We will be out there this week at Treeline.
http://www.treelinerally.com/
Looking for a safe driver to drive the service car on Saturday.Jamal???
Cheers
Chris
TreeLine this weekend
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That sounds like it would be pretty cool.rally370 wrote:We will be out there this week at Treeline.
http://www.treelinerally.com/
Looking for a safe driver to drive the service car on Saturday.Jamal???
Cheers
Chris
I'm going to be there, although I'm currently signed up to work control on a few stages. What does driving the service car entail?
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Hi Jamal
Don't feel bad! you are doing a great job.Anyway I have service sorted.I'm sharing with a great dude called Rem.He and his wife Pam drive a quick VW Golf.
Thanks for offering and see you there.
Car is about ready.I can't believe all i had to do from Rim was an oil change and another skid plate extension.Plus clean out the exhaust of all broken Cat porcelain.
Cheers
Chris
Don't feel bad! you are doing a great job.Anyway I have service sorted.I'm sharing with a great dude called Rem.He and his wife Pam drive a quick VW Golf.
Thanks for offering and see you there.
Car is about ready.I can't believe all i had to do from Rim was an oil change and another skid plate extension.Plus clean out the exhaust of all broken Cat porcelain.
Cheers
Chris
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We kicked bottoms again.
Jamal
You're the man! As you know the Legacy kicked bottoms again! I'm still recovering...Full report to follow....This car is the best!
Watch this space.
Cheers
Chris
You're the man! As you know the Legacy kicked bottoms again! I'm still recovering...Full report to follow....This car is the best!
Watch this space.
Cheers
Chris
Finally put the rest of my pictures up, so here they are.
Oh look, Burnsie just showed up. I talked to Jamie and her co-driver for a bit while they were doing a bit of work Friday night. I even moved some jackstands for them, so it's like, I was sort of on Subie Gal's service team:
Tech inspection Friday evening:
Chris (rally370) showed up a bit after that, and I talked to him for a bit before my worker meeting (which was really boring).
I was supposed to meet my team at the hotel in West Covina at 9am. For some reason I woke up at 10. Damn. I tried calling my captain, but he must have already been up there, so no cell phone service. I didn't know how to get to the start, where I was supposed to be, so after trying a road that I thought might work, I went over to then end of stage 3 where the service would be to ask. It ended up being pretty far away. I finally got to the right road. I knew it was the right road because I caught up to rally cars. Angeles crest highway is awesome.
Then I stopped to give some water to a broken down car. It really sucked that they didn't even make it to the start. Cooling problems of some sort, I think.
Wooo... Open road. The STi take-offs are quite the improvement over stock, even with the need for an alignment and bald RE92s.
Damnit. I caught up to the rally car (truck) again.
Oh, make that three.
We all rolled into the start in a nice line. I would have liked to get to the bottom, but cars were in the way.
Awww...
The actual start line is down at the bottom of the hill there. I was working up top, writing down the car number, ideal start times, and sequence number on a clip board. Once they got to the bottom, the actual start time is written on the car (it's different if there is a crash or something), and they take off on their minute.
Cars lined up again:
Subie Gal. Chris wouldn't have finished the rally without her, which makes her alright in my book, even after the things people say about her:
NOW THAT IS AN AWESOME CAR RIGHT THERE:
After the start, we had a few hours to kill before the finish. It was a turn around rally, so the cars raced three stages, did service, and then turned around and came back down the course, so the start of stage 1 (where I was), became the finish of stage 6. I decided to cruise back down the road to town and pick up some water for myself and my captian. I was kind of thirsty because it was hot and I gave my nice cold gallon of water to the stranded rally car, which was still on the side of the road as I went down. I stopped and asked if they needed anything, and they said their tow truck was on the way, but they would appreciate it if I got them some gatoraid, which I did.
This jackass wouldn't pull over on the way down, and was riding his brakes the whole time. I could even smell them they so were cooked.
I passed that service truck on the way up the hill, and he got there just before I left after dropping off the gatoraid. I was pretty surprised, actually, because he must have been driving like a maniac to get there so soon after me.
Here's a nice view of the mountains and crap at where I was working. I have so many damn mosquito bites. At least I can pull the west nile excuse if I don't feel like going to work some day this week.
