PRESS RELEASE: 21 March 2011

Team Permashine Take it to the next level

Team Permashine was happy to announce that the team will be competing in the BTRDA Asphault Championship, which is being covered on TV by Special Stage and is shown on Motors TV.

The first round of the BTRDA was the Tour of Epynt 2011, As the Team had only competed on Epynt once before the pair was seeded at car 86 out of 90.

Being their first rally and relying on their own pace notes, the main aim of the weekend was to learn more about developing this new discipline over the very fast Epynt Ranges.

The Team Andrew Hicks and Richard Bliss started well and after the first two stages found themselves 62nd overall and 9th in class.

As the day went on the team progressed getting faster and also working very well together. The team ended the day in 56th overall and 7th in class. A good result as it was their second time on Epynt and first time writing their own pace notes.

Andrew commented:” It has been a good weekend myself and Richard have learnt a lot as a team and also really enjoyed the first round of the BTRDA.”

The crew would like to thank sponsors Permashine, PIAA, Bliss Mobility and National Mobile Windscreens.

The Tour of Epynt 2011 will be on Motors TV,on Special Stage Saturday 9th April at 22:35

 

PRESS RELEASE: 7th December 2010

A change for Team Permashine

Andrew and Richard have spent the last 2 months building a Honda civic rally car,

So before the start of the new season the team wanted to put the new permashine rally car to the test and see how it held out in competition.

The pair put an entry in for the Rockingham stages on the 4th/5th Dec 2010.

They were not expecting much as this was to be a shakedown, before the teams first event in 2011 at The K & R stages at brean leasure park

The team was seeded 55th out 100 cars, it had snowed a couple of days before the event but as it was so cold the snow stayed for the weekend, this was going to make things difficult for Andrew as he had not driven the car before and tere was snow everywere.

The team started of slowly they thought, as the conditions were so bad the pair were on forest tyres for first two stages.

They found out they was not going that slow, lying in the top 20, Stage 5 was a night stage with the help from PIAA uk, new headlight bulbs and using the PIAA light pod helped alot moving the team up 2 overall positions, by the end of day 1 the team were lying 18th overall and 4th in class.

When day 2 started the pair had deicded to push for a class position and really start to work the new car. Push they did with only 2 stages to go they found them selves lying 16th overall and battling for 2nd in class, with the nearest rival 4 seconds behind Andrew uped his game and made the gap 7 seconds going in to the last stage.

The pair managed to keep hold of the second place in class with a gap of 4 seconds, finishing 16th overall and 2nd in class an excellent result for the team and new car.

Andrew and Richard would like to thank National Mobile Windscreen for Fitting the windows in the car at such late notice and doing an excellent job, also would liketo thank everyone else who helped including The Team sponsors Permashine, National Mobile Windscreen, PIAA uk, Bliss Mobility Services

NEXT EVENT: The K & R Stages At Brean Leasure Park on the 22nd/ 23rd Jan 2011