TeamD Adventures

Day Three pictures

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…
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Another voice offering greetings from the bar in Whitehorse. Wireless and beer are a winning combination. So, here are some loosly connected Alcan ramblings.
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Here are some pics from the last few days from Rob in Car #6:

Grimy is the road to Whitehorse, especially when the temps are well above freezing. Today’s early start at 0600 in Ft. St. John seemed like it would stay cold, but it didn’t last. A nice long TSD section on some interesting roads, paved and unpaved, had rallyists scratching their heads over the advisability of passing on uphill hairpin turns. From the sounds of it, most selected safety over a good checkpoint time. It will be interesting to see if that part of the section is scored later as the amount of traffic on that section of road affected quite a few cars. The rest was great, though.
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