pwhittle

Anyone know the timings for the start? Only heard about it on the news this am, depsite living and working in York. Can't find anything on the net

tmo

Mates running in car 11 so might nip to Elvington shortly

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See the Lombard Rally action! — Here’s where to go:



Thursday October 26th: Scrutineering day: Elvington’s Yorkshire Air Museum, south-east of York. Depart 5.30pm, for York centre, flagging off from Eye of York 6.15, several Selectifs and cross-country route to Scarborough… drop into Elvington, the atmosphere of rally cars mixing with the classic aircraft is magic. Tension mounts from here on.



Thursday October 26th: 9.15pm, Marine Drive, on Scarborough’s seafront – a sprint at night dodging the incoming high-rollers off the North Sea, its bound to be slippery. Bring a hat and Wellingtons. Who has messed up – its still a long way to go…



Friday, October 27th: 7.45am, Day Two: Early start for a crack at the classic Oliver’s Mount circuit outside Scarborough – it featured on the very first competitive RAC Rally back in 1953, slippery greasy tarmac under the trees downhill…



Friday, October 27th: 2.30pm, Into the forests – Stang is just one of the venues today and this great classic from the days of Roger Clark and the Escort era will see the rally stuck into the running of the toughest day – it’s a 17-hours of rallying day… not for nothing do they call this Endurance Rallying.



Friday, October 27th: 5.50pm, Hamsterley Forest – known to be rough in places with a deep stream to ford that used to provide some great photos in the golden-era… it's dark in here, and hard going now.



Friday, October 27th: 8.50pm, Kielder – Shepherdshield, the biggest man-made forest in Europe is famous for only one thing – killing rallycars. Can these lightly prepared showroom-standard engines of the revived Lombard survive this… the roads are rocky, hard, and totally unlike the slippy-slimey Yorkshire forests just a few hours before, and still we are on the same road-pattern Colways we set out on the night before…



Saturday, October 28th: 8.50am, The Forest of Ae, another classic from the pages of Lombard history-books, as we venture into Scotland… dawn has broken but is there any daylight deep down in these pine forests? Ice pockets abound for sure…



Saturday, October 28th: 1.30pm, survivors stomp off into the forest of Glentrool…



Saturday, October 28th: 4.0pm, Laurieston… and now head into Laurieston, its getting dark again now…



Saturday October 28th: 7.45pm, Back into the Forest of Ae, as someone will surely have said earlier today it was so great they can’t wait to go back in…



Sunday, October 29th: 7.45am, Greystoke Forest courtesy of Malcolm Wilson at M-Sport we head into the most classic rallying wood in the Lake District, that first heard the growl of a rallycar when Pat Moss chased Paddy Hopkirk in three-litre Big Healeys back in the early 1960s… survivors who get this far are in for a treat.



Sunday, October 29th: 2.0pm: Blackpool Grand Finish - come and cheer the survivors on the Lombard Finish Ramp, at the conclusion of a one-mile sprint, Blackpool Promenade, North Pier, opposite the Metropole Hotel, from 2.0pm and you might catch a gulp of champagne.



Who will be popping the corks after more than 1,000 miles of the toughest roads in Britain and venues ranging from circuits, hillclimbs, stately homes, famous forests, moorland, farmland and sea-front promenades that have taken us from the North Sea to the Irish Sea with four days and nights of amazing action… all in cars you can build yourself in a garden-shed.

pwhittle

cheers
will try and make the start. Missed the Yorkshire Rally, as I thought it was in November...

GROWLER_GRRRR

get some good photos you lot ! enjoy .