Hey it's past noon, no reports. Hows TomB doing, is Sean M still on the road, did Grönholm sign up at last minute?

Any links to up to the minute reports.....all you boys with all yer fancy twitters and I-pods and stuff and no reports!

John--

http://www.mthoodrally.com/2010/twitter.php - something isn't exactly perfect, so you have to click 'cancel' a coupulea times, but it shows up eventually.

Car scores are here http://www.rallydata.com/Results/MtHood_2010_ClubScoreBoard.htm

Looks like there are only 2 bikes being scored (bet that is the finale for RallyMoto in the PNW )

I think Carl Jardevall is out. Carl Decker is one fast sumgun in that old Sube.

Edit....Carl Jardevall is still running, just a couple bad stages apparently. Hope it isn't that wierd misfire back to haunt him.

Just heard it was turbo hose issue. Should be fixed now.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/23/2010 04:48PM by heymagic.

There are a bunch of audio updates on Rallydata as well: http://www.rallydata.com/ColdFusion/AudioList.cfm. Interviews with Jardevall, Buress, Decker, etc...

-Erik

This was my first time at Mt Hood and I loved it! The stages were absolutely AWESOME! I was having the time of my life until I lost spark on stage 4 and gently coasted to a stop .5 mile from the finish.

Good to see y'all. After LSPR I really enjoyed rallying with all my friends. Simon is really putting on a great regional event, perhaps even giving Doo Wops a run for its money.

Brian and I really started to come to terms with the new car, and what a car it is! Still have lots of learning to do but our performance was good enough for 9th overall 3rd 2wd and 3rd in Gr. 2.

Big thanks one more time to Simon and his gaggle of volunteers.

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Slowwpoke
This was my first time at Mt Hood and I loved it! The stages were absolutely AWESOME! I was having the time of my life until I lost spark on stage 4 and gently coasted to a stop .5 mile from the finish.

Didya ever find the spark?
Didya look under the seat cushions?

Gently???
man a car loses spark on me it won't coast to a stop gently, the hammer blows and kicking would get it more than .5 to the finish!

I tried cussing it to the finish, but no luck.

I was doing twitter updates and then last night typed up a summary on fb

http://www.facebook.com/#!/12xalt/posts/153797077996084?notif_t=feed_comment (that should work)

also, would like to thank mister colangelo for stopping and making sure that my driver and my service rig were ok on I84 on his way home

We had a good Rally for sure! Recce was quite frustrating for us, I really had very little confidence in my notes at the start, and it shows in the times, as i dropped 30 seconds off of the second running through 17 road. After we ran the 17 road and Gillholey, I realized we did a great job, and could go a bit faster on the next runs.

When we recce'd fir mountain, none of the junctions were taped off, and we went the wrong way and made notes off into the woods somewhere. the first run through there we had no notes for the last 5 miles or so, with lots of 5's and 6's that I braked way too much for, and lost some time.

We matched stage times with some quick 2wd guys this weekend, and I know I have quite a bit more speed in me.

The penalty sucked, and I feel it should have been dropped, but oh well. Here is the story. In the route was a 10 minute stop at a gas station for fuel, so that was what I calculated for my fuel useage. When I got to the station, they were changing shifts, and there would be no fuel for 5-10 minutes so we continued on. After the next stage was service, so we got to the service in 20 minutes early, so went down the road to get gas since we were on fumes, and checked in 2 minutes late. Protested to the steward, and he pretty much said I should have been prepared and had some gas at service, so tough luck. My problem with that is the fuel stop in the route was not available to us, so we had to improvise. Was I wrong to think we could get it dropped?

