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Team Talk
The 24 X 3 with SWRT
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Letter from SWRT
4 November 2005
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The paired Tour de Corse and Rally Catalunya events represented a unique challenge for all WRC teams and crews. With just one day between the finish of Corsica and the start of the Spanish event's recce, a highly complex logistical operation was needed to prepare the Subaru service area and three cars in time. Here's a timeline of the team movements over three of the busiest days of the 2005 calendar.
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Sunday 23 October, 1340hrs
- After the last service of the Tour de Corse the whole team (50 people) started to strip the Subaru service park. Three groups dismantled the structures covering the cars, management and hospitality areas and packed up tables, chairs and groundsheets.
1730hrs
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The three Subaru Impreza WRC2005 cars are released from parc fermë. Two are loaded into one articulated lorry and the other put on a trailer for towing behind the third team truck.
1830hrs
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The entire service area is now completely dismantled and packed into the three team trucks, which check in for the ferry crossing from Ajaccio port, Corsica, to Toulon, France. At midnight the trucks start loading onto the ferry ready for departure. Twelve personnel from catering, logistics and the recce crew accompany the three trucks and two small vans.
Monday 24 October, 0515hrs
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The rest of the Subaru World Rally Team leave the team hotel in Corsica ready for a short 45 minute flight to Marseille.
0720hrs
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The ferry docks in Toulon and unloading begins. Two further drivers have flown in from the UK to meet the trucks, which head for Spain.
0800hrs
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Those flying to Marseille arrive at the airport and transfer by coach to Salou, a 690km trip through the south of France down to the Spanish costas
1900hrs
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The three trucks arrive at the service park where they are parked in the allocated Subaru slot and washed down. Earlier in the afternoon the two vans arrived in Salou, shortly before the coach with the remaining members of the Subaru World Rally Team.
Tuesday 25 October, 0630hrs
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Eight logistics staff arrived at the Salou service park to start setting up the awnings for the cars and the catering and management areas.
At 1000hrs the team engineers and technicians arrive to start re-preparing the cars. Five people work on each car, changing the differentials, turbo, throttle and uprights and updating the liveries to those for Rally Catalunya. Three further technicians check the engine, gearbox and electrics.
2030hrs
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The cars are finished and test-driven for a systems check.
Wednesday 26 October, 0830hrs
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The cars are thoroughly checked before sealing on Wednesday afternoon.
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