On a day when anything could go wrong...

I'm shattered. I need to sleep and tomorrow is another early start for us.
But I need to just briefly cover the days happenings on the first day of Targa.

My mind is a little too rattled to remember each stage but on nearly everyone we had some sort of problem. We lost all turbo boost on one stage when a hose came loose. We still managed to post a fairly respectable time though. We had endless problems with the brakes shaking at high speed as they were getting so hot. This meant I couldn't brake as late as I wanted to and I approached corners a bit slower than I would have otherwise.'

In another stage I over-revved the engine and a rocker arm came dislodged in the engine, causing a misfire and loss of power. Again we had to tour with greatly reduced power to the finish, however I did maintain a high constant speed where I could so again we posted a respectable time anyway.

I really hate driving on race tracks!! and today we drove four stages on three different race tracks. Most of the week is now back on sealed back country roads. Something I really love. We are thinking it might be a good bet to back off the speed a little for the next couple of days as the car is really taking a pounding and we have not even used the high boost setting!

I have to thank the service crew for a excellent effort. Everything that has broken has been fixed in no time at all. I'm shouting the pizza tonight!

Ok must go eat then sleep!! ...Ron