Land's End to Ness Point, Midsummers Evening 2021

[RSTurboPaul]

Good write up

[AMC243]

Sounds like everyone who took part had fun. Johner, I'm sorry to hear about your missus and wish her a speedy recovery. Hopefully I'll be there next year in an un-crashed car. I've already put a request in the book so it should all go to plan. I've already got a co-driver in mind.

[Johner]

AMC243 said:

Sounds like everyone who took part had fun. Johner, I'm sorry to hear about your missus and wish her a speedy recovery. Hopefully I'll be there next year in an un-crashed car. I've already put a request in the book so it should all go to plan. I've already got a co-driver in mind.

Thanks AMC
I have next year in the diary and SWMBO has insisted that I do the run
Co Driver will be No1 son

I'm going to do it again, if it kills me

[Zilla]

BURNIE said:

Good luck David and Ben great to meet you both.
The Bentley in Blue had arrived from John oh Groats..

Thanks Burnie, was great to meet you and your absolutely gorgeous McLaren. Nice exhaust note as you shot past me

So we ended up going a different route than planned. A30 was slow with the roadworks convoy system, but persevered through that. Ended up in a quick convoy headed up by the MX5 and went up the A303. Had to pull in for petrol at the BP services at 228 miles (MPG not great in the GTR) and lost touch with them. M3 was then closed so rerouted round it only losing a few minutes.

Went North bound on the M25 to find it was closed, at that point I thought we might not make it. Went up the A1 (would have taken M11 but that was closed too) and crossed through Royston, Newmarket, Bury St Edmunds and Diss. This is a very viable route with some fun roads when there is little traffiic, not sure why people have struggled with that route before as we really pulled some time back there. Hit some more roadworks which lost us about 15 mins but was well ahead on time so just trundled into Lowestoft. MX5 and friend caught up with us just before Ness Point and we pulled in at 04:00 to be the first group that arrived.

Sub 6 hours would be very doable without the ridiculous amount of road works and road closures.

Great fun all round! Land's End to John O'Groats next time maybe

Dave

Edited by Zilla on Wednesday 23 June 10:45

Edited by Zilla on Wednesday 23 June 10:46

[Khaki Suit]

wilkyboy said:

The A12 north of the A14 was eerily quiet and good progress could be made. I could have sworn there used to be a couple of speed cameras on that route but none ever materialised. The Sat-nav was fully up-to-date before leaving and didn't warn of any cameras, so I assume they have been removed in the past six months or so?

From memory there aren't any cameras on the northbound A12 Ipswich to Lowestoft, or ever have been. Only one I can recall is the southbound one at the Aldeburgh turnoff.

[Stevep4]

The Lotus' (Evora and Elise S) elected to change dates from the Saturday to the Monday. They were stiffed by the roadworks and ended up 40 minutes late (I think they did the A12 route).
I did A30-A303-M25-St Albans-Royston-Bury St Edmunds and cross country past Diss and Beccles (I am a local so know the route well). 424 miles and 37mpg getting in at 0404. I did miss a couple of roundabout exits and I could have done it without a fuel stop, so I should have easily beaten 0400 - without going silly with the speed. Heavy rain and standing water for the last 50 miles probably lost another 5 mins.

The Lotus boys are licking their wounds after being whipped by a diesel estate. But, they enjoyed the drive and have the event already booked for 2022 and may drag a few more Lotus along (one who has an Emira on order).

I suggested I might take the barbeque next year and cook some bacon rolls at Ness point, which should be crispy by the time the Lotus roll in (!!).

[RSTurboPaul]

400+ miles?

I'm guessing no-one's done it in an EV yet... lol

[giveitfish]

Tesla Model 3 would need about 1 hour of charging en-route, so prob a bit too tight at the current state of the art.

Really enjoyed the write-ups, would love to do this one day.