Manx Challenge Round 2

Having previously changed the rear shocks following Tony's adventure earlier in the day the service crew gave the car a thorough check over to make sure there were no other surprises lurking beneath the smart exterior. It looks like the adjuster has just managed to wind itself out. Not something we have had before, previously the whole boss has blown away under pressure but these have been modified to allow for high speed blow off so back to Mr Leda next week.

Everything else was fine on the car as we headed back ready for an early start on Saturday.

Once again the Isle of Man micro climate was having a field day and to be on the safe side Tony opted to go out on wets but carried a pair of slicks for when they had a dry stage.

Stage times for the first 2 stages were disappointing dropping nearly a minute on each stage to the Polo but Tony could offer no reason, car seemed fine but he thought the technical nature of the stages hadn't helped. The next stage and he was straight back on the pace.

Service was straightforward as they headed out to stages 20 & 21. No problems with stage 20 but it all went wrong on stage 21 [Cringle 2, 13.06 miles]. Cautioned in the notes it still caught out loads of crews over the weekend and we were in fact very very lucky to get away as lightly as we did.

Roll on Neath though I should perhaps re phrase that