Tall Pines In-car Footage

I'm sure Ferdinand will be along to post his and Martin's in-car, but while you wait, here is the footage from Chris Martin's and my run (or at least the 6 stages we got in).

Stage 1
http://contour.com/stories/2011-rally-of-the-tall-pines-a1-landon-road-chris-martinbrian-johnson

Stage 2
http://contour.com/stories/2011-rally-of-the-tall-pines-a2-upper-old-hastings-1-chris-martinbrian-johnson

Stage 3 (5th fastest)
http://contour.com/stories/2011-rally-of-the-tall-pines-a3-upper-old-hastings-2-chris-martinbrian-johnson

Stage 4
http://contour.com/stories/2011-rally-of-the-tall-pines-a4-old-detlor-spectator-stage-chris-martinbrian-johnson

Stage 5
http://contour.com/stories/2011-rally-of-the-tall-pines-a5-the-peanut-chris-martinbrian-johnson

Stage 6 (Where we almost had our big off.)
http://contour.com/stories/2011-rally-of-the-tall-pines-a6-iron-bridge-1-chris-martinbrian-johnson

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-Brian

sweet

Dare we ask what happened to a certain Nissan 240? (in the National results)

I see another 240, the nice kind seemed to have done good.

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John Vanlandingham
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John, from what Ferdinand said on Facebook, they bent/broke some stuff. As to the ultimate exclusion, I'm not sure what that was about. In any event, to quote Ferd, "We bent that upper control arm on the 2nd stage, Upper Hastings, when we almost went off the road sideways into the trees, but were lucky to hit a dirt berm instead that tipped the car up on its side before it fell back down onto its wheels so we could continue. Fixed it at the first service break. Then we bent the new control, same right rear corner again, over the big jump before Tait Farm and then still had to run the roughest stage of the rally, The Peanut, with the suspension bent like that before we could repair it again at the second service break. We didn't have another spare control arm, so Martin welded up a new one and swapped it in, all within the 20 minutes allowed for service! Then we bent the right front suspension strut into a banana shape on the Mayo Lake stage with this Iron Bridge stage still to come. We went past this same photo spot a third time with bent suspension, with the right front wheel bent in at a 20-degree camber angle. The strut snapped completely when we still had a 15km transit through downtown Bancroft with smoke pouring off the tire, finally limping into Service#3 with the right front wheel tipped inward at a 45-degree angle! We were 9 minutes late checking out of that 20-minute service."

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-Brian

I was sitting in the "the pub" when the 240 went by...

I cried.

Oh yeah, and Topping's car looked pretty good...

And these two were having fun no matter what! Go '77 Rolla!

http://www.flagworld.com/photos/v/2011/2011-11-26/2011-11-26+-+Samedi/Michel+Dansereau/2011-11-26-00633.JPG.html

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Mad Matt F
Oh yeah, and Topping's car looked pretty good...

And these two were having fun no matter what! Go '77 Rolla!

You mean this 240?


Seems to be pretty reliable so far....

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

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Mad Matt F
I was sitting in the "the pub" when the 240 went by...

I cried.

This 240?


Seems that IRS thing is a bitch..
And I guess i better call to see what's what with the prokken front söspendöös?

maybe time for 50s if he's going to be a savage like that

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Sleezattle, WA, USA

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Me savege? Wash you mouth out.. this is rally!

Can bilstien fix this?

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Can bilstien fix this?

The ring welded to the steel box is the top 1/2" of the strut tube... I had to cut it off because it was so mangled i'd never have gotten the old insert out, or the new one in. Next I welded the 1/2" of insert that was sticking out of teh strut tube onto the steel tube, then beat with a hammer while someone held the strut tube... after rippoing the welds 4 times the bent insert was out, teh new insert was quickly in, and the strut back on... took us 9 miuntes too long and we took a 90 second penalty, but we were still in teh game...

-Martin.

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Brian Johnson
Stage 6 (Where we almost had our big off.)
http://contour.com/stories/2011-rally-of-the-tall-pines-a6-iron-bridge-1-chris-martinbrian-johnson

what happened? it looked like you guys were in the right spot and the car got all out of whack all the sudden. good save too.

Not sure, Kevin. The conditions were somewhat varied, though largely good. I'll let Chris chime in here with what he felt through the controls, but all I know is that we headed down the hill and I looked up to see a v-shaped tree and a bunch of folks scrambling to get the hell out of the way.

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-Brian

Oh wow that would have been a grizzly off. Looked like you guys missed that tree by a foot! Nice save Chris! Looks like getting sideways midair + having a bit too much correction when you touched down is what made me pucker watching that. Yeehaw.

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Brap Brap.

Honestly, alot of that near off happened so fast it's tough to remember. Generally i've got the GoPro running behind us, but it's been such a pain to turn off/on that i've been letting Brian use the Contour (gotta move it).

I think it was a combination of things:

1. Probably tying to go too quick on some of the parts we've got on the car...we'll fix that. We knew the car would get a bit sketchy over sharp crests like that, but i've just been trying to drive through it, doing it at this kind of speed was just even more sketchy

2. Really hard to tell from the video, but there were pretty bad sandy "berms", this section of road had been used as a stage in the other direction once that morning, then the night before for Shakedown. Was also it's 2nd running in this direction. Catch these things the wrong way, and they push/pull the car all over the place.

3. Probably a bit of overcorrection.