Thursday 14 July 2016
Rally video
Wednesday 13 July 2016
Top Bananas signing out
Just want to thank everyone for making this such a great event. The wacky rally team, the other teams the bars that put up with us and the towns for being extremely welcoming.
All of us had an amazing event and made some amazing memories.
Also, apologies to "You don't vote for kings" for being sick on their flip flops....somebody kept making me down pints. (Also apologies to anyone else affected by this little mishap)
I hope to return soon for another rally abd would be great to see some of your faces there. You can keep in touch via Twitter @topbananasrally.
Until next time, peace out
Brett, Ryan & Matt.
Dont Vote For Kings back to reality.... boo
Goodbye and thank you all. Despite have random number of gears at various times we made it all the way and had an awesome time! The last night was carnage. Special thanks to the Tiki boys for being everyone's heroes, the guys in the non furred dog car for sharing their engine cooked steak and camembert and generally being awesome, the guys in the other dog car for being really nice chaps and offering to drive behind us when we had gear issues to help out if needed, the pirates for making us laugh a lot (especially the video of the cow challenge) and the person who threw up over my flip flops at the bar... you know who you are!
I've attached a few extra photos of I thought might be of interest.
Cheers guys and drive safe!!!!
Nat and Mark
The DAMS Devils
We have had a ball and have so many amazing memories to last a life time! Thank you Wacky Rally and all other teams for being so awesome!
Please think of us whenever you say or hear "and pigs might fly"... here is our pet Peppa DAMS proving anything is possible if you believe hard enough!
See you on the other side!πππ
Tuesday 12 July 2016
Monday 11 July 2016
Good sports award
Well done fellows
Sent from Paul Smith TMPD Ltd
Final Scores !! Well done everyone, an epic rally ....
Team Name | Car Points | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Total |
The Chemical Brothers | 1000 | 1500 | 1450 | 1800 | 4525 | 10275 |
The DAMS Devils | 750 | 1355 | 1300 | 1750 | 4175 | 9330 |
The Dictators | 1000 | 1510 | 1450 | 1800 | 3475 | 9235 |
You don’t vote for kings! | 1000 | 1460 | 1080 | 1650 | 2625 | 7815 |
Dogs of War | 750 | 1375 | 1085 | 1500 | 1600 | 6310 |
The Tiki Boys | 1000 | 1380 | 1125 | 1725 | 1075 | 6305 |
Team Splash | 1000 | 1350 | 710 | 1400 | 1400 | 5860 |
North | 750 | 1400 | 920 | 1750 | 975 | 5795 |
Purple Rain Wrx | 750 | 1510 | 1315 | 1700 | 5275 | |
The Pingu Rimmers | 1000 | 1500 | 1070 | 1550 | 5120 | |
Brazil Nuts | 1000 | 1200 | 1210 | 1700 | 5110 | |
Brazil Nuts Too | 1000 | 1200 | 1210 | 1700 | 5110 | |
Onesie Direction | 750 | 1280 | 785 | 1000 | 1250 | 5065 |
Team Mat | 1000 | 1450 | 645 | 1550 | 4645 | |
Influence | 500 | 1130 | 1120 | 1500 | 4250 | |
The Top Bananas | 750 | 1360 | 1500 | 500 | 4110 | |
Society for Useless Knowledge | 250 | 1100 | 730 | 1600 | 3680 | |
Family | 750 | 900 | 725 | 1150 | 3525 | |
Crunch of Bunts | 1000 | 1460 | 985 | 3445 | ||
Dans Boys | 750 | 1385 | 1290 | 3425 | ||
Cressmowerz | 1000 | 830 | 865 | 700 | 3395 | |
The Wet Brewery | 1000 | 1130 | 1030 | 3160 | ||
The Zooming Zebras | 500 | 1080 | 710 | 850 | 3140 | |
Divit boys | 500 | 980 | 815 | 800 | 3095 | |
Digger Doctors | 750 | 1420 | 850 | 3020 | ||
ready, set, lego | 750 | 1250 | 810 | 2810 | ||
