Gordon and went up to do the VK as the Greenleaves in Wales was that extra 3 hours travelling time. We had a good run up with the car on the trailer, around 3 hours door to door. Had a fish and chip supper in Chesterfield and was through noise, scrutineering and signed on and plotted by 9pm so had a couple of hours shut eye. We were seeded car 28 and left the start 00:13 hours. Overall the rally was pretty uneventful for us, the organisers clocks on the event were slightly different to ours which was set at the start so we found we were coming in often seconds into the next minute. I am sure it must have been our 3 stop watches that were incorrectly set! Clues were a mix of pre-plot and plot and bash but all worked really well. I only had one problem with the clues and that was looking for a white which in the clues was NAM and 500m from last clue instruction. I took this to mean crossing a grid line when in fact there was a cross road to turn left then looking for ther white. As is the norm we did find a white a short off route visit and return cost us around 6 minutes and a strong top 10 finish. At half way we were 17th but a totally error free run in second half saw us improve to 15th overall. The 106 performed really well, no dramas at all. There was alledgedy 6 miles of whites, I think this was an understatement but none were that bad, quite a few hairpins that had Gordon working hard but generally event was tight on timing but not silly and the organisers seemed to have picked the right mix of roads, clues and timing, just a shame about some of the length of the link sections which we are more used to having to run around here. Next event is the Woodbridge Motex Gymkhana, entries open tomorrow......