Please make sure that you are familiar with our MSA scrutineering requirements for all MSA permit events. This is for your safety, the safety of event officials and event spectators. Your vehicle must meet the minimum requirements prior to driving at each event where scruitineering will be carried out. Vehicles that do not meet this minimum standard MAY be prevented from participating.

For full details follow this link

Thank you.

Trevor Harrison

Club Secretary

Events bookings are slowly starting to come through (at last!!), so PLEASE bear with me whilst I follow up telephone calls and emails. The recent weather has certainly had a direct impact on things and I have been unable to book anywhere due to site conditions, but please be aware that January is a month that many sites are closed.

Sadly some sites have closed, but if you have or can get details of any sites that we currently don’t use please get in touch and I WILL follow it up!!

Keep checking here for regular event updates…

Regards to you all

Trevor Harrison

Club Secretary

Hi guys,

Look what Daz gets up to at weekends! and you thought you’re secret was safe!!!!!!!!

heheheh!!!

Some thankyous are owed all round, mostly to Byron, the Chief Marshall and Gaz, our ever friendly scrutineer.

This was a really well attended event, with as usual the numbers being swollen by the guys at wormhough, but nonetheless it was good to see some new faces, and some old ones (me) who haven’t been to an event in a while.

Punches were already set out by John the site owner, which I am told were in some sneaky locations…..

The punch competition was won by pez in the bowler tomcat, I don’t know too much about that as I was busy helping recover a g wagon from in the bottom woods, which as they weigh as much as a small planetary system, and it was his dads and didn’t want to scratch it!? was an event in itself.

The afternoon was given over to a cane trial set up by Ezz, Paul and myself. This is not a new thing for us, but we decided to add a twist to our usual time trial by making a tough trial through the ridges in the bottom field. The idea was to challenge most people by how far they got through the trial, and for the good guys to be separated by the time it took them to complete the trial. The trial rules were pretty simple, as many shunts as you like, touch a cane though and that’s as far as you got.

The results for the first direction are shown below.

As the trial was becoming impassable after gate 4 a quick decision was taken to reverse the direction of the trial for the last hour.

Results for the Reverse direction

The trial was a great success with many vehicles taking part in it. If you can share any pictures or videos from the trial get in touch and we will either post them for you or help you to post them on the site.

Thanks must go to all the guys who helped with recovery which enabled most everybody to have a chance in the trial section.

Well, till next time and thanks.

Edit: Some pictures from Gaz Horne from the day below

Mark

Hi all,

Just wondered if anyone has for sale, a Heavy Duty front bumper for a Disco 1 .

If so, please give me a shout.

Many thanks

Carl Annable ( new member as of Stainby )

E-mail: monty1234@btinternet.com

Next event is at HOLYMOORSIDE, Chesterfield, on the weekend of 30/31 May 2009.

For full event information, click this link

I’m sorry to say that the site was hacked again, via another site which altered the way ours behaves. The hackers overwrote the .htaccess file, if you care. No data was lost from the site, but we were down for a couple of days, I think. It’s a difficult attack to secure against especially if the access is from another site, which it usually is.

We are going to be moving to a new host soon, so hopefully that will help solve the problem.

Mark

Here are details of a new off road show being held in August 2009.

Off Road Power 2009, Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd August – Santa Pod Raceway

For all the information you will need about this new type of event, follow this link

www.offroadpower.co.uk

Spondon & District Off Road Club has been invited by Total Off Road Magazine to put a team of 2 drivers into the first ‘Battle Of The Clubs’, from a short list of just 15 clubs from across the UK!. Clerk Of The Course Chris Shaw* and Chief Marhsall Byron Mellors have been asked to represent the club in a ‘drive off’.

(*NOTE: Due to personal reasons, Chris Shaw will not be participating, and will be replaced by Club Treasurer Darren Price)

The competition will consist of 2 two hour tournaments, in the morning and afternoon of the show, and in order to keep things fair, all drivers will use the same vehicle. The competition will see all drivers compete against each other in a 4×4 on a purpose built see-saw, the winner balancing the vehicle for the longest time.

If you’re intending to go along to this years event, and will be there to see the ’see-saw’ tournament, look out for Daz and Byron and show your support for them. GOOD LUCK GUYS!!

Tickets for the show are £10 on the door or pre-order tickets online for £7.50 each at www.britishindoor4×4show.com

See you at the British Indoor 4×4 Show on Sunday 22nd February.

Here’s hoping you all have a great Christmas and New Year.

To see our christmas message to you, follow this link

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/jYm8AvX1wDtrAJvz

Best wishes to you all

From The Spondon Off Road Team 

Trevor, Darren, Byron, Chris and Gaz

ps hope you enjoy our christmas message! Keep an eye on your email, event dates for 2009 coming soon…..