David Bogie is going well, after 6 stages
he is 16th o/a just 13 seconds behind Tom Cave but more crucially,
over 20 seconds up on BRC championship rival Matt Edwards. “We had a front puncture
in Brenig,” said David, “I didn’t even see it, but we hit a stone and it just
punched the air out of the tyre with about 3kms to go. Tom Cave hit the same
stone and reckons he lost 15 seconds, but it’s hard to tell when you’re just
trying to drive out.” On his first run at Dayinsure Wales Rally GB Alex Laffey
says he’s just trying to stay out of trouble: “It’s a lot slippier than I
expected,” he said, “of course I was expecting it to be slippy, just not this
bad. It’s very slimey. Young Finlay Retson bowfed a bale and was expecting to see
a stove-in rear quarter when he stepped out at the end of the stage. The Fiesta
is barely marked, but has torn out a mud flap mounting: “I just smacked a
chicane bale when the tail stepped out,” said Finlay, “it’s very rutted already
so I’m just trying to be careful, and safe!” It was a relief to see John
Morrison this morning. Last night at Tir Prince the Lancer conked out and he
got a stage Max. “We phoned a guy in Oxford and he did a remote, live-link with
the ECU and sorted the problem within 20 seconds or so,” said John, “The car
would start and run but the minute you gave it revs it would just die. He
sourced the problem to the flat-shift so we’ve resorted to manual changes using
the clutch, and we’re still here and still going.” The wonders of modern
science, eh?
In the National Rally after 2 stages, John Wink leads Andrew
Gallacher with top seed Tom Preston already out. He’s rolled the Fabia quite
badly although both he and Carl Williamson are OK. The car hit the front n/s
corner and flipped damaging the rear o/s corner on the way over!
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