RTG Carrera Italia Daily Dispatch - All days - low res - Flipbook - Page 17
2 to 12 October 2021
Day 7
Verona to Rimini (421.7 km)
9 October 2021
Photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
Andrew Laing and Ian Milne, 1973 Datsun 240Z
Clint and Dawn Smith’s Bentley 3/4½ tails the Henderson’s Frazer Nash
Running south to the Adriatic and the seaside
resort of Rimini was the job for the Carrera
Italia today, there were also three Tests and three
Regularities neatly slotted into the schedule to
keep the crews on their toes.
Thanks to an early start, a beautiful sunrise lit the way for
us through the old city of Verona, before we swung onto
the Autostrada for the 107 easy kilometres to the first Test
at the Autodromo di Modena.
With breakfast a distant memory for some, coffee and
cakes were on offer as the rally pulled onto the tarmac. An
elevated viewing gallery above the café, and overlooking the
final corner, meant the competitors were both well fed and
well positioned to take in the best of the on-track action. So
much the better then for critiquing their friends and rivals
and scoping out the racing lines for when their turn came.
Brian and Catherine Scowcroft‘s Ferrari was right at home
here, having been born just round the corner, but it was
Roy and Rachel Stephenson who were first out of the gate,
followed by Steve and Jenny Verrall. Two white Porsche’s
Richard and Catherine Phillipson’s 1974 Mini
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