RTG Carrera Italia Daily Dispatch - All days - low res - Flipbook - Page 12
2 to 12 October 2021
Day 5
Dolomites loop (188.5 km)
7 October 2021
Two years today we were in Santander, just about
to start our very first event, the Carrera Iberia.
Now we’re in Italy half way through the Carrera
Italia. How time flies!
Enrico Paggi and Federica Mascetti swapped their Alfa for a Mercedes
Today we had a half day circuit of the Dolomites to
negotiate, this was as close as the crews would get to a day
off on this rally. After the appalling weather we’ve been
through it was certainly well deserved. So, with dry roads,
amazing views and a superb lunch you could have forgiven
them for thinking that this was going to be an easy day.
It wasn’t though and true to form Mark Appleton, the
Clerk of the Course, had managed to squeeze a quart into
a pint pot with some of the finest roads in Europe to be
tackled. In what was quite a breathless schedule the cars
rattled through the Dolomites and seemed to rack more
climbing than the local chamois goats topping out at an
altitude 2239m.
Photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
Andrew and Ann Boland with their 1934 Talbot AV105
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