RTG Highland Thistle Daily Dispatch - electronic - Flipbook - Page 4
Day 1: St Andrews to Oban, 3 September 2021
RESCHEDULED TO 2021
their laurels and perhaps taking their foot off the gas, was
disabused of this very quickly as the afternoon’s session
got underway.
Heading west via the remote roads of Glen Lyon and Ben
Lawers, the day’s second Test, a hillclimb in Glen Croe, was
all that lay between another brief Time Control atop the
Rest and be Thankful climb. Once through this Test Barry
Nash and Malcolm Lister’s Rover almost ground to a halt
with a suspected wheel bearing failure resulting in them
having to nurse their P5B through the subsequent Hell’s
Glen Regularity and onto the eagerly anticipated tea and
scones served in the grounds of Inverarary Castle before the
last road section into the Oban Bay Hotel and the night halt.
For most of us this arrival meant switching off the
engine, undertaking a few spanner and fluid checks, before
enjoying a cold beer, a good dinner and a sound nights
sleep. For the sweep crews however, it marked the start of
their night shift and, as the daylight fell away, Andy Inskip,
Jack Amies, Charlie Neale and Geoff Lobb grabbed their
head torches and a tray of sandwiches and set to work on
the likes of the aforementioned Escort and the Rover.
Car 5, Peter Zernial and Udo Fink with their 1934 Chevrolet Roadster
Rob Collinge and Jan Thoenes, 1967 Jaguar E-type, keeping pace with
the 1965 Sunbeam Tiger of Alan and Tina Beardshaw.
Tim Eades and Jim McLaren’s 1971 Ford Escort broke a rear spring and
ended up on a truck today
Barry Nash and Malcolm Lister’s 1969 Rover P5B had a failed wheel
bearing to contend with
Gerardus Mercator, Dispatch reporter
Photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
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