TAT update.... This is how it was this year! Yes I'm home :-((
This year those who did not make ... You have missed the worst organized event ever!!! Fact! The signing on is so long winded it's now a joke! It must have taken us 3 hours just to sign in.... And it's not finished untill scrutineering... And that's between 8-9pm!!!
So with that sorted Day 1... Prologue! Here we go.... First team off, they get to the man made log section... get stuck winch over/onto the logs... dislodge some off the steel pin's!!! Section closed! So this is the first team and the rest off the event is no better.....
We finish the short prologue, we get the "first" roadbook to take us to the camp site.... The first Gps point in the book we spend 2-3 hours on as.... What a surprise it's wrong!!!!! but we finish the book! Get to camp and it's a "s**t hole" you have to drive "through" a river to enter the camp and it's a swamp... yes a bog... Very very wet and all lorrys have been "towed" in!!! The catering and showers are so far away that you need another shower when you get back to your tent!!!!
So day 2..... Driver's briefing!!! There are so many complaints about the gps trackers ( we have a tracker fitted (you pay extra for them) it's down to you to look after and set... You were told how 3 times at the main briefing) that were fitted but set "wrong" by the driver/codriver... That the prologue days roadbook got Cancelled!!!! It get worst people....
Day 3....we have a roadbook, start at 9.30 and 135km's to drive.... We start and all's ok'ish.... There are more mistakes in the book but we are used to the now ;-) we get to 88k and it's 20.00 we call it a day.... Back to camp and sort cars for day 4 as we are told briefing at 7am early start very long book...160km book :-(
Day 4.... Up early ready.... Briefing has been put back to 10am then back to 11.30am with a 2pm start.... What's going on?
We ard told at the briefing hat we are having a short roodbook day... 2 books, one book 5km and the other 10km.... You can start when ready... We start and finish the short book. We then start the longer book, after 2-3km's we meet the other teams and are told the book has been cancelled? Not sure if it's a rolled Press car or s**t book that dosent work??? So back to camp to find Dan is not well! Andy takes Dan to town for medication!! We have very heavy rain fall...75mm in 30 minutes!!!! Andy and Dan return from Deva and it's enough for Andy to say .... I'm not going to continue with the comp!!! His words are s**t Camp, s**t organisation, s**t roadbooks .... A total FUBAR!!!!
We pack up and leave....... Over and out!!!
