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13 June to 3 July 2022
Day 2
Ypres to Aywaille (376.3 km)
15 June 2022
We were heading south and east today, through the
Ardennes to Aywaille. A journey which would in itself be
epic, but had the added interest of four Regularities and
four Tests to keep the crews on their mettle and enable
Andrew Kellitt to put more scores on the doors by the day’s
end. And, by the time we rolled into the night halt, not only
had the leaderboard changed, but so had the landscape. As
the day rolled on the hills got longer and steeper and the
woodland closed in around us.
The first timed section was an old friend from yesterday,
Hollebeke Reversed. With its wide open and flat roads, it
proved to be an excellent warm up for - and an easy route
into - the morning’s star attraction. At the first Test, in
Mesen, the centre of the town had been closed for us to run
a figure of eight section against the clock over tarmac and
cobbles. Dozens of local marshals and police were on hand
to keep everybody safe as the rally roared and squealed its
way through the narrow streets and the bales of hay that
Jim Smith had borrowed from a local farmer.
A long motorway run led the still excited crews to a Time
Control in Froyennes which gave both man and machine a
chance to take on some fuel and wash windscreens. Briefly
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Text & photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
There was more distance to cover today.
Consequently, immediately after reveille and
breakfast, the crews reported for duty at Andy
Inskip’s MTC and by 9am the square was emptied
of rally cars. But, with umpteen tonnes of sand to
remove from the beach volleyball courts, the earth
movers quickly filled their spaces.
Design: K-Design
Renate Hanselmann and Lukas Ospelt’s 1939 Ford Model 91A shed a wheel on a track Test today