Today was an interesting day, not least because of the unresolved timing issues we had due to our stopping to help an off course competitor yesterday. We misread the situation a bit, but the marshalls saw our point and gave us back 30 seconds of the time penalties we had gained, so we're reasonably back in the hunt, for our class and division anyway.
I'm sad to report that Bob Yuille crashed heavily into a parked car last night in Gander, but his crew was able to knock his Cobalt back together and they were back on the road this morning. I'm really glad they made it, he's been a stalward of this event and a friend to us as well.
In other sad news, the BMW 2002 of Brian and Ken Jarvis is out after a heavy entry into a ditch this afternoon. The car isn't fixable, so they're going to tow it back to St. John's and go from there. Hopefully they'll get another car together before too long and be out competing again.
The other 2002 of Roy Hopkins and Adrienne Hughes continues to do extremely well, as does Bill Arnold in his Bavaria. They are making vintage BMWs look as fast or faster than ever. Through lunch today, they led the event, with the factory Mitsubishi Evo of Andrew Comrie-Picard bringing up third. Not too shabby for a couple of old dusty Bimmers, eh?
We had a moderately tough morning, after cleaning the first couple of stages we picked up points in the next two, before cleaning the afternoon stages. Tomorrow is a big day for us, a day in which we pass our destiny one sheet of vinyl siding at a time. Frenchman's Cove and it's treacherous lanes and houses awaits, and it only gets closer, both by time and place.
We had a good morning run on thursday of last year, so I'm hoping to repeat that to leave us in good stead in our class and division in the morning.
I'm off to get some sleep after another long day in the trusty ol' Henna M3.
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Hi, Will,
I've been faithfully following your blog entries. I just haven't been as dedicated to commenting on them. Your Thursday has been on my mind, so I thought that I ought to do something about that. The comment comes with a hope and a prayer that the day went well and that you and "the house" didn't renew acquaintances.
Once again, the vocabulary is noteworthy. "Penultimate" and "ubiquitous" only confirm the literary quality of your mental meanderings. "...smelled like something that ended up in Roseanne Barr's clothes hamper the day after she won an Indian food eating contest" is an olfactory experience that is not likely to leave me any time soon.
Drive quickly, and safely!
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