PERMASHINE
SPONSORED TEAMS
Permashine Sponsors Rally Teams
and Events in the South West of England.
Sun 29th August 2010 - Permashine Sponsors
Ford Sport South West Car Show, Weston-super-Mare,
Special Guest judge, Mike Brewer, the motor mad
television presenter judged the best cars at the event along with
Trevor Hawkins, Managing Director of Permashine. The event saw
200 approx Ford vehicles on show, both modern and classic, and
was attended by various Owners Clubs and enthusiasts from throughout
the South West.
Permashine donated the awards for the event and
a Charity Raffle prize of a Permashine Application.
Trevor Hawkins of Permashine commented “Permashine
is proud to be associated with the event for the 4th consecutive
year, most importantly as the event is in aid of the Young Carers
Service based at Crossroads in Weston-super-Mare”.
8th August 2010
- Permashine attends Silverstone
The Permashine team headed off to the largest Ford
show in Europe “ FordFair 2010” held at the famous
Silverstone racing circuit. Permashine had two Show cars at the
event based on the Somerset RS Owners stand.
25th June 2010
- Permashine Supports Armed Forces Day
Permashine Rally team rally cars and show car were displayed
at the Weston Super Mare Council organized Armed Forces day on
the promenade lawns at Weston
13th June 2010 - Permashine
on shoq at Tregedar
Permashine show cars were on display at the recent
30th annual Classic Rally at Tredegar House near Newport where
hundreds of various cars from
Numerous decades were shown by their enthusiast owners
3rd February 2010 - Andrew
takes sponsors coverage to the limit
Permashine Rally team members Andrew Hicks and co driver Rick
Bliss took sponsors coverage to the limit during the recent Brean
Stages rally, during the two day event whist negotiating one of
the tricky stages they flipped the car onto two wheels giving
spectators a great view of their sponsors logos, remarkably surviving
the incident the pair went on to finish the event.
Another of the Permashine team of young drivers Lee Betherton
won the “Best Placed Under 25” award co driven by
his brother Simon in their Peugeot 205
The team also included Stuart Bliss & Richard Marsh in a
Honda Civic who were cruelly robbed of a first in class and top
ten finish suffering a gearbox failure on the last stage.
All the Permashine cars were coated with Permashine Paint Protection
prior to event and kept clean over the 2 days of rallying by the
newly launched Permashine Valeting division using the company’s
Waterless Cleaner.
5th and 6th December 2009 – Impressive
Perfomances by Team Permashine
An impressive weekend for Andrew and Team Permashine
at Rockingham Stages, the last event of the year and one of the
best and most competitive stages rallies of the season.
The team were seeded 87 out of 95 so Andrew and
Ricky needed to push to get a result. The weather conditions were
bad making the track extremely wet and slippery, nevertheless
the team started well and were able to record some fast times.
After the first two stages the team were lying 39th overall and
5th in class.
On stage 3 the team notched their performance up
a gear and were able to record a very fast time jumping up to
34th overall and 4th in class only 14 seconds behind 3rd. Due
to the worsening weather conditions the team were unable to close
the gap further that day as stage 4 was cancelled.
Raring to go on Sunday morning the team had been
reseeded 34, a huge jump from their original 87 reflecting their
impressive performance on Saturday. The fast pace continued through
the final stages as the team finished an impressive 27th overall
and 3rd in class gaining them their first award.
31st August 2009 - Permashine supports Ford
Show
Permashine for the third year running supported the FordSport
show on Weston Super Mare’s seafront promenade, sponsoring
the show & shine competition with 20 owners receiving awards,
the show attracted well over 200 varying Fords from a 1960’s
ex police Zephyr , American Mustang drag strip racer, Group B
RS200 rally car through to the latest RS Focus, the show provided
a welcome attraction for the town on a busy August Bank holiday
with thousands of visitors taking in the exhibition of cars.
