‘Pit Stop Pitting’
The EDMC girls against the boys were unfortunately
the only teams up for the L2B Pitstop challenge
at the start. The idea of the challenge is to drive
a Bini into the show arena, 4 team members jump
out, jack up one side of the car & swap the
wheels from front to back, torque the wheelbolts
to correct tightness before doing the same on the
other side. Once all four wheels are swapped a short
sprint (in some cases) is needed back to the finish
line.
The girls had been practising, the boys had not
bothered since the Pit Stop Challenge 2006, actually
they did not for that either .....
We chose our BMW Minis, the boys liked the look
of the lock nuts on one car so they went with that
one.
Josie got a good start…(for her), beating Paul
of the line. The race was on! Speaking as member
of the boys team it did not go exactly according
to plan but apart from a couple of fumbles (typical
males) we did ok & managed to finish in 4mins
10seconds just as the girls were starting to swap
the wheels on the drivers side of their Bini. Loads
of encouragement was shouted & the girls finished
shortly after.
That was it, no other teams came forward to challenge
EDMC; we were declared the winners until the organiser
thought it wise to try & find another team.
Eventually another team was found, cobbled together
from LSMOC I believe.
Again we chose the same Mini as before, Paul gave
it large from the line & we were off. I knocked
the locking wheel nut key out of Darren’s’ hand
& under the Bini, which slowed us slightly but
we came through to win in a time of 3mins 47secs.
That’s a quick time: drive into the arena, swap
all four wheels, torque them up & run back to
the start! Not bad going guys! The other team were
doing up the wheels on the first side of the Bini
as Team EDMC passed the finish line.
A great challenge & we all had fun! Congratulations
to all of Team EDMC; Alex, Josie, Rachel, Shirley,
Paul, Alan, Daz & Dave.
(an account by Dave)
