As we had a lot of miles to cover again today we sat on the autoroute for most of the journey, stopping only for comfort breaks and fuel.
VANimal with new clutch in place went fine as did our car. Quite an uneventful trip for us thank goodness.
On arrival in Calais we met up with other jobbers for a drink and wind down, fortunately our hotel was adjacent to theirs.
We learned very quickly though that Team 37 “Bam Bam” Martin and Trina had broken down on the autoroute, it was commonly known as a “Catastrophic Failure”. Well it would be with a conrod hanging out of a big hole in the block!
The service crew towed the car to the hotel; where a swarm of jobbers looked on to see the irrepairable damage. Martin was assured that the car would be towed back to England and was bought a number of beers to soften the blow.
