RX 555
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| 19 Jan 2007 01:55 AM |
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hey, the StL forum is back! It's getting to be that time of the year again. The 100 Acre Wood rally will happen again in 2007. February 23-24 are the dates and the event is still part of the Rally-America National schedule as well as the Regional Rally championship for 2006. This hopefully means we will have a lot of entries and top ranked cars as it will be filmed for TV on ESPN2. It's also a qualifier round for the X Games. You'll also get to see & cheer for s2o's Mugwump as he runs for the PGT championship for 2006. Apparantly motel rooms are already starting to become hard to find, so if you even think you might be coming and need a room, get one soon. Motel contacts can be found at the website, www.100aw.orgWe will be running the event through Viburnum and Potosi this year so you might consider those areas for motels if Salem fills up. The National event status also means we will need more volunteers than ever, so please consider coming out to help, even if it's only for one day. Online registration is now up on the website. Registration will be in Salem at the Holiday-Inn meeting room on rally days and probably at the Salem fire house on Thursday. If you have any questions, I can be contacted at "curt at 100aw dot org". |
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RX 555
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| 05 Feb 2007 01:17 AM |
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If anybody was on the fence about coming, we still need volunteers to help esp. on Saturday. Road Marshals are always needed and no experience required. A Marshal sits at intersecting roads to the rally route and keeps non-competitors/locals off of the route and ensures the safety that the road is closed. Plus they get their own spot in the forest to spectate from, free tshirt, lunch and invitation to the free after party Sat. night. Another job we could use help with is Control workers. They time the cars in and out of the stage and is good place to see the cars and drivers up close. There will also be 4-5 spectator areas if you don't want to volunteer and want to check it out. Those areas will be posted on the website in a week or two and spectator guides will be available at the rally to assist in finding out. |
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Prometheus6krpm
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| 05 Feb 2007 07:50 AM |
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Working a start control is a really fun experience. If you've never seen a 400 hp AWD car launch at 7000 rpm with anti-lag it's a site to see. |
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RX 555
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| 08 Feb 2007 12:20 PM |
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uhh, when have ever worked a start control mr. picturetaker[:P] It's is fun though |
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Prometheus6krpm
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| 08 Feb 2007 05:25 PM |
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I was taking photos of the cars at the start control.... and it was really cool... and start control workers see the same stuff I see thru the camera lens. Therefore working a start control is cool. Technically I was "working" on taking video at the "start control". |
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RX 555
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| 09 Feb 2007 09:39 PM |
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43 entries and counting :) Early reg. cutoff is still 8 days away so it should grow from there. 4 entries from StL area so far including the famous multi-talented Jeep. Muggy you out there? Your car/class aren't listed yet. Does this mean you are renting a VT Open car? Way to get Cody as the codriver. No offense to your previous codriver.[A] Hope that works out. Tuxedo Park should take notice that there is a RX8 entered. It's even silver :) |
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Vibe
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| 10 Feb 2007 10:23 AM |
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Can't wait to get out there. I'll try to get some carnage photos this year. One of the wrecks I recovered last year would have made cool photos. It was a WRX that was on fire and on its lid in a ditch. Would have made great photos but I just had my hands full.....hey, I couldn't let 'em burn! |
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mugwump
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| 12 Feb 2007 11:45 AM |
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[quote]Muggy you out there? Your car/class aren't listed yet. Does this mean you are renting a VT Open car? [/quote] Yeah, I plan on extending the Muggy vs. Pastrana streak to 3-0 [;)] Unfortunately, I'll have to do it again in my lowly RS. R-A has a new registration thing online that is nice, but it requires alot of info to put your car in that I'll have to look up. |
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RX 555
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| 13 Feb 2007 01:01 AM |
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So if you were thinking of coming down and not sure where to go or when, this post is for you. onsite worker registration is | Thursday, Feb. 22nd | Salem Fire House | Noon - 8:45 P.M. | | Friday, Feb. 23rd | Holiday Inn Express meeting room | 9:00 A.M. - Noon | | Saturday, Feb. 24th | Holiday Inn Express meeting room | 6:30 A.M. - 8:00 A.M. |
or see http://100aw.org/workers_info.html and sign up online and save some time when you get there. |
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mugwump
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| 21 Feb 2007 08:14 PM |
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Well, I'll be heading out in the morning. I'm very excited. Time to stick it to those pesky turbo cars [;)] If you can't make it down, you can check out my progress (or lack there of) with R-A's [url=http://www.rally-america.com/event.100AW.2007.php?section=live_updates]live updates[/url]. |
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rennen
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| 22 Feb 2007 07:12 AM |
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Woo Hoo,
I can't wait! I am getting the fuck out of Wichita today after work. I miss Missouri roads, I miss driving on gravel. See everyone there! |
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fiat124girl
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| 22 Feb 2007 09:14 AM |
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Jim is already there with Tess. Jude will be down today and then Ruthie and I will follow tomorrow. The weather looks great and I can't wait! |
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Speed Raycer
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| 22 Feb 2007 01:33 PM |
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[quote user="Jennifer Rudder"]The weather looks great and I can't wait![/quote] ??? ???? 