Calypso | 1000 | 950 | 855 | 2805 | ||
The Dodgers | 500 | 740 | 605 | 600 | 2445 | |
Little Brittons | 500 | 650 | 1100 | 125 | 2375 | |
Mooseheads | 750 | 1370 | 160 | 2280 | ||
Barcelona baby, yeah! | 500 | 700 | 1070 | 2270 | ||
Woodhouse | 750 | 1380 | 2130 | |||
School Boy Error | 500 | 740 | 885 | 2125 | ||
Pagey's Pussay Patrol | 500 | 1600 | 2100 | |||
Rock or Rust | 1000 | 570 | 390 | 1960 | ||
Wandering Arms at the Races | 1000 | 880 | 1880 | |||
The Wades | 500 | 1320 | 1820 | |||
Dumb and Dumberererer | 500 | 1300 | 1800 | |||
Wrong Direction | 1000 | 730 | 1730 | |||
Wacky Rally Winners 2016 | 500 | 1100 | 1600 | |||
You know you've Made it | 750 | 850 | 1600 | |||
#whereisben | 500 | 920 | 1420 | |||
Art Attackerz | 500 | 830 | 1330 | |||
ABER Union | 500 | 800 | 1300 | |||
Glamorous Bandits | 500 | 470 | 250 | 1220 | ||
Zombie Response Team | 750 | 390 | 1140 | |||
The Kitty Patrol | 1040 | 1040 | ||||
Flying Machine | 500 | 290 | 790 | |||
3 Amigos | 750 | 750 | ||||
Double or Quits | 750 | 750 | ||||
Frozen | 500 | 500 | ||||
La Poke'ya'moms | 500 | 500 | ||||
Tartan Dragons | 500 | 500 | ||||
The B Team | 500 | 500 | ||||
El Porto Ricans | 0 | |||||
Rothwell Aliens | 0 | |||||
Shar and the Comets | 0 |
Team you don't vote for kings... safe in hotel!!!
Big thanks to everyone who helped encouraged listened or taunted us. The car made it!!!!! Looking forward to seeing the rest of you guys in the bar tonight. Laters....
Hot stuff!!
Spanish Highway Air
Enjoying the view from the Spanish tollroad with the mountains, forests, and picturesque fields. The manure smell is ruining the effect though. Anyone else catching a whiff of that?
Also the Spanish toll cards are great! Prices, exits, and distances! Some other countries could stand to do that.
Society for Useless Knowledge
Leper car on the move
Our car has developed leprosy as we get closer to Barcelona. First the interior was peeling off and now near Perpignan the tachometer has decided to take a long siesta in preparation for Spain. Thankfully with an automatic on the highway we can live without it. Aside from being a snow globe of foam and adhesive in the highway breeze we're living large. Very envious of the Wades and their AC. Looking forward to ice cream.
Society for Useless Knowledge (los Americans)
The Wades
Thanks Rob and co. Had a great time. See you in lloret.
Our scenic is still going strong. AC ice cold. Front tyres only 3000 miles.
Seems a shame to scrap.
So if anyone wants to drive it back to UK? Or anywhere? Then its free to a good home. First refusal to the zombie celica from Plymouth.
Andrew
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Top Bananas nearly died again
These bloody drivers are seriously trying to ram us off the road. Had three more cut us up dangerously since this last update earlier. Why don't the French like Bananas?
In other news 4 police officers came over to us at the tolls after we beeped our horn. We were thinking we were about to be sent to jail to be fondled by french prisoners. Nah, they just want to know where we were going. That was lucky.
Free car!
Scrappy car
The Dictators
Phew! That was close!
We were just millimetres away from being side swiped by one of those really good French drivers on the motorway. Evasive action was taken and everything all good! Bit of a squeaky bum moment.
Urgent car needed in Barcelona!
Scores After Day 3 ....
