Throughout Saturday we made reasonable time but had

shifted our focus from trying to place well overall to just

finishing the event. Whilst this might sound defeatist, we

had no idea how punishing the Perthshire would be on our

car and the team.

Overall we finished 15th and first in class which we are delighted

about. We learnt a lot and are ready for our next event in

September: Round 6 of the Scottish Cross Country

Championships.

◄ Thanks!

As ever, we would like to say a big thank you to all of our

sponsors who have given us invaluable support, assistance

and time. It wouldn’t be possible to race without you.

PetersonSBS (www.petersonsbs.com), Coltel

Communications Technology Limited

(www.coltelltd.co.uk), Peterkins Solicitors

(www.peterkins.com), Escape Business Technologies

(www.escape-tech.co.uk) and Thern Lifting Services

(www.thern.co.uk) .

The scotch Bonnet Boys!

► Perthshire Pre-event We spent the day before the race checking over everything

on the car (it had never been scrutineered), loading it and

getting to Rally HQ in Perth. We grabbed a curry and went

through our notes on the 11 special stages and locations.

▼ Perthshire Hill Rally – First In ClassSign-on, noise check and scrutineering went without hitch,

much to our satisfaction and we were off. The first stage

was through grade2 gravel tracks and deep rutted forest

trails providing an excellent mix of speed combined with

steep technical sections. The car held up well and we made

reasonable time at around 12 minutes. Through the first 4

stages we were managing to remain at around 15th place

which we were very happy with given the calibre of some of

the drivers and cars. Unfortunately we managed to snap

our steering column away from its brackets coming in to a

steep caution dip too ‘hot’ (the force was strong enough to

fold both mirrors back on themselves and to bend the

engine bay strengthening bar). The service team managed

to do a rapid repair on this in our 5 minute emergency time

allowing us to get back round the stage and in to service

where they magically bolted it back together. Some chaps!

Unfortunately the steering broke again costing us a lot of

time but through the hard work of Wil, Kenny, John, LJ and

with the kind help of John Cockburn at Maxtraction

(www.maxtraction.co.uk) it was welded back together on

Saturday morning and caused us no more bother.

▲ EVO Tweakings Several folk have asked what tweaks

we had to do to the Pajero Evo to

race it, having started with a

standard road car.

Firstly we had to remove the interior of

the car, though we needed to retain

certain things including the dashboard

and interior trim to keep it in the

production car class. After this we had

an FIA spec roll cage installed by

Protection and Performance.

Fortunately we managed to obtain

some second hand parts for the car

including Reiger shocks, a custom

steering guard and seat sub frames.

Reiger were the original manufacturer

Mitsubishi used for the suspension for

the Pajero EVO to race in the Dakar

Rally so these were a great find. We

then installed Sparco seats, Terratrip

202+, Peltor intercom, GPS and

navigation lights on the inside and

toughened compomotive wheels and

wheels studs running mud terrain tyres

on the outside. We were told not to

mess with the engine, so we didn’t.

Bonnet Times Issue 02 July 2009

Issue July 2009

This Issue:

▲ EVO Tweakings

► Perthshire Pre-event

▼ Perthshire Hill Rally

◄ Thanks!

Joss

Wil Kenny

John Rob