RE: Pete- Pics!
, we were holding back! we were trying to nurse the car through the stage--think we broke the sub-frame in the rear).
We were VERY worried that the car wasn't going to last through SS13. Our hands were the first in the air when we voted to throw the stage. Even more joyous when we turned in our time cards on the spot! First finish for both of us.
Was Ivan at the start of SS13? Don't remember seeing him, but probably he was...Doc Schrader was the one who rallied the troops and led the vote. I guess he was there as an observer for the whole ProRally thing for the PRB. Anyway the "drop-dead start" was 6:15 and it was already around 5:45, and he said they'd probably end up throwing the stage anyway, so it was nearly a unanimous vote of the 27 remaining cars to pack it up and head home (I counted 3 hands who wanted to run the stage.)
You should have seen the looks on some of the locals' faces seeing a parade of race cars drive by! Couldn't make heads or tails of what was going on...
Lance Smith was driving his GpN WRX (in Open class), he was also commissioned to write a report for SCCA on how things went from the drivers' perspective.
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