Barmy to Barcelona 2010

2010-07-31T09:00:00.000-07:00

The only bits of Team Mayfield car 1, that made it back to the Uk.

2010-07-22T09:47:00.000-07:00

Photos photos photos

2010-07-22T08:03:00.000-07:00

I have uploaded all of the slideshow photos. There are over 700 photos uploaded!

Click here: http://blog.wackyrally.co.uk/galleryjuly10/

The Final Scores + Winners

2010-07-22T06:36:00.000-07:00

I hope everyone made it back home safely. We've caught up with our sleep and are reliving the rally with the photos, which I am uploading at the moment.

While waiting for the photos to upload, I thought I should post the final scores and winners!

Aside the main competition, there are a few awards in different categories:

The Longest Drive Award - Norfolk and Good
The Wackiest Car Award - Thunderbanger 4

Now on to the main competition...

Congratulations to The Iron Lady Boys for winning Barmy to Barcelona 2010. They walk away with the top prize of £1000.

Second place goes to Internal Rescure (Thunderbird 2) who walk away with £500.

And the third cash prize goes to the GLAMorgan Rockers who win £250.

Here are the results in full:

Position	Team Name	Day1	Day2	Bonus	Day3	Day4	Total
1	The Iron Lady-boys	1450	1380	1000	1800	1500	7130
2	international rescue	1440	1280	1000	1800	1200	6720
3	GLAMorgan ROCKERS	1500	1300	750	1750	1400	6700
4	Mario Brothers	1240	1450	750	1750	1350	6540
5	Sandy Gerbils	1480	1450	750	1400	1400	6480
6	A-Team	1120	1290	500	1800	1500	6210
7	HotFuzz	1030	1130	1000	1350	1200	5710
8	Team Mayfield	1230	1050	500	1650	900	5330
9	Surf's Up	1070	1280	750	1410	600	5110
10	Cod Squad 2	1130	1230	1000	1700		5060
11	Smell my Cheese	1180	890	500	1600	800	4970
12	Shirtys	820	625	750	1400	1350	4945
13	Team Gash	690	1290	1000	1750		4730
14	Cabbage Racing 2	940	925	0	1700	1020	4585
15	The Vuvuzela's	1200	1220	500	1650		4570
16	Save Our Squirrels	920	1065	750	1700		4435
17	Superstar DJs	1020	1080	1000	1300		4400
18	Shitron WRC	1140	980	500	1700		4320
19	The salty sea dogs	970	665	750	1700		4085
20	Freaky Frew Five	1310	565	500	1700		4075
21	Scooby Don'ts	1360	505	750	1100		3715
22	We're in Barney Rubble		1140	750	1450		3340
23	Surf 1	1160	885		1100		3145
24	Cabbage Racing	1150	890	0		1100	3140
25	The Pocket Rocket	580	585	500	1150		2815
26	The Tool Doctors	960	925	500	300		2685
27	Brookland Brothers	1080	1215	250			2545
28	Texas Tarts	400	610	500	700		2210
29	Thunderbanger 4	530	670	1000			2200
30	Team Tigger	870	510	750			2130
31	Team Chiswick	690	1045	250			1985
32	Team Mayfield 16	530	915	250	200		1895
33	Norfolk and Good			250	1550		1800
34	Team Mayfield 2	900	395	500			1795
35	Pacca Maccas	1270		500			1770
36	Shitty Shitty Bang Bang	1440		250			1690
37	Team Ian		1135	500			1635
38	Bank Burners	1040		500			1540
39	Hector and the homos	700		750			1450
40	jolly roger		430	1000			1430
41	Bluesky and Hutch	930	200	250			1380
42	Was That a Duck?	870		500			1370
43	dishonorable discharge	1150					1150
44	Team Charlie			1000			1000
45	Cabbage Racing 3	990		0			990
46	Barca or Bust	480		500			980
47	The Rod Fathers	770					770
48	Plonkers on Patrol			750			750
48	Team Josh			750			750
49	Crazy Taxi			500			500
49	Smells like Team Spirit			500			500
49	Team Deliverance			500			500
49	Team Mayfield 69	250		250			500
50	Team Mayfield 3			250			250
50	Wyld Stallions			250			250
	Front Line Crew						0
	Nick&Tom						0
	Somalian Pirate Cheese Nightma						0
	Team Andrew						0
	The Dangerous Danes			0			0
	The Dignitaries						0
	The Putter Nutters						0
	Wallace & Gromit			0			0

