The same (and more!) great people, cars, the same bargain basement budget and back-roads ethos, as we take our 106 Rallyes home to the factories that built them over a decade ago, back to the roads of their native France, and for a first trip (for most of us) to the legendary Nordschleife, before returning home.

The event will take place at the end of March / Early April 2008, and dates will be confirmed soon in consultation with those who wish to take part.

I am not proposing to go for the same kind of sponsorship this time since many of your friends and families contributed this year, but in return for the organisation of the event I will be looking for a small contribution to charity; since the trip is to France and as a mark of respect to the town where the S1s were built I am proposing to raise a modest sum towards The Salvation Army's work amongst the homeless in Mulhouse which as an industrial, car making city has more than its share of urban poverty.

Your kindness in 2007 raised over £1000 for the Salvation Army's work to support the emergency services all over the United Kingdom. Let it never be said that young men with fast cars do no good!

The core route takes us to Paris and thence to Alsace. Before heading north to the Eifel Mountains and the Nurburgring, there will be time for at least a couple of 'motorway free' day trips, in France and Switzerland. Time permitting the route back to the ferries will also allow us to visit fellow Rallye owners from the Netherlands and Belgium.