" ... a Porsche starts uncontrolled swimming if you drive to fast
through deep water!"
- Wolfgang Peiffer
Thanks for your message and once more a big Congratulation and thanks to
you and your Team for a wonderful event.
Knowing my own input and preparation for the Rally, you must have done
some miracles to get all the logistics working.
Great Job!
My own Story of the event can be followed on the following webpage,
which gives as well a link to the EASR Homepage:
www.Historicrallydriver.com
In there you can log into a lot of pictures which I took with my digital
Camera during the event.
All my own preparations for the event have been written down very well
by Hayley Maxfield. She wrote an Article in the September issue of
"travel news & lifestyle" magazine: "Celebrating Africa". Your Official
Programme gives as well my rally background.
To give my own story of the event could fill a complete book. We are
working on it. My wife Marlies who followed the event took daily
records. We want to match that with all other stories we got and the
many pictures we took. This will take some time and will give us a lot
of wonderful memories.
In short: I have not expected that it will be so tough. Although we did
a lot of guesswork in our preparation we did two major misjudgements: We
took to many tyres along (30), we used 12 only which includes 3
punctures.
We did not have enough shock absorbers or used wrong once. I changed 11
pcs (10 at the rear). We brought 6 spares only so we were running out of
stock! That was almost a nightmare. Thanks to the knowledge and
organising talent of our 2 local Service crew, Bobby and Bob of PAC
Motorsport in Nairobi, we got some spares which did not fit to well in
the Porsche but somehow we managed. So at the end I was driving some 150
km special stage with broken shocks... what an experience!
Another experience: I did not recognise that a Porsche starts
uncontrolled swimming if you drive to fast through deep water! That
happened to us in Uganda... see picture on our webpage!
Could continue......
We are happy to have finished the event under the top 10! Its may be to
early now to ask when will be the next one? Be assured we are ready to
join and do it again!
Best regards to all of you
Wolfgang Peiffer -CAR NO. 9