2010 NORTH WEST STAGES RALLY - ANDY ELLIOT

Wallasey were, as usual, out in force at the biggest event on the regional rally calendar – both competing and volunteering. We’d been allocated our now-customary spot looking after the Lytham Hall stage, run twice on the Saturday afternoon, and the stage was expertly marshalled by Graham Williams as Stage Commander and ably assisted by Alan Smith as Safety Officer.

In spite of gloriously sunny conditions on departing the Wirral on Saturday morning, the further north we travelled the foggier and murkier the weather became. After a scenic tour of Lytham (Stu, I owe you that pint…), John Merriweather, Stu Macmaster and I arrived at the stage start where Stu was to be based for the day while John and I were despatched to man the flying finish with former WMC member Andy Creer. A good catch-up ensued, before it was time to test WMC’s high-tech results-relaying system – i.e. the old field telephones. Strangely enough, whenNige (Harwood) tried ordering 10 portions of curry and chips via Jon (Chamberlain) at the other end of the line, theresponse came back as unprintable in this family publication…..