Malcolm Wilson out of RAC

[RS2000CUSTOM]

Heard this morning that Malcolm has retired from the lead in the RAC :crybaby:

[Deepest Blue]

How is Steve Bannister doing ?

[Tim]

stig won leadin home 1-8 of escorts, wilson went off tage 20. bannister won the open rally

[RS2000CUSTOM]

I heard Wilson's shell failed ! and I dont mean his engine shells either :pale:

[Tim]

reports he riped the axle off ooops

[RS2000CUSTOM]

Four link boxes parted company with the rest of the car !

Remind me to buy my shell from David Sutton if ever my 6 numbers come up and NOT buy a ****** shell !

[Tim]

cant c it being a fault wit the shell prep, keilder is not the most forgiven place about

[RS2000CUSTOM]

Stig's car held up - lol

[Tim]

he also stayed on the road aswell

[Chrisbo]

Who are ******??? Did Wilson's get prepped at M Sport???

Chris.

[RS2000CUSTOM]

Wilson was NOT in an M Sport prepped shell !

(bet he wished he was!) :clown:

[Chrisbo]

So come on Who's shell, Who, Who,????

:cheers:
Chris.

[Banishit]

yeh come on whos? someone infamous ?

[RS2000CUSTOM]

lol @ u load of vultures

[Tim]

he was ran by xs racin but i think the car was brought from marcus dodd not that long ago but the car has been in the m sport factory

[Chrisbo]

Nae wonder the four link boxes fell out. He makes speedboats!!!!!

[Tim]

used 2 now hes on 2 helicopter i think

[Tim]

quote from event website 'Wilson went up a fire-break at high speed damaging the rear axle mountings too much to continue. Wilson was "gutted" not to finish although he went on to say about competing on the event "I feel like I’ve never been away".

[Mex 1t]

car didnt look to damaged to me i was their !!!!!!!!!

but axle had top link bars ripped out of shell !!!!!!!!!

i bet that was the first/ second rally that shell had done since being prep'd at mr lepley's cos marcus dodd wrote it off last time

but never mind i wouldn't spend any more money with prepfab !!!!!!

our rally car is a prepfab shell i may put it in the paper !!!!!!

but on a better note malcom is still king of the woods

cant wait for next year proper speccy's no weekend warriors need apply !!!!!!!!!!!! or the :agimp:

[wayne m]

David suttons shells are prep'd by gartrac. and engine by millingtons ( i built it) my claim to fame.

The car used by malcolm was a prepfab shell and was most definatly not at fault, malcolm put the car into a fire break and got off lightly to be fair.
there was a lot of damage to the car. it was a credit to the shells strength.

[Mex 1t]

hi wayne have a look at these may help

http://www.redslate.co.uk/upload/pics/DSC00815.JPG

http://www.redslate.co.uk/upload/pics/DSC00817.JPG

dont look damaged to me in service in kielder and he was out at this point as i looked at the 4 link mounts f3c&ed comes to mind was a little damage on front ns wing only light thou , when i spoke to malcom he was well pi$$ed like


even a picture of the works team

http://www.redslate.co.uk/upload/pics/DSC00819.JPG

[Deepest Blue]

Is that a frying pan Wilf has there Rickster :blackeye:

[wayne m]

i was there too! malcolms car was damaged on the underside he went over a load of tree stumps, the rack was damaged he bent steering arms, ripped the four link boxes from the floor etc etc.
The car (owned by steve perez) is going back to prepfab to be repaired.
Im just glad that the event went ahead and i look forward to next year's.
The sound of so many nice bd powered escort's in the forest gave me goosebumps. :cheers:

[Mex 1t]

i suppose they will reweld the watts linkage towers back on while their at it !!!!!! shame malcolm was going so well but poor shell !!!!!!! ah well i know where not to spend me money thou

neil defo is found it at croft with a dint in it !!!!!!! do we need to finger print it ?? :blackeye:

[wayne m]

The watts linkage system was originally designed for tarmac use and is a very succesfull set up on tarmac, and has also proved so in the forest until now ( but to be fair malcolm was driving the car hard).
The car is having the rear susp set up changed to use leaf springs etc.
When looking for a company to prepare my own mk2 shell i chose prepfab,
and would recomend them to anyone, the shell preperation, fabrication ,and welding is excellent, and to those who know about escort rally preperation there's only a handfull of company's capable of work like that.
Malcolm was very happy with the car and i was told he said it was a credit to prepfab.

[Mex 1t]

our mk2 rally car was also done their wouldnt use em again thou !!!!!!

in hindsight is always better !!!! if i knew now what i did back then , and all that jazz :blackeye: you live and learn

[wayne m]

So you rally a mk 2 then? what spec is she ? and what events have you done, i may know the car.
More importantly what engine's in her?
:bounce:

[Mex 1t]

tarmac car got a 16v astra engine in will find some pics somewhere

[PHIL TEEAR]

Malcolm Wilson car is back at prepfab for repairs, after what happened to the car, l do'nt think it matters who built it, the same damage would have happened, and l agree prepfab do a great job
CheeRS Phil :santa.