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Today the men were separated from the boys. We had a very full program on Winter Trial 2012. The roads were very tricky due to alternating wet, icy and dry surfaces. One 911 driven by a WRC crack team folded itself around a tree, some of our friends got threatened by an angry farmer, but all of us came home with a smile on our faces.

If you didn’t keep pace today, you were sure to make a steep drop down the leader board, because there were so many opportunities to lose point you wouldn’t believe it. The terrain here in Slovenia is quite rough and there were several outstanding opportunities to launch yourself into a 700-metre abyss. We gracefully declined those invitations, but a Jag just ahead of us got dangerously close.

The tests today were a lot of fun, but driven on dry surfaces. This means times are fast and chances to miss cones are plenty – and so we did! The videos are nice but we don’t want to risk YouTube censorship so they will not be published.

Many teams incurred big penalties, but we did quite well today, so we expect to see the effect when results are published tomorrow morning.

Silverado has never been as dirty, but looks all the cooler for it. This must be the hardest driven road legal early 911 in Europe: the amount of salt and dust on the car needs to be seen to be believed!

The roads around Ljubljana are very tough to drive, yet in regularity you need to take some risks to stay on the pace. We fixed some of the mild understeer I had experienced by playing with tyre pressures.

Tomorrow we arrive in Trieste after half a day of tough navigation and start to prep for prizegiving. We remain hopeful of a decent classification!