Exclusive Day 2 Scores!
Feb
2004
Sometimes it pays to stay up way, way too late. We have to get up at 4:30 AM for Day 3 and I’m still up sharing the internet connection with Satch Carlson at 12:25AM. But as we sat the Day 2 provisional scores arrived in our hands. The results improve my mood considerably.
The TeamD summary is that Eric and Steve move the BMW to first in class and fifth overall. This despite taking max points at Gold Pan Speedway and ruining a tire and some bodywork. Eric and Steve were also the only team to score zero points on the controversial Do-It-Yourself TSD section late in the evening.
Nick and Rob make waves in their lowly Mazda 323, taking only 4.5 points in the unstudded tire group at the Gold Pan ice race. This means they were only 4.5 seconds slower on their two runs than a high-performance Mitsubishi Lancer EVO driven by a professional driver!
Both Jim/Dan and Rob/Nick have outstanding queries in to the scoring committee about confusion at the DIY section and until those are resolved they stand with max scores of 200 points for that section, making their day two scores abnormally high.
Top positions have all changed around, read on for full scores:
1. Car #3 Carlson, Joy, Kraushaar with 24.7 points 2. Car #2 Kraushaar, Engstrom, Richardson, 28.6 points 3. Car #1 Ahearns, Schneider, Webb with 30.9 points 4. Car #4 Eklund, Rounds, Reid, 38 points 5. Car #7 Horst, Willey with 54 points 6. Car #12 Miller, Duchene, Wood with 59 points 7. Car #10 Wallace, Hightower, Carozza, 71.1points 8. Car #8 Bornhop, Kott, 116 points 9. Car #11 Hogan, Comden with 259.1 points 10. Car #6 Dunn, Marcuse, 317.5 points 11. Car #9 Wright, Fuhrman, 378 points (got a flat and accidentally discharged fire extinguisher in their car!) 12. Car #5 Elder, Elder, 481 points 13. Car #16 Brown, Morris, 499.1 points 14. Car #13 Gilland, Boyd with 627 points 15. Car #14 Weaver, Weaver, 644.3 points 16. Car #15 von Richthofen, Touring Class (raced on the ice track with his trailer!)
February 20th, 2004 at 12:43 am
It does pay to stay up late because I am still up checking all the sites for any info on whats been going on. Thanks for the update.
February 20th, 2004 at 12:51 am
Amanda, I’m sure you know but Jake did great today at the track. Jake is really cool because kicking butt on the track doesn’t go to his head. He’s funny too because he really hates to not be fastest.
February 20th, 2004 at 12:54 am
It’s hard to reach you all informally except here in the comments. I just want to thank everyone for the great comments and support so far. I’m really glad you’re enjoying our coverage.
February 20th, 2004 at 6:16 am
“despite…ruining a tire and some bodywork”
Lucy! You got some ‘splainin’ to do! well, Steve does anyway. pictures work too. and oh yeah – i’m enjoying the coverage also. good luck!
ps: i’m annoyed i can’t garnish my post with html tags like <h1> and <blink>. nasty little web masterers! 🙂
February 20th, 2004 at 9:08 am
Good job guys. Staying tuned to these updates, the best on the web!!
February 20th, 2004 at 9:13 am
Yeah you can’t put HTML tags in. I believe it’s a setting in the generic blog setting, designed mostly to prevent people from adding links and images to questionable content. I brought it up during the testing phase and we decided to leave it as is … oh the horrors of generic text!
Hope the scoring query works out and most of the 200 goes away.
Nice to see #7 ahead of #10. You’re giving them a really hard time about that right?
February 20th, 2004 at 9:33 am
Good luck! Sorry I can’t be there this year. Go BMW!
February 20th, 2004 at 9:42 am
Good show, Car 7! And hurrah to (unofficial TeamD affiliate) Jake. I hope we’ll get to see some video of the ice races back in seattle. I bet it was cool to see the Barons racing with their trailer!
Dan & Jim, I hope your scores are resolved favorably. Hang in there.
February 20th, 2004 at 10:22 am
Great job Eric and Steve. If the car lasts you guys could win big. Keep it up TeamD.
February 20th, 2004 at 12:19 pm
Wow amazing what one day can do, good job car 7!!
Looking forward to seeing some pic’s of the car or not??
Good luck to all the team D guys today.
February 20th, 2004 at 7:42 pm
Ooooh, goody. My first post as an Alcan Rally/TeamD fanboy. Dan and Jim scored 200! That’s awesome, tied for the top score of the day. Don’t worry guys, the Weavers at 647 aren’t that far out of reach…you can do it!!!
;-P
Have fun and keep the shiny side up.
Glenn