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The best week of motorsport each year is the Dakar Rally, covered by Eurosport in the UK.  Today’s route went through some amazing scenery in Argentina and showed quite how difficult taking the Race Touaregs up near vertical dunes can be.  Tomorrow sees the competitors head up over the Andes and towards the Pacific coast.  They should go over 4000m, when we were travelling I felt distinctly dodgy at 2500m so it will be interesting to see whether the altitude affects the drivers and cars.

So I thought that at least one day this week would bring decent driving conditions but no chance… Monday was a combination of water and ice particles, Tuesday brought frozen cow muck in the farmyard (a new type for me), yesterday was fluffy snow and today was back to the plain old mendips sludge.  I think I can conclude that Somerset has mostly poor road conditions ;-) 

After a year of my daily cross-mendips commute I thought I’d start recording the ‘lovely’ Somerset weather I enjoy on the way to work.  It’s always a bit of a challenge so by noting it down I thought I’d get some perspective into just how much of a challenge. 

Today’s pre-Chrimbo weather consisted of slightly damp roads and plenty of fog.  Driving up through the Combe was different today as the 350Z was in for a service so I got to drive a Nissan Note.  It was less driving and more a process of charting a course in the good ship Note.  Performance was none-to-speak-of and cornering a bit like a football.