WELL last week has blended into this.
I was out in Italy last Wednesday and Thursday, testing for Gran Canaria in the mountains near San Remo when I received a text from my girlfriend at 11.15.
"Do you know your plane is cancelled?" it read.
Mmmm I thought.... No?...
Well we all know what happened next!
But before that <<
Gran Canaria is the next rally in the IRC and so the test was organised on the most similar roads we could find as the team and I needed some time to get the Fabia to my liking.
Asphalt rallying is a finely tuned game and the test was going to be good familiarisation time with the car
again but the main aim was to get some more performance out of me and the car together.
We knew there were some major areas to work on from my feeling in the car from Monte Carlo so we straight away started working with those areas.
120kms later and the car feels a lot different.... more balance and more confidence for me in knowing and feeling the car underneath me.
It's a great feeling in the car when it all comes together.
>> So, test complete I had to drive to Nice, fill the hire car up (save budget) and then see what the options of travel were....
Inside Nice airport it was clear my direct not-so low budget airline to Newcastle was going nowhere... along with every other orange and white plane to the UK. Quick decision making was needed....
I let you read the what happened next in the news story!