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3 Aug 2008, 17:35 (Ref:2262719) | #1 | ||
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Mad Mark's Xsara on 5th Gear
Just to let you all know i am promoting rellycross. On Thursday 24th July I took the xsara to Bellevue stadium as part of a the television shoot for Fifth Gears new series.
After tuition and demo Tiff Needell drove the Xsara in a race against A world champion speedway bike. Tiff also raced Frankie wainmans Formula; one stock car and a rage buggy to see if he could beat the speedway rider. Obviously we cant tell you the outcome as you will have to watch the new series to see. All we can say the the Rallycross xsara came out as the fastest challenger and handled extremely well on the Speedway Oval. Tiff were very pleased and surprised at the acceleration and handling of the car. Hope fully people will see it and became interested and intrigued with our sport which can only be good Last edited by Mad Mark Watson; 3 Aug 2008 at 17:40. |
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Worth a watch, can remember watching Squibby race against a speedway bike at Poole about 15 years ago, he came off second best as I recall.
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Sterling work Mark, should be interesting to watch. Do you know which week it'll be on?
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Mad Mark,
That sounds really interesting, can't wait to see that on TV. Good bit of publicity in the mainstream! I saw your car on sale at Rallycross.com - unfortunately I don't have 140000 Euros spare (what with the banks not loaning much anymore and the strength of the Euro!!!) - but just wondered if this meant the end to your rallycrossing for now, or if you were moving on to something else (maybe one of the plethora of GT's supercars!) I hope it is the latter. Adam |
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What we really need to now is what he payed for it!! lol
Seems a bit much for quite an old car really, but it is proven. |
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Cool stuff Mark
Great to see you have done some promotionaswell, I know Frankie pretty well, did he have a go aswell? And most importantly did you have a go in his F1, would be more powerfu than Xsara I imagine!! Any clues as to new vehicle? Give us a country at least!! |
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maybe GT's C4 ?
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No Mark dont get rid of the xsara its like the best looking car out there!
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That is good thing just let us know when Discovery will air it!
A couple of years ago I wrote too Top Gear and asked them to put a top spec Division 1 car on the show and let the Stig do a round around their track. I claimed it would beat all of them (even on road tyres). Now that they have a car under the 1m17s, I doubt that... That 500kg / 500bhp thing they had was quit fast! But still it would be great to see just a Skoda, Citroën, Peugeot, Ford, Opel or Saab beating the crap out of an Enzo! And it would reach Millions! |
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Mark are you coming to lydden?.
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I would of offered Mark having previously serviced for Ken Hall when he went Rallycrossing, and now help The Mighty Bullet on the Croft events but I am away in Cumbria for the Pendragon Stages
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the belle vue shoot out is on 5th gear next monday at 8
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