Candid Provocateurs get 8 out of 13 in the 2015 Land's End Trial
For us the course closing car was never far away So Binky and I couldn’t manage to repeat our performance from last year but we still had a great event. It was a difficult trial and by the time we got to the sections the already wet conditions had been churned up quite badly. There were a couple of hills that we cleaned that were so difficult we were euphorically elated when we cleared them. And those feelings lasted for a long time afterwards. Having replaced all the joints in the steering linkage and also the central idler bearing by the time of this year’s Exeter , Rob recently had the toe-in re-adjusted and now rates the steering as good instead of vague. His regular car is an MX-5 so he has a good benchmark. Backalong, the MCC used to swap the order of starts around – the others being Cirencester and Plusha Services in Cornwall - but since 2013 Popham has always been the latest starting point. On the Exeter 2015, we thought this affected our performance. T...