Early start for the team with even more miles to cover today than yesterday and with less time. Studentbrakeaway are really pushing the cars. Your car pratically has to be brand new to keep up…….a problem for us in our 18yr old cab.
Problems today; brake fluid, heater suck on max, driver door still sticking.
After a stressful trip just getting to the ferry, we had another stressful trip getting to Le Mans in a car who’s max speed is 55mph.
We finally arrived at the camp site after following the rally organisers useless directions at 1am the next day leaking all kinds of fluids from the cab.
Sleeping was a vital after the previous long days but first the taxi needed some first aid.
Also, French keyboards are all backwords for the querty folk in the UK.
Its begun! after a rush to brighton and then back to dover we are on our ferry bound for France.
A few minor electric problems and I got locked in the drivers cabin at the quay….but appart from that the taxi is going fine (fingers crossed)
Hoping to arrive at Le Mans by 11pm local time. Hopefully to give us enough time to rest and check over the taxi ready for the next long leg to San Sebastian in Spain
After 2 solid days of repair work on the taxi it lived and made a test run from Canterbury to Ashford and back. At 11pm we arrived in a lit car park to apply the awesome stickers and sponsor names…..by 1am……(only 10 hours from the start)…..the taxi ran out of electricity……..but its ok RAC are on the way to save the day…..should be here in a few mins.
The time is near!
Its all very exciting isn’t it!
I’ve just finished packing my gear and the tools for the taxi. Getting up at the crack of dawn to drive down to finish up some work on the taxi to get it ready for the Student Brake Away 2007 challenge.
This will probably be my last update till we are on the road. Leaving Brighton Friday morning with 150 other fancy dress cars lol.
Till Europe, take care!
Rich
With the summer in full swing and as wet as ever the team are preparing for the heatwave in mainland europe. Studentbrakeaway issued out first info pack the other day telling us all the lovely things we need/probably going to forget.
Donations are still coming in and its not too late to get your name on the side of the taxi for all of Europe to see, just donate at least £2 to any of the team’s charities and we’ll put your name on. If you donate a lot we’ll see about putting your name in gold or at least some cool colours, how does that sound?
Updates will be more frequent as we get closer to the start date on the 24th of August and we gear up for the epic voyage!
Till next time
Richard
Team Member
