Desert Storm

From the short 11ish miles that I did at Desert Storm (till I overheated the motor and spun a bearing) the roads seemed pretty good.
The first stage had a nasty rocky riverbed section of a few hundred yards that Eddie has already mentioned, the rest seemed smooth, somewhat marbly.
I had been warned that it was fast, fast, fast, but slow way down for the washes.
The washes that I went thru didn't seem that bad, although there were also some really sandy parts in the high speed sections that sucked the car around and made you pucker a little. Having said that I think my mind was elsewhere worrying about the climbing water temp.

In hindsight I probably should not have pressed on regardless and would still have a motor with it's bearings where they are supposed to be!

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Nick Taylor.
Knobhead.
Los Angeles, CA.

Personally, I've got nothign against Pat or Denise. I support them in working hard to make rally happen in this region. At the same time, despite my full support of Moose, what's between he and anyone else has no bearing on me.

I *will* say that the roads for DS seemed really nice to me. I've only driven them in either my street trim Galant or the wife's Amigo. It's pretty easy to find yourself doing 60+ on those roads (in most sections) in a street car, so I can only imagine how it would be in a proper car.

As for attendance, despite having the utmost respect for those who would work to put on an event, I have no interest in being associated with any RA events. The kicker for me was when a certain someone within RA, in response to my comments about non-mainstream-media-assigned photographers, it was said to the effect of, "If they are with a recognized media outlet, they're in. If not, they can stay in the spectator areas."

Sure thing. Price the average Joe out of the sport, slow him down to a snail's pace if he can afford it, then make sure there is no place for spectators, in general. Eff that.

Totally love the idea of the HDT, though. That's promising and I'd be all over it if I had a car right now.

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Brian Driggs | KG7KCA | PHX, AZ | 89 Pajero
alterius non sit qui suus esse potest

DR1665 Wrote:
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>
> Totally love the idea of the HDT, though. That's
> promising and I'd be all over it if I had a car
> right now.

What's HDT?
>
> Brian DR1665 | Phoenix, AZ
> Have a lucky day.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

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Its the High Desert Trails which is rally facility that's just opening up in Ridgecrest, CA in SoCal.

See: http://www.rimoftheworldrally.com/images/Area%2051.5.jpg





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If we didn't have family coming that weekend Jennie and I would be running it no doubt, as a matter of fact until we heard about the visitor, she was pretty excited to codrive when I'm driving and have me codrive for her when she's driving.

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Cheers
M.Samli
Phoenix AZ
Gaylant VR4
EVO III GSR (Stolen)


Rallies are no place for traitors

That looks awesome! I have my boards test that weekend, or I'd definitely go check it out. I went to this years ridgecrest rally school, but I didn't think they did rallies there. Have there been rallies in ridgecrest in the past, or is this the first?

Well, this facility is separate from the Ridgecrest Rally schools that were held. BUT, the owners of this facility are working closely with the Hockers and the rest of the peeps that put on the Ridgecrest Rally school so in the future it will be held at the new facility.

Slowwpoke Wrote:
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> Have there
> been rallies in ridgecrest in the past, or is this
> the first?

Ridgecrest has a long history of rallying. Here's the results from
one in 1974.

http://www.rallyracingnews.com/scca/rally/hdt74.html

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Self-righteous douche canoe



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Man, Datsun 510...WRX of 1974?

tipo158 Wrote:
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> Anders Green Wrote:
> > I'm really thinking about the effect of gas
> prices
> > and the economy, which has only really
> surfaced in
> > the last 9-12 months. Many events seem down
> this
> > year compared to last, and I don't think last
> year
> > was a high-point off rally participation, so
> I'm
> > wondering if our roller coaster went into a
> dip,
> > and then into _another_ dip.
>
> I am very concerned about this.

It is having a definite affect on my rally spending this year.

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Matt Smith

Racing in glorious black and red

My daily life is a Saab story (sold!)