What a BLAST! Day two of Wales Rally GB was awesome, simple as that. Five stages, four in the forests, one at Chirk Castle on tarmac, we’ve come through it all unscathed, the car is back in the service park without any bodywork damage, and we’re lying second in class. Wow, just wow. Let’s not pretend things have been easy. The first two stages at Clocaenog on Saturday were a real test for the new makeshift sumpguard (literally a piece of 5mm thick steel plate that weighs about as much as the engine) that 586 Engineering had welded on overnight. We seemed to plough through those two stages on the belly. Rough as anything. Oddly though, the biggest problem was the sun. It was shining. It doesn’t often do that in Wales in November. Driving flat out from light into dark, barely able to see through the muddied windscreen and trusting your co-driver that this is a ‘five right’ and not a hairpin or something, does call for a certain amount of commitment. Read our report on driving day one of Wales Rally GB We came out of stage two with something loose under the car and a gearbox that suddenly had issues selecting… Read full this story
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