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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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