Home

2010-07-22T05:59:00.000-07:00

The car waiting in the que for the ferry in Dunkerque.
We got all the way home in the good old shed, with only the oil light coming on once,and fixing that straight away with a litre of oil.
We have all enjoyed the trip very much, were already thinking about next year :)

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Shiela - gone but not forgotten

2010-07-22T04:51:00.000-07:00

Cabbage racing 2 paid a tearful farewell to Shiela yesterday when having made it back to dear old blighty, she now resides at Wickford cars, so anyone who wants a car that knows it's way round the rally and back again, there's one for sale in Essex. We even left her with the one spare part we took with us, no we don't know what it is either, but it was the only thing in the boot when we bought her so reckoned it must have been important.

Going back to sleep for another day or two now.

Doug

Andy at Shitroen WRC here, Hope everyone got home safe

2010-07-22T01:10:00.000-07:00

And the people still in Barca are having a great time. We Set Off from Barca at 3pm on the 20th drove constantly except for wee's and poos and food and driver changes and of course the ferry. Went over the Millau Viaduct, Jesus what a piece of work!. Got back home "Wacky Rally 2 - barmy to Brierley hill, west midlands" by 12.30 pm a mammoth 21.5 hours straight. Just woke up after sleeping for over 14 hours. worth it though, what a good laugh!!!

Car got us back ok and the photo is at Calais where, Ironically our Red Bull car, couple with 2 cans of red Bull drink, managed to get us home safely to blighty!!!

correction

2010-07-20T23:01:00.000-07:00

Sorry - should have said Iron Lady Boys in that last post - sorry boys, still catching up on my sleep.

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Last night in Barcelona

2010-07-20T22:52:00.000-07:00

Scooby Don'ts and Iron Lady Bogs plus partners enjoy a fantastic meal down by the harbour. Scoobies are heading back to Calais today in a mammoth 12 hour drive plus stops but hey, we're used to that no. No mountain passes though!

We have a Facebook group - Scooby Don'ts, which we will be updating with videos and pics.

See you next year!

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The Vuvuzelas

2010-07-20T13:51:00.000-07:00

Well that is it....we made it to Barcelona!!!!!!! and boy was it warm! At some point it registered 40 degrees and a few cold beers went down like a dream and was good fun to party with everyone:) Ramon (Desguaces Cesar S.L) came to pick up our car and was sad to see it go after it came all the way with us in it....Well done to all who made it and was good fun......

Helps if I out the link in there...

2010-07-20T06:18:00.000-07:00

Here´s the link...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM6g5KXAzSo

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Iron Lady boys charity vid

2010-07-20T06:15:00.000-07:00

Check out this video we did back in blighty to curry some sponsorship for charity... Also, thanks to everyone for an amazing experience - it´s been a blast. There´s a chance the limo can be fixed, so hopefully see you next year!

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2010-07-20T05:52:00.000-07:00

One from the green team has broken down, but made it to the airport
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2010-07-20T05:32:00.000-07:00

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Hot fuzz

2010-07-20T03:06:00.000-07:00

11-55 we have made it to the ferry at Bilbao with 5 minutes to spare
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Bank Burners: We made it!!!!

2010-07-20T00:39:00.000-07:00

Good old Rover. It served us well. Our trusty 620Si took us over 1750 miles. Not well known for their reliability, but it became a faithful friend. Never skipped a beat, didn't use any oil or water. Didn't over heat in temps up to 47 degrees. We will miss it.

Well done Rover.

Luckily this tail has a happy ending. Number 69 is coming back to blightly.

Hot fuzz

2010-07-19T22:12:00.000-07:00

The old girl rested over night while the team partied some more than others. Making good time to be in Bilbao by noon. GREAT rally well done every one.
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Bank Burners: Heart Stopping Moment

2010-07-19T17:53:00.000-07:00

Met at the start on another beautiful morning.

