Best Porsche
• the Allegro (for style)
• the Sunny D (for ***iness)
• the Hearse (for donutting ability and general insouciance)
• the Peugeot 205 (for speed and agility)
And the winner is: the Hearse
Special Award for Services to Drinking
• the Shaguar boys, for never failing to have a beer open by 10am
• Jon and Carl in the Rover, for always procuring additional beers from their bottomless boot when the surprising number of woefully understocked and underprepared Baltic bars ran out of booze
• Chris, for his epic final two day bender
• Pete. Enough said.
And the winner (somewhat controversially) is: Jon and Carl in the Rover
The Austin Powers Award for International Man of Mystery
• Rob, for unexpected and super suave piano playing abilities, magnificent nonchalance and insouciance while swimming in a frozen Estonian lake, maintenance of cool at all times and superlative suit-wearing on the final day
• Brad, for services to womankind, specifically managing to be the only boy in a sauna full of girls whipping each other, making full use of the orgy room and on-ice backing dancer abilities
• Carl, for word-perfect acapella karaoke and awe inspiring breakdancing abilities
And the winner of perhaps the most close run contest of these awards: Brad
Honourable Mentions in Dispatches
• The Allegro: for pulling off one of the best bodges in the history of banger rallying
• Carl: for dropping 30MPH off his speedo when asked to sing the chorus of Yellow Submarine and drive at the same time, thus conclusively proving that men can’t multi-task
• The Lewis Hamilton Rookie award: the Shaguar: for an epic paint job and nearly stealing the event on their first ever rally
• The Blonde Bombshells: for still being unable to work out the time difference between London and Latvia after nine days away
• Paddy: for being the best dad ever
• The Sunny D: for being the ultimate Car of Love and banger rallying’s first mobile orgy
