Only six cars made it through the final
stage last night before it was halted after a car had gone off, so results for
the Beatson’s Mull Rally (as far as this page is concerned) will have to wait
till morning.
However, it does look as though John MacCrone and Stuart
Loudon did enough to hold off Calum and Iain Duffy to snatch victory by a mere
10 seconds after 150 miles of waterlogged, rain-sodden, Mull tarmac.
And perhaps it would be better to reflect on the victory in
the morning. It meant a lot to John. As he drove under the arch at the finish
in Ledaig car park and stopped to get his final time check, he didn’t open his
door. There were no handshakes or hearty congratulations, just a quiet man with
his own thoughts and Stuart resting a comforting hand on his arm.
Who knows what thoughts were going through his mind, but they
were personal. Even so, we all understood that emotion and respected his private
moment.
It was a fitting result, well deserved and entirely
appropriate. More tomorrow.
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