We are into the longest day, driving over 1,000 kms down The Caprivi Strip. It's arrow straight to far horizons through thick green vegetation - two-metre tall grass lines the road. Good feeding ground for herds of elephants. David Tomlin and Nick Adcock stopped their Land Rover to allow a bull elephant to cross the road.

On the map, The Caprivi Strip appears like a strange finger pointing inland, narrow but long, a relic of the times when Africa was carved up in Colonial fashion to give Germany access to the sea from the centre through their adopted Namibia.

The clocks are running today but in effect it's a simple and easy run - something that will no doubt be appreciated by the many walking wounded.

Every point matters in sport, but some matter more than others! That was certainly the case for James Walpole, competing in the MGCC’s Peter Best Insurance Challenge in his MGB, one of several supported by the MGB Hive with help, advice and discounted parts.

‘The final two rounds of the 2011 season were at my local circuit of Snetterton,’ explained Walpole, ‘and I went there with a lead of just one point over James Darby. I gained an extra point for getting pole on the Saturday, but ended up four seconds behind him at the finish. On the Sunday, he was initially given class pole and the point that goes with it, but careful examination of the rules showed that this was a mistake; it was rectified, so I got the pole and the point.’
And how vital that was – at close of play, Walpole was awarded the title (his seventh successive MGCC Class A title) by a single point.