[Trevor Donison]

With the withdrawl of Subaru, Mitsubishi and Air Force Reserve...

Is Rally America going to do their thing again this year (I'm suspecting they are)?

Their website doesn't really have anything new on it about Sno*Drift. Figured there would be something by now.

 

[Doug Woods]

>Their website doesn't really have anything new on it about
>Sno*Drift. Figured there would be something by now.

Trevor:

The rally has started and nothing yet on their website. Usually they have some pre-start chit-chat, but nothing so far.

Hopefully, it will start-up soon.

Lots of people up here in the Great White North interested in how ACP and Pat will do.

Doug Woods

 

[Mark Holden]

They're there. The RallyTV guys who are trying to put together an alternative to the manufacturer sponsored coverage will be working with them too.

Now if it's as cold and windy there as it is here in Minneapolis, their dish may have gone into permanent hibernation...

-Mark Holden

 

[mvb]

>Their website doesn't really have anything new on it about
>Sno*Drift. Figured there would be something by now.

'was wondering the same thing this morning. Usually they post pics from the pre-event festivities.

 

[Mark Holden]

Whee!

Working now!

Fri 30-Jan-04 14:41 Welcome the the Sno*Drift ProRally and the start of the 2004 season. We have a field of 55 getting ready to take the start from Lewiston, Michigan. The temperature is about 10 degees and the wind is blowing making it feel well below zero. The first car will be leaving here at 3:01 to run Special Stage 1, Special Stage 2, Special Stage 3, Special Stage 4 before coming back for the first service. We will have the start order up as soon as the final changes have been made.

The practice stage was a 3 mile stage run this morning where the major concern was finding the proper tire, Blizzak's or Hakka's seem to be the popular choice. We will have some images from the practice stage up soon.

Fri 30-Jan-04 14:44 #S591 have no rally computer, David says he knows the roads pretty well and they aren't too worried about it.

Fri 30-Jan-04 14:51 #S508 had a little problem at the practice stage this morning, their service truck was hit by a civillian vehicle. Pam tells us when Tom has some sort of oops before an event they always seem to do well....they hope this counts as the oops and is a good omen.

Fri 30-Jan-04 15:19 #S72 are happy to be in the car again after an absence of a little over a year. The team plans to try and make at least six events this season including Pikes Peak.


-Mark Holden

 

[Doug Woods]

RE: Whee!

Good to see that they are on line now.

Is it normal for them to only use the car number in the updates?

It would be nice if they used the driver/co-driver names.

Doug Woods

 

[Mark Holden]

RE: Whee!

>Is it normal for them to only use the car number in the
>updates?

No, it's a bit odd. They may be behind the ball and hurrying right now. But they do have the extry list online so at least we can look up the ones we don't know.

-Mark Holden

 

[Mark Holden]

RE: Whee!

"#88 is reported off .97 into Special Stage 1, they are apparently stuck on a bank."

D'Oh! Poor Doug. His own orginization is the first to report his problems! Hope he gets it moving again.

-Mark Holden

 

[JB Niday]

RE: Whee!

I've e-mailed Al about the names, if there's a way to fix it I'm sure he'll find it.

Anybody know who #540 is? They started 30 minutes late (no remaining MPL, huh?) and that number isn't on Rally-America's entry list.

J.B. Niday
www.nidayrallysport.com

 

[Mark Holden]

RE: Whee!

Must be one of the entries with no number.

540 sounds like a CenDiv Club car to me.

Maybe:

Kothe/Alvarado
Smigowski/Carlborn
Pawluczuk/Summers

-Mark Holden

 

[fieldthis]

RE: Whee!

>Anybody know who #540 is? They started 30 minutes late (no
>remaining MPL, huh?) and that number isn't on
>Rally-America's entry list.


Tim Smigowski and Scott Carlborn in a 91 Mits Eclipse PGT according to the Sno-drift website.

Rob

 

[Mark Holden]

RE: Whee!

>I've e-mailed Al about the names, if there's a way to fix it
>I'm sure he'll find it.

Looks like he did. Of course right now if you click on Doug's name it indicates that he's driving a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII for Team Mitsubishi...

-Mark Holden

 

[JB Niday]

RE: Whee!

Doug will be surprised to hear that!

J.B. Niday
www.nidayrallysport.com

 

[jeff burmeister]

RE: Whee!

has anyone seen an official start list yet?

Jeff

 

[Morgan]

RE: Whee!

Hi Al live from the Rally America truck.
I did have a problem with names associating with numbers.
I fixed that and hope all is better.
Our new dish seems to be working pretty well in the bad
weather we are having here.
Someone said they emailed me, well I've been busy and probably won't check emails until much later in the day. Thanks for thinking of us though.
Must process some scores now.

 

[John Vanos]

RE: Whee!

Wow, judging by the pics in the gallery the conditions are AMAZING!

 

[Morgan]

RE: Whee!

Well looks like Morgan was last to log in to this commputer.
It's really me.

 

[JB Niday]

RE: Whee!

Its really you, who?

I suspect its Al, as he has problems with pronouns! How's those ceramic heaters working?

J.B. Niday
www.nidayrallysport.com

 

[JB Niday]

RE: Whee!

oh, and we haven't seen an offical start list either.

Nice work so far by the way!

J.B. Niday
www.nidayrallysport.com

 

[JB Niday]

Update

ACP unoffically leads after 4 stages (car 20 with no name on Rally-America site) and Havir is the only retirement (per Sno*Drift site).

I'm sure the Rally-America people are busy scoring or dealing with the weather or both.

J.B. Niday
www.nidayrallysport.com