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Right guys, the time has come! We are leaving for Belgium tonight, to fly the flag for our nation in the Charleroi 24hr race. If anyone can be arsed to follow us we will be blogging regular updates on our website www.team-shambles.co.uk . I am taking my new orange dong so I can post some of our tomfoolery on here regularly.

Also, we are trying to raise money for Macmillan Cancer support whilst doing this, so please feel free to throw a few quid our way on our just giving link, which is on the website. Any donation would be greatly appreciated and you can leave a nice (or not if you choose lol) comment next to your donation.

Vive le England!

Big thanks to.....
Rob J for rebuilding the sham-car
Rob B for stripping (oh matron)
Ant for feeding and watering my lizard
Dave for sorting the lights and chuckle bus
Paul for the detailed spreadsheets/action plan
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Team Shambles is now officially on the road. Split into two cars on our epic roadtrip. Shamcar 1 is Rob B's work car, with Ginger Ant and Paul and blatant disregard for his works fuel card. They are making good progress and are in Essex already. Shamcar 2 is Dave's chuckle-bus. We have been on the road for half an hour now, and have made it as far as Daves house. :blush: He forgot a cable so we had to return. Now en-route everything is going to plan so far..........

Tonights destination is Travel lodge in Dover somewhere. 2 rooms shared between 6 guys will be interesting.

So far 2 things have become evident on this epic learning curve of a roadtrip. 1) Dover is quite a long way away and 2) it is very hard to type in the dark.
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100 miles in to our trip and Rob J has forgotten his passport. I am not making this up, he actually has. A quick about turn and now we are heading back up the a1. They don't call us team shambles for nothing!

Tally ho.
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If you carry on like that at least you'll save on the hotel and make the ferry in time. :thumbsup:

Hilarious already!:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:.

Keep us posted on your trip across the channel. Are you going on it or under it?. If your going by boat I'd stay well clear of the sides,you wouldn't want to loose anything or anyone!!!!:p

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Just reaached the travel lodge. So far we have covered 500 miles and not even made dover yet :blush: > After a few directional issues, Dave 'motorkiller' Dodd has now been re-named, Dave 'ah shit I was supposed to take that one' Dodd.

Rob J has won the 'Golden Cock' Award for forgetting the passport, although it did make me and Dave sheepishly check ours the second he said it.....lol.

Got to be up in an hour and a half :cry: Then we are going under the channel. Knowing our luck it will collapse or something.

Meanwhile, the occupants of shamcar1 are nicely tucked up in their room and have been for hours. An early wakeup call for them methinks......

Tomorrow we will press onwards to breach the French coast, we will liberate Calais first, and swiftly move on to the Belgian border after a brief party and celebration.

More things we have learnt so far....

Dave doesn't like, nor understand my Irish satnav lady

www.a1adultstore.com looks like a great sex shop, if only it was open untill 1am :(

sleep well tonight , brave men. For tomorrow we will press on into territory unknown....... some of us may not make it back to see loved ones, some of us may received terrible injuries in the line of battle (I have already cricked my neck from sleeping in the chuckle bus whilst Doddy seeming powerslides around motorway junction roundabouts) but we must fight hard for country and pride, and push onwards into hostile territory.

Peace out.
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04:13 and we are on the orad again. We have re-united with shamcar 1 and they look much more fresh than us.

I have realised that whilst remembering my toothbrush I have forgotten my toothpaste and instead bought a tube of savlon. Well it looks like toothpaste?

I have made an alarming discovery.....Rob J owns a big gay manbag (see pic).

Things learnt this morning.....

Rob J is an actual metrosexual

Rob B has actually cleaned his rep-mobil

Travel lodge are rubbish, as they do not supply the mandatory biscuits with the free tea/coffe in the welcome pot. Fail

Daves chucklebus doesn't like my Queen CD

daves chucklebus actually goes round rooundabouts quite well
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Right we hqve actually ,ade it here! The Shambles-mobil is actually goig quite well too! The track is awesome, its grip oclock!

I cant get any pics on yet as using a 3g connection (with a french keyboard hence the appalling spelling and grammar)

breakages so far in practice are just our rear light amazingly.

will do a ,ore detailed report once we have finished practice.

Ludo sends his regards

vive le shambles!
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Qualifying has just finished, Team Shambles are 'th on the rolling grid.

Pauls batteries are rubbish, despite being '4000mah', they don't last as long as my 3600mah Trakpowers! So slight change of race plan.

