Just finishing breakfast after about 6 hours sleep. Eventually returned to hotel at about 03:30 last night following an action packed night of spectating in the Dervaig area. Unfortunately Dervaig was a wireless free zone...and I don't mean you didn't have to pay for it....there wasn't any, so we were unable to update directly from the stages.
The guys in car 103 failed us with the vatanen wave but they can be excused as they are progressing well and the car still looks mint in the hotel car park...keep it up fellas!
Forgive me a moment whilst I get a bit technical but prior to, but part of, scrutineering is the noise check. Rally cars are fired up and measured to make sure that they are within certain tolerances. Now I can only assume that the equipment wasn't working at noise when a certain Toyota Starlet turned up...either that or he had a block of wood under the accelerator to make sure he didn't give it full bifters. This car is quite the loudest rally car I have ever heard, even surpassing the halcyon days of the 6R4 through the forests. I imagine that living under the approach to Heathrow airport is preferrable to living next door to this guy. Whilst we can't accurately measure it we estimated we could hear this thing from 5 miles away....even though the Mull air is quite rarified. This is one loud motor.
This morning the weather is good, blue skies with aa bit of cloud but quite windy so should be a good day for spectating.The question is can young Paul McKinnon keep his lead with Calum Duffy breathing down his neck and drying roads. Should be a great battle.
Need to sign off now and get ready to brave the outside world and tour the island for a replenishment to our ever diminishing fuel level. Might struggle to find 99 octane here but I bet Duffy has some!!!
On the subject of the Sunbeam, it continues to go well but I don't think that the bumpy Mull roads agree with its low rear set up and the exhauist frequently bottoms out...but its hanging on in there.
Bye for now.
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