Holy crap theres a Rally in 3 weeks!

[stacy]

you cant keep a good SAAB down! broken cv joint day one.... day 2 loss of power steering, ran off the road w/ a near roll followed by seth crawling out the drivers side of the car while the car is half hanging over the drop off...towed back onto the road and kept on going to finish....unfortunately the gopro battery was dead at this point so we dont get to see the action first hand.

[Crazyswede]

you cant keep a good SAAB down! broken cv joint day one.... day 2 loss of power steering, ran off the road w/ a near roll followed by seth crawling out the drivers side of the car while the car is half hanging over the drop off...towed back onto the road and kept on going to finish....unfortunately the gopro battery was dead at this point so we dont get to see the action first hand.

we will be getting the in car footage from Gary who was in the sweep truck and was kind enough to yank us out along with about 4 or 5 other people lifting and pushing.

[Crazyswede]

Stage # 9....@ 5min 30 sec: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZbjRsxI0Jc
Geoff and Justin a 6min 15 sec

Stage 5
4:50 :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-8sI3rqiqk

Stage 12 after the off course...looks like we were all strapped in and back on the notes:
8 min 12 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaNOgWP5sGk

[Crazyswede]

remember that wagoneer conversation....here is a good example of a bad suspension setup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIi4DUIkrus

[Crazyswede]

not that it matters now...but it looks like we got a 1 minute penalty for checking in 1 minute early on Stage 7. Had our day gone better I would have protested this because I know we checked into every stage on time.

[matt]

looks like a finish despite great adversity.
Well done team!
Too bad I couldn't make the event myself.

[SwedeSport]

And we get to do it all over again in a few weeks.

Luke kept the car out of the ravine, Seth kept them on the notes. Jordan managed to keep the car in tune, I kept the team entertained with stories about three legged horses. And let's not forget Stacy, she kept our bellies full all weekend. Other teams with much larger crews made us look like a well oiled machine.

[Crazyswede]

There is nothing better than coming into service and knowing that there will be something good to eat from our team chef/media consultant its also nice to be able to step away from the car for a moment while everyone else does what has to be done...so a big thanks to Jordan and Jason for pulling wheels, topping of fluids, and fixing everything else.

[Luke]

Agreed, awesome event overall, without the small mechanical and the driver error (just for fun assuming with tied the next fastest 2wd on that stage) looking at the results we would have actually pulled of a 2wd win!

Look at the times for this stage for example:

http://www.rally-america.com/events/2011/flRR/stages/stage/9/

We were really flying, ahead of Duplessis even!

Thanks so much to Jordan, Jason and Stacy for keeping us going!

[max]

Good job guys! Hope I can make it to the next one.

[Jordan]

Great Success!

[Crazyswede]

can you find the results for the first 7 stages? I seem to lack the ability to find any useful info other than national results on the ever efficient rally america website. Clicking the regional button results in nothing. grrrrrr

[DrewP]

Well done!

[Geoff]

Thanks for getting us some yummy & healthy snacks Stacy!

Fortunately we didn't need much/any help with service which is good because we were running close and it would be tough to share helpers :-)

Seth, on the RA site, hover over "Regional" and pick "Finger Lakes" then click the "Stages" tab. I had the RA web guy helping me out with that after the Saturday SuperSpecial because I was complaining that I could never figure out how to get scores.

[nutcase]

Fantastic effort