Those who don't take sad news well, may wish to sit down before reading on!...
It is with huge regret and a tearful eye (again...quite literally) that we must report the demise of the Legend that was...Elvis. We won't go into too much detail, b... [30/05/2008]
UPDATED On Friday 23rd May 2008 at approximately 4.00pm the Blue Print Rally rolled into the hotel car park in Lisbon, Portugal. Signaling the final destination with horns, sirens and cheers the seven day mission to bring 23 cars costing less ... [24/05/2008]
Blue Print Rally Day Six - Granada to Faro (290 miles)
Granada was amazing! Fantastic hotel - huge rooms, brilliant food and free internet which ticks all the boxes for me! To be honest a lot of teams were sorry to leave but, like the show, the... [22/05/2008]
After negotiating the busy cramped streets of Valencia the Blue Print Rally surged on to the motorway heading for Granada. This was to be the longest stint of the rally at 340 miles and for some of the team cars the previous 1100 miles were starti... [21/05/2008]
After the disaster of Elvis being rear ended by the hotel receptionist in Perpignan it was good to get the bumper screwed back in and leave France behind us. All the teams slipped in to Spain with ease. Most chose to head first to Barcelona. The A.W.... [20/05/2008]
Day 3 of the Blue Print Rally and all the teams agreed to travel en-mass to the Millau Viaduct. After leaving the hotel at 10am the trip took some 3 hours to make - mainly to ensure the heavily laden Kia Pride boys could keep up. Clermont-Ferrand was... [19/05/2008]
After the excitement of day one and with the teams rested and settling into their various roles and personas on the Rally, one could be lulled into a false sense of security. The Blues Print Brothers hit problems 10 miles outside Cergy with the tempe... [18/05/2008]
Day one of the Blue Print Rally - 23 teams comprising of 46 drivers arrive at ADL head office in Marden. The ultimate destination Lisbon in Portugal but today we start the teams off with a casual 240 mile drive to Cergy - just outside Paris.
On the morning of May 8th 2008 Elvis – ADL’s team car for this years Blue Print Rally – visited the ADL Head office in Marden. Jake and Elwood (Rob Head and Stuart Harcourt's alter ego’s) were also here to be photographed for the local paper – The Ke... [09/05/2008]
After several weeks, and many, many hours of hard work in personal time, (mostly by ADL Marketing Controller, Rob Head), we are proud to release the first pictures of the official ADL car for the 2008 Blue Print Rally. Nicknamed Elvis, the car, a 199... [21/04/2008]
With only 80 days left until the start of the Blue Print Rally the drivers are slogging away to ensure that their cars are ready for the mammoth journey to Lisbon in Portugal.
To help keep up to date with their progress Blue Print is pleased to ... [25/02/2008]