6th July 2009 - Permashine at Castle Combe
The Permashine show cars created plenty of interest at the recent
Ford RS owners show at Castle Combe race circuit near Chippenham.
This premier show now in its 14th year attracts the very best
quality show cars and thousands of spectators.
7th June 2009 - Permashine Stars at Goodwood
The Permashine team attended the recent Supercar Breakfast Club
meeting at the famous Goodwood circuit in Surrey.
Permashine’s latest show car the Focus RS was chosen by
the organizers to be displayed in a prime position along the pits
straight alongside such cars as an Aston Martin Vantage and Rolls
Royce Phantom Convertible.
The meeting was very well attended by enthusiasts providing
Permashine the opportunity to promote its product range.
25th April 2009 – Somerset Stages rally
Sorting the problems from the last rally Andrew and Ricky headed
off to Minehead for their first gravel rally through the Exmoor
forest.
Andrew didn’t know what to expect from this rally running
on his new Silverstone tyres, which performed very well, giving
Andrew confidence on how much grip the car had.
Andrew and Ricky had a great weekend competing in a bigger event
and using pace notes together for the first time, and only having
a small problem of the car coming out of gear, still finishing
a good 89th overall (out of 150 cars) and 6th in class .
Andrews comments “The team had a very good
weekend, I'm really looking forward to pushing hard at our next
event, the TSH stages in May`.
29th March 2009 - Permashine team compete on The Tour
of Caerwent
Following the disappointment of not finishing the Brean stages
Andrew, with support from Permashine invested in a new strengthened
gearbox incorporating a limited slip differential, in preparation
for the tour of Caerwent .
Going into only his second ever rally he was seeded 99 out of
100.
During stage 3 the car cut out, but Andrew and Ricky managed
to get the car going again resulting in a stage maximum . From
then on they nursed the Peugeot 106 to Andrew’s first rally
finish. Resulting in 62nd overall and 14th in class.
Andrews commented “ we were a little disappointed with
the problems we had with this rally but I am looking forward to
my next event at the Somerset stages in April."
19th April 2009 - Permashine joins the Corinium
Run
The Permashine team of Trevor Hawkins and Andrew
Hicks in the Permashine Ford Focus RS joined the other 74 competitors
to compete in the Cirencester Car club’s Corinium road run
following a tulip style road book through the stunning cotswold
country side taking in such delightful places as Stow on the Wold
, Chipping Campden and Bourton on the Water with the aim of returning
the closest MPG to their pre event stated figure ensuring economy
was the aim of the day. The Permashine team achieved 26.60 mpg
over the 116 mile route just 4.73% outside their pre event stated
figure.
14th April 2009 - Permashine supports Sea
Cadets
To raise much needed funds Weston Sea Cadets organised a classic
car show at Weston Super Mare beach lawns on Easter Sunday. The
day was blessed with glorious sunshine and the event attracted
a vast array of different cars from various decades.
6th April 2009 - Goodwood Breakfast Club
Permashine attended the Goodwood Breakfast club at the famous
historic Goodwood Motor Circuit in West Sussex. Hundreds of classic
and performance cars descended on the circuit for a Sunday breakfast.
The Permashine Focus RS show car was fortunate to be parked within
the famous “stable” garages where in the past the
likes of Jim Clark’s Lotus and Jackie Stewart’s Tyrell
have garaged.
3rd February 2009 - Andrew
Debuts at Brean Rally
Andrew Hicks aged 21, from Weston super mare, competed in his
first rally at the Brean Stages. Over the two day event Andrew
and his co driver Ricky Bliss steered their Permashine backed
Peugeot 106gti up the leader board from their starting position
of 85th to a very respectable 54th , however two stages from the
end they suffered a gearbox failure bringing their rally to a
premature end.
Andrew commented ”As soon as I began driving stage one
I knew that rallying was for me, I was absolutely thrilled by
the experience and once the car is repaired I can't wait to enter
my next event.”
The car was cleaned during the rally with Permashine’s
new Waterless cleaner.
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