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Day 1: Loch Lomond - Laudale House, 22 June 2021
to hang around in the car park preferring instead to refresh
themselves before dinner with a little something from the
drinks cabinet.
Tomorrow sees a full exploration of this most westerly
part of the mainland and, if what’s just rolled beneath our
wheels is anything to go by, then it’ll be another day to
remember. Slàinte Mhath (good health).
Gerardus Mercator, Dispatch reporter
Photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
Away from the heat and noise of the car park Gill
Cotton and Loren Price once again manned the paperwork
distribution desk and, just before a light lunch of Cullen
Skink, Fred Gallagher, the Rally Director gave a welcome
speech singling out a total newcomer to endurance rallying,
Nick Kilpatrick who’s sitting alongside the long distance
veteran, Charles Stuart-Menteth in the MG. We think that
he, like the rest of the rally, is in for a great ride.
Rally time waits for no man and, once the plates had
been cleared, at 12.30pm sharp with the pipes of Mark
Morrison filling the air, Fred waved the Bentley of Clint
and Dawn Smith away from the start line and straight up
into the hills, with a Regularity through Glen Douglas then
into two Tests. Down, and then up the famous Rest and Be
Thankful Climb before the crews could draw their breath
at the Time Control in the Inverary Inn on Loch Fyne.
This was a great day of driving and the midsummer
sun continued to beat down on the rally over the next
few sections, across the Falls of Lora at Connel Bridge
and into another Regularity alongside Loch Etive which
eventually took the Rally to the Corran Ferry and onto the
Ardnamurchan Peninsula where we’d be based for the next
three nights.
Much to the dismay of a herd of contentedly grazing
deer, there was one final Test along the rugged shoreline
of Loch Sunart, which ended with the cars screeching onto
the driveway of Laudale House (pictured below), the night
halt. With a mist rolling in from the water, no-one was keen
The Datsun 240Z amongst the Porsche 911s of Gavin & Diana
Henderson, Stephen & Jenny Verrall and Roy & Rachel Stephenson
Alan and Tina Beardshaw in competitive mode with the Triumph TR6
On the road - Andrew Laing and Ian Milne in the ‘73 Datsun 240Z
The final Porsche 911 on the event, run by Peter and Zoe Lovett
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