Yesterday evening (Saturday the 28th of October) saw the 34th edition of our annual nighttime navigational rally. And contrary to the previous edition, when we had only 22 entries, this year we had a pretty strong field of participants. In the end 39 teams headed into the night and some very dark country lanes of the Dutch/Belgium border area. The tour was divided into two stages, totalling 234 kilometres.The navigation was with the help of a roadbook that used tulip diagrams.
But before that there first was the final check of the route for any last minute road works or diversions. Which meant an early start of the day for my navigator and me. Luckily there were no real problems there. We even had a small but rather enjoyable delay while entering the village of Wijlre!
We managed to find some errors in the roadbook though! Turned out something went wrong while printing this. Luckily the errors were fairly easy to rectify in the briefing. But not all teams did pay sufficient attention there! A few pictures at the start at the Abby of Rolduc:
Roger’s GT6 positioned to act as starting clock stand
Nice variety of Triumphs
Drivers briefing
Three of the four TR7’s taking part
Nice original Triumph Dolomite 1850HL
Very nice Triumph Herald 12/50 rally car
Triumph Toledo with a twist!
Two very nice late Triumph TR7’s
Lovely early TR2
Traditional last entrant to leave, JM with his TR7V8
Though one of the participants first had to fit a new coolant hose to his Stag
Luckily JM was at hand for some assistance
Sadly the participants were less lucky with the weather conditions. Where we had fairly nice conditions during the day, soon after the last car had left it started to rain. Which resulted in a few retirements caused by overloaded electrical circuits.
Oh … and during the first kilometres of the second stage my Defender passed the 250.000 kilometre mark. Forgot to capture the moment though.
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