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29 Sept to 13 Oct 2024
Day 9
Kolašin to Shkodër (293 km)
8 October 2024
Today we bid farewell to Montenegro and headed
to albania. after yesterday’s high-altitude
activities, today’s focus turned to high-octane
ones, as we came down from the hills and enjoyed
a couple of laps around a race track and three
tough Regularities.
Sadly, after taking stock of the damage to their cadillac,
Jim Gately and Tony Brooks decided not to drive the
route today. They’d found a garage in town and hoped to
straighten their steering rack, bend some bodywork back
into shape, and head straight to the night halt.
The rest of us went directly to the first Regularity,
which ran to Bolesestra over the old mountain road to
the capital, Podgorica. a Route check in Kosor made sure
that nobody strayed onto the autoroute and funnelled the
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Design: K-Design
Ean and Ali Lewin, 1973 Ford Escort RS1600
Text & photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
rally into the mid-morning
Time control in the Restoran
niagara in Rakića Kuće, with
its very own waterfall.
after coffee and cakes
and
having
successfully
navigated the swirling traffic
of the capital city, the rally
found itself at the Podgorica
Karting centar for two
Tests around the small but
perfectly formed circuit.
This favoured the compact
and nimble vehicles and
made the larger ones more
entertaining, causing the
drivers to wrestle with the
wheel with sweat on their
brows, forearms tensed, and
sliding on opposite lock.
The morning wasn’t over
yet though, and the Regularity
through Draževina brought
the navigators to the fore