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christoc
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| 22 Feb 2007 01:46 PM |
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[quote user="Izzy's"] [quote user="Jennifer Rudder"]The weather looks great and I can't wait![/quote] ??? ???? [/quote] blonde [:D] |
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fiat124girl
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| 22 Feb 2007 02:05 PM |
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[quote user="Christoc"][quote user="Izzy's"] [quote user="Jennifer Rudder"]The weather looks great and I can't wait![/quote] ??? ???? [/quote] blonde [:D] [/quote] What is wrong with a little rain to keep the dust down? As long as it is not raining all day the gravel tires will be fine. |
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chrisitr
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| 22 Feb 2007 02:10 PM |
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Well looks like I won't be making it down again this year. I've got to work tonight and now I'm sick. I want to just lay down. Now if I could have a bed that people would move to different places that would be great.
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BDSCT51
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| 24 Feb 2007 06:38 PM |
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Go Muggy go! Looks like he is mid pack most of the event with three stages left. |
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Danno
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| 24 Feb 2007 09:33 PM |
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Mr. Mug finished with a strong 13th place on SS15. http://www.rally-america.com/ seems to only show overall results for the national competitors, but from the stages I browsed it looked like Jeff and Cody were turning in solid times throughout the rally.
It looks as if Jim & Tess retired on SS12...they didn't make it to the start of SS13 where I was working, and their last stage result on the website is from SS11.
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92AS
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| 25 Feb 2007 09:25 AM |
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Just a quick update on our weekend. Unfortunately, Tess & I did retire at the start of stage 12 with some sort of fuel pressure problem. We finished Friday in about 8th in Group 2 and moved up to about 5th on Saturday in the rain and mud. The truck was great as usual up until Stage 11 when the clutch pedal got soft, forcing us to run the whole Stage in 3rd gear. Then Stage 11 it wouldn't restart. I think it finally got tired of all the crap I put it through.[:)]We did run an in-car camera this year, which has some interesting footage. I'll dump it down to DVD if anyone is interested. I'll also try to give a more detailed accout of the weekend after I decompress a little bit. As always, thanks to Jude & Jen at PFM Racing. There's no way Tess & I could have raced without them. Jim Stevens G2 #492 Jeep Comanche |
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mugwump
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| 25 Feb 2007 06:12 PM |
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[quote user="Jennifer Rudder"]What is wrong with a little rain to keep the dust down? As long as it is not raining all day the gravel tires will be fine.[/quote]
LOL, so it was you who brought that storm upon us [:p] And, FWIW, when it did stop raining for the night stages, it was dusty/foggy....
I'm going to keep this short as I feel another nap coming on and I'll post a full account of rally #3 in a few days.
The short version is that we had a great time. I'd like to thank Cody for his great job calling the notes and keeping us on time (mostly). I definitely owe a debt of gratitude to my fantastic crew of Jeef, Phil C and James E for creative and quick fixes and care of the rally car in entirely too miserable of conditions. Without them we never would have finished. Its also important to thanks Scott at Izzy's Custom Cages, Dave at SPS, and Mark & John with 321GoVideo.com for all their support which is the only reason I could take the start in the first place.
Fri. went better than expected. We finished 7th out of 27? regional competitors and 2nd out of 5 in regional PGT. It took some getting adjusting using the Stage Notes but Cody and I got on the same page (tee hee) more or less from SS2 onwards.
Sat. went even better. We hoped to maintain 2nd in class (and thus the regional championship) as 1st was way faster than us. However, at least one of the people behind us had a faster WRX but had had some mechinical and driving issues the day before and was a few minutes down on us. It got close for a while, especially as we picked up a 90sec penalty and put 3 of us within a minute of each other after nearly an hour of racing! We pushed and persevered, so focused on stage that we didn't realize the busted up WRX we passed on the last stage was the first place car. This we were told as we entered the finish, much to our suprise. It made waiting for our other competitors to show up very nerve wracking as that not only put us in 1st place for the rally, but also 1st for the Regional Rally Championship. When our nearest competitor showed up on a tow rope, it started sinking in that we had just won a national championship. It honestly hasn't sunk in completely yet. For the day we finished 5th overall and 1st in class. I think we were something like 18th overall out of 58 starters (including everybody, regional & national) and fourth in class, which is pretty amazing given that I finished around 30/50 last year.
Well, that's more than I had planned to write and I'm still very excited, but the details will have to wait for later [:D] |
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