I seem to be the most tired despite not doing too much.

Rob J has started on the red bulls

1 tube of pringles has been eaten

We have been awake for over 10 hours already and the race hasn't even started yet!


Next telligram will comence once the advance is underway

Good luck Brothers,keep up the Shambles code of honour in Europe...:thumbsup:

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If we live by the shambles code as we know it then we would have been disqualified already :p

first driver change and now angry rob is at the helm. Graham your posh shell is buggered already.:o

we also ,anaged to break a wing mount.

they have the worlds quietest doowango here too.

everyone keeps logging in to oople on the same laptop here, I have made it my mission to oople-rape the next person that leaves the,selves logged in :thumbsup:

Things leqrnt so far..........

typing on french keyboqrds is very difficult

ant looks really ginger under strip lights

we didnt bring enough pringles

it seems acceptable for two men to kiss each other here.

peace out
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GOOOOOOOOOO SHAMBLES. Keep it up dudes. I dare say they'll be more breakage reports when Ant takes the helm :p:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

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Stick it to em boys show em what you can do !!!!!!!!! give me a S give me a H give me a A give me a M give me a B give me a L give me a E give me a S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SHAMBLES!!!!!:thumbsup:

Im quite glad i didnt go in the end....there seems to a lot of man love going on there

why they had to go so far away together, what happens in belgium stays in belgium haha ;)

Good reporting Shambles. Sounds like the shower of sh*t we've come to expect from you lot, keep it up :woot::thumbsup::thumbsup:

yes team shambles are looking good. In fact they are looking so good that I am going to invite them into my caravan tonight and see if they perform as well off the track ;)

I especially have my eye on that ginger one...... he best sleep with one eye open tonight

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:( bad news Im afraid. Shamcar got trodden on by a marshal and is now dead last. our spares total now is 1 nose cone, 1 bulkhead, 1 wing, 1 hub carrier, 1 servo mount, 1 drive pin and 2 shock towers. Not bad even if I do say so myself.

The lights have just gone off and now its really scary. Ant just told me he wants a hug as he swears he just saw the boggie man.

We are slowly clawing our way back though, so dont write us off yet!
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A normal friday night's list of parts needed there Lloydy..:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Ha ha. Shambolique marshaling? Non?

. Graham your posh shell is buggered already.:o

That did nt last long lads have you given it the shambles treatment to keep it going ,,,,

ant you ll need to stay awake all night buddy if lowie s around hahahahahahahahaahahaaa

keep up the good work guys

3rd or 4th spur gear going on at the mo, motor keeps moving :(

Ive just done a 1hour30min marshalling stint cos lloyd needs his beauty sleep to get any chance here :p

Dave is fast asleep in the chucklebus, after being awake/driving for near enough 24hours!

All of us (except lloyd) have been awake for 23hours and theres still about 13hours to go :o

Still dead last, keep getting lots of niggley problems :yawn:

keep going lads :D

think its time to solder all your batteries together lol

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Whoops a diasy, I appear to have upset the doowango team. :o
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new tactic. Drive through or over everyone. We are catching now as people seen to be taking it easy over the ju,ps now. we are pretty ,uch the only idiots left hoofing it over the, all still. looooooooong way back though.

I think I may go and find the marshal who stepped on our car and fart in his face whilst he sleeps.
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Does anyone know what ?puton? means in french cos angry rob just got called one on the rostrum lol
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LOL.....I think it means vulgar!

I think they fancy you,it means puton a dress for us pretty boys...:p

you have issues:woot:

SHAMBLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it means PUT OFF in russian:thumbsup:

not to be mean but i belive he asked in french:thumbsup:

putain, pute = whore

source
http://www.youswear.com/index.asp?language=French

http://chromlea.trap17.com/french/insults.html

some handy come backs on here ;)

lol......I will have to text them to them!!

Angry rob must have his usuall shirt on then:p:woot:

its TEAM SHAMBLES he was probably welsh:woot:

hahhaahahh u never know

Could he have called him a "peu tendre"? - translates to "a bit soft"

He has that shirt with him for our 'night out in Charleroi'!!!!



Ive just done a 30 min stint, didn't break anything :thumbsup:

The car is pretty much dialled for everyone, we're all doing fast laps just certain members cant keep them going :blush:

Rob B is making a shocktower

We also have a pit lane lollypop - F1 stlyee!!!!