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Very impressive work by the SWRT boys! You could hardly tell the car had been in an accident on Friday! Amazing he's also using the same shell in Finland at the moment and running 3rd! Go Petter!!! []

Sorry, can't make that one! []

I'll be heading the opposite direction and going to the UK for my cousins wedding!

I've had 249kmh (~150mph) indicated by GPS in my 2003MY STi and no problem!

Have regularly reached similar (higher?) speeds on the Autobahn and its always OK.

There is some bonnet lift, particularly when trailing someone at high speeds (>120mph), but it always stays put!

My guess would be that to gain Euro type approval, the bonnet catch has to hold at sustained autobahn speeds (certainly it wouldn't get German TÜV approval otherwise), so I really don't think you need to worry about it in the UK - even if you are being naugty []

...Even more than Warby!

Here's the money shot... Credit to Aston for his hanging out of windows skills (I swear that blokes a monkey [])

And a few more of the best ones...

Spot Chris Atkinson waving []

The final Parc Fermé group photo before leaving []

All of my pictures can be found here:

If anyone would like the full size (6.1MP, between 2MB-5MB) tell me the image name and I'll upload them or email

them as required. (Be patient though, I'm a busy man! [])

Alastair. []

Yeah, they were definately less draconian than previous years!

Also, not forgetting all the free parking we got using the "We're Subaru VIP, we don't have to pay!" blag []

Still, the stage marshalling was as abismal as usual! I don't know where they find them, but they have absolutely no idea about what a mashall's job is - they just seem to think they're there to have the best spectator spots! They just have whistles to make them look more official! [:@]

After a quick password reset, I see I'm still a member of the forum despite several years of inactivity!

Just want to say a HUGE thanks to everyone who was there this weekend for making me feel so welcome and making it probably the best WRC event I've been to (even if the result was pants!) []

I'll get my pictures online ASAP!

Thanks,

Alastair (Al).

Happens to me when its cold and damp, I just leave it in the Garage overnight with the handbrake off and in 1st gear and don't get any problems!

My dealer did loan me, for free, a Forrester from 6th Jan to 2 Feb while I was waiting for my STi 8 last year! Although I did negociate this when buying the car as I knew I would not have the car from the beginning of Jan and he didn't know when the STi would arrive!