The traditional last-minute panic to get ready for the DC has now kicked into high gear.
The new helmets have arrived, together with some funky gel-pads to make the HANS devices less painful to wear. New seats are in. Robbie has modified the shock-mounts and fitted the sand-ladder mounting brackets. Nangjel have sorted out the electrics, although that needs a bit of tidying up. The new heavy-duty battery bracket which Richard fabricated is installed. The Beast now sports new Bridgestone MT 265/75 R16 tyres - 4 plus 2 spares. So what's left?
Shock tuning - tomorrow I'm putting the car in to Mebar, for Rashad to work his magic.
Stickers - ready to pick up and be applied this weekend.
New harnesses - I splashed out on some up-market Sabelt ones with nice aluminium adjusters, and they should arrive Sunday/Monday.
Re-registration - always a trial, this one. I have to get the car over to Bin Sulayem Garage for Rob Bryan to inspect it, and issue the letter which enables the RTA to register it as a rally car.
Spares - need to chase up Arabian Auto for these, but they promised they'd be ready
Photo shoot - the PR people from the DC want a photo of Team NewTrix, so I need The Phantom Blogger to get back from Europe to do the honours.
Meanwhile...we've been seeded 25th for the DC, with race number 326. That's a bit of an insult really, considering we've never come lower than 18th in any DC that we've finished! We'll show them...
Over in The Magic Kingdom, the Hail Rally is in progress. Home favourite Yazeed Al Rajhi (Hummer) is out at the end of day 1, as is Emil Khneisser in his spanking new Nissan-sponsored Y62 Patrol, fresh from Mebar's workshop - both seemingly with engine failure. Our mate Matar Al Mansouri (UAE, Nissan Patrol) also appears to be having a torrid time of it on day 4, as is Khalid Al Jaflah (UAE, Chevrolet Buggy) - who was leading the event last night. After some 7 hours in the stage, they both now appear to be moving again, but are still in the desert and a long, long way from the finish. It will be dark soon so I doubt that they are having much fun. All the aforementioned are entered in the DC, so they won't have much time to rectify any damage from Hail - one of the reasons we didn't bother this year!
The new helmets have arrived, together with some funky gel-pads to make the HANS devices less painful to wear. New seats are in. Robbie has modified the shock-mounts and fitted the sand-ladder mounting brackets. Nangjel have sorted out the electrics, although that needs a bit of tidying up. The new heavy-duty battery bracket which Richard fabricated is installed. The Beast now sports new Bridgestone MT 265/75 R16 tyres - 4 plus 2 spares. So what's left?
Shock tuning - tomorrow I'm putting the car in to Mebar, for Rashad to work his magic.
Stickers - ready to pick up and be applied this weekend.
New harnesses - I splashed out on some up-market Sabelt ones with nice aluminium adjusters, and they should arrive Sunday/Monday.
Re-registration - always a trial, this one. I have to get the car over to Bin Sulayem Garage for Rob Bryan to inspect it, and issue the letter which enables the RTA to register it as a rally car.
Spares - need to chase up Arabian Auto for these, but they promised they'd be ready
Photo shoot - the PR people from the DC want a photo of Team NewTrix, so I need The Phantom Blogger to get back from Europe to do the honours.
Meanwhile...we've been seeded 25th for the DC, with race number 326. That's a bit of an insult really, considering we've never come lower than 18th in any DC that we've finished! We'll show them...
Over in The Magic Kingdom, the Hail Rally is in progress. Home favourite Yazeed Al Rajhi (Hummer) is out at the end of day 1, as is Emil Khneisser in his spanking new Nissan-sponsored Y62 Patrol, fresh from Mebar's workshop - both seemingly with engine failure. Our mate Matar Al Mansouri (UAE, Nissan Patrol) also appears to be having a torrid time of it on day 4, as is Khalid Al Jaflah (UAE, Chevrolet Buggy) - who was leading the event last night. After some 7 hours in the stage, they both now appear to be moving again, but are still in the desert and a long, long way from the finish. It will be dark soon so I doubt that they are having much fun. All the aforementioned are entered in the DC, so they won't have much time to rectify any damage from Hail - one of the reasons we didn't bother this year!
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