Tax Brake Rally Cross- 04/03/10 # 2 Event in the 2010 Season

im heading there from stp pm me if you wanna caravan or a ride anybody

 

I'll be heading out from the Highland Park area of Saint Paul.

Not sure if anyone wants to caravan with an Evo.

 

I'm down for meeting at Firestone, that's right up the street from me.

Man, I hope I'm not hungover tomorrow, company I work for turns 10 tonight.

 

ill be there !

 

minnetonka where/when are we meeting?

 

I would say meet at the NW corner of ridgedale by that old little gas station thingy around 8:15 AM and we will leave by 8:30. google says it is a 20minute drive from 394&494.

 

what way are u taking im right off 494/62

 

I'll be t here... excited for a venue that is so close to the cities!

 

hey. is somone going to be there with radios??

 

I will be there with radios! $5 donation. Look for me in the red forester!

 

Signing up now. Gettin car ready and hopefully have at least 6 hours of sleep tonight! 5-hour Energy shots FTW.

 

um... 494 south to 169 south to 101 west. That is the way that google is telling me.

 

i thought 101 is down???

 

I might run this event...........

 

I guess I will be finding out.

 

Thanks to everyone who came out! I had such a blast!

 

First off, I want to say thank you to the 2 eventmasters that pulled off a very good event at a new venue with some interesting challenges for course design. And also thank you to everyone thatworked this event to help make it run as smooth as it could. Also thank you to Brent and Aaron for helpng me with tech! You guys were a lifesaver!!

Secondly, thank you everyone that showed to participate. We had an amazing amount of entries!! Hopefully we can keep this rolling for the rest of the year.

And lastly, and by far the biggest THANK YOU, THANK YOU everyone one that donated at lunch today!!!!!!!!!!! I will be talking to the family within the next day or two and will let them know about everyones huge generosity!! I know they will just be blown away. I'm sorry they couldn't make it out to this event. I will see if we can have them come out to the next event. I will also let you know what they have to say after I talk to them.

 

It was an excellent new event, new challenges, and MNSOC pulled off a huge win with putting together the lunch! We raised over $500 for Kira! :eek3::woot:

Oh, and the Plumber doesn't make too bad of an eventmaster, either. :biggrin:

Can't wait to see if we can use that venue again!

 

Link to the pic thread: http://mnsubaru.com/forums/showthre...llyx-pics-videos&p=707864&posted=1#post707864

 

Yes I would like to give a big thank you to everyone that helped, timing scoring, safety stewards, tech inspectors, racers, course works, Mick Anderson the land owner. Tony and annie for helping out with the food thank you so much (sorry about the wind), Dave Goodman for helping me. Really I was just a very small part of a great group of people that makes this possible. Also again a HUUUUUGGGEEEE thank you to brent for running the bobcat and cleaning up our mess. Hope to see everyone at the next race!

 

GOOD job on raising money! I fail at life.

 

ANyone know like the top 3 or something? Sounded like Mark and Amy at lunch?

Wish this hadn't lashed with my baby girl's 1st b-day, but she comes before rallycross.

 

Ooooh. Just talked with Amy and saw the pictures. That indeed will make a great animated GIF.

 

that appears to be a pretty damn impressive save. surely there are better ways for you to get mark's opinion on your skidplate design.

 

Incredible event! Thank you all for making this a huge success. 49 cars has to be some sort of record...or damn close!

Question- Would people want to go to Raceway Park again? I'll be in communication with the property manager next week and there's a distinct opportunity we could be there in May...your feedback on the venue would be appreciated.

 

For sure. Great site, We just have to learn to minimize the rutting. Running the skidder over the bad stuff between run groups might not be a bad idea.

 

^This is the only issue I saw as well. Great venue otherwise!

 

i have always wanted to get one of these for the track at my parents farm:

http://www.drpower.com/TwoStepModelDetail.aspx?Name=PGR60in&p1Name=powergrader2step&Page=pgrmodels

two passes with the 60" model would really help. too bad the thing costs $1300.00 otherwise it would be a very good safety investment for the club. it would also keep land owners happy too as it would minimize the damage and allow for areas to be reused with different configurations. that was one of the problems with our site. we used the same layout too much and then when we changed it up a bit we ended up with a slight jump that caused some damage to the lower cars.

 

yes tim the plumber was amazing event planner. this just reminds me yet again how awesome he is and i wish ever morning i could be more like him. he is truely the coolest man to ever grace the 21st century.

EDIT: Da Plumber hijacked my account. Nice try, Tim! :laugh:

 

I had a great time. Thanks to everyone who worked the event.

Missing a Rallyx doesn't mean that. At least with Rallyx there is always a next time.

 

Thanks! All I was thinking was, "What would Tanner Foust do?".

Can someone who's smart with that help can me out with an animated gif?

Amy

 

I had a lot of fun. I was slow as heck. but I guess that is ok.

I also blew my front driver side strut from those HUGE bumps that developed right after the start on my last couple runs

 

+100 to this, I was just watching and I had a great time.

I would like this. I did not run this time and I am regretting it :-(. If possible I would like to see this venue again it was pretty cool and closer to home.

 

Some of the early birds were treated to a brief Scuba Steve and Boomer wrestling match. They both got dusty and were breathing very hard.

 

^^^^
Yep, and I took Grandpa Dave down.

 

YES, the lunch was a huge success. Thank you to my wife Annie. You did AWESOME for helping me, as well as Holly! You also helped SO much! And Annette! You also were a huge help....

If you girls didn't help, then everyone would have had to wait for even LONGER. Also, if you all didn't help, this would NOT have went off. These 3 made it happen. And they arent even MNSOC members. Just the better halves of current members........

Thanks to everyone that helped/donated...

 

one humble suggestion... is there any way we could have access to more porta-potties next time? I kept getting caught waiting in line for like 15 mins and being late to work the course.

 

The aftermath of the wrestling match. Ahh...isn't Boomer nice enough to help wipe the dirt off...

You are lucky I didn't take you both down!

 

:laugh:

I found out that 227lbs against 174 lbs is kinda tough! especially when he went towards my crotch area with his mouth wide open...i got scared!:laugh:

 

There, fixt for ya!!

 

I believe this is Dan volunteering to drive the bob cat more!!!

 

Amy's skidplate is actually an adapted Prodrive unit from the old SRTUSA days with Lovell and Lageman. It's worth showing off, and I'm sure that's what she meant to do When I talked to Amy she said Mark told her he could actually watch the bottoms of her wheels as she turned out of the roll!

Welcome to the bicycle club Amy