When I left them last night, there was a brand new clutch in
its cardboard box ready for the overnight installation.
My excuse for missing them out was that I was sitting in the
car in a dark car park writing up this daily drivel. I could have gone to the
superbly equipped Media Centre which is housed in the canteen and office
complex of the nearby Toyota plant but it’s miles away (slight exaggeration)
across the car park, across the huge service park, through a nature trail and
on to the Toyota site. If you’ve never been to an WRC event then you can’t
appreciate the scale of this mammoth operation. Think Formula 1 without the
grid girls and more cars. And I was an already knackered wee boy chasing folk
around the service area.
I also missed out a lovely wee story from Iain Wilson. Keith
(Riddick) had been telling him to take it easy through Sweet Lamb earlier in
the day and not to tackle the jumps too hard so early on the rally: “I heard
him but I wasnae listening,” said Iain, “and maybe I did take the jumps wee bit
too hard, just playing to the crowds, but I’ve been playing this stage on the
DIRT video game for ages!” So who needs Notes, eh?
