Olympus Rally..

[cherotron]

So, who all is gonna be there?..

sweep or not.

:piratefla


(demonrally.com)

[WheelinJR]

As Jeff would say...

...WOOP!

(hey save me a sticker for the Jeep)

[mojojojo]

i'm not ditching a parking lot rock crawl for some rally. :shhh:

[WheelinJR]

i'm not ditching a parking lot rock crawl for some rally. :shhh:

That's cause you can't handle obstacles at speed, gotta stick to the 1mph crawling. :looser: hehehehe

[mojojojo]

oh, it's on now brotha........:moon:

[WheelinJR]

For those of you considering it, here's some info on it to encourage you.

Thought I'd drop the scoop on this weekends rally here for everyone, if you wanna come up and spectate. FYI you can find all of this info on http://www.olympusrally.com
Here is the Schedule
http://www.olympusrally.com/?p=schedule
This takes place in the forests between Olympia and Shelton, WA (Olympia is a 2 hour roadtrip from portland)
Here is the Spectator Guide
http://www.olympusrally.com/files/spectato...007spectate.pdf (http://www.olympusrally.com/files/spectators/OIR2007spectate.pdf)

This is an article about Olympus taken from a website called Special Stage.
The top rally drivers in the country will battle each other and the rugged terrain of the Pacific Northwest when the Rally America National Championship Series moves to Washington State for the Olympus Rally on May 19 and 20.
A demanding and technical course that winds through dense forest and over 125 miles of dirt and gravel roads in and around Olympia, Wash., the Olympus Rally is also known for the unpredictable – and often inclement – weather characteristic of the region. The constantly changing surface conditions produce hours of exciting racing action for competitors and spectators alike.
“The opportunity to race in the Pacific Northwest is a wonderful experience for our drivers and our fans,” said J.B Niday, managing director of Rally America. “The Olympus Rally is an exciting and historic event for our national and regional racers to compete in. With a deep field of competitors, racers will compete on a variety of road conditions as they challenge one another for valuable points.”
Although a new addition to the Rally America schedule for 2007, the Olympus Rally was part of the first SCCA PRO Rally Championship in 1973 and was a World Rally Championship race from 1986-1988. Rally racing legends such as Rod Millen, Juha Kankkunen and American John Buffum have claimed victories at the famed event.
Rally America drivers compete in street-legal vehicles that are modified for safety. Six vehicle classes, ranging from stock to highly modified, compete under the Rally America banner. Eleven different automobile manufacturers are represented in Rally America events, led by Subaru, Mitsubishi, Dodge, Ford and Volkswagen.
Entering the Olympus Rally, the top four drivers in the 2007 Rally America standings are separated by just 10 points. After three of nine events, Ken Block and co-driver Alessandro Gelsomino lead the standings, followed by Tanner Foust and co-driver Christine Beavis. The 2006 Rally America national champions, Travis Pastrana and co-driver Christian Edstrom, are third, while Oregon Trail Rally winner Andrew Pinker is fourth.
In addition to the 2007 Rally America National Championship title, drivers are competing for entry into X Games 13. For the second consecutive year, rally racing will be featured in the Summer X Games, with the first five races of the 2007 Rally America season serving as qualifying events for the popular action-sport competition.

[cherotron]

(hey save me a sticker for the Jeep)


oh yes, but I may not be in my heep..

[WheelinJR]

oh yes, but I may not be in my heep..

Suuuuure, go and make it more complicated, I see how it is :nono: lol

[cherotron]

Suuuuure, go and make it more complicated, I see how it is :nono: lol


heh.. If I'm not in the unit, I'll be in a dumped black Audi A4.:spam:

[Clean Racing]

Well I am here at the casino for the rally, and not in my jeep. I am working this weekend... I am service crew for Wolfgang car 89.. come by and say hi....

Scott.

[cherotron]

Well I am here at the casino for the rally, and not in my jeep. I am working this weekend... I am service crew for Wolfgang car 89.. come by and say hi....

Scott.

Nice! well, you know who I'll be crewing for.. or do you?

(www.demonrally.com)

:cheers:

[WheelinJR]

Just got back to my motel after flat towing the silver focus #55 in. I haven't seen the baby blue Demon car all day.

[cherotron]

Just got back to my motel after flat towing the silver focus #55 in. I haven't seen the baby blue Demon car all day.

Yeah.. it was a bad weekend for us..

Day one:

The right-side drive-flange decided to take a vacation 3 miles into stage 1. Since it was our backup 'box, Tom was not able to finish the stage and make it back to service. Turns out Quaife ATB diff's suck.. alot. They do stupid things at stupid times. But we already knew that. If it was our badass gearbox with the proper Kaaz clutch-type diff thats shimmed to hell and VW-Motorsport gearset, we would have been golden like a shower and finished the stage with 1 wheel fury. So that was a DNF for day one. We ended up swapping in the coolguy unit in at the ho-tel. Rob and myself, (me being the crew-chief and Rob being one of the most badass VW techs I've ever seen.. and wicked good buddy) ended Saturday night with Am/Pm nachos and quarts of High Life. You can't argue with success.

Day two:

The car was dialed like a porno line. Apparantly we owned people on stage one. Stage two was some 26 miles long.. about 20 miles into it, came WAY too hot into a right-hander (turns out the rally computer needs to be re-calibrated.) and had quite the "off." Tore the outer right c.v. joint apart, tore the brakeline, and tore the control arm off while bending it 90*. Ended up having to trailor the bastard out. Funny how the VAST majority of damage on pretty much any rallycar is on the co-driver's side. Awesome weather too.


Where were you guys? I was crazy bored in service..


:smoker:

[WheelinJR]

Well, I was on Nehwatzel 1, towing 295 right past Don where he sat broken. I told him his tires are supposed to point the same direction.

[cherotron]

Don or Tom?.. the brother Tom is le driver.

[WheelinJR]

Well, they were both there...but you're right that was Tom I talked to. I didn't stay more than a few seconds anyways, I had #295 in flat tow so I had to scoot.



And I still didn't get a damn sticker! Being busy took over lol

[cherotron]

Heh, I had a crap-load of stickers to hand out too. We're running Wild West with a much improved car. Oh yes.

[WheelinJR]

Well we will have to try it again then...

See you guys at WW

On a side note, the wireless at the Shelton Inn has left my laptop infested with spyware and pop-ups. ARGH!

[cherotron]

Oh hell yes. I'll make it a point to give you a crap load of stickers. :D

[Clean Racing]

Just got home from this event, and wanted to say thank you again you guys for keeping the rally drivers safe all weekend... The E crew rules...