Issue 3
Rest Day - Tuesday 14th May 2002
Day 2 Results
Our gold predictions in the last edition were a little awry as the 38 remaining at the end of day one have now been reduced to 20. Many of you are puzzled why you have lost 'gold' while other cars with greater penalty marks have retained gold or silver. The answer is simple. Gold standards and marks lost are not the same. For example you can lose 59 seconds on each and every regularity timing point and still keep your gold. You can lose lots of seconds to the best person in your class on the tests and providing you keep within the gold standard you can continue to keep gold. Silver is a little more complicated as it is all about how many gold failures you collect. It is not about seconds lost.
Just look at poor car 124 Ian Crammond and Peter Ward who have a mere 64 points in total and are second overall on the regularity section with just 8 marks lost. They are on silver as they hit a cone and had a minor car problem on test 4 losing 18 marks and a full 30 marks on test 1 thereby losing two gold standards.
Losing your bronze is not quite so easy and only one car missed the route check 'Cairngorm' and their bronze medal. That was Bert- Jan van Egteren and Rogier Loosen from Holland but pity Martyn and Jean Bracegirdle in the Daimler SP250 who spoilt an excellent run by having a wrong approach at the same checkpoint. To lose bronze you have to miss a control or test. Remember that missing also means being outside your time limit so do not overlook asking for an 'arrival' time if there is a big queue of cars waiting at the start of a test or regularity. 16 cars have already lost their bronze but can still aim for a riband.
Teams
British Bulldogs have gone down the swanny river and the only National team below them are the CROCODILE Raiders. I assumed these were Aussies but with names like Martti, Pirkko and Petri Kiika, Miika Pinomaa, Iika Brotherus and Michael Planting I am not so sure. The Welsh team are doing incredibly well, as are the Scottish 'Bravehearts'. Chwarae teg. Keep it up cariadau. Diolch Hywel. But a little bit more bias please.
Between them the Crocodiles have managed to gobble up 10,080 marks. Inca Survivors on 233 are fighting off the Quin Maltesers on 331 in the club team competition but Ecurie Cod Fillet are wallowing on 2198 with the Ecurie Cone Master Equippe having hit a lot of cones to accumulate over 17,000 marks. The objective, chaps, is to keep your penalties low not to collect points.
Four Men in a Rally Volvo on Raasay
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Your Malts Reporters waiting in the rain for the ferry from Skye to Raasay.
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Your scribes can only report on their own 'rest' day when they took car 92 on the short ferry journey over to this geological masterpiece. It was a fun day enhanced by the amazing picnic lunch provided by Hero. Those of you who did not read your literature thoroughly enough missed a variety of cheeses, cake, fruit, smoked salmon, fruits and bottles of red wine. There may even be some packs left over tomorrow a.m.
Brochel Castle is perched on an outcrop of conglomerate and before that we discovered a tarmac white 'goer' which passes the Youth hostel manned by volunteers and built in memory of one Alun Evans who died in 1967. Described as a potholer and rover scoutmaster. Monty Karlan, the ace nav in car 11, discovered that the said Alun had competed on a Monte Carlo rally which stopped at Carcassonne. We don't know in what year this happened. He also spent much of his life driving around and exploring the Highlands of Scotland on Friday and Saturday nights when he could get away from his day job in Edinburgh.
The other highlight was finding the road built by a farmer over a number of years using his wheelbarrow. If John Brown reads this he may even plan some short jogularities on this small island to keep you amused on a future day off !
