Was it a success then Gilles ?
Couldnt ses KPY's AlfaSud or Ferrari Spiders Ferrari ?
It was a great success, thanks to Gilles' hard work. It was also a steal. Cost me 125 euros for the entry, dinner, luxurious room at Chateau de Belair
http://www.domainedebelair.com/ (Gilles's base), breakfast, coffee break at
www.chateaudemontbraye.com(the GT40 IMBY photo), plus three hour lunch (canapes, aperitifs, then four courses, wines and coffee) back at Belair.
I spent a lot of time floundering around lost with no navigator, trying to read the roadbook, map, odometer etc whilst keeping one eye on the road. For the fifth and final stage Gilles arranged a "luck dip" navigator swap, which meant that I not only had someone in the right hand seat (Alfa is LHD), but an expert classic rally navigator to boot. And boot it we did, leaving by no means first, but arriving first, two and a half minutes before the next car (superior navigation, not flat out driving - never even squealed the tyres or spun the wheels).............. It was really fun having a guy sitting there saying " 300 metre straight, followed by medium right, then long open left, 600 metre straight, tight esses though forest then take forest track left after 400 metre straight. 1 km rough track, then take left at T" and so on. All that read from a map, not the road book.
It was all worth the foggy trip down and the freezing fog on the way home.
Thanks Gilles. It was a weekend to remember.
Oh, the Alfsud Sprint Veloce is the silver car next to the French-registered Routemaster. No sign of the Ferrari Spider.
