Recently we were invited by our friend Stefan Davis to go down to the Monte Carlo Rally to make the ice notes for him and P-WRC driver Louise Cook. We kept a behind-the-scenes blog on facebook and here is the full report.

Monte Carlo Rally - Part 1 Day 1: Monday 16 January
It's the first leg of our trip down to Valence to help Louise Cook and her co-driver Stefan Davis with their ice notes for the WRC Monte Carlo rally. It's Louise's first WRC event and our first time making ice notes so it's a steep learning curve for all of us. Louise and Stefan are out in France already and have been recceing the route. The rally starts Wednesday, and we are setting off tonight aiming for an overnight halt just south of Amiens, so we can get there at a reasonable time tomorrow to go over the notes and the route and find out what the team expect from us.

Cat Lund, the 2010 & 2011 Flanders International Rally Challenge champion co-driver, has been nominated for·the British Women Racing Driver's Club (BWRDC) GoldStar Club Award for the second year running.

Cat was the recipient of the award in 2011·thanks to her successful 2010 season co-driving in a Mitsubishi Evo 3 with Andy Rowe in the FIRC and in the UK. She was presented with the prestigious award·by F1 presenter Jake Humphrey at the 2011 Autosport show.

Read more about it at The Checkered Flag and in the Northants Evening Telegraph

Hull driver Andy Rowe and Northamptonshire co-driver Cat Lund suffered only their 4th DNF in 23 rallies on their last event, the Mull Rally. Alternator belt failure on SS1 saw them complete the stage slowly and stop altogether in SS2. The crew managed to replace the belt with the assistance of some spectators but the time taken to do so earned a stage maximum and put them OTL.