RtG The Daily Dispatch - Generations - sm - Flipbook - Page 8
25 to 27 March 2022
Day 3
Southern Lakes (81.1 miles)
So, to continue the gastronomic metaphor, as we
fired up the cars today we realised that we were
about to enjoy our puddings. After a tempting
starter, a filling main, now is perhaps the time to
enjoy our just desserts.
It’s now officially British Summer Time and it’s Mother’s
Day. What a treat for the mothers on the rally to be woken
an hour earlier than usual and be thrown around the lanes
of southern Lakeland by their obviously keen to impress
offspring. These women are tough though and we salute
them, not only for their skills around the car but also for
eschewing the easy option of a lie in, a bunch of flowers
and maybe breakfast in bed. But, once they’d downed their
breakfasts, it was back to the rally menu and, given that
it was half-day today, we knew that whatever was served
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up wouldn’t be just any old pudding filled with leftovers
found in the back of the Appleton’s Cumbrian larder.
Short and sweet was the order of the day and, with the
weather surpassing even the fantastic standards it had
set itself since Friday, the crews soon found themselves
in the thick of the action with the first Regularity through
Grizedale Forest which stood in complete contrast to what
we saw yesterday. Gone were the wide open views and
endless horizons of the Pennines. Instead the scenes which
filled our windscreens were dark sunken lanes, bordered
by sharp drystone walls and topped with thick tree cover.
Navigation was once again without the benefit of tulip
diagrams and any wrong slot spelled disaster thanks
to a total lack of turning circles. Manuel Dubs and Luca
Arrigucci were one crew who found this out to their cost
when they, and their Land Cruiser, missed one turning,
picked up a load of penalty points and tumbled from what
Photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
Regular RtG competitors Mike and Lorna Harrison on timing duty at Rusland for Bertie and Edward van Houtte, 1938 Frazer Nash-BMW 328
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