2009 Tulip Rally

摘要

Begun in 1949, the Netherlands international rally was a success for Mini in 1964 and 1966. Timo Makinen, and then Rauno Aaltonen, took wins in their Works Mini Cooper Ss in those years. Now, decades later, the 'Tulip Rally' is still going strong but is now an international navigational rally for historic cars.rnHaving never done this event before, we entered our Group 6 Works replica Cooper S and nervously awaited the start. The 2,600-kilometre route from Annecy in south-eastern France via Vals-les-Bains in the Ardeche region, through Vichy, Beaune, Pont a Mousson, Genk and then on to the finish at Nordwijk on the North Sea coast was fantastic.