So, we lost our brakes on a regulatory or test section on a gravel track through the mountains yesterday. It wasn’t much fun as the edge of the track led to an unpleasant end for Rhubarb and Custard, and possibly us too.
We finished the test (I didn’t tell Alex we had no way of stopping) and then tried to adjust the brakes without much luck. The professionals arrived and they had a go but that didn’t work either.
However, we decided to drive the rest of the dirt without brakes and get the car onto tarmac where it would be easier to work on. But unknown to us one of the Bentleys had crashed and our suppprt vehicle left us to help the Bentley. This turned out to be a major effort and we didn’t see them again until the morning.
By this time I had already cursed R&C to Kingdom Come and more or less had it heading for the scrap yard. But the team sorted us in the morning and we set off with the brakes repaired and only 30 mins late.
So despite losing a lot of time on the regularity we are still lying 3rd in our class.
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