2004
- As our rookie year, 2004 predictably had more than it's
fair share of incidents....
1. Cochrane 2004
- tagged the bridge on the last run though
Hunter Vally. No visible damage, but bent (the first of many) rear lateral links.
- no photo available
2.
Mountain Trials 2004
- Just caught-out on a mid-speed right hander where the car took a bump and understeered
(understatement!) off the road. The ditch scrubbed off a good deal of speed, but we hit the stump hard.
3. Pacific Forest Rally 2004
After succesfuly finishing the regional portion of this rally,
we headed out for our first national-only stages, and also our first ever night stages. Just about a kilometer into
the return run on Nicola Lake we entered a left-3 out wide* on the loose stuff (a reoccurring theme on this page!) and understeered
off.
Bill tells the story of the sweep crew refferring to the car over the radio as "precariously perched"!
*the
texbook road-racing line for corners is rarely the correct approach when rallying!
4. Kananaskis 2004
- Slid off at very slow speeds on the second pass through the Demonstration
Forest Loop. Slow-motion front ender into a small tree, but did-in the front fender and nose.
2005
- 2005 was a year of mechanical problems with the car, and
remarkably few incidents. Other than a few flat tires and four or five damage-less spins into the ditch, we had no notable
driving incidents with the car.
- Unfortunately overheating, break-line failure, front control arm mount failure,
and electrical "gremlins" resulted in a high DNF rate none-the-less.
2006
-
As we only competed in three events this year, the probability of incident went way down.... We only had one, but it
was a doozy:
6. Pacific Forest Rally 2006
- Once again got caught-out
on the loose stuff entering a slow speed right-hander too wide. This time however the rear oversteered off road, and
when the rear cantilevered off the steep embankment, the driver side of the car dug in and put the car into a roll/spin down
the steep embankment.
- As the roll cage was badly damaged (when stopping a large boulder from entering through
the windshield) that was it for FPR1.
2007
- A good year for trouble-free finishes. But we were
really lucky not to write-off FPR2 on the final race of the year...
7. Kananaskis 2007
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