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Live Report from the Peking to Paris start line

Status Report: Day 1. Poster: General BJMJ.

Just had an email through from Hayden at the start of the Peking to Paris event. It’s 8am out there (or it was when he started typing his message), and the rally has been delayed by an hour due to traffic on the local motorways. Everyone wants to see ‘those magnificent men in their rally machines!’

The weather is apparently very good. The photos show blue skies over the Great Wall, which the cars are parked in the shadow of. Note the tower and wall climbing up the mountain to the left: beautiful.

Apparently (bit garbled this bit), HB reckons Lola is both the lowest car and probably the lightest also. In the Guv’nor’s own words: “Even the largest cars have so much gear you can’t see out the back window. By comparison we have very little. On-road weight is a tad under 2500lbs with full tanks.” Good work Hayden!

The navigator’s list of jobs to do today looks like this: get rolling, shake off the Team Lola nerves and settle driver into a rhythm. In that order! I’ll add: don’t crash and don’t get lost.

Pretty cool getting live updates! Technology and massive overseas data bundles are a wonderful thing.

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		« Sporting Campy and vying for old hat Peking to Paris: Day 1 from Hayden » Live Report from the Peking to Paris start line Status Report: Day 1. Poster: General BJMJ. Just had an email through from Hayden at the start of the Peking to Paris event. It’s 8am out there (or it was when he started typing his message), and the rally has been delayed by an hour due to traffic on the local motorways. Everyone wants to see ‘those magnificent men in their rally machines!’ Â The weather is apparently very good. The photos show blue skies over the Great Wall, which the cars are parked in the shadow of. Note the tower and wall climbing up the mountain to the left: beautiful. Apparently (bit garbled this bit), HB reckons Lola is both the lowest car and probably the lightest also. In the Guv’nor’s own words: “Even the largest cars have so much gear you can’t see out the back window. By comparison we have very little. On-road weight is a tad under 2500lbs with full tanks.” Good work Hayden! The navigator’s list of jobs to do today looks like this: get rolling, shake off the Team Lola nerves and settle driver into a rhythm. In that order! I’ll add: don’t crash and don’t get lost. Pretty cool getting live updates! Technology and massive overseas data bundles are a wonderful thing. This entry was posted on Thursday, September 9th, 2010 at 5:56 pm and is filed under Blogjack, Events, Rallying. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site. Comments are closed.