Rolling your rally car minutes after meeting your team is one way of breaking the ice but, as Dan found out, the guys and girls from Bowler seem to relish a challenge. Or at least that's what they told him while he was in earshot... Whether they were still feeling as charitable at one in the morning as they removed the hardtop and cage from a spare Challenge car driven to Sweet Lamb's bleak pit area from Cirencester that night is another matter. But at least it didn't start raining until after they'd finished.
Captured here is some time lapse of their heroic efforts to get PH back into an event that seemed over for us before it had even begun. Come morning the car passed scrutineering and all Dan had to do was keep it sunny side up and get to the end of the rally to do justice to their mighty effort. Read how he got on here.
First though let's salute the midnight spannering skills of the Bowler team...
Video: Land Rover/Photo: James Arbuckle