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Day 4: Laudale House - Cromlix, 22 July 2021
Photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
The winning team, Campbell: Graham and Marina Goodwin (top left),
Michael Kershaw and Liz Comstock-Smith (above), Keith Graham and
Sue Hoffmann (left)
heading to the workshop to be repaired and prepared for
its next adventure.
For those still rolling though, the Time Control in the
Kingshouse Hotel was just around the corner and the staff
busied themselves serving coffee and bacon rolls to get us
safely through the rest of the day. A beautiful run down
Glen Orchy led to Tyndrum and the last Test of the event,
where a lone tree took centre stage in a tricky auto test
section. One last Regularity was now all that lay between
the rally and the finish line.
This was a gentler section along the southern shore of
Loch Earn which led to the final Regularity through Torlum
Wood and Strathallan before we pulled up the driveway
into the Cromlix House Hotel and under the finishing arch.
The clocks were stopped, the timecards examined and
the scores were totted up. After a short, but tense, period
of deliberation, Mark Appleton, the Clerk of the Course
declared that Team Campbell had clinched the overall
win with Graham and Marina Goodwin, Michael Kershaw
and Liz Comstock-Smith along with Keith Graham and Sue
Hoffmann duly stepping forward to receive their prizes.
The discretionary Spirit of the Rally award was presented
to Carel and Sabine Reinhardus because, as Fred Gallagher
explained, “they’d brought maybe not the ultimate rally car
to the event, but the crew were always smiling and always
enthusiastic, despite the very difficult start to the event
that they’d endured”.
With the prize giving concluded, Fred then went onto
remark that “these short but sweet rallies, never fail to bring
out the best in everyone. We’ve had another tremendous
four days of rallying in Scotland, with an exceptional route,
lots of fun and some fantastic hospitality”.
“With four fantastic events under their belt in almost as
many weeks, the Rally the Globe organising team can be
very proud of themselves”.
And, as the Prosecco flowed and the crews made their
way into lunch RtG Chairman, Graham Goodwin, went
further and added that “planning and staging any rally is
difficult, but to do so many of them in such a short space
of time, and in the current climate, is a truly fantastic
achievement”.
Gerardus Mercator, Dispatch reporter
www.rallytheglobe.com