Foreign Perspectives

Rallying is pretty tiring, at least for us! Just one of the guests turned up in the afternoon and the rest arrived after midnight. Usually a late arrival means a late departure but as the next stage was due to start around 8.45am, the rally officials who checked-in around 1.30am had to leave around 7am.

The Fenouilledes car rally is a little odd in that the main roads aren’t closed so we often saw slow moving vans being followed by a posse of rally cars. The net effect of that was that as the normal road traffic reduces drastically after about 7pm, the night speeds of the cars were considerably higher.

Whereas they arrive at Mas Camps via a relatively small backroad on Saturday, the Sunday route takes them down the long straight directly in front of us as you can see so it’s not quite so easy to take a decent photo.

With the late night last night we’re glad that there’s nobody staying this evening so we can take it a little easier to recover.