When I showed up to get fuel, the attendant kid was REEEDICULOUSLY slow. I nearly had to sound the rally taxi siren.

kinda weird to hear that about the gas station since in previous years they've had a dedicated lane and someone waiting for rally cars and having little extras you could buy without ever getting out of the car, etc

maybe different workers, or owners, or managment this year

they were a little slow when we stopped, but not bad, just normal I suppose

Fun Rally. Never thought I'd finish within 2 sec of Jardevall.
We thought we had a battle for Gp2, with David Henderson, but it was a timing error (due to passing a car on stage 3, that was corrected as we were leaving the second service). he had us by ~10 sec per stage.
this was a low prep, low key event for us.
after blowing a headgasket and not finishing DooWops this year, we had a break all summer.
wildwest was cancelled 2hrs before our entry was going in.
so this event was to make sure the cooling system was up to snuff,
test out our sweet new intercoms, and use the last of my 14" tires.
Stage 1, was slow and loose, getting my gravel arms back. we took some time to adjust the Mic and levels on the helmets.
I noticed a lot of understeer, the front tires had bald shoulders from a day at PacificGP.com 's go cart track.
stage 2 we enjoyed (though looking at the scores now, I wonder how Dave in the mazda3, a hood river OR local managed the 2nd fastest time and a 25s advantage over us)
stage 3 the curse of the grey turbo VWs hit (Demon rally had their hood up and recon rally rolled)
stage 4 we did a sweet ditch grind on a right5
service we swapped some tires around and put our race face on (no incar for the rest of the day)
stage 5 was our last run through Gilhouly where we crashed off last year (opposite direction), this time Dave was 21 seconds slower than his first time, and we were 4 seconds behind him, within 1 second of our first run through.
stage 6, another 9 sec behind Dave, a fun long stage (nothing like 15min of racing)
O-control, speed check caught a lot of people going over the limit. this cost Dave a minute, which he neglected to mention to us before we started -
stage 7, Never give up!
We finished!
The motor is fun and solid.
service team Operation Shit show! came through again.
Sadness to the folks that couldn't finish. *Dave Clark was describing to me how his car handled over dinner, and while I never got to give it a test drive, I'm amazed that he kept it on the road, much less set times within a few seconds of Medcroft.
thanks to Volunteers and organizers.
Thanks to Charles and the 2wd Prize fund.

we'll have incar up tomorrow afternoon
DooWops!DooWops!DooWops! (or Big white? I still have some 14" snow tires . . .)

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"I put the hurt on dirt" - adam crane
http://CraneRallyCrew.com
corolla gt-s "Patches"
Op: S.S.

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We had a good Rally for sure! Recce was quite frustrating for us, I really had very little confidence in my notes at the start, and it shows in the times, as i dropped 30 seconds off of the second running through 17 road. After we ran the 17 road and Gillholey, I realized we did a great job, and could go a bit faster on the next runs.

When we recce'd fir mountain, none of the junctions were taped off, and we went the wrong way and made notes off into the woods somewhere. the first run through there we had no notes for the last 5 miles or so, with lots of 5's and 6's that I braked way too much for, and lost some time.

We matched stage times with some quick 2wd guys this weekend, and I know I have quite a bit more speed in me.

The penalty sucked, and I feel it should have been dropped, but oh well. Here is the story. In the route was a 10 minute stop at a gas station for fuel, so that was what I calculated for my fuel useage. When I got to the station, they were changing shifts, and there would be no fuel for 5-10 minutes so we continued on. After the next stage was service, so we got to the service in 20 minutes early, so went down the road to get gas since we were on fumes, and checked in 2 minutes late. Protested to the steward, and he pretty much said I should have been prepared and had some gas at service, so tough luck. My problem with that is the fuel stop in the route was not available to us, so we had to improvise. Was I wrong to think we could get it dropped?

Did you just ask or did you file an inquiry or ptotest? You would have had a chance of no penalty IF you had have waited at the designated fuel stop. If there was a delay and that was documented. Once you moved on everything changes. It sounds like you left service and went somewhere else for gas and then returned? At some events that could be called leaving the route and you could get a penalty for that. We don't usually do that in the PNW but it can happen.