Team Name | Car Points | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Total |
The Dictators | 1000 | 1510 | 1450 | 1800 | 5760 | |
The Chemical Brothers | 1000 | 1500 | 1450 | 1800 | 5750 | |
Purple Rain Wrx | 750 | 1510 | 1315 | 1700 | 5275 | |
The Tiki Boys | 1000 | 1380 | 1125 | 1725 | 5230 | |
You don’t vote for kings! | 1000 | 1460 | 1080 | 1650 | 5190 | |
The DAMS Devils | 750 | 1355 | 1300 | 1750 | 5155 | |
The Pingu Rimmers | 1000 | 1500 | 1070 | 1550 | 5120 | |
Brazil Nuts | 1000 | 1200 | 1210 | 1700 | 5110 | |
Brazil Nuts Too | 1000 | 1200 | 1210 | 1700 | 5110 | |
Dogs of War | 750 | 1375 | 1085 | 1500 | 4710 | |
Team Mat | 1000 | 1450 | 645 | 1550 | 4645 | |
Team Splash | 1000 | 1350 | 710 | 1400 | 4460 | |
Influence | 500 | 1130 | 1120 | 1500 | 4250 | |
North | 750 | 1400 | 920 | 750 | 3820 | |
Onesie Direction | 750 | 1280 | 785 | 1000 | 3815 | |
Society for Useless Knowledge | 250 | 1100 | 730 | 1600 | 3680 | |
The Top Bananas | 750 | 1360 | 1500 | 3610 | ||
Family | 750 | 900 | 725 | 1150 | 3525 | |
Crunch of Bunts | 1000 | 1460 | 985 | 3445 | ||
Dans Boys | 750 | 1385 | 1290 | 3425 | ||
Cressmowerz | 1000 | 830 | 865 | 700 | 3395 | |
The Wet Brewery | 1000 | 1130 | 1030 | 3160 | ||
The Zooming Zebras | 500 | 1080 | 710 | 850 | 3140 | |
Divit boys | 500 | 980 | 815 | 800 | 3095 | |
Digger Doctors | 750 | 1420 | 850 | 3020 | ||
ready, set, lego | 750 | 1250 | 810 | 2810 | ||
Calypso | 1000 | 950 | 855 | 2805 | ||
Mooseheads | 750 | 1370 | 160 | 2280 | ||
Barcelona baby, yeah! | 500 | 700 | 1070 | 2270 | ||
Little Brittons | 500 | 650 | 1100 | 2250 | ||
Woodhouse | 750 | 1380 | 2130 | |||
School Boy Error | 500 | 740 | 885 | 2125 | ||
Pagey's Pussay Patrol | 500 | 1600 | 2100 | |||
Rock or Rust | 1000 | 570 | 390 | 1960 | ||
Wandering Arms at the Races | 1000 | 880 | 1880 | |||
The Dodgers | 500 | 740 | 605 | 1845 | ||
The Wades | 500 | 1320 | 1820 | |||
Dumb and Dumberererer | 500 | 1300 | 1800 | |||
Wrong Direction | 1000 | 730 | 1730 | |||
Wacky Rally Winners 2016 | 500 | 1100 | 1600 | |||
You know you've Made it | 750 | 850 | 1600 | |||
#whereisben | 500 | 920 | 1420 | |||
Art Attackerz | 500 | 830 | 1330 | |||
ABER Union | 500 | 800 | 1300 | |||
Glamorous Bandits | 500 | 470 | 250 | 1220 | ||
Zombie Response Team | 750 | 390 | 1140 | |||
The Kitty Patrol | 1040 | 1040 | ||||
Flying Machine | 500 | 290 | 790 | |||
3 Amigos | 750 | 750 | ||||
Double or Quits | 750 | 750 | ||||
Frozen | 500 | 500 | ||||
La Poke'ya'moms | 500 | 500 | ||||
Tartan Dragons | 500 | 500 | ||||
The B Team | 500 | 500 | ||||
El Porto Ricans | 0 | |||||
Rothwell Aliens | 0 | |||||
Shar and the Comets | 0 |
Tunnel to France
Waiting for the tunnel to France....
Warning to all small Italian town at the bottom of the pass's will involve at least an hours stop for lunch.... Very very slow Italian time service!
Sunday 10 July 2016
Monte-Carlo
Epic drive on to Arles fellas - you drove it like you stole it :)
Right street wrong town!.
Team frozen
Re: You dont vote for kings SOS!
Well. WTF. Struggled through to Arles with only 3rd and 4th. Planned to park up at mc donalds and sort out scrapping in the morning. 3 miles out the gears and clutch returned as if nothing ever happened. Arghhhhhh!
So. Presently flying down a41. No first or second, and apparently very little clutch too. Dont want to stop! Suspect clutch: any mechanics know if it is likely to inprove if we stop and let it cool? Also, anyone out there speak good french and coukd help if we need a translator?!? Hoping for miraculous spontanious fix again but feels pretty terminal this time....