Team O'Neil Car Control Center deemed unsafe!

Purpose built, state of the Art, Car Control Center is considered "unsafe" to hold SCCA Rallycross.
Oh my god , there might be mud and ruts and car damage.
Safety First!
Flame away Subaru board whiner/pussies!
Ted Mendham

Official Accouncement:
Due to poor conditions at the Rally School, which have lead to serious safety concerns, we are cancelling this weekends event. Conditions just are not safe enough to run a rallyx safely.

Please "stay tuned" tho, we may be able to reschedule to another venue.

If we are unable to reschedule, I will shred all checks received.

Sorry for any inconvenience, but safety first.

Thanks, Kathy

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Ted Mendham
www.rensport.net

(wow)

SCCA? You were expecting?

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JohnLane

Overkill is consistently more fun

JohnLane Wrote:
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> SCCA? You were expecting?

Every now and then I look at SCCA's website to see if they have removed CircusRally from their rally lineup.

Well Jens..... 'Circus Rally' really and truly IS the essense of what our former 'Benevolent Dictator' had in mind for rally.....
The 'Team O'Niel' course is unsafe....... Ugh.

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JohnLane

Overkill is consistently more fun

What the world needs now is: more safety stewards and less events.
"you know some people want run rally-crosses with their street cars and well they could go off into a ditch and damage some lower plastic or something. We wouldn't want that would we, Ted" "Oh my God, do you think they might have to fill out an incident report!"
Ahrg!!!

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Ted Mendham
www.rensport.net

So what they are looking for in a rally venue is, what, that Honda ad, where every conceivable obstacle has airbags on it, already deployed? Where drivers, codrivers, stewards, crew, and anyone watching on TV has to wear SFI fire-rated diapers? Why don't these assholes just mandate that all competitive motorsports be held at Autopia in Disneyland and be done with it?

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Jay Woodward
Snohomish, WA
'90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
Chronologically, 46...

Oh that's right.....We NEVER have any injuries in any other manner of SCCA sanctioned events. Better cancel that dangerous event at O'Neil's place. We wouldn't want the cars to get (*GASP!!) DIRTY.........EWE....

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JohnLane

Volvo 260turbo AKA The Fire Breathing Monster
Overkill is consistently more fun

And NER-SCCA is famous for setting up silly tight courses where you have no good reason to shift out of first gear on a good day. And if the course gets rutted up, they will spend 2-1/2 hours reconfiguring. Thus making sure that people don't get too many runs. It is all getting way too dumbed down and safe for me.

I think it's well past time for SCCA to turn over the rally-X program to an organization that has some concept of what a sporting event should be like.

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Ted Mendham
www.rensport.net

All the time I was up in Lyndeborough and I didn't meet you, but here's an idea: go ove rto the Cullen's on Johnsons Corner Road and see if Graham is home. There's a nice field next to their house I could get up to a bit over 75 in my Cossie 4x4 Xtatty thing. On street tires that I got from the curbside that Andrew Steer's dad had pitched (cause I inadvertantly gave all my OK street tires to Mike White.)

Fuck SCCS, they were always dominated by the biggest rigidest sort of nervous nellies, so this aint surprising.

And the NorthWest "rally-ex" scene is also typically so slow as to be utterly and completely worthless.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

John,
We have met, but up at Maine Forest Rally.
And we have talked on the phone a few times.
One time you were put a SAAB Sport ring and pinion group buy together.
Another time you were looking gor a codriver for Maine.

Hey the memory isn't the first thing to go is it, but I can't remember what does go first.
Ted

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Ted Mendham
www.rensport.net



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I have been trying to get to the CART wintercross events, but they canceled due to lack of snow a half dozen times so I was eyeing this weekend's rallyx as an alternative. I checked the websites tonight to see that yes, warm weather had caused CART to cancel, but then I also saw that this rallyx was canned.

Seems like balonga to me. Who enters anything like this afraid to rip up the car? Shit happens.

How is that Frost Heave TSD/rallyx supposed to be? Worth attending?

Also: hello everyone.

I haven't run Frost Heave or heard much about it. If it is like most New England TSDs, it is beyond lame. CAS26, pause 10, pause 18, lunch break, repeat.
Vermont Winter is a real old school, all night challenging TSD, but it ran in January. Ontario Winter Rally is real driving challenge as well, but that may be running this weekend.

Ivan Orisek and the Rally NY people do some interesting Rally-Xs. And there is always Quebec.
Good luck,
Ted

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Ted Mendham
www.rensport.net

Hrm, thanks. Unfortunate that these local events seem to blow so hard. Not the shortest trip to ontario or even the finger lakes.

Remember that most people are pansies. We have a frighteningly low return rate at CO rallycross events due to potential car damage. Hense why autocross is so popular.

As far as Circus Rally. We're working on it Jens. But, it won't be an SCCA event. In fact, it probably won't be sanctioned at all, unless you consider a group of friends that make their rules over multiple pitchers and shots of tequila at the bar to be a sanctioning body.
Like the rule, "All cars must have a seat and seatbelt. The only exclusion is to Aaron McConnell who is required to utilize a milk crate and extension cord for his seat and seat belt."

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Grant Hughes

Pansies is too politically correct for me.

Let the pansies autocross. Let rally people rallycross. I come from a street racing, dirt biking, then rallying background. If no one ends up in jail or the hospital then it is considered a good day by us. At rallies, cars can get damaged, doh. It's part of the sport. All the more reason to run a beater, or someone elses car.

The same pansies who determined the the conditions at O'Neil's are unsafe, are now trying to get another rally-x rescheduled so that it won't conflict with a subaru club meet.

They are all starting to look like quail in orange vests to me.
Ted

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Ted Mendham
www.rensport.net