Day 33 - coming ashore in Italy under cover of darkness

Today was the 2nd part of the run across Greece ... complete with 3 more timed stages ... followed by an overnight ferry to Ancona which is halfway up the Adriatic coast of Italy.

We have no information on the events of today, either from Clive or from P2P Central Command, other than an SMS earlier this evening that Car 72 had just boarded the ferry.   Since the ferry would have left Greece over 2 hours ago ... and doesn't dock in Ancona until 10:30 am tomorrow ... we will remain in the dark (excuse the pun) at least until then.

Meanwhile, the official P2P site has a nice clip of Fugly motoring along a wet dirt track toward Erzurum in Turkey.   You can access the video by going to their Video Journal (click here Video Journal) ... and then selecting the video named Erzurum.   First you'll see Fester (the yellow Fangio Coupe) and, then a few cars later, you'll see Fugly.  You can't miss it with that wheel bolted onto the roof.

Hopefully, the official classifications will be updated tomorrow morning ... and we can see whether or not the Greek timed stages were further 3-legged donkey stages ... or seriously competitive stages that would have enabled Clive and Ces to move further up the leaderboard.

For and on behalf of CD and Ces

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Early morning update on Wednesday:

Official classifications for yesterday have now been posted.   Car 72 is now 10th overall and 6th in class.

The day's stages were again of the three-legged donkey variety, with most of the able-bodied competitors receiving the same elapsed time.   Presumably somebody who was in the first 10 on Monday had an off or a breakdown on Tuesday ... enabling Clive and Ces to move up a spot.   As any seriously competitive person will tell you, it doesn't matter how you move up the leaderboard, so long as you get there.  

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PS: 

Fingers crossed for Wednesday evening's blog update ... or more specifically for access to the internet tomorrow evening.   Karen and I will be motoring across Italy today... and staying overnight in a little village at 2,000 metres in the French Alps ... so that we can intercept the P2P as it blatts through on Thursday morning.

We'll be freezing our various extremities ... on the shores of Lac Cenis in the Parc National de la Venoise ... but we'll be waving encouragement to Car 72 as it passes.