Congrats to Alex for the win in Medocino and Crane and Kun, too.

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How would have preferred to spend this weekend?

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14 votes were received.

Getting sideways in Mendocino with my mates, what else?	8		57%
Mowing the lawn, fixing the dead diesel, and spiffing the Suburban	0		0%
Cooking and eating deep fired bacon and bacon on rye sammiches	6		43%

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Looks like there were some good battles, y'all have fun?
Shame about Moser's breaking the VW CV or whatever.....Good fight to the end..
How were the roads? Everthing go reasonably smoothly?


Great turnout of 2wd cars..
Let's hear some news, gossip, scandals.
Did Seam M barf his guts out nonstop?
Did Al Kun have brainfade and bend the fawkin car?
Don Buress busy himself taking notes to present the case to brother Tom why they should bite the bullet and get a 240 Volvo?

1-----Alex Rademacher 60:07
2------ George Doganis 61:01
3---- Adam Crane 61:43
4---- Andrew Lockhart 62?34
5---- Kevin Kardos 65:23
6---- Jason Staats 66:02
7---- Albert Kun 66:47

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Sleezattle, WA, USA

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/07/2011 12:32AM by john vanlandingham.

Just got home from Ukiah. Alex did a great job on this course. The stages were slicker than goat snot and the route book was written in a peanut butter jar with no tulips corresponding to what was going on on the stage. Our co-drivers we very quiet ballast this event. This was a true "drive it as you see it" rally. There were a fair amount of exposures and blind corners.

The one Open-class Mitsu Evo lost its clutch late in the stage. I overcooked a drift that I could not pull out of and we had a pretty serious off that had the car sliding off the exposed side of a mountian. Just prior we passed Roger and Dierdre Matthews in their #72 VW Rabbit GTI that was high centered. Sweep tugged them off and the went screaming by our disabled car to finish the last mile of the stage. We got pulled back up onto the road and completed the stage only to quickly come up the Matthew again off the road and upside down, but OK.

It was a good inaugural rally for Mendocino. There are a few things to change, number on allowing recce and stage notes because the exposures were just too unforgiving to push too hard. All in all, we finished, had a lot of fun, and LFB'd that little Dodge all over that mounain, to decent result.

Wow..Alex !!! I knew him when he was just a P car....

Congrats to 'our' guys for doing well.

That was some good fun. We had a bolt fall out and were limited to 1st and 3rd for 2 stages, but figured it out and put a bolt back in there at service. Roads were just how I like 'um, 10 feet narrow in places and so twisty. I'd guess we were way sidways 3/4 of the time, probably too much of the time, but hey. New mods on the volvo were nice a low 4.88 rear end and steering quickener, which came together perfectly for this event.


Huge thanks to Jim Robison for all the hard work organizing, the spiffy wine and cheese party, and a great time. Also thanks to the northwesters who made the trek and beefed up the entry list.


PS Hey JV, the boingers ate up all my mistakes and kept begging for more. Thnx buddy!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/07/2011 02:34PM by alkun.

Great job fellas! Anyone get any incar? Other than Mathews did everyone stay on the road?

Thanks everyone

I had an absolute blast! those roads are massive amounts of fun. stage 1 is basically Start 60, (R3 into L3) X 60 into flying finish there are many many turns that you can link together! lots of ditches you can hook for extra turning power, and a few sections that get a little wider and you can 'straighten the road out' ... if you don't mind ditch dipping

our first running of the stages they looked Idaho dreamy, but with some loose rocks here and there. after a few runs through the stages the road surface got really soft. (but not really rutted) ?!? which sorta confuses me how that happens, but it totally did. roads seemed to get a lot slicker on our 2nd running through the stages.

a few corners got some very mild ruts, other corners stayed rut free but got looser as the day went one, using the ditches was a lot of fun but some of the ditch exists were crap so you had to pick your ditches carefully and finishing at the ale house was gravy

Ya the Belgium Rally champ was pulling away from me pretty steady, but ran into Clutch issues. Stage 6 was a slight uphill start for about 60 or so yards and David tried to start the stage, with the Starter pulling his car up the hill , very very slowly, i hopped out (with 2 minutes before my start) and tried to push his car, and got 1 of the volunteers to run over as well. but the 2 of us + the evo starter could barely get the car to move , i almost feel over pushing,as the battery drained they called it. and then i ran back to my car and buckled up and pulled to the line and took off as the rally leader. (lol I've never tried so hard to lose before in my life ... LOL)

my sooper bitching suspenders did great. I took the "jump" a little bit, just cause it was on Jeanas side of the car, LOL well actually i only put her tires on it ...

