How well did we do...
On the first night, we got 3 penalty points, and were 11th out of 80 in the Expert class. We were very pleased.
Friday morning we did extremely well, and got 0 penalty points and ended up 3rd overall. We knew it wouldn't last...
In the afternoon and evening, incompetence, old age (needing reading glasses for navigation is a big handicap), and darkness (our starting number was #75, meaning that we were starting 75 minutes behind #1, and ended up driving in the dark for almost one-and-a-half hours longer than those with low starting numbers) meant that we missed a few controls. We got 46 penalty points and ended up as 17th by the end of Friday.
Saturday they threw me another curve ball. Two sections were driven on maps from the 1950's. As you can imagine, many roads have been added since and some have been changed. We had great difficulty finding one control (I was lost) and got 19 minutes of penalties (i.e. another 19 points). We also missed some controls. So overall we ended up 20th.
However, I rally relatively infrequently compared to some of the real experts, who probably navigate and drive a rally each week. We left some of those repeat offenders behind us in the list, so both driver and I were relatively happy with the end result...
Peter
