Call to Ojibwe Competitors

[Mark Larson]

It's always difficult staffing a rally 200 miles from the nearest large city. This year, the Ojibwe rally weekend is in desperate need of workers. If we don't get some more, we'll have to consider drastic measures like cutting stage miles, which we really don't want to do. Breon has given you an awesome course.

I know competitors often have family or friends hanging around at service. If you do, please ask them to volunteer. They'll get to see you in action and take some pictures. I can think of several ways they could help that might work out for both them and you.

1. Regular worker for the weekend. They won't have to spend any time with you.

2. Help out at service. They can travel with you, but can free up some other worker for us to put out in the woods. We need people to man the gate, work the fuel depot, etc. They won't be in your way.

3. Staff a daylight position. We have several course marshal positions that only need to be staffed before dark. They could work stage 1 or 2, then join you at service. They'd need a car, of course.

If you can spare a crew member or two, please let me know. If possible, please have them register at http://rallymasterpro.com/workers

Thanks,

Mark

[carl]

I'll see if I can spare 1 or 2 (don't think it's a problem, I'll have to ask them first though). Also sent off several emails and texts to try and get more volunteers.

We might be able to spare more for option 3 if there's a guarantee they can get back to service (at Gravity Park some of our crew turned into marshals with the promise they could get back to service but then were placed physically so far away they could not get back and forth in time...)

[Mark Larson]

We might be able to spare more for option 3 if there's a guarantee they can get back to service (at Gravity Park some of our crew turned into marshals with the promise they could get back to service but then were placed physically so far away they could not get back and forth in time...)

All I can say is there are 4 spots on SS 1 and 2 on SS 2 that require marshaling for daylight only. SS 3 is the long one, so they will have plenty of time to get to service under normal circumstances. Of course, a delay on stage may make that impossible in the real world. It needs to be someone you'd like to have at service (for kissy-face, etc.), but is not crucial (like to fix the car).

Mark

[johnhuebbe]

Carl, quick answer, just don't ball up the car. Then you only need 1 person to wash windows, stroke your ego, make your sandwich, etc... :)

[carl]

ok, messaging crew right now

[Scuba Steve]

Carl, quick answer, just don't ball up the car. Then you only need 1 person to wash windows, stroke your ego, make your sandwich, etc... :)

lololol....Hell, I'll make him a sandwich if he doesn't ball up the car!:D

[BenSlocum]

Carl, quick answer, just don't ball up the car. Then you only need 1 person to wash windows, stroke your ego, make your sandwich, etc... :)

OR.. ball up the car within the first half mile of the first stage, then both you and Dave can work the event, adding two workers to a stage immediately!

[Jim Robison]

If you are running a pre-1990 car in Ojibwe, be sure to register, for free, in the Vintage Rally Car Championship.

[Mark Larson]

OR.. ball up the car within the first half mile of the first stage, then both you and Dave can work the event, adding two workers to a stage immediately!

Chad and Kim took your advice, but not until stage 2. They finished Friday, but had to withdraw Saturday due to roll cage deformation. They worked start controls on Saturday.

Thanks, guys!

Mark

[carl]

lololol....Hell, I'll make him a sandwich if he doesn't ball up the car!:D
I tried my best on SS5 friday but failed... now where's my damn sandwich!!?:D

Chad and Kim took your advice, but not until stage 2. They finished Friday, but had to withdraw Saturday due to roll cage deformation. They worked start controls on Saturday.

Thanks, guys!

Mark
Thanks for sticking around and volunteering Chad and Kim!

[Mark Larson]

Thanks for sticking around and volunteering Chad and Kim!

And a special thanks to Kimmes and crew, who provided workers and a co-driver for Advance 1.

Wasn't that a great spot to watch, John?

[Kim 100AW]

Chad and Kim took your advice, but not until stage 2. They finished Friday, but had to withdraw Saturday due to roll cage deformation. They worked start controls on Saturday.

Thanks, guys!

Mark

Chad's whole theory is to use up the car right at the end. He just forgot that Friday night wasn't the end! Now Greenhouse and Zedril's pretty much executed Chad's plan!

[johnhuebbe]

Chad's whole theory is to use up the car right at the end. He just forgot that Friday night wasn't the end! Now Greenhouse and Zedril's pretty much executed Chad's plan!

I know about Greenhouse, what happened to Zedril's?

[bentmettle]

They bunged up the radiator mount; rubbed on the motor and holed on the transit in. Jan said it quit from overheating, but he roll started it, and abused it mightily to get back in.


We, like so many people, ran really hot all weekend. Lots of blinking lights on stages.

Really bizarre weekend for a lot of G2 guys.

[johnhuebbe]

We, like so many people, ran really hot all weekend. Lots of blinking lights on stages.

Really bizarre weekend for a lot of G2 guys.

Yeah, it's probably easier to list who didn't have problems. And we too ran hot. Our oil was 250+

[carl]

we also ran hot. when we bent our skidplate/subframe the plate ended up obscuring a lot of airflow, we also had a large air pocket somewhere in the system. I know Jim Cox's truck was also having both engine and transmission cooling problems - they were adding a bunch of ducting Saturday morning

[freightdog]

we ran hot on Friday, but our biggest problem was the inability to get 2nd and 4th gear due to shift cable failure. We were occasionally able to get into 2nd and 4th, but most of Friday was run without those gears.

On Saturday, the crew worked hard to fabricate a new bracket to hold the shift cables in place and it worked quite well. Many "thank yous" go to Gary Cupp and Josh Poland for excellent work in the hot sun on Saturday morning. A small electrical glitch arose in the afternoon and we spent some time chasing that down at PE. Found some dirt that had got into the connector to the PCM and once we cleaned it up a bit, we were back to running at 100%. Many "Thank yous" also go to Matt Bushore for providing technical assistance.

After running quite well on the evening stages and arriving at service with no problems at all and a 10 second lead over the ill-running Lancer of Zedril/Zedril, I immediately went out and had a foray into the forest a mere 2 miles into the first night stage. We hit a large hole near the right side of the road while setting up for a L3, and as soon as we hit it, the car got light and stopped responding to braking and steering inputs and went straight off (video forthcoming) So after all the problems were resolved, I threw away another G2 win for the second event in a row (the previous being the roll at STPR)

Michael Bond was a perfect gentleman on the final stage as he gave me ample room to pass him and didn't hold me up at all. Thanks Mike! No worries at all.

The organizers did a very nice job of giving us some big stage mileage and overcoming some adversity of their own. I am glad that I worked so hard at repairing the roll damage from STPR to go to Bemidji and compete. It was well worth it and I have no regrets. Thanks everyone!