TeamD Adventures

This TeamD Google Earth flyover shows an approximation of our Alcan Winter Rally route.

The Alcan Winter Rally rolls around every four years and I get to talking to friends, will give you some key info about our most critical of equipment,

To prepare for the trip north, we got some seat-time in a skid-car. Prodrive held a class last Friday at PIR for local AlCan participants, 11 in all. It involved about 15 minutes of classroom instruction followed by a couple-three of hours instruction over 2 courses in the skid-car plus a little competition between 2 teams. Added bonus: it was a gray rainy day in Portland. The course was wet. Team Subie/D had only 1 spinner. Who was that (Hint: initials are PE)? All in all, the training was invaluable and fun.

Such a big word, ‘counterintuitive’. I know this theoretically, I have much empirical evidence, and I’ve had training in the practice. But when the moment arrives, when the car’s loose and the navigator notices it, when the space between us and a snowbank is shrinking, all from too much speed…

Here’s the punch list that came out of Thunderbird 2008 for our WRX Team (Jeff and Marvin). It was compiled during the long drive back from Merritt Sunday afternoon/evening. Long because Highway 5 was closed so we needed to reroute around the closure via 8 and 1. We were a bit bored and a bit jazzed from the fun weekend and still bubbling with ideas about how to make things run smoothly on Alcan. We came up with this list… (more…)