Disgarth Car Trial

This is a great little event which uses a field which is almost made for trails, we have over the years used fields near and around it but until last year I had only ever been in it once many years before. It’s steep enough to handle the dryest of days and smooth enough for standard cars and big enough to handle 8 sections with enough variation to keep it interesting.

It is a fair way up a steep hillside, but you have options to either unload in the farmyard at the bottom, have a go at the trailer park halfway up or if you have a 4 x 4 towing vehicle go for gold and park at the top in the trialling field. You don’t get any awards for getting to the top apart from the view which if you were a walker would be the point of your walk.

I was a little more in touch this time around but as the field started to dry out towards lunchtime I began to struggle a little more, losing a few marks here and there. Ideally sections would have one or two stopping points in them and I was making it passed the humps and lumps near the bigger numbers but was missing out on the the odd mark here and there at the ends of the sections. Only 1 or 2  on the odd hill but they start adding up! And after my earlier success I was dropping back. I was second in class at lunch. Probably my best morning since April’s events.

The hills were moved around during lunch and into the steeper parts of the field, one of them was notable, a steep climb and a turn across a camber, from outside it looked normal but from inside the car it felt horrible!! I tried getting some pictures but they never show how steep and climb is or how far the cars are leaning. I wouldn’t say I was “scared” but it was nice to turn away from it. It certainly made you focus!

After the 4 rounds were completed I had been demoted to 3rd in class, but was awarded 2nd in class, promoted by the winner coming from class 1 Tim Dovey in the Clio, congratulations to him on not only winning the event but also securing the Motorsport UK national championship with one round to go. A nice evening at The Royal Automobile Club on Pall Mall London awaits him at the night of champions.

An enjoyable weekend away, the car took some cleaning, I left half of Wales at the local jet wash!