2point5RS_Dan
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Facebook. Not sure where they found it.
2010 Team O'Neil Rally
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ReZPunK
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Karl Stone. he took the shot. its credited to him on the facebook link as well.
on a personal note about the event, i acheived two personal goals for myself for this event.
not fall off note, and stay penalty free.
on my first event i would see a safety triangle and focus on it...then i would lose my place in the notes. last weekend i had to make a conscince effort to see the triangle, let driver know of triangle and then keep reading the notes. and it worked! we saw 2 triangles on stage and i never lost my place. even after we got stuck i knew the exact place in the notes we were at and by the time we got the car moving again, i had the book open and on the right page for the next corner.
being penalty free is just a matter of paying attention and being lucky the car never broke. some of those transits were REAL tight with the time. from what i gather lots of teams were struggling to get the transits across 142 on time. and the one to finish was just ridiculous! 20 minutes from team o school to the grand mtn view...
kevin and i reached a place about mid morning where i was calling 2 notes ahead and he was all over it like white on rice. i am starting to understand that chemistry that they talk about between driver and codriver.
on a personal note about the event, i acheived two personal goals for myself for this event.
not fall off note, and stay penalty free.
on my first event i would see a safety triangle and focus on it...then i would lose my place in the notes. last weekend i had to make a conscince effort to see the triangle, let driver know of triangle and then keep reading the notes. and it worked! we saw 2 triangles on stage and i never lost my place. even after we got stuck i knew the exact place in the notes we were at and by the time we got the car moving again, i had the book open and on the right page for the next corner.
being penalty free is just a matter of paying attention and being lucky the car never broke. some of those transits were REAL tight with the time. from what i gather lots of teams were struggling to get the transits across 142 on time. and the one to finish was just ridiculous! 20 minutes from team o school to the grand mtn view...
kevin and i reached a place about mid morning where i was calling 2 notes ahead and he was all over it like white on rice. i am starting to understand that chemistry that they talk about between driver and codriver.
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RallyCat
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You actually had time to look up?
My goal with stepping into Allen Down's car was to kick the note calling pace up a notch or two from what I have been used to (not that Al Moody is slow by any stretch of the imagination, but the slower cars tend to give you an extra second to look up coming out of corners). There were a couple of stages that I rarely looked up and started getting a good sense for "feeling" what the car was doing to keep my timing. It was a really good experience for me. Never got "off" the notes, but there were a few places that the first time through at speed, I got a touch behind. For instance the top of the hill between the ditch and the hard left downhill (or the hard right to the big ditch going the other direction) - In the open class car, those ten or so notes went by REALLY fast. On Stage 7 I think the notes came out so fast that it must have sounded like "R2, blahblahblahblah, BRAKE! BIG DITCH!!!".
jbskidude
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inside my car the morning started off very difficult with notes... lots of getting lost, codriver no being sure of him self even when he was dead on then he would get all messed up
, getting ahaid.. ect... but by then end of the 4th stage the bond started forming and i started really driving what i was hearing, not what i thought i remembered from recce. I noticed my speeds were improving. At one point i questioned what i heard, but decided drive what i heard because my father was doing good at that point... came around the next corner and cleaned out a line of cones and missed a turn... one of my favorite parts of the whole event was coming from the gravel pit to the rally school. right after entering the rally school there is a section that is something like this, " L5 R5 into Jmp /cr into L2down " . we had run the stage once already and i new that part well in my mind and dad got lost in the notes, i hit the jump really big and yelled to him "find the BIG jump into left 2 and start reading again man!" i dont no about any one else but that jump was fun! just wish the next crest was further away so i didnt land bumper in so many times!
ReZPunK
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2point5RS_Dan
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Trying to derail me working on my final projects even more I see. Vids came out great.
