WR1 Artic Rally School
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:45 pmConsidering the failed attempt at going to Tommi Makinen's rallyschool (cost 
), I tought I'd start the tread again so people can follow easily.
The new idea:
As mentioned, my neighbour is an ex local rally champ.
I agreed with Harry that we could organise a course for the group.
- We rent a piece of forest (generally 25 GBP for 10 square miles for a day) or a lake
- We rent one or more cars. To keep cost down, I'd say we rent a few Manta's or RWD escorts, which are easy to find and cheap.
- For FWD fun, we can just use the Avis renters which we'll need anyway to ferry people around.
- I'll check if we can find a cheap 4WD, but wouldn't hold high hopes. Anyway, for good fun, you don't absolutely need 4WD. To learn how to control a car at 80mph on ice neither. A Manta on proper studded rally-tyres will probably go faster than an Evo on normal roadgoing studs.
Since Harry's brother also drives rally and his uncle organises one of the big national rallies in Finland. Finding a car and a 'stage' should be perfectly feasible.
- For accomodation, we could rent a few cottages here in the North. They're pretty cheap and of very good quality (in Feb you're looking at 40-50 gbp per person for a week at most for a cottage that has log fire, sauna, dishwasher, etc.).
Example: 554 Euros per week if we go between week 2 and 7. Sleeps 8 max. This the most expensive ski resort in Finland even !
http://www.yllas-travel-service.fi/en/i ... ki&arvo=25
- In contrary to what I assumed earlier, Harry isn't really interested to do the catering. He does free-lance work as cook on TV but doesn't want to be a pro cook anymore. Sure he'll jump in to cook us some nice stuff though.
As payment for him organising and teaching, I thought we could cover in group his and his wife's accomodation costs if we do it more North than here.
What are you thoughts ?
Cheers,
The Swede
Rented these last year. Two of the nicest they had. We were 12 and I paid something like 1200GBP for both together for the week, all included.
http://www.yllas-travel-service.fi/en/i ... &arvo=100#
), I tought I'd start the tread again so people can follow easily.The new idea:
As mentioned, my neighbour is an ex local rally champ.
I agreed with Harry that we could organise a course for the group.
- We rent a piece of forest (generally 25 GBP for 10 square miles for a day) or a lake
- We rent one or more cars. To keep cost down, I'd say we rent a few Manta's or RWD escorts, which are easy to find and cheap.
- For FWD fun, we can just use the Avis renters which we'll need anyway to ferry people around.
- I'll check if we can find a cheap 4WD, but wouldn't hold high hopes. Anyway, for good fun, you don't absolutely need 4WD. To learn how to control a car at 80mph on ice neither. A Manta on proper studded rally-tyres will probably go faster than an Evo on normal roadgoing studs.
Since Harry's brother also drives rally and his uncle organises one of the big national rallies in Finland. Finding a car and a 'stage' should be perfectly feasible.
- For accomodation, we could rent a few cottages here in the North. They're pretty cheap and of very good quality (in Feb you're looking at 40-50 gbp per person for a week at most for a cottage that has log fire, sauna, dishwasher, etc.).
Example: 554 Euros per week if we go between week 2 and 7. Sleeps 8 max. This the most expensive ski resort in Finland even !
http://www.yllas-travel-service.fi/en/i ... ki&arvo=25
- In contrary to what I assumed earlier, Harry isn't really interested to do the catering. He does free-lance work as cook on TV but doesn't want to be a pro cook anymore. Sure he'll jump in to cook us some nice stuff though.
As payment for him organising and teaching, I thought we could cover in group his and his wife's accomodation costs if we do it more North than here.
What are you thoughts ?
Cheers,
The Swede
Rented these last year. Two of the nicest they had. We were 12 and I paid something like 1200GBP for both together for the week, all included.
http://www.yllas-travel-service.fi/en/i ... &arvo=100#
no dosh 