Bank Burners were up, but Hector and the Homos finally lost their nerve and refused to get up for a 9am start. They had a taste of the easy life last night in Monaco and wanted more so stayed in bed!!!

We are now in Spain.

Just before the border we had a heart stopping moment. Phil said we lost all power, and while we tried to carry on there was a terrible smell.

We would normally put this down to Craven, but as he was still in bed we decided to stop the car!

The rear brakes were on fire!! We soon realised Phil had left the handbrake on at the last toll booth. Ran slowly for a few miles to cool the brakes, to much beeping from fellow rally cars. All fine now though!!

Beachward bound.......

Bank Burners: Barcelona Girls love Zebra Fur

2010-07-19T17:52:00.000-07:00

Hector and the Homos bring the traffic to a standstill with their Zebra Focus. "Girls love the feel of it Lenny said." "They kept curling up on my bonnet, do you know how hard it is to drive with two girls on my hot hood?"

Bank Burners: Good Boy Rover

2010-07-19T17:51:00.000-07:00

Well, we made it. A long journey, but an experience we will cherish for a lifetime.

Good old Rover got us to Barcelona after over 1750 miles. It didn't skip a beat, a testament to the Longbridge legacy!! Not out first choice of performance car but a faithful companion over the mountain passes!!!
Our Rover, too good to leave behind. Gone to one of the other teams, it's coming home to blightly.

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2010-07-19T15:03:00.000-07:00

HOT FUZZ. I tell you what some teams will go to great lengths to knock their opponents off their perch. This was our newest team member who we took in because he was abandoned on the St Bernards Pass tampering with the Thunderbird Car so that we could gain an advantage !! But it wasn't meant to be so well done boys !!

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Bluesky and Hutch get some beers with family.

2010-07-19T10:33:00.000-07:00

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2010-07-19T10:31:00.000-07:00

HOT FUZZ. Hi everyone sorry I haven't haven't had chance to blog today but just to let you all know that the Senator has made it safely and soundly to the centre of Barcelona here she is parked outside our hotel for the night in Las Ramblas. Not too much rest for the old girl I'm affraid though she needs to be up and at it early in the morning for a run up to Bilbao!! Would just like to say a Big Thank You to Rob and Ali and his crew and thanks for a most enjoyable experience and a very well organised one too !! From the Hot Fuzzers

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Day 3 scores + bonus points

2010-07-19T10:13:00.000-07:00

Firstly, congratulations to The Iron Lady Boys, International Rescue (Thunderbirds 2) and the A Team for scoring maximum points on day 3 and sharing the daily prize.

On to the main competition... The bonus points are in. Up to 1000 points are awarded and are split up as follows: 250 points for paint work, 250 points for attachments to the car, 250 points for fancy dress and up to 250 points for being Wacky.

This now means we have a new leader! The Iron Lady Boys have taken top spot. The competition is their's to lose.

Our teams have completed the day 4 challenges. The final results will be announced tonight at the Sports Bar in Barcelona.

