Mull Murmur 5 (Click HERE for Printer Friendly Format)
- published on the island, during the event by Jaggy Bunnet
MullMurmurs
– Chapter 5
Provisional Leaderboard after 10 (of 19 stages):
1 Calum
Duffy/Del Duffy (Ford Escort MkII) 1 Hr 12 Mins 31 Secs
2 James MacGillivray/Ian Fraser (Subaru Impreza) 1.14.52s
3 John Cope/Tony Cope (Subaru Impreza WRC) 1.15.35s
4 Tony Bardy/Reg Smith (Nissan Sunny GTI-R)
1.15.35s
5 Daniel Harper/Chris Campbell (BMW MINI S)
1.16.06s
6 Eddie O'Donnell/Donald Morrison (Ford Escort MkII) 1.16.39s
7 Billy Bird/Plug Pulleyn (Mitsubishi Lancer) 1.16.43s
8 Ian Colman/Neil Colman (Nissan Sunny GTI-R) 1.16.47s
9 John Swinscoe/Paul Swinscoe (Mitsubishi Lancer) 1.17.10s
10 Mick Briant/Kim Baker (Mitsubishi Lancer) 1.17.41s
STOP
PRESS .. Neil MacKinnon has gone off on SS9 and Dougi Hall has gone off in SS10.
James MacGillivray is now up to 2nd head of John Cope. Harper going
well in the German sausage tin and O’Donnell who said he was “just relieved to
get to the finish last night” is on a charge now too in the SalenSilver.Com
Escort. And what about Mick Briant? In the top ten – that’s one up for the
oldies!
It’s
more like Majorca than Mull on this year’s 35th Philips Tour, bright
sunshine and an un-winter like temperature greeted competitors dragging
themselves wearily out of bed on Saturday morning – unlike the service crews,
many of whom have been beavering away all night.
Looking back on last night, Stuart McQueen disappeared from the fray
on the second stage when he knocked a wheel and hub off the Subaru, while near
neighbour Alistair Wilson retired on the first stage after clattering the
Escort’s nose against a stout rock. Going one stage further was Dave Hopwood who
battered both front and rear ends of his Escort into submission. David Melvin
retired in SS1 when the Nova’s clutch failed and Murdo Morrison put the Escort
off in the same stage. John Bennie lost 3 minutes with a fractured vacuum pipe
in the Peugeot’s distributor (older readers will need to explain that to the
current ECU generation!) Iain Grubb smashed his spotlights and a chassis leg
when the Peugeot landed on its nose after a yump. Richard Egger was off a couple
of times in the 2 litre Nova but survived to tell the tale, Giles Brooksbank was
having his thrust bearing replaced this morning and Carol MacCrone in the Mini
is still going despite losing her lights on the Hill Rd and then losing second
gear. Iain ‘Fuey’ Noble is having a great time in the Avenger, the MacKay’s
Garage technician (I nearly said mechanic there!) is a part time fireman on the
island and claims to have checked his Notes while driving the Scania M240 fire
engine! John Cockburn is still going in the TomCat-ised Range Rover, but only
has standard 2 pot brakes as he didn’t have time to fit the 4 potters and is
finding stopping the 364 bhp V8 a bit fraught at times. And words fail me at
this point. It was reported to me in all honesty by the service crew of Vauxhall
Astra number 69 that their driver, Ian Dawes, had gone off to buy more
underpants in Tobermory this morning – the mind boggles! And meanwhile, the
Polis are still looking for the streakers!!
Keep up
to date with:
www.2300club.org and tune in to Oban FM on 103.3.
Yer auld pal, Jaggy
Bunnet, Loch Scridain, 2.00 pm Saturday.
