Time I told everyone what happened on this event. It was tiring, gruelling and exhausting as well as being brilliant all round.
So at the outset, all the teams were given was the location of the drivers brief and this time we were also told, were off to France. This clearly added a new dimension because of Covid. It should have been run in early March 2021 but due to restrictions in France it was postponed till November 2021. Also for me personally, I started a You Tube channel as a hobby 6 months previously and decided I would try to cover the event as a vlog. As of writing this I have not finished the 2nd and 3rd vids, having had the week off after the event and doing almost nothing else Monday to Friday except going through the footage and creating the videos (218gb of footage....ouch my head!)
After completing all the forms for Le Shuttle, getting Covid passes, arranging the necessary paperwork from insurance companies as we are now no longer part of the EU, and everything else needed to prep myself or the car for this, I left Wakefield at 10am on Friday.
1st stop was pick up my co-driver as for the event. YOU MUST have at least 1 other driver so you can take a break due to the distances and roads we would be covering. So going via Sheffield we headed down to the drivers brief, which was being held at Sevens and Classics near Brands Hatch racing circuit in Kent. I had left early to give myself at least 30 mins before hand to film cars arriving at the briefing for footage. After our lunch break, Waze announced that we were 25 mins later than planned! Great. 2 accidents later we arrived in the dark and most of the 'competition' had already arrived. We both recognised some of the faces from the original running and also from the 4BallR event that we, along with 'Avel Du' participated in. My trusty SLK 350 R171,which I had used on the 4BallR was up against 2 x R8 V8's, M5, WRX STI, GTV 3.0, 911 991.1 Carerra, Quattroporte, XJR, A4 avant 3.0TDI and a 1.5Focus diesel
Briefing over we all headed to Le Shuttle and then to the first petrol station outside the Calais Eurotunnel. This was the starting location and the first of our waypoints/check points.
FRANCE....Am I ready? MoonTrash2 awaits! - YouTube
So the event is run using the app 'What Three Words' and we have to take a photo from the main check points and send on What's App to the organiser. The first running had 3, this had 14, and the first of which was 'Lunch.Means.Mystery which takes you to the petrol station, and whilst on the train we put the 2nd one in to the sat nave to we would be prepared for the off. Everyone sets off at different times and is timed on arrival at the finish. Using different apps like google maps or Waze can take you slightly different ways, sometimes on poorer roads. All the teams are in a large group chat on What's App and in the first running, we had teams drop false live locations to throw others off where they actually were. So were ready for the off.
So at the outset, all the teams were given was the location of the drivers brief and this time we were also told, were off to France. This clearly added a new dimension because of Covid. It should have been run in early March 2021 but due to restrictions in France it was postponed till November 2021. Also for me personally, I started a You Tube channel as a hobby 6 months previously and decided I would try to cover the event as a vlog. As of writing this I have not finished the 2nd and 3rd vids, having had the week off after the event and doing almost nothing else Monday to Friday except going through the footage and creating the videos (218gb of footage....ouch my head!)
After completing all the forms for Le Shuttle, getting Covid passes, arranging the necessary paperwork from insurance companies as we are now no longer part of the EU, and everything else needed to prep myself or the car for this, I left Wakefield at 10am on Friday.
1st stop was pick up my co-driver as for the event. YOU MUST have at least 1 other driver so you can take a break due to the distances and roads we would be covering. So going via Sheffield we headed down to the drivers brief, which was being held at Sevens and Classics near Brands Hatch racing circuit in Kent. I had left early to give myself at least 30 mins before hand to film cars arriving at the briefing for footage. After our lunch break, Waze announced that we were 25 mins later than planned! Great. 2 accidents later we arrived in the dark and most of the 'competition' had already arrived. We both recognised some of the faces from the original running and also from the 4BallR event that we, along with 'Avel Du' participated in. My trusty SLK 350 R171,which I had used on the 4BallR was up against 2 x R8 V8's, M5, WRX STI, GTV 3.0, 911 991.1 Carerra, Quattroporte, XJR, A4 avant 3.0TDI and a 1.5Focus diesel
Briefing over we all headed to Le Shuttle and then to the first petrol station outside the Calais Eurotunnel. This was the starting location and the first of our waypoints/check points.
FRANCE....Am I ready? MoonTrash2 awaits! - YouTube
So the event is run using the app 'What Three Words' and we have to take a photo from the main check points and send on What's App to the organiser. The first running had 3, this had 14, and the first of which was 'Lunch.Means.Mystery which takes you to the petrol station, and whilst on the train we put the 2nd one in to the sat nave to we would be prepared for the off. Everyone sets off at different times and is timed on arrival at the finish. Using different apps like google maps or Waze can take you slightly different ways, sometimes on poorer roads. All the teams are in a large group chat on What's App and in the first running, we had teams drop false live locations to throw others off where they actually were. So were ready for the off.
