What neither Calum or Mario mentioned was that the entire team was disqualified under the new rules that limit the speed to the maximum you could do if you exactly stuck to the speed limits. Unfortunately the entire team was too fast and therefore disqualified.

Mario was going for the fastest time anyway and was only pipped on the last run by a car that was much more powerful. Certainly he was the fastest with a 2 litre engine. I was never in the running because I kept getting faster on the last section. Calum, on the other hand was consistently getting faster but by some mystery of timekeeping and scoring for speed was not only disqualified for excessive speed but having the best score of those disqualified walked away with the trophy for third place.

You have to love Portugal smile

Peter

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