Cima Racing : Home2Rome 2010: Lovely day for a swim

Lovely day for a swim

10 November 2009

We're not taking this event too seriously. Being banger rally veterans, we know that however you approach matters, something will always go wrong. You might as well enjoy the ride, and laugh about the failures later.

That said, the boys from Honda are taking the whole 'not taking it seriously' concept to an entire new level.

John o' Groats is right up at the top of the country. It really is very high up indeed. It's farther north than Moscow or Toronto., and the Sea of Alaska stops at roughly the same latitude. Talking of the sea, the Honda boys decided to swim in it.

Cold, smelly and oily, they jumped in complete with moustaches, sunglasses and helmets, and had a swim in the North Sea, before getting in to their 1.4 Civic, turning the heaters to max, and heading south on the 340 mile drive to Berwick-upon-Tweed.

We feel like amateurs now.