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2008 Macmillan 4x4 Challenge - Result

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Hightower:
Well, Big Rich and I have had a cracking weekend and despite a couple of minor issues (like the starter not working since Saturday morning) we managed to finish this years event.

And what an event it was.  We started at Britpart in Shropshire and travelled up through Wales on some really obscure roads to get to Bala where we did the off road course in the dark.  From there to Holyhead and a ferry to Dublin.  If we thought the roads in Wales were a bit out of the way then those in Eire were just from another planet.  We made our way up through Eire and crossed the border somewhere not far from Omagh where we stopped in at Todds Leap, an off road centre.  After negotiating another course in the dark it was off to Belfast to catch the ferry to Stranraer and then on to Lockerbie for the night.  Final day was in the Borders before heading back to Warrington, the finish and a well deserved beer.

The long and short of it is, that despite going the wrong way round a big bit of the route in Wales, and not being able to get going without being push started, we finished in overall first place.

Big thanks to Rich not only for breaking the car and keeping me up at night with his snoring, but also for his skills as navigator and driver throughout the weekend.  We had a laugh and got a well desrved trophy.

Thanks also to all the Mac competitors without whom we would never have got going at each checkpoint.  It really does need more than one person to bump start a Td5, whatever Rich might say!!

We've raised a fair bit of cash, and the website (www.justgiving.com/mac4x4team27) will be staying open for another couple of weeks just in case anybody feels inspired to add a bit to the pot  ;)

Cheers

BigA:
congratulations to the two of you, it was worth Rich losing a bit of weight, even if it meant he couldn't push your motor on his own  now :clap:

Colin 009:
Well Done Guys

ben_haynes:
How many Trees did you take out??? [-X [-X :lol:

666:
Congratulations to the winners and well done to all those who took part :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

The final positions for all the vehicles are now in and posted on the Mac forum here, Myself and driver Karl Bainbridge of team 47 came joint 22nd which we are very pleased with as i had never done anything like this before :shock:

Cheers

Mark

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