Exeter Trial 2012

The Candidi Provocatore Allard J1 is now home to many new components

After the disappointment of being a non-starter last year for the 2011 Land's End Trial, Team Robert are entered in the 2012 Exeter Trial this weekend. We will be running as number 255 out of an entry list of 265 not including the 68 Class O competitors.

Binky reports that the Allard is all ready for the the trial with new tyres and the latest refinement is a full flow oil filter system.

Meanwhile, having suffered terribly from wind over the last week, I'm hoping the storms have blown themselves out and that the event is not cancelled due to snow, which is what happened in 2010. The forecast is light rain on Friday night and cloudy thereafter so we'll see.


Since I last saw the car - engineless and in the dark - Binkers has been tacking up the road miles, so we are quietly confidently of making the start for the Exeter on Friday and hoping for a coveted Finsher's Certificate.

A mudbath is the collective noun for Marlins and here is a mudbath at the foot of Fingle, led by Harry & Lucy Bounden.

This will be the first competitive event with the new engine and reconditioned gearbox. I've never competed in the Exeter before although I've marshaled on it a couple of times and spectated on it many years.

The restart box on Tipley. I marshalled here once with members of the Buckler Club.

Adrian Booth and Mike Warnes are both running in their British Racing Brown TR7s but they are starting from Plusha services, whereas we begin the trial from Popham airfield just off the A303, east of Andover.

If you see them or us say hallo.