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

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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!

Yes, except the tulip would say" Straight past radio block" with a computer tulip with a straight line, one of them was a crest into R2 or 3. After reading "straight past block" and coming up on that, you really questioned the route book.

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After reading "straight past block" and coming up on that, you really questioned the route book.

and possibly put it in a ditch

Yeah, sorry......

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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

I did that on a couple of events back in the early 90s.
HUGE increase in speed. Huge.
But you need high quality maps.
We had those, but no poti so we went to a Kinkos on the first transit and blew up the maps about 150%.
Amazing amount of detail jumps out when the maps are enlarged.

It took us half a day to zero in on how we should use the new info and it was especially useful on the faster parts to know the upcoming bend was a little kink and not an acute..

Of course in those days we used words since words are descriptive and nuanced where these silly numbers all you young pups seem to like still must be translated in the brain. So finally we could use terms like "absolute" and "flat" (absolute is "absolutely flat out".....

The thing I liked was that the co-driver has to do something other than merely recite numbers on a piece of paper.

Whatever----the main point is VARIETY of ways to do a rally is in the end a part of the challenge...

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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!!!

Now thats the attitude! Glad you guys made it in one piece.


Dang, I was going to buy that van....

You could still buy it, it blew head gasket or cracked head. Started pinging, looked down saw temp gauge pegged. Pulled over and it shut off, never to start again. It never lost power, but after filling the coolant, it hydrolocked...........

Make him an offer.

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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!!!

I thought Adam changed to the invincible Volvo front spindles... wheel bearing failure?

Well he was still running on the bearings that came from the Junk Yard.....

I'm really jealous I didn't get to drive any of the roads, even as a worker, but we couldn't get the seat back far enough in my friends car for me to share driving duties. I should have given my drink tickets to one of you, sorry about that (since I'm not a beer drinker) but it was so hot my brain was fried. Here's hoping that next time they'll run it in cooler weather

NNR was a bit hotter. during NNR i was seeing 120F in my car while on stage, and upto 140 while waiting. at mendocino the highest i saw while racing was about 100f, I think it got up 118 once while we were waiting.

I think my rattle can white roof was helping

But yes, i would gladly take cooler weather over warmer weather, on any rally. much easier to 'stay warm' in a car than it is to stay cool.

roads look pretty awesome. I, for one, (as a potential competitor) hope that Jim keeps it as a no-provided-note event. [Having whomever writes the tulips that are reportedly great in the NW work his/her magic wouldn't hurt though.]

Then again, any event that achieves a ~40mph average speed without a million chicanes is a good thing in my book.

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I'm pretty sure these guys got their clean little open light Subie done about 8 hours before the event, did a nice 5th place, and shot this killer vid to boot! Nice job Kevin and Corey.



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