Tagged: Sebastien Loeb

26 September 2011

WRC Part 6 – Red Range Spec Point

Sunday 1:30pm, Red Range Road Spec point was our final stop for the day and probably the most entertaining. The WRC cars were pushing really hard downhill into a S bend which was follwed by a long left, so for the first time we could see the cars taking off into the distance.

The dust levels were insane, as were my depleting energy levels, nevertheless it was a weekend (well morning) to remember. Defiantly looking forward to round 2 in 2013.

19 September 2011

WRC Part 5 – Mid Stage

Sunday – 12:30pm. Seeing the cars racing through the forests of Coffs Harbour is defiantly one of the best motorsports experiences that I have ever had.. I guess racing to some degree is the essence of all motorsport but I have to admit, driving along side Ken Block & Daniel Oliveira’s WRC cars early in the day, somehow seemed to rate higher..

As far as I can remember, I wanted to be a WRC driver. Due to lack of money and talent, that dream will never become a reality but seeing and hearing these cars beside me through the streets of Coffs Harbour kind gave me the slightest taste of what it would be like driving between stages.

Anyhow, on the way back to the second Plum Pudding Stage we got caught up with another bunch WRC cars making their way to the second Bucca stage. This time it was Mikko Hirvonen and Sébastien Loeb… I think my life is now complete.

16 September 2011

WRC Part 4 – Service Stage Coffs Harbour

Sunday – 12:00pm. Dammit!!! My Nissan Murano is no 4WD!!!!.

What I thought was a tinny bit of wet grass turned out to be the knife in the kidneys for my trusty Nissan. I was bogged directly outside the WRC service stage located at the old Coffs Harbour airport. Thankfully there were plenty of onlookers to push me out of my predicament so my embarrassment levels remained fairly stable.

First thing we noticed was I was not the only one with dramas. Evgeny Novikov (the flying Russian’s) WRC Ford Fiesta had come to grief in a big way during the Plum Pudding stage. Thankfully he and co driver Denis Giraudet were ok which is a testament to the build quality of these cars.

14 September 2011

WRC Part 3 – Plum Pudding Spec Point

Sunday – 8:20am.. We finally found our destination and once again it was the wrong one.. The organisers of this event where as useless as tits on a bull, but still nice enough to let us in so I can’t complain to much. The Plum Pudding spectator point was perfect location for some sideways actions pics. Once again the WRC cars pushed the limits far beyond a point I thought was possible.

13 September 2011

WRC Part 1 – Bucca Spec Point

Sunday – 6.56am the first WRC car arrived and it was nothing like what I expected. The speed and sound of these things was just insane. Sure I had attended the odd ARC event as a kid, but this was my first time at experiencing a WRC in person and I was loving it..