http://www.hostpaste.com/mlspr_2007/
There is proof that I was there!! woohoo!
This last weekend was my first ever coefficient! I co-drove for Chad E. in his 88 VW GTI, which as some of you may know is the car I usually crew for.
I am waiting for a copy of the in-car and some pictures...but really I am lost for words in how to describe it all. I was absolutely amazed and so excited and it was SOOOOOoo fun. I hope Chad didn't mind my ballast in the car too much, I'm afraid as a first time co-driving I barely knew what was going on, but I tried hard.
The go-karts afterward were an excellent relief device after a long day in the car. Also thanks to Jeff Moyle for have a couple of us over at his house...and for finding my wallet sunday night. (whoops)
thats all for now,
-G :)
The In-car from stage 7 (the best in-car from the day IMHO) http://www.putfile.com/dtmracerx
Bad video from a sectator (very shakey)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7781343220885169424
More Spectator vid
Monday, June 25, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
ups and downs
wow, 11 days since I posted here and so much has happened! ahhhhhhhhh
Lets start at the beginning.
Shooting Star/Northern Lights Rallies
I drove the 300+ one-way miles to Mahnomen, MN to partake in the Coefficient 1&2 action! I did a midway overnight at Duluth to break up the drive but man that northern MN stretch of US 2 is rediculous.
Got to the rally, met up with Chad and Jay finally (cell phones don't work out there in the sticks) and got the show rolling. The #687 VW Golf got a face lift since the roll at last years Lake Superior ProRally. It now sports a tasty orange/yellow paintjob applied by car owner himself: Chad Eixenberger. When asked about the new paint all he had to comment was "it's fucking yellow already"
Luckily both days were very uneventful for the car. Not even a single puncture the whole event! Overall not the best showing of speed either; but they did finnish!!
Sadly, on Saturday night i came down with a heavy fever while at Service. Which leads to part two:
Probable Lyme Disease.
I had a rather bad night Saturday and could barely sleep through the fever and headache. Sunday I managed to drive myself back to Duluth, stopping only once to sleep for an hour. There I took on some food and pretty much colapsed. From there on out the fever worsened to the point that my father took me to the ER on Monday night. That really accomplished nothing other than the blood work got started (it takes several days). They sent me home and told me to take pain meds for the fever and sleep it off. Typical. The fever and other symptoms kept coming and two days later I went to the Clinic to see and actual doctor. Luckily the two docotors there saw through everything and said "get this boy on some antibiotics" and sent me packin. 5600mg of Docxy later and I am feeling much better. Ultimately I will probably never get a positive ID of what i had but these drugs are killing it off so I don't care!! yay for properly administered modern medicine.
The last, and very positive bit, from the last while is that I was offered a ride with Chad as a Co-driver for this coming weekends MiniLSPR event. Luckily the Lymes cleared up right away so I am able to attend and try my hand at Co-driving. I will be basically using all borrowed equipment and just trying to hang on for dear life. Wish me luck!!
-G
Lets start at the beginning.
Shooting Star/Northern Lights Rallies
I drove the 300+ one-way miles to Mahnomen, MN to partake in the Coefficient 1&2 action! I did a midway overnight at Duluth to break up the drive but man that northern MN stretch of US 2 is rediculous.
Got to the rally, met up with Chad and Jay finally (cell phones don't work out there in the sticks) and got the show rolling. The #687 VW Golf got a face lift since the roll at last years Lake Superior ProRally. It now sports a tasty orange/yellow paintjob applied by car owner himself: Chad Eixenberger. When asked about the new paint all he had to comment was "it's fucking yellow already"
Luckily both days were very uneventful for the car. Not even a single puncture the whole event! Overall not the best showing of speed either; but they did finnish!!
Sadly, on Saturday night i came down with a heavy fever while at Service. Which leads to part two:
Probable Lyme Disease.
I had a rather bad night Saturday and could barely sleep through the fever and headache. Sunday I managed to drive myself back to Duluth, stopping only once to sleep for an hour. There I took on some food and pretty much colapsed. From there on out the fever worsened to the point that my father took me to the ER on Monday night. That really accomplished nothing other than the blood work got started (it takes several days). They sent me home and told me to take pain meds for the fever and sleep it off. Typical. The fever and other symptoms kept coming and two days later I went to the Clinic to see and actual doctor. Luckily the two docotors there saw through everything and said "get this boy on some antibiotics" and sent me packin. 5600mg of Docxy later and I am feeling much better. Ultimately I will probably never get a positive ID of what i had but these drugs are killing it off so I don't care!! yay for properly administered modern medicine.
The last, and very positive bit, from the last while is that I was offered a ride with Chad as a Co-driver for this coming weekends MiniLSPR event. Luckily the Lymes cleared up right away so I am able to attend and try my hand at Co-driving. I will be basically using all borrowed equipment and just trying to hang on for dear life. Wish me luck!!
-G
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Czech Privateer scores WRC driver points!...Organizers miffed.
Article Here
Miracles never cease it would seem! Jan Kopecky and the rest of the Kopecky team did an amazing job and finnished 7th overall in the leaderboard which scored him two driver's points. Bringing his total this season to 4 which is mightily impressive for a privateer these days with the point scoring positions being dominated by works teams.
I suppose that is one almost advantage we have in the states: only one factory team...everybody else is private. *shrug*
anyway- congrats team Kopecky and yay to all you czech rallyists!
-G
Miracles never cease it would seem! Jan Kopecky and the rest of the Kopecky team did an amazing job and finnished 7th overall in the leaderboard which scored him two driver's points. Bringing his total this season to 4 which is mightily impressive for a privateer these days with the point scoring positions being dominated by works teams.
I suppose that is one almost advantage we have in the states: only one factory team...everybody else is private. *shrug*
anyway- congrats team Kopecky and yay to all you czech rallyists!
-G
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
The Penny arrived!
okay so the backstory is: A while back i posted a pic of myself on e30tech.com and said if anybody can guess where this picture is taken i'll send you something...like a penny. And within a day Jan had guessed Budapest correctly so I asked him for his address and sent a penny taped to a Park Falls postcard.
and just last night he posted that it had indeed arrived intact! and he posted a picture of it as well! oh the hilarity. I also noticed in the picture that the card is marked "postage due" which i thought was hilarious since it was already there!
fun with the introweb.
-G
and just last night he posted that it had indeed arrived intact! and he posted a picture of it as well! oh the hilarity. I also noticed in the picture that the card is marked "postage due" which i thought was hilarious since it was already there!
fun with the introweb.
-G
Monday, June 4, 2007
Progress...although slow
Well, I worked on the disassembly for a couple hours tonight. Finished a lot of the interior bits. I still have the headliner/sunroof to deal with though.
I still have a lot of things to cover before I really get anywhere with the car sadly. I have to get seats picked out and mounted so that the rollcage can be fitted around them. But before any tubing gets put in I am going to try my hand at seam welding the interior as best as I can. That will mean a lot once the car is out on course and getting the snot beaten out of it!
anyhow...time for dinner now! Rally out yo!
-G
Sunday, June 3, 2007
I got my license! W00T
Yes indeedy. I feel giddy as a 16 year old getting behind the wheel for the first time...oh wait...not really.
anyway I did get my Rally-America Novice license in the mail on friday last week. It is way better than scca's cardboard crap licenses. It even has a cute little picture of me! yay.
The car progress is nil btw...no pictures as of yet.
-G
anyway I did get my Rally-America Novice license in the mail on friday last week. It is way better than scca's cardboard crap licenses. It even has a cute little picture of me! yay.
The car progress is nil btw...no pictures as of yet.
-G
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