A coffee shop in Kitchener, Ont., is one of three starting points for the Mini Monte Rally on July 22. (Darren McGee/The Globe and Mail)
A rally organizer briefs competitors on the rules, regulations and other minutia. Yadda, yadda, yadda ... Dude, really, how hard can this be? Let’s get on with it. (Darren McGee/The Globe and Mail)
The Globe Drive team’s dream machine: a Porsche 911 Carrera cabriolet. And no, it’s not brown. The colour is called Cognac. So there. (Darren McGee/The Globe and Mail)
Finally out on the road, driver Lorraine Sommerfeld ... (Darren McGee/The Globe and Mail)
... runs into a road block. Maybe more attention should’ve been paid to the organizer dude in the yellow shirt. (Darren McGee/The Globe and Mail)
An inordinate amount of time is spent racing down gravel roads. Maybe the fancy-pants Porsche isn’t such a great idea after all. (Darren McGee/The Globe and Mail)
Another team sneaks up on the Globe Drive car. (Darren McGee/The Globe and Mail)
And we’re no longer sure which way is up. (Darren McGee/The Globe and Mail)
Sommerfeld dawdles on the way back to the car at a race checkpoint. Hello? We’re in a race here ... (Darren McGee/The Globe and Mail)
Ice capps: The fuel of champions. (Darren McGee/The Globe and Mail)
Perfect. A slow-moving farm vehicle. It starts to fall apart early for the Globe Drive team. (Darren McGee/The Globe and Mail)
And if that isn’t bad enough, the skies then open up and down comes the torrential rain. (Darren McGee/The Globe and Mail)
A rally checkpoint. (Darren McGee/The Globe and Mail)
Instructions and the Globe Drive team’s scorecard. Does it contain hidden glory? Once all those check-in times are evaluated, will it be the Globe Drive duo atop the podium? Do they even have a podium? (Darren McGee/The Globe and Mail)
Uh, no. Sommerfeld and navigator Darren McGee finish ninth. Out of nine. Dead last. Did we mention the cool Cognac-coloured car? (The Globe and Mail)
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