Archive for the 'Alcan Winter Rally 2004' Category

Greetings From Whitehorse!

Friday, February 20th, 2004

Eric, Dan and Steve do a much more effective job of posting updates from the road than Jim … thinks Jim. It would help if Jim knew how to type. You should see Dan banging away on the keyboard as we cruise down the Alaska Highway at 130kph. It is a sight to behold. My two-finger typing technique whilst in the passenger seat is nowhere near as effective and trying to type while underway can give me *just* a touch of motion sickness, something to which I am usually quite immune. Ooh, I am getting a bit woozy!
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Exclusive Day 2 Scores!

Friday, February 20th, 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:
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The TeamD Heros of Gold Pan

Friday, February 20th, 2004

Day two partial report

Thursday, February 19th, 2004

This is a test. This is only a test.

That’s what I had to tell myself while rounding the back turn of the Gold Pan race course in Quesnel this morning. The track conditions were very bumpy hard snow, and going off course here wouldn’t be nearly as forgiving as our our practice runs last month on the frozen lake. Snowbanks were window-high on the car here, and the course was pretty narrow.
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Gold Pan Photos

Thursday, February 19th, 2004

WRX fun:

Car 7 starts:

We didn’t wear shorts