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| You were only supposed to blow the doors off..... |
Rashad has done the business. New softer springs and complete change to the dampers resulting in an increase in speed over his test track from 70 to 110kph 'but I would have gone faster if the brakes weren't so bad'. OK, fair point, they are still pulling to the left - and as soon as the new brake pipe comes from Nissan, that too will be cured!
Stickers - started, will have to finish tomorrow.
Harnesses are all in and adjusted. Seems like it should be a five minute job, but took hours..
Registration - sorted, no problem.
Spares - ready to go on the truck, which Richard should have picked up from work and is probably busy loading with his tools as we speak.
We now have decided to ditch the rear doors, move the number plate and fit new high-mounted lights - so that's all done as well
Are we panicking? Well, yes, in a low-key, stiff-upper-lip, pass the gin-and-tonic kind of way. If we waited to rally until we were really, really ready, then we wouldn't do any rallying at all. As a privateer, everything is a compromise. We do the best we can and if that isn't enough, well, we'll come back next year and try again. How do we define success? Will we ever be able to do better than 10th? Was that the never-to-be-repeated highlight of our rallying careers?
"Questions of a thousand dreams
What you do and what you seem,
Lover, can you talk
To me?"
Until tomorrow...
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