The Storm - Tuesday 31st. Jan 2012

We left Reims on Green Diamond Traction tyres - winter tyres with embedded crystals to act like studs - in dry conditions at 20.05 on Monday night. At Champagnole control it was snowing heavily. We fitted our studded tyres supplied by Auto-BMC in France and made rapid progress to Annecy le Vieux our next control. Conditions became extremely difficult with very heavy snow clogging up all roads. The morning rush hour brought chaos to the whole rally with many cars being stuck for three to five hours. Somehow we managed to escape and got in to Monaco only 1.5 hours late. END