Position	Team Name	Day1	Day2	Bonus	Day3	Total
1	The Iron Lady-boys	1450	1380	1000	1800	5630
2	international rescue	1440	1280	1000	1800	5520
3	GLAMorgan ROCKERS	1500	1300	750	1750	5300
4	Mario Brothers	1240	1450	750	1750	5190
5	Sandy Gerbils	1480	1450	750	1400	5080
6	Cod Squad 2	1130	1230	1000	1700	5060
7	Team Gash	690	1290	1000	1750	4730
8	A-Team	1120	1290	500	1800	4710
9	The Vuvuzela's	1200	1220	500	1650	4570
10	Surf's Up	1070	1280	750	1410	4510
10	HotFuzz	1030	1130	1000	1350	4510
11	Save Our Squirrels	920	1065	750	1700	4435
12	Team Mayfield	1230	1050	500	1650	4430
13	Superstar DJs	1020	1080	1000	1300	4400
14	Shitron WRC	1140	980	500	1700	4320
15	Smell my Cheese	1180	890	500	1600	4170
16	Freaky Frew Five	1310	565	500	1700	4075
17	The salty sea dogs	970	665	500	1700	3835
18	Shirtys	820	625	750	1400	3595
19	Cabbage Racing 2	940	925	0	1700	3565
20	We're in Barney Rubble		1140	750	1450	3340
21	Surf 1	1160	885		1100	3145
22	The Pocket Rocket	580	585	500	1150	2815
23	The Tool Doctors	960	925	500	300	2685
24	Scooby Don'ts	1360	505	750		2615
25	Brookland Brothers	1080	1215	250		2545
26	Texas Tarts	400	610	500	700	2210
27	Thunderbanger 4	530	670	1000		2200
28	Cabbage Racing	1150	890	0		2040
29	Team Chiswick	690	1045	250		1985
30	Team Mayfield 16	530	915	250	200	1895
31	Team Tigger	870	510	500		1880
32	Norfolk and Good			250	1550	1800
33	Team Mayfield 2	900	395	500		1795
34	Pacca Maccas	1270		500		1770
35	Shitty Shitty Bang Bang	1440		250		1690
36	Team Ian		1135	500		1635
37	Bank Burners	1040		500		1540
38	Hector and the homos	700		750		1450
39	jolly roger		430	1000		1430
40	Bluesky and Hutch	930	200	250		1380
41	Was That a Duck?	870		500		1370
42	dishonorable discharge	1150				1150
43	Team Charlie			1000		1000
44	Cabbage Racing 3	990		0		990
45	Barca or Bust	480		500		980
46	The Rod Fathers	770				770
47	Plonkers on Patrol			750		750
47	Team Josh			750		750
48	Crazy Taxi			500		500
48	Smells like Team Spirit			500		500
48	Team Deliverance			500		500
48	Team Mayfield 69	250		250		500
49	Team Mayfield 3			250		250
49	Wyld Stallions			250		250
	Front Line Crew					0
	Nick&Tom					0
	Somalian Pirate Cheese Nightma					0
	Team Andrew					0
	The Dangerous Danes			0		0
	The Dignitaries					0
	The Putter Nutters					0
	Wallace & Gromit			0		0

Premiere Classe?

2010-07-19T10:12:00.000-07:00

We think there may be a lot of midgets in Arles, judging by the size of our hotel rooms.

"premiere Classe Inn" arles

2010-07-19T10:09:00.000-07:00

Jesus Christ

WORK SETS YOU FREE

The local Crack house was full so we had to stay here instead

A GOOD MOVING SHOT

2010-07-19T10:06:00.001-07:00

Of our mates the HotFuzz Team

My 1st San Miguel at Lloret

2010-07-19T10:06:00.000-07:00

Bootiful

dad damaging a £500,000 McMerc SLR

2010-07-19T09:57:00.000-07:00

Our 1st accident at the end of day yesterday in Monaco...

2010-07-19T09:55:00.000-07:00

....i reversed into a stone wall... couldnt be bothered to get out and check as i was arguing with Dad and Chris at the time...

Surf 1 is now dead

2010-07-19T09:04:00.000-07:00

A sad day for Surf 1...which now lays dead at a Spanish toll booth...the clutch made all but 20km...If anyone wants a '99 Rover 416 in fetching green and black its yours!
RIP Surf 1

See you all in Barcelona.

Paul Hardy
+442070175050
(single number reach)

This is the end for one green machine...

2010-07-19T08:45:00.000-07:00

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Bust bluesky and hutch on las ramblas

2010-07-19T07:43:00.000-07:00

Took eye off temperature gauge and boiled on las ramblas. Had to remove plastic shroud from jamming radiator. Now with wife and kids in clean quiet cool apartment. See you later.

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2010-07-19T06:46:00.000-07:00

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The Rally hits the Costa Brava

2010-07-19T05:47:00.000-07:00

1,500+ miles down and we've stopped for some beach action before heading into Barcelona for the closing party...

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2010-07-19T04:58:00.000-07:00

So close, yet so far! Team Mayfield now dumping most of it's gearbox oil every 2 hours of driving. We will make it!!!!!!

