Oxfordshire. None of us, I'm sure, would want it remembered for, or reported in the press as, a bunch nut cases, with more money than sense, hooning around the countryside.

Porsches are fast. We know they are fast and don't have to prove it to everyone else.

We were in a later group out wards from Cornbury and witnessed the aftermath of a Micra hitting a deer. One assumes the Micra wasn't travelling at great speed, but it still happened. The distressing image of the crippled, but living, deer laying at the roadside will stay with me for a long time. Consider what the press would have done with that incident had it been one of our Porsches and not a Micra.

 

[John Sims]

ORIGINAL: Diver944

ORIGINAL: ianfiat

How many others sailed past the turning for Sibford Ferris and had to turn round ?

We did [8|]

My Navigator was tucking in to the muffin from his packed lunch at the time

Thanks Geoff, we had a great day

You should have been following your wife Paul, as we were. No issues with her navigating. []

 

[RSGulp]

Not sure I can agree with you there Rich. I actually suggested to Geoff that he might include an award for "Knob of the Day" for one particular idiot. It isn't a race! [>:][/color]

Our group of four made very enjoyable "discrete progress" on the way back to Cornbury. We made good use of the many empty roads when they became available but drove sensitively when there were other road users about.

Because of the number of cars involved this event becomes very high profile for the Club in Oxfordshire. None of us, I'm sure, would want it remembered for, or reported in the press as, a bunch nut cases, with more money than sense, hooning around the countryside.

Porsches are fast. We know they are fast and don't have to prove it to everyone else.

We were in a later group out wards from Cornbury and witnessed the aftermath of a Micra hitting a deer. One assumes the Micra wasn't travelling at great speed, but it still happened. The distressing image of the crippled, but living, deer laying at the roadside will stay with me for a long time. Consider what the press would have done with that incident had it been one of our Porsches and not a Micra.

I think we must have left a lot later than you did. Was that the small silver car with the restyled front we saw at the side of the road? We wondered what had happened there.

Please don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning speeding around the Cotswolds in any way (after all I live here, the last thing we want is for it to become any more of a haven for racers than it is at the moment.) Just saying there were definately those who were happy to be driving at a leisurely pace in convoy and enjoying the scenery, and those who wanted to enjoy some of the nicest driving roads in the area, while they were empty of other road users, and when there was good visibilty and it was safe to do so.

There were lots of very twisty (and very bumpy) roads on both the out and in routes which obviously needed to be driven with care - but also many very nice long straights with plenty of visibilty for overtaking where safe.

Everyone I spoke to seemed to be enjoying their day in their way, and to me that's what club events are all about. Well done Geoff and all the other helpers.

P.S. Did anyone else think the main hall of the museum, dimly lit with all the classic cars draped with semi-transparent sheets looked a little spooky?!

 

[geoff Ives]

For your information. There is 1 more on the list of

'Thank you for your request for an entry but I have regretfully, to inform you that it has not been accepted' ....

letters on my computer. There are only 2 others and as they have not requested an entry for either the Cotswold Rally or the Manx Tour since their transgesions I have never needed to send one.

Thank you all (almost all) for your company yesterday.
Geoff

 

[craig johnson]

I'd like to echo all of the comments and congratulations to Geoff and his team for organising this great day again (and for booking in good weather- it's now raining when I want to wash all off the flies I have collected!). There was some fantastic scenery and great roads, and a map that was just taxing enough to be a challenge [].

I was one of the earlier leavers and the site of the still alive deer and the abandoned Micra at the side of the road [] was a sobering sight but unfortunately there were one or two who either didnt see it to focus and reign in their 'spirited driving' or were driving too fast to notice or care. (I saw a 996 Turbo overtake a convey of 5 of us doing the speed limit coming up to a blind bend. What comes around goes around and I hope I, nor any other Club member or member of the public, is present when you crash []).

What we dont need is an act of selfish stupidity to cause this event, or events like it, to be abandoned.

Anyway, thanks again, and I look forward to the event next year Geoff!!

Craig & Zoe

 

[RSGulp]

Does anyone know who the other awards were presented to?

 

[Graham-S]

Thanks to Geoff & the Team, yet another good Rally, was a really great day out. We had real fun. Good Route, Good Weather with a Ggeat Picnic & Fish Hill..... well....There was a long Q of slow Porsche on the inside lane having a Sunday drive, have to make the most of Fish Hill []. I was 3 up and still managed to pass easily
Roll on Next Year

Graham
R31

 

[craig2105]

Thanks from us too. We also saw the deer at the side of the road - very sad indeed. However the day was excellent and the route spectacular at times. Fish Hill was brilliant - a 964 RS went past me and to hear its bellowing exhaust as we climbed the hill was just glorious!

The interesting thing is how afraid we seem to be of upsetting people on the route. There's a thread elsewhere on the forum about the Circuit Historique de Laon in France where villagers come out to watch all the cars pass through - they love it and enjoy it and it's a huge event in the annual calendar. Shame we in the UK can be so intolerant, isn't it?

Thanks again to all involved - we'll be there next year.

 

[ianfiat]

Which was Fish hill ? Was that the uphill dual carriageway with some tight sweeping bends on it ? If so I really enjoyed it too- I didn't like the Mercedes 2 inches from my rear bumper all the way up it though.


I hope the transgressor wasn't a Carmon red metallic boxster though, most of the return journey I was following a white 944 at well under the speed limits.

 

[craig2105]

ORIGINAL: ianfiat

Which was Fish hill ? Was that the uphill dual carriageway with some tight sweeping bends on it ? If so I really enjoyed it too- I didn't like the Mercedes 2 inches from my rear bumper all the way up it though.


Yep - that's the one. Great fun. I'd driven it years ago in something like a 1.8 Vauxhall Carlton which wheezed it's way up. Not yesterday though - God I love my Porsche!

 

[RSGulp]

ORIGINAL: geoff ives

For your information. There is 1 more on the list of

'Thank you for your request for an entry but I have regretfully, to inform you that it has not been accepted' ....

letters on my computer. There are only 2 others and as they have not requested an entry for either the Cotswold Rally or the Manx Tour since their transgesions I have never needed to send one.

Thank you all (almost all) for your company yesterday.
Geoff

Was the transgressor spoken to about a complaint against him/her on the day?

 

[macandsue]

How we agree with all the positive comments about the Rally. We had an excellent day in the company of good friends both old and new---in fact our picnic rug was shared by members from three different Regions, and six different Registers.
Geoff how on earth did you manage to book that weather ? By the time we reached Birmingham on our way back north, the sky was getting darker by the mile, and as we drove into Manchester the rain was lashing down. We nearly regretted our foolhardiness in booking a Doctor Hook concert on the same day as the Cotswold Rally but after three hours of total nostalgia all the inconvenience just faded away.
All in all a brilliant day. Roll on next year. Can we book now ?

 

[geoff Ives]

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Was the transgressor spoken to about a complaint against him/her on the day?
[/quote]


No. I had to make some enquiries. It has been done this morning.

Geoff