Sandblast results... Escort Cosworth wins overall?

Just saw an unconfirmed post that an EsCos won overall at the Sandblast Rally this past weekend... any confirmation? I think it's pretty darn cool that an EsCos is out there getting dirty at all.

Place # Entrant Class Vehicle Total
1 14 Michael Reilly Joshua Benthien All Wheel Drive Ford Escort Cosworth 1:08:15
2 4 Charles Sherrill Wilson Von Kessler All Wheel Drive Mitsubishi EVO IV 1:09:32
3 2 Eric Wages Sarah Montplaisir All Wheel Drive Subaru Impreza WRX 1:16:47
4 9 Andrew Frick Matthew Rhoads Two Wheel Drive Ford Focus ZX3 1:18:24
5 36 Bradley Morris Douglas Nagy Two Wheel Drive Mitsubishi Lancer 1:19:38
6 3 Simon Wright Kieran Wright Two Wheel Drive Ford Focus ZX3 1:26:24
7 54 Daniel Spalinger David M. Dennis Two Wheel Drive Nissan Frontier 1:27:41
8 77 Hollen Groff Allison Hirsch All Wheel Drive Audi 90 1:27:58
9 64 Nicholas Martinez Christopher Harris Two Wheel Drive Nissan Sentra 1:45:41
10 19 Shawn W. Smith Stephen B. Kurey Two Wheel Drive Ford Ranger 1:51:00
11 22 Michael Hall Carl Lynn Two Wheel Drive Mitsubishi Mighty Max 1:56:03
12 76 Randy Deaton Rex T. Deffenbaugh Two Wheel Drive Honda Civic 2:03:00
13 73 C. Sebastian Gomez Abero James Clark IV Two Wheel Drive Mazda Protege 2:08:30
DNF 74 Sebastian Kokoszka All Wheel Drive Subaru WRX DNF
DNF 20 Eduardo Bancalari Santiago Jarrin All Wheel Drive Subaru WRX DNF
DNF 71 Raed Almakhtoob Chadi Farhat All Wheel Drive Subaru Legacy DNF
DNF 78 Constantine Mantopoulos Aris Mantopoulos All Wheel Drive Audi 4000q DNF
DNF 58 Paulo Ferreira Ozgur Simsek Two Wheel Drive Honda Civic DNF
DNF 75 Martin Donnelly Colin Fitzgerald All Wheel Drive Mitsubishi EVO 9 DNF
DNF 47 Scott Wilburn Carrie Wilburn All Wheel Drive Subaru WRX DNF
DNF 70 Gage Gregory Two Wheel Drive Eagle Talon TSI DNF
DNF 80 Joseph Burke Brendan McCabe All Wheel Drive Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX DNF
DNS 68 Julio Quilodran Two Wheel Drive Volkswagen Golf DNS
DNF 30 Michael Hooper Claudia Pullen Two Wheel Drive BMW 325i DNF

I was in car #70 and dnf'ed in transit to first stage. Some local hood rat was tailgating me , when I missed a turn and went to turn into a drive way blam! Hit in the ass by a hyundai....So I did the most sensible thing I could think of , leave the scene and haul ass to the first stage . I got about a mile from stage and was stopped and told I had to go back to down town chesterfield. Ended up chick lied to the cops and said I hit her so they let me go but I got dnf and missed the first two stages...!!! came back and ran ss3-7 and finished the rally......Crock of shit!

holy crap DNFs!

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Ya , most were because of car failures !!! Rough ass road conditions . Mine was because of a fucking retarded ass women on a cell phone!!!!!!

Thats F'd up. Any in-car video? Get paid.

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Enablers, All of you.

Congrats to Andrew Frick for 4th OA!

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Pete Remner
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1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
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Serious bummer about the accident... I swear, if I ever get hit by someone on their phone or texting, I'm gonna sue them for negligence on top of everything else. Don't drive drunk. Don't drive impaired. Don't drive on your damn phone or texting. Or please, just don't drive.

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gagegregory
Ya , most were because of car failures !!! Rough ass road conditions . Mine was because of a fucking retarded ass women on a cell phone!!!!!!

Damn.. Mental note to add rear facing camera a little higher on the list.

Sorry about the bad luck.

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Ya , when I first got the news that I had to turn around and drive back 10 miles I was fucking Irate , I mean on the war path irate! But by the time I got back I had calmed down to just pissed that I was getting screwed out of the rally by dnfing before I got to the first stage. O well , at least I finished the bitch and drove the talon onto the trailer !

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I was in car #70 and dnf'ed in transit to first stage. Some local hood rat was tailgating me , when I missed a turn and went to turn into a drive way blam! Hit in the ass by a hyundai....So I did the most sensible thing I could think of , leave the scene and haul ass to the first stage . I got about a mile from stage and was stopped and told I had to go back to down town chesterfield. Ended up chick lied to the cops and said I hit her so they let me go but I got dnf and missed the first two stages...!!! came back and ran ss3-7 and finished the rally......Crock of shit!

That's about the least sensible thing to do and leave the scene of an accident without OK from the police. But situational awareness would have helped to avoid your accident as well. If you see someone taling you, just ease off gas and pull over and let the person pass you. And if you miss a turn and stop enough that a person tailing you hits you when you brake, you were probably braking to hard as well. With them being on a cell phone is irrelevant at that point.

There's no reason to be "hauling ass" to check in. That kind of stuff gets rally events canceled when locals see the race cars driving fast on transits.

In my opinion, learn from the DNF. It could have been easily avoided by letting a tailgater pass. I've let plenty of aggressive locals pass me on a transit so I don't get in a scuffle with them.

here are a few short vids . The first one is on ss6 , the cars now running on 11.4 volts and having a hard time revving past 3/4 throttle. Second video is ss3 before the alt started crapping out . You can hear the difference in the way it revs!

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Agree with Billy 110% on all points..

I've had to slow way down to turn off because of tailgaters..many of which are trying to get a better look at the car (foolishly).

In most areas leaving the scene of an accident is a crime in its self, you're lucky if you got away with that.

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Just saw an unconfirmed post that an EsCos won overall at the Sandblast Rally this past weekend... any confirmation? I think it's pretty darn cool that an EsCos is out there getting dirty at all.

Yes. We lost 1:44 to it on stage two due to an a-arm working loose. Otherwise we would have taken the win. Oh well, that is rally. Congrats to Reilly.

The Cossie is one of Carl Merrill's old ones - in fact, the one that he was driving on the fateful day - maintained for a long time by Weejee Smith.

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I love it of how something that (IMO) is really wicked cool, that being that an Escort Cosworth even finished an event, let alone WON it, and there is virtually no information anywhere about it, no pictures, no videos, etc.

I didnt literally haul ass to check it. Its a figure of speech !!!??? I drove the posted speed limit all weekend. I didnt even see the women behind me , it was my first stage rally and I was solo , and when I said " the most sensible thing to do" , I was kiding . I know your never supposed to leave the scene ....duh , I just made a bad on the fly decision that cost me a dnf! So why dont you guys stop reading into shit so hard ,I dont need you two interwebz preaching at me so eat shit and have a great day!!!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/07/2012 01:54PM by gagegregory.