Thursday afternoon, a couple of weeks back, Ryan air delivered the Nikster and Sideways to Torp Airport, near our place in Southern Norway as planned.
Thursday evening progressed with a bit of off roading in the snow, a nice home produced roast, a bottle of wine (or two), some aquavit (Norwegian spirit), and a few tax free beers. Very pleasant it was indeed.
All this combined with the fact that I hadn't actually packed meant that our "Early Start" on Friday morning was not all that early. The journey into and half way across Sweden seemed to take forever. The plan had been to get there in time for the last forest stage. When it became apparent that we were not going to make it we 
decided on the sprint. When we didn't make that either our only option was the Final service of the day after the sprint. You have to remortgage your house to fund a weekend at rally GB and a trip into service costs at least £20 a head. In Sweden, incomparisonm, a weekend pass is 350 SEK (Approx £30) and this includes access to everything except parking, which is pretty cheap all the same. So, in Sweden at least, I can highly recommend a trip to service as part of the rally weekend.
In service, you can get quite close to the top teams working on their cars and see the drivers out of the cars and helmets. You will be very lucky indeed, however, to blag autographs from the top drivers here. On the other hand, the lesser teams, su
ch as Suzuki (Guy Wilks) and Stig Blomquist, are shoved down the far end where hardly anybody bothers to visit and here it is possible to get much closer to the teams, drivers and cars. We took this opportunity to get my photos of the drivers signinautographshs signed. Sadly Petter Solberg proved to belusiveve and on we didn't come close all weekend......
More on our weekend, with some great photos in the snow, to follow.....
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