Tamar Trial 2024
Just a part of my trialling family. Look at our steely determined gazes! No rabbits in headlamps here. L to R Pat Shaw, Bob Blackman, Michael Brooks, Gillane Sanders, Adrian Booth and Ross Sanders After the debacle of last month’s Edinburgh Trial, in which I “lost” a triple award – although I never really had one – and then the clutch cable snapping at the top of Corkscrew, I entered the 77 th 2024 Tamar Trial as a late entrant. A rare choice for trialling is Jon Cox's Lotus Elan It really was just a snapped cable and Uncle Adrian had an old school go at adjusting my tracking. The new front tyres had been scrubbing out atrociously on the inner edge. Despite trying various tyre fitting bays using laser equipment, the car was still scrubbing off brand new covers all over the Peak District. Age used a long, graduated pole with pointers at each end to set toe in at 1/8 th of an inch. What I needed next was a shake down run to check there no underlying probs to the cable snapping an...