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Fortunately team ian aka the chief swordsman brought a mosque alarm clock which gave us thevsecret advantage rhat everyone lacked

2010-07-19T04:53:00.000-07:00

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The Vuvuzelas

2010-07-19T01:37:00.000-07:00

We have made it to the South Of France where the sun is shining and
the food fantastic....Last bit of driving to Barcelona and car is
still good. (Amazing how if you ignore problems and then they just
seem to go away....problem solved:))

R.I.P Mystery Machine :-(

2010-07-19T01:33:00.000-07:00

Scooby Don'ts are stuck in Brignoles after the Mystery Machine died on us late last night.

Engine blew up big style - hey if you're going to break down do it properly ;-)

Thanks to the teams who spotted us on the side of the road in the dark and stopped to offer assistance - particularly the Iron Lady Boys in their hire car after an equally bad day.

It was a sad sight to see the Mystery Machine on the back of the flatbed truck.

AA have arranged a hire car for us and we should see everyone down in Barcelona! Looking forward to the party!!!

Big shout out to all those whose cars didn't make it either. In eulogy to the Mystery Machine - she served us well and we loved her to the end. Scooby dooby doo!

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Brakes are sticking and its the handbrake....

2010-07-18T23:36:00.000-07:00

handbrake is on the front.........Thanks Citroen!

Repairs

2010-07-18T23:31:00.000-07:00

Yesterday morning freeing off the brakes at Sauze D'oulx

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2010-07-18T23:10:00.000-07:00

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: Team ian

2010-07-18T14:53:00.000-07:00

We've just stopped in pitch dark 2 rescue the scoobydoo 'dream
machine' that had broken dwn on motorway. Also Earlier we jump started
a £160k ferrari

Team ian

2010-07-18T14:23:00.000-07:00

I might be just a teeny weeny bit biased here, being the mrs following
the rally avidly on iPhone whilst in Finland, but really, no points
for the 1st day? Must try harder....

And hope hubby feeling better soon, apparently been feeling car sick
today...bless... And still long way to go tonight before bed...

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Bank Burners: Stuck in Monte Carlo

2010-07-18T12:18:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately can't remember where we parked the cars. So we'll have another beer.

Bank Burners: Lunch

2010-07-18T12:12:00.000-07:00

300 miles and Lenny is getting cranky.

Time to stop for lunch before he falls out with Quentin again!!

Bank Burners: Monte Carlo

2010-07-18T12:09:00.000-07:00

Continuing the Veyron theme. They are two a penny round here. How about chrome finish fenders sir? Taste, money can't buy it.

2010-07-18T11:38:00.000-07:00

This is our new pet Mop the pig.
We have now arrived in Arles far too much motorway, not good.

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Bluesky and Hutch

2010-07-18T10:45:00.000-07:00

Stopped at my mum and dads to get wine and now nearing Arles. Will be camping tonight at camping city. Assume we got full marks in challenge.

Day 2 Scores

2010-07-18T09:59:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the delay on the scores update. Haven't been able to get a connection on the road. A dodgy dongle perhaps...! Anyways...

Congratulations to the Sandy Gerbils and the Super Mario Brothers for scoring maximum points on day 2 and scooping the daily prize.

There is now a new leader on the main competition. Can they keep the top spot?

