Yep, group B died because of spectators being suicidal and officials doing nothing about it, not because of the cars - still plenty of group B pace machinery running in clubman rallies.

No, you should always recommend an absolute dog of a car reliability wise. But something interesting enough to keep.

That way the apathatic bastards will either take up an interest in cars like every DECENT human being, or spend half their life at the side of the road phoning assistance as punishment.

You don’t argue with big trees. We’ve taken out two concrete fence posts and 20ft of chainlink with barely a dent, yet a dinky little tree tap on the front beam bent it like a bananananananana.

P.S - How do you stop spelling bananananana?

Tree’s are a lot more solid than people give them credit for. You’d need a crash structure comparable to battleship armor...

Anything that wasn’t designed to go quickly to start with.

I award my mates Defender complete with original leaf springs, beam axles, barely adequate brakes for the standard ~80hp engine and an LS7 stuck in there - 1st place.

You’ve got 8000lbs of steel capable of flattening most off road obstacles, designed from the ground up for hard off-roading at combat speed, and then get worried about it wobbling around on 3 wheels and teeter around at 5mph?

You’re barred, get back to the trackdays! ;)

“I can tell you that replacing one part on a bug will make all the others fail in turn.”

Fixed that for you.

Will you tell that to mine?
I had an alternator set on fire mid rally-stage, a driveshaft snap in a field 10 miles from the nearest phone, and it spat two rear tyres off axle deep in mud in the bottom of a Welsh valley, had to climb 5 miles to the top of a hill just to get a signal and have someone meet me with a pair…

Anyone that steals it will probably bring it back. Probably with flowers and a ‘condolances’ card.

Everything that breaks on a Beetle is a common problem.

Can hide WRC-spec TC system and software, yet can’t manage a switch that goes ‘on/off’?

It’s not our net, it’s the damned host is slow as shit, the video’s were barely watchable. (200mbps ‘net here)

It does help that the Defender has relatively large bearings as standard, and as for the other cars, well, the Milners mentioned in the PH article that was linked run the same bearings as us, and they’re huge, similar to WRC cars in that the CV actually fits through the middle of them:

Not often, they’ll do at least a year barring a crash, usually 2-3 years at least even with the odd knock and bump, some guys are running the same bearings they bought the car with still...

I’ve seen them roll over at walking pace. You have to remember they’re not just doing rallies, they come to the Comp Safari’s too (what I do with the buggy in the avi) - so it’s rough off road terrain but still at high speed - it’s very easy to hook the edge of a wheel in a rut whilst sliding and roll the car.
The…

That’s “Ow, my back” racing.

Comp Safari. Like a cross between off-road and rally.

We hit a chainlink/barbed wire fence and took two of the concrete fence posts out too, I can see they’d do a bit of damage to a panelled car, it gave the buggy a good shove - and required a bit of hammerwork and welding afterwards....

Buy the Milner version.

The last time I took the buggy out to race was so long ago I’m not sure it really happened, it’s been in the workshop for years being fettled. That’s it Beetle roots showing through..

You have to admit though, that was a sweet backward entry and hold from Stevens. Maybe he should go drifting.