TNT have managed to let me down totally with shipping the drag-link, which languished in Oz for a week after they collected it, and is now due in Dubai on Sunday - the day we start the rally. So if anyone knows someone coming down to the bivvy, maybe we can find a way for it to catch up with us. At least I have a spare standard one in my sale-or-return kit, courtesy of Arabian Automobiles (Nissan distributor).
Today we completed documentation and took posession of the new improved ERTF GPS with integral Sentinel function, and its asssociated new cables and accessories. Only after plumbing in all the new cables did we discover that the French had cunningly provided a male connector on the new red button, to connect with the new male connector on the power cable. Now, call us old fashioned, but here at NewTrix Racing we don't hold with male-to-male connectivity, so Rick cut off their appendages (yes, sliced them through!) and used a bit of choc-bloc instead. So all is sorted, although the GPS may never be able to have children now.
This afternoon we shall do the stickers, and take the Beast up the road to calibrate the tripmeter. (Actually, that's just an excuse for a blat.)
The rally route, unsurprisingly, is very similar to last year's, and the prologue is once again on that uninspiring piece of reclaimed land beside Marina Mall in Abu Dhabi, garnished with building rubble and broken bits of rebar. Oh joy.
More soon.
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