I have incar after stage 4, i still need to edit and upload (its in MOV so i have to convert to AVI , cut out all the waiting time , etc , and upload. anyone know a program to edit a MOV for windows? free? lol )


btw Adam had stopped on the way to the rally to help me put an axle nut back on my car (i drove the rally car from reno to the event, and then back home)

had also had a very amazing last stage, he was the fastest G2 car on stage 7 and was only 9 seconds behind me! Great last stage Adam!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/08/2011 12:40PM by A1337STI.

Awesome dude!

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Grassroots rally. It's what I think about.

We got some videos up.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Car49WhereAreYou

We found the race pretty challenging because the route book just wasn't jiving with what we were driving. With no recce and not a lot of experience making notes while driving for subsequent pasees, we just agreed to drive what we saw. I over shot a few L2/L3's, bermed it a couple times and then did this on stage 4:



All in all, it was good seat time for us. I forced myself to LFB the whole race and am figuring out how the car works. It was a great crowd and we were thankful for the help along the way.

it seemed to me that the routebook was made by GPS mileage, instead of odo mileage. as the mileage would be a little off for a few instructions, then right on , then back to off by a little bit.

The routebook had an instruction about one every 3 dozen turns, with half of the instructions being "Straight past radio" which i found amusing when the radio was in the middle of a sweeper. Jeana started reading those as "Forward past radio"

Stage 2 We tried to write notes while driving, but it was too bumpy for a pen. someone loaned us a pencil (adam Crane's navie ... Sean i think)
Stage 3-6 Jeana just left the book in her backpack. She read all the instructions for stage 7. a few times after the countdown we were "looking" for the corner she read. 30, 20, 10, 5, this it? no.. that it ? no .. .oh here we are! next note please!

If Jim says he won't change a thing, I'de totally go back next year. hell yeah! But i'll get a good map of the area, and try out a Poti + map and do it oldschool hardcore style :O .

This would also be a super fun rally to allow "write your own notes" on.

Congratulation to all participating competitors.

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A1337STI
it seemed to me that the routebook was made by GPS mileage, instead of odo mileage. as the mileage would be a little off for a few instructions, then right on , then back to off by a little bit.

The routebook had an instruction about one every 3 dozen turns, with half of the instructions being "Straight past radio" which i found amusing when the radio was in the middle of a sweeper. Jeana started reading those as "Forward past radio"

Stage 2 We tried to write notes while driving, but it was too bumpy for a pen. someone loaned us a pencil (adam Crane's navie ... Sean i think)
Stage 3-6 Jeana just left the book in her backpack. She read all the instructions for stage 7. a few times after the countdown we were "looking" for the corner she read. 30, 20, 10, 5, this it? no.. that it ? no .. .oh here we are! next note please!

If Jim says he won't change a thing, I'de totally go back next year. hell yeah! But i'll get a good map of the area, and try out a Poti + map and do it oldschool hardcore style :O .

This would also be a super fun rally to allow "write your own notes" on.

Good, I am glad it wasn't just us being newbies.

What is Poti?

Its a map magnifier, you use it + a map (hopefully very accurate) and the navigator determines what they think that corner is, and they call it out.






:O

Holy crap! Talk about migraine inducement trying to focus on the map/magnifier and then looking up an focussing on the road.

Had a great time riding with Adam. Did not spill my guts, actually went better than I thought. Only twice did I ask Adam to start braking before he thought prudent.

The road was awesome!!! Imagine that the 60 minutes of stage time was from like 38-40 stage miles. It really was a drivers rally.

We had an epic trip home, as the box truck's engine failed just north of Shasta, we got towed to the scrap yard, unloaded the rally car, and hit the road. Front right wheel bearing started making a lot of noise 140 miles from Portland. We changed the front wheel bearings this morning at Track side (thank Garth, you the man!) and crashed at fellow Anarchy member Josh's place. Got home about an hour ago...

Epic good time!!!

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A1337STI
it seemed to me that the routebook was made by GPS mileage, instead of odo mileage. as the mileage would be a little off for a few instructions, then right on , then back to off by a little bit.

The routebook had an instruction about one every 3 dozen turns, with half of the instructions being "Straight past radio" which i found amusing when the radio was in the middle of a sweeper. Jeana started reading those as "Forward past radio"

Sounds like a normal tulip rally to me. Darn kids these days getting spoiled by notes!