“In a black hole, and I’m spinning As my wings get shot away” – Back in the Village – Iron Maiden Surviving Epynt   Dixies, Deers Leap, German Village, Fourways Bridge, Burma Road, “Steps”, Cilieni Track; all classic phrases that invoke images of high speed driving and breath-taking crashes to rally enthusiasts. They make up…

You have to learn to pace yourself Pressure You’re just like everybody else Pressure –      Billy Joel – “I’m gonna drive this little car as fast as I can” – and with that former British Rally Championship winner Dai Llewellin jumped in his Suzuki Swift and proceeded to show all the rest of us in…

“You walk out on the high wire You’re a dancer on thin ice You pay no heed to the danger And less to advice” Dire Straits – Love over Gold Turns out that some of the top crews in the Grizedale Stages rally, who really didn’t want to leave the start area, may have had…

Slip sliding away, slip sliding away You know the nearer your destination The more you’re slip sliding away. – Paul Simon KRU Rally team were really looking forward to this one. Our ‘home’ forests, a perfect Autumnal day and a potent little rally car straining at the leash. What’s not to like. We would be…

Good luck to our service team member Jamie this weekend in the Formula Student (FS) competition at Silverstone. Formula Student is Europe’s most established educational motorsport competition, run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and backed by industry and high profile engineers such as Ross Brawn OBE. Jamie is part of Team UCLAN who have…

“Now that we’re back again, see what we’ve got, I know what it is, I know what it’s not, All that we ever had, ain’t gone away, It still remains, it’s here.” (Tonight – The Shires).   It was grey. Under a canopy of gun-metal coloured skies KRU rally team made its way into the…