Live Updates from Oregon

[Wink Timber]

News updates will once again be posted on www.Subaru.net, as they were at Cherokee Trails. Unfortunately internet access will not be as easy as at CT, so there may only be daily summaries.

- Tim Winker
for www.Subaru.net

[krummenp]

Not to steal Tim's thunder... but I too will be doing Live updates on www.oregontrailrally.com

I can't guarantee I'll have live time scoring, but I'll be there at the host hotel, with laptop plugged in and a HAM radio operator in my room.

I'll be trying to keep the updates timely and interesting. Hopefully better than my weather play by play last year.

See you guys this weekend!!

Paul K
Web Czar Oregontrailrally.com

[Wink Timber]

Hey gang,

Stories, photos, results now posted at www.Subaru.net.

Good weather, good organization, great competition! You shoulda been here!

http://www.subaru.net/events/2002/oregon/02ot_s09c016v.jpg
Oregon Trail winners David Higgins and Chris Patterson on SS9.
Photo by TW. (Nikon Coolpix 950 set at 1/250)

- TW

[MDBodnar]

Tim:

This is a great photo!

Could you describe the road at this point? It looks as though it is a straight into a near square left, with just enough of a depression in the road prior to the corner to unweight the car, am I close?

Love the dynamics of this picture!

Mike

[Wink Timber]

>This is a great photo!
>
>Could you describe the road at this point?

It was a downhill with a crossroad, the spectator area on SS9. Cars headed downhill and turned about 60 degrees left. There was a bump in the shortly before the apex which got the left front just off the ground. See the photo of Wyeth Gubelmann's car hovering over the apex, ditch-hooking a bit, on the www.Subaru.net reports. Both shots were taken standing in a ditch on the inside of the turn.

- TW

[comicozzie]

I noticed the thingie (looks like a stick with a pink ribbon hanging out of the grille) sticking out of the front of the car in Lorne's photo as well. What did Mr. Higgins hit???

Jerry

[Wink Timber]

David said it was part of the grille. I did not notice it until the photo was loaded into the computer.

http://www.winktimber.com/prorally/2002-03prot/016grille.jpg

[dch]

That would be the pink STi badge and the plastic grille insert. Either it bounced loose, or he hit something.

-Doug