TeamD Adventures

I was glad to be at the start, but sad I wasn’t coming along this time.

The cars and people of TeamD had an impressive showing at the 2009 Thunderbird Rally in British Columbia. “TBird” as many call it is fairly called the biggest unpaved TSD rally in western North America. Overall kudos go to Satch Carlson and Russ Kraushaar, repeating their 2007 overall victory in the Historic class 1969 Saab Sonett with a finishing score of 6 — proving once again that AWD is not necessary to take the win on TBird’s challenging roads and conditions. Two additional classic Saabs were in the event, with Garth Ankeny and Ben Bradley piloting their red 1969 96 to an impressive top-ten overall finish and 2nd in Historic class. The other 96, a 1970 edition, was driven by John Vanlandingham and Adam Crane. Rules for the Savoia Aero Team prize precluded TeamD from competing in that arena — they needed to have entries in more than a single class. The team prize was awarded to Arctic Challengers.

I just learned about the little-known (to me, anyhow) feature of viewing Youtube videos in original high quality mode, which is better than what you usually see before the Youtube elves massage the originals for regular viewing.

Oh, and the kids will want Buzz in HQ.

The Buzz mascot has been through quite a lot — negative 40 temps in Dawson City in 2004, bugs, rain and sun in 2006, and another round of Alcan weirdness in 2008. Other Alcaners also captured moving pictures with modern technology. I challenge them all to produce it, whether they think it’s good or not.

Yes, should be arriving tomorrow and we look forward to hearing from them.