GOSH Charity Driving Challenge 2003
November 18th saw 38 cars lined up at Brands Hatch for the start of this year's Great Ormond Street Charity Driving Challenge to Macon.
An excellent turn out, for what proved to be a testing run for Shivs and me. We'd opted to take the Caterham, roof down, obviously, so we'd been preparing the car for some time, however, as always happens, the day before was panic stations!!
A totally flat battery, left me struggling to find a replacement in time, so thanks to Rat Race Engineering for finding one on the morning of the trip.
Due to further challenges......we found ourselves on a later train than all the other competitors, but at least we had the company of Bertie, Emma-Jane, Chris and Kate, all marshals on the event....they were going to have to rush to get to their checkpoints in time for Tiff,
he managed the whole trip in some fairly impressive time!
Being later than the other competitors caused us to hit traffic in Versailles, which led to us having to hit the Autoroute in order to make it in under the time barrier, pity, as we finished only 5 miles off the lead distance...Roll on next year, this competition needs a pair of loonies in an open top Caterham to win it!!
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