Post-Tropical Storm Henri Causes Havoc in St. John’s for Team Hume

Craig MacMullen of Team Hume stands in the rain in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Saturday September 12, 2015

Hello from foggy rainy St John’s Newfoundland,

Where to start…..
The Friday license qualifier day for Norm and Christina went off without a hitch. They passed with flying colours. Up until this AM the weather was balmy and sunny.

Today we experienced heavy fog rain and drizzle. In fact our last 6 crew members were on the plane circling the airport for over a half an hour before be re-routed to Montreal, then back to Toronto. Now we are short my co-pilot (Ron Bartleet) our service crew and video crew. Without Ron I am unable to partake in the rally.

Fortunately we found a work around for prologue races (Sunday). Craig will do his GT practice race then scoot up to my car (I will start last), Craig will jump into my car and be co-pilot for my practice race. We can do this for the practice runs on Sunday, but I really need Ron here for the real racing on Monday. Ron is scheduled to arrive at noon tomorrow (Sunday) with the purchase of an emergency airfare. As for service crew we bought new emergency airfare tickets for them and they will arrive Sunday at 3:00 pm, just in time for any repairs/modifications to the cars after our practice races.

As of now, our video team will arrive 3:30 AM Monday…awfully inconvenient….

I am sure things will fall into place nicely as the real racing begins!…

John Hume