Some picture someone else took of us I found in this gallery of the rally (my pictures are in there too):
Lined up at the start:
I had to take a picture of this sign. That was a crazy road
Then I didn't take any pictures for awhile. We were driving through some town and all the sudden I was like "holy fuck a Carerra GT!"
The Legacy hit a milestone (like how I reset the trip meter at 149445?):
Some picture of some road we were on:
We paced ourselves this time, so we didn't end up really early for a bunch of checkpoints. This was an exception. We got there at least 5 minutes early and were in a line about 10 cars long waiting to cross.
Also we got trophies! The one with a car is from the last rally, which we won in beginner class.
It was an awesome rally. The roads were fantastic, there wasn't much traffic, and it was more challenging than the first two ITN events. We moved up from beginner to novice class for this one, and got second.
We're a little disappointed about that, because we were running a great rally. Up until cp 15, we only had 7 points, and were leading the class with 4 at the meal break (the gave us 45min to get gas and food, then there was a restart). We ended up being the first car at the last standoff. We got to an intersection where you were supposed to be able to see a checkpoint before it was set up, and were late because of it. Cars were supposed to be able to see the cp on the way to an earlier cp, but it wasn't there when we passed by. We had to take a longer loop to avoid the possibility of going through backwards (and getting a 500pt penalty), and were late, getting 115 pts. I really tried to get there on time, too. I should check my tread depth to see how much rubber I left on the roads.
The last checkpoint was a minimum speed cp, where you had to be traveling at least 40mph. We knew that it was exactly 1 mile from a stop sign, so by traveling 45 over that mile and leaving 1:30 before our in-time would get us there at about the right time. For some reason we thought 40 was the right speed, so when the checkpoint came into view and I realized I was too far away and had to step on it. I crossed the hose at about 70, stomped the brakes, and came to a stop past the timing car. It was pretty funny having to back up to get our time, and we were only 1/100th of a minute late (so we got 1 point).
Some highlights for me were an awesome one lane road, following a truck with a goat in the back, and watching a WRX smoke a riced out Cougar who wouldn't let him pass. Getting to use the new lights was fun, too.
Also one of the cars hit a cow.
And I rocked my legacycentral shirt.