After the great time we had following the historic rally cars around at Grizedale last year, we thought we’d give it another go a little closer to home. 

This weekend we went to the Robin Hood Historic Stages Rally, in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire. Specifically we went to the Forest Stages.

The Robin Hood Stages are the first round of the BHRC Historic Rally Championships.

Sadly, there was no spectator access to the Night Stages on Saturday, so we only got in to the Sunday Stages. Even so, we had a great time watching some classic cars putting in some fantastic times.

As you can see from the photo, Richard Hill and Pat Cooper were on good form, Putting in the Overall joint fastest time of the competition in their 4-door Escort, equal with Martin McCormack and Liam Moynihan.

As we didn’t have the full video gear with us, we thought we’d try something different. So we’ve uploaded a video slideshow to the OSGmedia YouTube page.

Just a quick note to let you know that we have set up an OSGmedia YouTube account, where we will be posting clips from the In Car Video that we are collecting. 

Find us at http://www.youtube.com/osgmedia

First up will be samples from the Roger Albert Clark Rally, but we also have some good stuff from our work at the BRC Rounds earlier in the year.

We went to the Roger Albert Clark 2007 for two reasons – 1) because we love to go to Rallys, to take photos and shoot video, and 2) because we fitted a state of the art in-car video system to the RHMotors car (the yellow 4-door escort, car 51), so we had an excuse to do 1).

We just finished reviewing the footage, and we’ve got video from 22 of the 28 stages, including the legendary Kielder.

That works out at over 2 hours of eye-popping, bone-rattling viewing fun from the only place to be on a Rally – inside the car!

So, we decided to share. We’re going to edit down the footage and see if we can’t put some of it up on YouTube for you to have a look.

If you want to know more, pop back soon to find out our YouTube address, where you can see some clips of what we got from the weekend.

– Update –

Those nice folks over at Acceleration TV have used some of our in-car footage on the official RAC 2007 DVD.

– Update –

Links: OSGmedia on YouTube – Our YouTube Address is: www.youtube.com/osgmedia