AZ1000 Day 5
16
Jul
2009
Jul
2009
Well after a tough Day 4, Marinus decided to tear apart the external sending unit and mount a bracket and sensor on the car with magnets. The low tire indicator came on again. We held our breath and kept going, hoping that our turn to work a control would come up soon. But it didn’t until the very end of the section. But the tire held and we nursed it into town. We only got 52 points on Friday. Overall we came in 3rd in the EQUIPPED class and 4th overall. Mapleback/Von Kaenel finished first overall.
May 16th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
What she said. Thursday night with my new cordless drill I hogged out a shelf bracket and bolted it up. The tires on the car still wouldn’t hold us in on downhill off-camber marbles, but at least when we passed the controls we knew how late we were. 🙂
May 20th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Nice work on the re-re-re-engineering. Sounds like quite an event