Harvest Moon RallyCross discussion and Smack Talk

[FONT=&quot]Harvest Moon RallyCross[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
2008 Land O’ Lakes Region RallyCross Championship Event no. 5[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
Sunday, September 7, 2008[/FONT]​

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Location:
VFW Post 10794
Junction of Highway 169 and 105th Ave.
Pease, Minnesota

Directions: From the north or south, take Highway 169 to Pease, MN. Turn off at 105th Ave eastbound, the parking lot of the VFW is immediately to your left. It is a small blue building. Registration will be either outside, weather allowing, or inside the building. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Google map available at: [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]http://tinyurl.com/5ayws2[/FONT]
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Food & Gas: [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Available along Highway 169 south of the event venue. Food may be available for purchase at the VFW, look for an update before the event.
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[FONT=&quot]ONLINE REGISTRATION AT[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
http://www.scca-lol.org/rally/rallyx/schedule.php
Online preregistration is requested and strongly encouraged. It will make day of registration much easier.[/FONT]​

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[FONT=&quot]Fees:[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
SCCA Members: $40.00
Non-SCCA Members*:$55.00

* Non-members are required to purchase an SCCA Weekend Membership for $15.00
(The weekend membership can be used as a $15 discount on a full SCCA membership).

Not sure you’re ready to RallyCross?? Come and watch-for free!!

As always we need volunteers for course set up and timing/scoring etc.
All competitors MUST work the course as a condition of event entry
All competitors must have an FRS Radio, radios cannot be shared between competitors.


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Schedule:
Registration: 9:00AM-10:00AM
Tech: 9:00AM-10:30AM
Course walk: 9:00AM-10:30AM
Driver's meeting: 10:45AM
Timed Runs Start: 11:00AM


Terrain is grass on black dirt.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Want more info? Contact:[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
Mark Holden-Eventmaster: [email protected]
Erik Dahl - LOL Rally Chair: [email protected][/FONT]​

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All competitors and spectators must sign the official SCCA Waiver of Liability. All minors present must have a minor waiver filled out. Please download the registration and identification forms, and have them filled out prior to the event. The 2008 LOL RallyCross Championship will be run under the 2008 SCCA Rally Cross Rules and the 2008 LOL Championship Rules.[/FONT]

 

i would love to see the event happen on the 21st.
this is the one in princeton, right?
however, given my track record of being able to actually get to the events dont change it just for me. i just have a better shot of making it if it is on the 21st.

 

Scoreboard Mark:biggrin: I got you at Corcoran but we'll have to see how the next one goes. Utech was teaching me the ways of the goey foot.

Either day will work for me BTW.

 

A lot of people I was beating caught and passed me after the final round.

I agree with the reversal of the running order 100%, but my group had the sloppiest conditions of the entire day due to the watering happening immediately before our run (without any time to soak in or dry like the first two sets), and some gratuitous over-watering by a certain unnamed *cough*Josh*cough* individual. I literally lost three seconds each run on the first left (I was counting as I was sliding, not much else to do at that point).

We probably also had the best conditions of the day on the first run set though.

 

Unofficial Season points at:

http://scca-lol.org/rally/rallyx/results/2008SeasonPointsR4.pdf

 

Yeah, the water did not have enough time to soak in, we shoulda started watering before the drivers meeting, not after. That pin corner was bad too, and I didn't put nearly as much water on it as I did during lunch, taht clay just got snotty with any amount of water. To be fair to Josh, in the morning we got the advice that it was difficult to overwater that section of the track due to the slope and soil type.

Thanks for posting up the results. I'm gonna have to work hard to stay ahead of Denny for the rest of the season

 

Brent- You need to pick a class! It is sad, only having participated in 3 events and you are third in both PA and M2.

 

You mean third.

 

Yeah, you are right. I am tired.

 

I think you all ought to vote for the 7th, since that is the day after Brent's birthday. Perhaps you guys in M2 will get lucky and he won't be "feeling so well". We are having a Birthday party the night before after all :biggrin:

Carrie

 

Well, I'll be there with my car that just got it's drivers license this year as it's 16

Oh, and I found out while buying parts that it's actually a Plymouth Sundance Duster :slayer:

If my master plan works, it won't be a bobble head thru the slaloms anymore!! :laugh: And no, I'm not installing outriggers... :eek4:

 

Training wheels?

 

i might be able to make this one with the wagon... we shall see if it is done and if i have tires by then...

 

oh yeah, my car can vote and go to war!

 

What's with all the hate?!?!?!?!? You young punks afraid of a fat old bald guy in a beat up car?

 

No hate, we respect the skills. I had the second fastest third run set at Dog Daze next to you and you smoked me by 6 seconds. That might give people a small taste of how badly you beat up on all of us.

Give me 20 years of this stuff and then I might be able to hang with you.

 

This ^ shows true wisdom. All joking aside, driving on slippery surfaces is ALL about experience. I've got a fair bit of it.

To put it even more simply, seat time is everything. Enter every event you can. You will get better (I'm using the all inclusive "you").

For now, I'm enjoying seeing the improvement of many based on some simple suggestions. It was very cool to see how many improved after the first run set at Dog Daze when I offered that almost everyone would go faster if they slowed down a bit.

BTW, my post above was a response to Josh's post suggesting to schedule the event when I couldn't be there. It was meant in humor. Sorry if that got lost in my post.

 

i think that is a clever disguise adopted by your true robot self to lull your competition into a false sense of security.

i have a feeling you may in fact be the prototype for the Loeb-bot.

the last time there was a such a gap from 1st to second was when Doug brought CPD1 to my parents place.

 

i'm back - prepare for ownage. (of either the rest of the field or myself).

 

You're the next one I have in my sights:biggrin: Better get to driving the Sti or you might be out of practice driving the subie. To much time behind the wheel of the Mitsu. might slow you down:laugh:

 

You
are
all
going
down!

 

Is princeton another gravel event, or is it a dirt/mud one?

Definitely going to try and make this, but knowing which date it'll be on is kinda important (at least, as far as finding a place to sleep is concerned).

 

Dirt/grass, and I hope to have the date firmed up in the next couple of days.

 

so it is similar to cannon falls 2 and arkensaw?

 

is this the fairgrounds site in princeton or a different one?

 

The site we are hoping to use should be like those.

No, not the fairgrounds. I'll provide more info once I know for sure what we're doing.

 

great. lookin forward to it. maybe i can come this time.

 

I vote for the 21st.

 

21st is my wedding anniversary... dang it another lame excuse to not make it... ha ha

 

Weak Sauce

 

i guess the date will be decided on next week?

 

I vote the 21st too...

 

i might run the galant in stock 4wd lol

 

After all the effort getting rally tires on the STi?

I'm hoping to nail everything down this weekend and have an announcement by Monday.

 

lol, it depends on how quickly i put my plans of major sti surgery into action. plus then i wouldn't have to run against utecht :hsugh:

 

where is the fun in that?

 

I do understand how it gets tiring getting beat by Utecht, but you got it easy. Mark's been in a giving mood the last year or so, at least he tells us how to go faster now, after beating us.

 

close competiton is so much fun. i loved trading times with you, scott, doug and tyler a few years ago.

 

It is now looking very likely that it will be on Sept 7, near Princeton, MN.

 

Holy middle of nowhere batman!

 

Rallycross tends to be a "middle of nowhere" event. Car events are like that and ones that make a lot of dust are even more so.

 

what kind of surface will this be on?