Hello, Eric here reporting on day 3. We overslept this morning. Steve and I got up at 5:25, about an hour later than planned and only 35 minutes before our scheduled start time. The day started off bad for us, the famous Alcan hillclimb was about three miles into the first timed TSD section. It looked fine until we found ourselves behind a semi truck with long low-boy trailer and had to follow it through the three switchbacks of the hillclimb. We took a 35 point penalty at the top of the climb. I was not happy. But if you drive for 16 hours and put about 800 miles in, those problems become distant memories.
TeamD slipped a bit today. Eric and Steve's hillclimb fun moved them back to second in class. They are 4.5 points behind first in class. They slipped from 5th to 7th place. Dan got stuck with some of their major points from yesterday, they are still third in class and 9th overall. Nick and Rob are hanging in there, third in their class and 10th overall.
Read on for more details and full standings...
On day four we get to drop the worst single checkpoint score of the first four days. These scores do not reflect those deductions so they may change radically tomorrow.
1. Car #3 Carlson, Joy, Kraushaar with 27.7points 2. Car #1 Ahearns, Schneider, Webb with 33.9 points 3. Car #2 Kraushaar, Engstrom, Richardson, 37.7 points 4. Car #4 Eklund, Rounds, Reid, 49 points 5. Car #12 Miller, Duchene, Wood with 76 points 6. Car #10 Wallace, Hightower, Carozza, 96.1 points 7. Car #7 Horst, Willey with 101 points 8. Car #8 Bornhop, Kott, 150 points 9. Car #11 Hogan, Comden with 286.1 points 10. Car #6 Dunn, Marcuse, 385.5 points 11. Car #9 Wright, Fuhrman, 706 points 12. Car #16 Brown, Morris, 709.1 points 13. Car #13 Gilland, Boyd with 747 points 14. Car #14 Weaver, Weaver, 808.3 points 15. Car #5 Elder, Elder, 837 points 16. Car #15 von Richthofen, Touring ClassPosted by erich at February 21, 2004 12:58 PM