The rally runs from the south to the far north of Japan. To be more precise from Fukuoka to Lake Toya.
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| The Route running from the bottom to the top ( very technical ) |
It should take us 23 days and if we follow the route correctly it will be 4660 kilometers.
Along the way we will experience all that Japan has to offer from bustling cities to amazing mountain scenery. Motorways to single track cart type tracks. Luckily the Japanese drive on the left, the same as the UK. Only real problem is the road signs are in Japanese. Julie thought about going to night school to try and get the hang of it symbols but she has decided it will be much more exciting not knowing where we are going !!!
To spice things up a bit the organisers Rally Round have managed to include some 90 special stages and tests along the route. These may vary from charging round a race track to driving as carefully and precisely as you can on the regularity test. With a bit of luck Julie and I will still be talking to each other at the end and Molly Porsche will still be in one piece.
One of the tracks we will be on is the Honda test track !!
We have had numerous road books on our previous rallies but this is the first time we have had a book with a whole page devoted to 'how to work a toilet .' These Japanese state of the art toilets have more settings than my TV. Should be quite an experience :) Just got to read the instructions and switch the right switches and pull the right nobs ;)
There are 53 cars on the rally ranging from a 1925 Chrysler to 1999 Bentley, and the engine size ranging from a 1970 Fiat at 982cc to a whopping 7,983cc of a 1931 Bentley.
Our Porsche 356A (Molly Porsche ) along with another Porsche 356 have the second smallest engines at 1600cc. As the say 'its not the size that matters its how you handle it' !!
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