Position	Team Name	Day1	Day2	Total
1	Sandy Gerbils	1480	1450	2930
2	The Iron Lady-boys	1450	1380	2830
3	GLAMorgan ROCKERS	1500	1300	2800
4	international rescue	1440	1280	2720
5	Mario Brothers	1240	1450	2690
6	The Vuvuzela's	1200	1220	2420
7	A-Team	1120	1290	2410
8	Cod Squad 2	1130	1230	2360
9	Surf's Up	1070	1280	2350
10	Brookland Brothers	1080	1215	2295
11	Team Mayfield	1230	1050	2280
12	HotFuzz	1030	1130	2160
13	Shitron WRC	1140	980	2120
14	Superstar DJs	1020	1080	2100
15	Smell my Cheese	1180	890	2070
16	Surf 1	1160	885	2045
17	Cabbage Racing	1150	890	2040
18	Save Our Squirrels	920	1065	1985
19	Team Gash	690	1290	1980
20	The Tool Doctors	960	925	1885
21	Freaky Frew Five	1310	565	1875
22	Cabbage Racing 2	940	925	1865
22	Scooby Don'ts	1360	505	1865
23	Team Chiswick	690	1045	1735
24	The salty sea dogs	970	665	1635
25	Shirtys	820	625	1445
25	Team Mayfield 16	530	915	1445
26	Shitty Shitty Bang Bang	1440		1440
27	Team Tigger	870	510	1380
28	Team Mayfield 2	900	395	1295
29	Pacca Maccas	1270		1270
30	Thunderbanger 4	530	670	1200
31	The Pocket Rocket	580	585	1165
32	dishonorable discharge	1150		1150
33	We're in Barney Rubble		1140	1140
34	Team Ian		1135	1135
35	Bluesky and Hutch	930	200	1130
36	Bank Burners	1040		1040
37	Texas Tarts	400	610	1010
38	Cabbage Racing 3	990		990
39	Was That a Duck?	870		870
40	The Rod Fathers	770		770
41	Hector and the homos	700		700
42	Barca or Bust	480		480
43	jolly roger		430	430
44	Team Mayfield 69	250		250
	Crazy Taxi			0
	Front Line Crew			0
	Nick&Tom			0
	Norfolk and Good			0
	Plonkers on Patrol			0
	Smells like Team Spirit			0
	Somalian Pirate Cheese Nightma			0
	Team Andrew			0
	Team Charlie			0
	Team Deliverance			0
	Team Josh			0
	Team Mayfield 3			0
	The Dangerous Danes			0
	The Dignitaries			0
	The Putter Nutters			0
	Wallace & Gromit			0
	Wyld Stallions			0

Green everywhere

2010-07-18T09:51:00.001-07:00

Day 3 - Italy to France.

We had a 100km detour today because someone's SatNav thought we hadn't done enough driving already!!!

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2010-07-18T09:51:00.000-07:00

Iron lady boys broken down and on the brink of losing their parliamentary seat. Some serious canvassing and good luck required. Stopped just off J44 of A8 if you wanna drop by on way to Arles to finish off mini bar.

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Day 2 Scores

2010-07-18T09:48:00.000-07:00

We are trying to follow the rally from home, so the Mrs actually knows where her boy is. Thanks everybody for posting to the blog, but no scores for day 2! Whats going on?

Good luck everybody.

Richard & Cassandra

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2010-07-18T08:20:00.000-07:00

Cod squad 2 in Monaco! betting the car on red 16!

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2010-07-18T08:16:00.000-07:00

HOT FUZZ. Officer Swift looks anxious as he looks at the tunnel which is shut as we leave Italy and head towards France also with one eye to the n\s front area of the bonnet as the Sqaud Car is starting to get a little hot and bothered under the collar and is ready for us to pop our eggs into the expansion bottle and boiled ready for breakfast..Today was meant to be a liitle easier on us after the last two days but we still have around two hundred miles to go as we head down towards Monaco, Nice and then onto Arles !!

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2010-07-18T05:53:00.000-07:00

Having spent a pleasant night in the italian mountains, the Ironlady boys are heading down to Monaco to have a disaronno on the rocks and a game of blackjack with our new pet Winston.

Mayfield Team Lunch

2010-07-18T04:50:00.000-07:00

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2010-07-18T02:42:00.000-07:00

HOT FUZZ. As we leave this Beautiful Ski resort in Italy we have been given todays task which is called project pet. Which involves taking pictures in various places,meeting other like minded animals and so on. It just so happens that I bought my son Curtis a new pet yesterday (Its only a St Bernard Love don't worry) called Roda and is now a certified member of our team !!

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2010-07-18T01:03:00.000-07:00

Hot Fuzz. Shitron have had to park their shonky at the top of this ski resort to start it. Don't think we will be seeing them Arles !! Good Luck Boys !!

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Last minute adjustments...

2010-07-18T01:01:00.000-07:00

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Hot Fuzz

2010-07-17T14:25:00.000-07:00

Ps. It is rumoured that they can't recognise a REAL PUSSY when they see one had to pop in a pet shop and take a picture of one !!