I got to work the flying finish. That means I was the guy who stands there at the finish line with a stopwatch. So, rally cars were flying past me around a tight 180, which a lot of cars overshot. It was awesome.
here's the finish line:
The first car across was Subie gal. I had to take pictures and time the cars at the same time, so they mostly turned out a little blurry. Oh, and there are two of us timing, so it's not a big deal if one of us screws up. there were only two discrepencies, but they were only a second and I'm not saying which cars or what times we used.
Here's a blurry SRT-4. LOL FWD rally car LOL.
This impreza missed the corner. heh. I wish I had a picture of the EVO that was car 0 sliding past it.
He had to back up. I took a step back as he came sliding past me.
Some other car coming around the corner:
Rally370 coming around the corner:
Oh look, Burnsie just showed up. I talked to Jamie and her co-driver for a bit while they were doing a bit of work Friday night. I even moved some jackstands for them, so it's like, I was sort of on Subie Gal's service team:
Tech inspection Friday evening:
Chris (rally370) showed up a bit after that, and I talked to him for a bit before my worker meeting (which was really boring).
I was supposed to meet my team at the hotel in West Covina at 9am. For some reason I woke up at 10. Damn. I tried calling my captain, but he must have already been up there, so no cell phone service. I didn't know how to get to the start, where I was supposed to be, so after trying a road that I thought might work, I went over to then end of stage 3 where the service would be to ask. It ended up being pretty far away. I finally got to the right road. I knew it was the right road because I caught up to rally cars. Angeles crest highway is awesome.
Then I stopped to give some water to a broken down car. It really sucked that they didn't even make it to the start. Cooling problems of some sort, I think.
Wooo... Open road. The STi take-offs are quite the improvement over stock, even with the need for an alignment and bald RE92s.
Damnit. I caught up to the rally car (truck) again.
Oh, make that three.
We all rolled into the start in a nice line. I would have liked to get to the bottom, but cars were in the way.
Awww...
The actual start line is down at the bottom of the hill there. I was working up top, writing down the car number, ideal start times, and sequence number on a clip board. Once they got to the bottom, the actual start time is written on the car (it's different if there is a crash or something), and they take off on their minute.
Cars lined up again:
Subie Gal. Chris wouldn't have finished the rally without her, which makes her alright in my book, even after the things people say about her:
NOW THAT IS AN AWESOME CAR RIGHT THERE:
After the start, we had a few hours to kill before the finish. It was a turn around rally, so the cars raced three stages, did service, and then turned around and came back down the course, so the start of stage 1 (where I was), became the finish of stage 6. I decided to cruise back down the road to town and pick up some water for myself and my captian. I was kind of thirsty because it was hot and I gave my nice cold gallon of water to the stranded rally car, which was still on the side of the road as I went down. I stopped and asked if they needed anything, and they said their tow truck was on the way, but they would appreciate it if I got them some gatoraid, which I did.
This jackass wouldn't pull over on the way down, and was riding his brakes the whole time. I could even smell them they so were cooked.
I passed that service truck on the way up the hill, and he got there just before I left after dropping off the gatoraid. I was pretty surprised, actually, because he must have been driving like a maniac to get there so soon after me.
Here's a nice view of the mountains and crap at where I was working. I have so many damn mosquito bites. At least I can pull the west nile excuse if I don't feel like going to work some day this week.
I got to work the flying finish. That means I was the guy who stands there at the finish line with a stopwatch. So, rally cars were flying past me around a tight 180, which a lot of cars overshot. It was awesome.
here's the finish line:
The first car across was Subie gal. I had to take pictures and time the cars at the same time, so they mostly turned out a little blurry. Oh, and there are two of us timing, so it's not a big deal if one of us screws up. there were only two discrepencies, but they were only a second and I'm not saying which cars or what times we used.
Here's a blurry SRT-4. LOL FWD rally car LOL.
This impreza missed the corner. heh. I wish I had a picture of the EVO that was car 0 sliding past it.
He had to back up. I took a step back as he came sliding past me.
Some other car coming around the corner:
Rally370 coming around the corner:
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