Monday, 20 October 2008

We're in France...


Contrary to popular opinions in Steve's office, the Mini did make it out of England and the team are now in Troyes, France.


The ferry was slightly delayed due to the moderate seas in the Channel, but we were amongst the first off the ferry and were soon heading down the French motorway system. Apart from a few strange looks from locals as they sped past us, we have had no issues with the car and we are now planning our journey into Switzerland for tomorrow night.


At Dover we met two other Italian Job teams waiting for the same ferry - one of which was team 07, who will be immediately in front of us for the rally stages as the teams leave in strict numerical order. As their car is a two year old BMW Mini Cooper S, John Cooper Works GP special edition (over 200 bhp) we won't be seeing them for long, with our c70 bhp engine!
Total distance covered so far - 407 miles.

3 comments:

Bill Chandler said...

so far so good, glad to see you've at least made it to france!!

Just remember this - in this country they drive on the wrong side of the road

Mrs H said...

Bonjour!

Hope you are impressed to see this as I am completely comp illiterate! So glad you have arrived safely, hope next leg goes as well. Will try and keep up till we go to Spain at least!! Miss you Mr H! Kiss from me and the lads!!

Mrs H said...

Hello Mikey :)
hope that you are ok and your are impressed that u have made it this far already !
All of us can't wait to see when you come back to the good old B-Hill.
Bye Bye Mikey !

Love Adam xxx