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Discrepency Re Shitron Team

2010-07-17T14:22:00.000-07:00

HOT FUZZ Further to a posting from Shitron Team earlier this evening I would like it to be known that the Senator Patrol car tugged the Cream pearl Bugatti Veyron at exactly midday today when around an hour later they found an inflatable model in a showroom withoutout an engine and claiming it to be Genuine. Yeah right lads !!

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Heading for the hills!

2010-07-17T13:22:00.000-07:00

The Italian Job????

2010-07-17T11:38:00.000-07:00

Couldn't find any gold but did find a digger possibly used to send Beckermann's Lamborghini over the edge. Had a look, Couldn't see it but it was a bloody long way down. Hope the mafia man (couldnt find a pic on google) didnt see us as we are technically a living witness....................

Uncle Chris and Fred Weasley

2010-07-17T11:25:00.000-07:00

I think george was stuck in trafic, dont know how they paid £250 for a Flying Ford Anglia but i think the organisers need to have a quiet word in the interest of fair play.

2010-07-17T11:22:00.000-07:00

The Rozzers!

2010-07-17T11:20:00.000-07:00

Nice Though, didnt ask us for documents or anything

Bugatti Veyron

2010-07-17T11:13:00.000-07:00

Our task was to find a supercar and all we could find was this Bugatti Veyron, I hope this qualifies otherwise we will be most upset seeing as we were dicked over yeasterday on several bad decisions by the judges. PS we were the first to find it apparently, in fairness our partner team Hot Fuzz did concede this... Well done guys!!!

Shitroen WRC - the story so far

2010-07-17T11:08:00.000-07:00

So.. Update on the Car, Clutch was poor yesterday and has now been upgarded to offically slipping, The Alps has really taken its toll. We thought the handbrake was sticking on so didnt use it and found that actually the front brakes were sticking on. Water keeps pissing out of the bottom a gallon at a time and my father insists its the Air Con although on this trip i have found he is not always correct on many , many, many things. The car seems to want to blow itself up due to it running very hot indeed and since this morning we have had to push start the car because the starter motor has died a very noble death.

Bon Chance!

Bank Burners: Slumming it in Val d'Isere

2010-07-17T10:42:00.000-07:00

Quick stop in the resort for a driver swap and photo opportunity!!

Banker Burners: The Hard Way

2010-07-17T10:39:00.000-07:00

Final pass of the Day. Out of the three possible routes we thought we would take the hard route, such is our confidence in our bargain Rover. Slightly smoking brakes, but we're through!!

On to Sauze d'Oulx for a well earned beer.

Bank Burners: Those Pesky kids....

2010-07-17T08:51:00.000-07:00

It's no Mystery, scoobies team blew a hose in big style on the second pass of the day.

Bank Burners: Italian Border

2010-07-17T07:27:00.000-07:00

Time to let our brakes cool down. Italy is behind us. Lovely Coffees. A group of Nuns took a shine to the furry Zebra car. And some oaps made friends with Hector.

Bank Burners: Snowball fight on the pass.

2010-07-17T07:16:00.000-07:00

From 30• plus temperatures to ice capped mountains we couldn't resist a snowball fight!!

Not sure if it's the rally that's wacky or us!!

Hot fuzz

2010-07-17T06:49:00.000-07:00

Hot fuzz have been tugged by the local fuzz.
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2010-07-17T05:26:00.000-07:00

Is that where we're going?

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2010-07-17T03:53:00.000-07:00

St Bernard Pass

2010-07-17T03:52:00.000-07:00

Made it this far even with Petra driving!

2010-07-17T03:36:00.000-07:00

Coffee stop in Les Diablerets for the cabbages

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2010-07-17T03:06:00.000-07:00

HOT FUZZ. This is the ultimate the Fuzzers have just pulled this £1 000 000 super car Bugatti Veyron over in the Alps and guess what the owner can't afford the fine so sorry we are running a little bit behind with todays tasks but we are justawaiting one of our colleagues to recover it and take to our compound !! Beat that Shitron !

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Who's that?

2010-07-17T02:41:00.000-07:00

What's that on his head?

2010-07-17T02:23:00.000-07:00

Some emergency welding for the limo and then the iron lady boys are tackling the alps

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Day 1 scores

2010-07-17T01:41:00.000-07:00

Here are the scores after day 1. Congratulations to GLAMorgan Rockers for grabbing the day 1 prize for most points.

