Hi Guys
If you remember today has our hero's doing a few laps of a race circuit and
then a time trial.
The big Lagonda took a few people by surprise at it's speed, it was much
quicker than some of the much later cars! The Giles Hillman Hunter had an
"off" and has stuffed the LH front fender and the Roo Bar. I hope he has no
more suspension damage that has been repaired already after his last
adventure!
Fastest on the track went to the Broderick Mercedes, they have done this
part of the event before so may have had some prior experience of the track.
Second was the Jaguar XK140 followed closely by the DB4. The time trial was
next with
the Datsun 410 having a stirling drive and took the lead in the London to
Peking section of the rally! The big old Alvis broke a half shaft only 2
mins into the stage but had a new one in place in 55 mins! They still got
time penalties, but there's long way to go yet. The Aston of Wier got stuck
between the two XK Jaguars when the results were announced.
The Bentley MX went so well on this event that it collected 6 mins of
penalties for arriving to early!
The P111 Rolls still makes good time and was only 32 mins adrift on the
target time over the trial. The Ghost is still cruising with no problems
according to Richard Wills.
SO after both event the rally continues to the next overnight stop just
ahead of a 13000ft that they will all get to drive over, so cars are already
getting short of air at only half that height.
By the end of the day the cars were getting problematic with both Astons of
Wier and Laing arriving on the back of trucks with damaged suspensions. The
Chevy Fangio Coupe now has a sick engine to go with the sick gearbox, and
the Jones Xk150S is now only running on 5 cylinders and the head may have to
come off! The Lagonda has broken yet another spring with rumors of a repair
being made with a Toyota replacement.
So what does the scoreboard look like now? The Packard is the new leader and
the 2CV has moved into 2nd place the Bentley is now third. In the classics
the leader is still the Hunter but he now has a damaged car (again). The
little Datsun is now in 5th position overall. The Brodericks Mercedes has
moved up the 6th after the track win.
The Team Healey of Dyke-Price is in !5th position after having the fuel tank
repaired again (the welds may or may not hold?) The Hunts Healey is back in
29th (we await news to find out why) It could be that with so many miles to
go that Peter is trying to save the car as best he can. The Facel is also
dropping back but I do not know why (yet). The Morgan is now making up
ground so they must be really flying in that +4 as they are now 48th ahead
of the Mk1 Jaguar and the International. The Mercedes of Colderwood has
cried enough and has retired.
Regards
John J Black
Waterloo Drivetrain Systems
http://www.waterloo-dtr.com
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