It's not often that a team opens up their doors to the general public, and certainly not with the open arms that greeted people at the Sumo Power open day down in a surprisingly sunny Rye on the south coast of England. The entire factory was completely accessible and the whole range of JR Motorsport and Sumo Power's activities on display, with

Head to the Desktops section to grab widescreen or standard format desktops of the amazing Sumo Power/JR Motorsport warehouse, packed with Mitsubishi Evo Xs. Jonathan Moore

Resolution: 1920x1200 Photographer: Jonathan Moore Description: Somewhere in the UK… Almost 50 Mitsibishi Evo Xs lie dormant in a dark warehouse, awaiting the reactivation of a one-make series.

Resolution: 1600x1200 Photographer: Jonathan Moore Description: Somewhere in the UK… Almost 50 Mitsibishi Evo Xs lie dormant in a dark warehouse, awaiting the reactivation of a one-make series.

Sometimes you have good days. And then there are great days. Having taken in the impressive JR Motosport/Sumo Power factory in Rye, Rod and I had one more treat in store courtesy of Sumo Power boss Andy Barnes. We drove out to JRM's separate storage facility in my car; starting up my Alfa GTV, Andy asked if it was a diesel... rather embarrassed

It's funny how things come around. Last November I spent a rainy couple of days down in Rye on the South coast of England. Rye is a lovely town: quintessentially English with cobbled streets and fortified walls (and an unexpected American car show scheduled that weekend), but with movies on the laptop all watched, Medieval tower climbed and coffee