Set of bright and early this morning to tackle the Stelvio. Passed hundreds of cyclists on the way there - must be nuts to want to cycle in these mountains, much easier with a V8! Police man stops us just before the pass starts - i wasn't speeding honest - and tells us that the pass is closed for the day due to a major cycling rally.
X!X@!X!#!##@!!XXX!!#!! was my first reaction
X!X@!X!#!##@!!XXX!!#!!X!X@!X!#!##@!!XXX!!#!! was my second reaction
Then i had a bright idea. Drive into Switzerland, over the top of the first half of the pass and then join it from the other end. Arrived there 45 mins later to find the road shut fromt he Swiss side as well X!X@!X!#!##@!!XXX!!#!!
The receive a text from the other teams to see that they are making good progress and they are going to do the Davos - Stelvio road.... I call to give them the bad news and they went via the St. Gotthard pass instead, a good second choice. We then decided a route via the italian Sking village of Livigno was out best option. On the way there we went through a very long and very small tunnel - about 10 miles. The 3.2 V8 sounded good, very good at 7500rpm. This cheered me up a bit. We had to pay €10 to use the tunnel but it was worth every cent.
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