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Day 7: Verona to Rimini, 9 October 2021
Italiani was served. This set the rally up perfectly for the
afternoon session, including a Regularity up to the wooded
Monte Faggiola and two short Tests around the grounds of
The Cancelli Restaurant where the MTC in A Casa Mia was
also situated.
Tomasz Dzitko and Beata Siwek were late through
the afternoon’s sections as their beautiful MGB GT had
developed a sticky carburettor float which needed freeing
up before they could leave the lunch stop. Meanwhile Hugh
and Lesley Apthorp’s Bentley ran late all day. A leak at floor
level left the navigator’s feet soaked with oil and, as the
rest of the rally strapped themselves in and headed to the
seaside, they, along with Andy Inskip and Charlie Neale, set
to trying to stem the flow.
The last leg to the Grand Hotel Rimini was run without
any timing so the crews could fully enjoy the roads, the
scenery and the miles of kiwi fruits, citrus fruits and
olives. A large wedding party had also booked the hotel
this evening which, perhaps, made for a more interesting
dining experience for each group. There was a certain shy
curiosity from both sides of the lobby until the neverbashful Sholto Gilbertson-Hart took matters into his own
hands and claimed the first dance with the blushing bride.
John and Nicole Whitelock’s 1968 Mercedes-Benz 280 SL
Gerardus Mercator, Dispatch reporter
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