Alcan RallyLog

Cold, Hard Truth--Scores for Day1

It pains me to be the one to say that TeamD got off to a rocky start today on day one of the Alcan Winter Rally. After an easy day of rally Eric and Steve are standing second in class with a score of 23. Dan and Jim are third in class with 34. Rob and Nick are fourth in their class with a score of 84. But overall those scores make us a little sad.

Read on for more detail including full standings.

Rob and Nick in car number six have the best excuse, they missed a turn on the first scored TSD second and went a long way down the road before realizing that they had made a mistake. They retraced their steps and recovered.

Eric and Steve suffered navigator trouble. A miscalculated odometer calibration factor had them running about eight seconds off for the first scored section. They got that corrected but not before collecting poor scores at two checkpoints. They didn't completely ruin themselves being only 13 points out of first in their class, but they have no room for further mistakes.

Dan and Jim have good technique, scoring well early in the day but are still trying to understand where they gained points later in the day. They'll get that pinned down tomorrow for sure!

In the run for the team trophy TeamD is in third place behind Team Challenge Driving holding second place and Team BMW lands in first place. The team trophy placement is calculated based on the average of each cars position in their respective class.

All is not lost, we're still holding strong, headed into our first ice race in the morning and two scored TSD sections in the afternoon.

Overall standings:

1.   Car #1  Ahearns, Schneider, Webb with 3 points
2.   Car #3  Carlson, Joy, Kraushaar with 6 points
3.   Car #2  Kraushaar, Engstrom, Richardson, 8 points
4.   Car #4  Eklund, Rounds, Reid, tied with 10 points
4.   Car #10 Wallace, Hightower, Carozza, 10 points
6.   Car #12 Miller, Duchene, Wood with 13 points
7.   Car #7  Horst, Willey with 23 points
8.   Car #11 Hogan, Comden with 34 points
9.   Car #8   Bornhop, Kott, 53 points
10. Car #5   Elder, Elder, 71 points
11. Car #6   Dunn, Marcuse, 86 points
12. Car #9   Wright, Fuhrman, 128 points
13. Car #13 Gilland, Boyd with 217 points
14. Car #16 Brown, Morris, 259 points
15. Car #14 Weaver, Weaver, 340 points
16. Car #15 von Richthofen, Touring Class