Position	Team Name	Day1
1	GLAMorgan ROCKERS	1500
2	Sandy Gerbils	1480
3	The Iron Lady-boys	1450
4	international rescue	1440
4	Shitty Shitty Bang Bang	1440
5	Scooby Don'ts	1360
6	Freaky Frew Five	1310
7	Pacca Maccas	1270
8	Mario Brothers	1240
9	Team Mayfield	1230
10	The Vuvuzela's	1200
11	Smell my Cheese	1180
12	Surf 1	1160
13	Cabbage Racing	1150
13	dishonorable discharge	1150
14	Shitron WRC	1140
15	Cod Squad 2	1130
16	Brookland Brothers	1080
17	Surf's Up	1070
18	Bank Burners	1040
19	HotFuzz	1030
20	Superstar DJs	1020
21	Cabbage Racing 3	990
22	The Tool Doctors	960
23	Cabbage Racing 2	940
24	Bluesky and Hutch	930
25	Save Our Squirrels	920
26	Team Mayfield 2	900
27	Team Tigger	870
27	Was That a Duck?	870
28	Shirtys	820
29	The Rod Fathers	770
30	Hector and the homos	700
31	Team Gash	690
32	The Pocket Rocket	580
33	Team Mayfield 16	530
33	Thunderbanger 4	530
34	Barca or Bust	480
35	Texas Tarts	400
36	Team Mayfield 69	250
	A-Team	0
	Crazy Taxi	0
	Front Line Crew	0
	jolly roger	0
	Nick&Tom	0
	Norfolk and Good	0
	Plonkers on Patrol	0
	Smells like Team Spirit	0
	Somalian Pirate Cheese Nightma	0
	Team Andrew	0
	Team Charlie	0
	Team Chiswick	0
	Team Deliverance	0
	Team Ian	0
	Team Josh	0
	Team Mayfield 3	0
	The Dangerous Danes	0
	The Dignitaries	0
	The Putter Nutters	0
	The salty sea dogs	0
	Wallace & Gromit	0
	We're in Barney Rubble	0
	Wyld Stallions	0

Looking forward to seeing your pictures of day 2. Bring on the mountains!

Email your photos to: wackyrally.barcelona@blogger.com

-Jezz, Wacky Crew

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2010-07-16T23:28:00.000-07:00

HOT FUZZ. Day 2 begins with a task of driving through the Swiss Alps leaving this Beautiful Town of Thun behind us...This car is already to leave just one final kick of the tyres before we fire her up for the day ahead !! (Ours is the one far right of the picture)

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2010-07-16T11:59:00.000-07:00

Its been absolutely baking hot all day long and guess what we are nearly back at base and we have turned into an horrendous storm thunder and lightening and 1984 wiper blades !!! JOY

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2010-07-16T11:27:00.000-07:00

Iron lady boys may be delayed by exhaust issues...... Someone get the beers in for us :(

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Strasbourg or bust

2010-07-16T10:50:00.000-07:00

It's 19:50. Bank Burners are nearing Strasbourg. Then onto Switzerland. Beautiful Day. A long way, but the sounds of Pacha keeping us going.

Rally on!!

Rich & Bob

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2010-07-16T08:08:00.000-07:00

Its been a real gruelling day today on this journey we have visited 5 different countries today. One member of our crew is totally Wacky'd. But is my driving really that bad that he needs a neck brace on ??

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Our Hotel/Prison in Lille

2010-07-16T08:06:00.000-07:00

Situated in the ****yist part of Lille, proper scary place . A Copper stopped me and said do you have a gun? Chris said no, obviously we were law abiding citizens, Copper said, Here have this one its ****ing mental round here........

This is Hollywood star Rupert Grint

2010-07-16T08:02:00.001-07:00

...apparently hes been in a film about wizards or something, anyway must have heard me on Smooth radio yesterday because he begged me for a photo...how could i say no to such a nice young man....

5 countries down,

2010-07-16T08:02:00.000-07:00

1 to go! The ladyboys are sweating away somewhere north of strasbourg having already been to Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Holland as a bonus! Only Switzerland to go!

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