What better car for taking the indirect route from the Midlands to central France than… a windscreenless Lotus?
but it is not a car for long journeys involving motorways. A crash helmet was essential but brought its own problems because at almost exactly the speed limit on an autoroute a quirk of the eddying airflow round my bonce-protector meant that my head would subtly but insistently wobble like a spinning plate slowing to the point of topple. Throw in the constant white noise of a hurricane and you have quite a wearying experience.
To this day I’m not quite sure where we went, but I suspect at one point we were much closer to Lyon than Clermont-Ferrand. And at some juncture after it had got dark I know Richard Meaden and John Barker staged a mutiny and took navigational matters into their own hands before we ended up in the Pyrenees. I remember chasing them through the night along single-carriageway N-roads at serious speeds, feeling like I was at Le Mans and wondering if I’d get to do the dawn stint as well.
Despite knowing that the final miles would be composed of the sort of tight, twisting roads that would be much more suited to athan almost the entirety of the route thus far, it was at this point that I relinquished my seat in the little 2‑Eleven. I remember exhaustedly slumping into the passenger bucket seat of the CLK like it was a feather bed. In the years since, I have done many long journeys across Europe, but never have I been quite so done-in as I was that night.
Just over half an hour later, we arrived at the hotel. I remember walking into the bar to find some of the rest of the
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