Sunday 16 February 2020

Day 2 - Life’s a (Ninety Mile) Beach

Daphne cosies up with a big Brit and a cool Yank
Tyres and techniques bedding in, the crews enjoyed today,s meander around the far north of NZ, taking in lunch at Ninety Mile Beach (actually only 55 miles but whatevs). Penelope reported “we’re just starting to enjoy ourselves” and Rita smiled enigmatically: she’d acquired some esoteric timekeeping magic from one of the endurance rally experts in the bar. Anyway the regularities gave the drivers grins and no big time compliance issues except for one steep serpentine downhill which even challenged the works Escort gravel hounds and made the photographers stand well back from the two-ton Bentleys in lateral mode. Still early and cautious days for us as we’ve not driven either car on gravel before. Nor, as PP remarked, did Scotland give an opportunity for hot weather testing.

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