Day 2 - And the results are in...
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Day 2 Map (again no pinpoints, sorry, too busy in car to press the button on the GPS)
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Today's Temperature Range
14F up to 38F
And the results are in...
This must be what it is like being a politician waiting for election results: you're sitting in the bar, drinking a beer with your friends, and then the results come in.... you pick up the piece of paper and...
Team Arctic Challengers had a banner day!
R.Dale and I (car 2) moved up to 2nd overall and 1st in class II.
Paul and Kala (car 3) held on to 1st in class III (calc) with 51 points.
Steven and Kathryn (Car 14) are 2nd in class III with 113 points.
Overall scores for the top 4 cars look something like this:
These scores will change slightly as we drop our worst control score from days 2 and 3. Right now those drops aren't terribly material but who knows what will happen on Day 3!
Not planning on driving here:
Because the ice racing at the Gold Pan Speedway was cancelled, we ran the "11% Grade TSD" (the little loop north of Quesnel on the map) which featured some challenging uphill icy and snowy sections.
Before the start we visited a school as we did in 2004, with the kids getting a chance to look at rally cars and ask us questions:
Greg Hightower and I had odometer input problems here in 2004 so it was nice to run it and do well.
We also ran Blackwater Road TSD (which featured the most awesome road to transit out of it, driver is still smiling...) and Fraser Lake TSD which had an a 12 MPH section which caught many teams out - it is actually easier to average a faster speed than a slower speed.
Back to my election analogy, while it might look like we did pretty well today, the smallest slip up could cost us (or any other team) the rally, so it isn't over until the end of the rally (or the electoral college votes, or the supreme court rules, or whatever).
However, it looks like the ice racing could be a deciding factor. It works like this: you get the score of your time less the fastest time in your class, capped at a maximum of 5 points. Ice racing classes are different (2WD, 4WD stud, 4WD studless) than the TSD classes. Now what happened last year at the final ice race was a certain driver who shall remain nameless (Paul) cleaned everyone's clocks and gave everyone 5 points.
The interesting point here is, you could be the worst driver and still "only" take the 5 points, where maybe we were 6 seconds slower than Paul and also take 5 points, not altering our relative positions (except of course for Paul who gained 5 points on everyone).
So the trick is, be within 5 seconds of Paul's time and hopefully you can put some points on the other competition.
Or better yet, beat Paul. Good luck with that.
Another big plug for the Cooper WeatherMaster tires, we drove on some very slippy roads and the car is just so predictable and easy to drive.
Day 3 preview
A short ten mile TSD, and then 800+ mile transit to Whitehorse.
Yes, we are getting up early.
See you down the road...
Glenn
Day 2 Map (again no pinpoints, sorry, too busy in car to press the button on the GPS)
View Larger Map
Today's Temperature Range
14F up to 38F
And the results are in...
This must be what it is like being a politician waiting for election results: you're sitting in the bar, drinking a beer with your friends, and then the results come in.... you pick up the piece of paper and...
Team Arctic Challengers had a banner day!
R.Dale and I (car 2) moved up to 2nd overall and 1st in class II.
Paul and Kala (car 3) held on to 1st in class III (calc) with 51 points.
Steven and Kathryn (Car 14) are 2nd in class III with 113 points.
Overall scores for the top 4 cars look something like this:
| (1) Gary/Greg/Russ | 19 points |
| (2) Glenn/R.Dale | 21 points |
| (24) April/Marcus/Kevin Team Mitsubishi | 27 points |
| (4) Eric/Steve TeamD | 29 points |
These scores will change slightly as we drop our worst control score from days 2 and 3. Right now those drops aren't terribly material but who knows what will happen on Day 3!
Not planning on driving here:
Because the ice racing at the Gold Pan Speedway was cancelled, we ran the "11% Grade TSD" (the little loop north of Quesnel on the map) which featured some challenging uphill icy and snowy sections.
Before the start we visited a school as we did in 2004, with the kids getting a chance to look at rally cars and ask us questions:
Greg Hightower and I had odometer input problems here in 2004 so it was nice to run it and do well.
We also ran Blackwater Road TSD (which featured the most awesome road to transit out of it, driver is still smiling...) and Fraser Lake TSD which had an a 12 MPH section which caught many teams out - it is actually easier to average a faster speed than a slower speed.
Back to my election analogy, while it might look like we did pretty well today, the smallest slip up could cost us (or any other team) the rally, so it isn't over until the end of the rally (or the electoral college votes, or the supreme court rules, or whatever).
However, it looks like the ice racing could be a deciding factor. It works like this: you get the score of your time less the fastest time in your class, capped at a maximum of 5 points. Ice racing classes are different (2WD, 4WD stud, 4WD studless) than the TSD classes. Now what happened last year at the final ice race was a certain driver who shall remain nameless (Paul) cleaned everyone's clocks and gave everyone 5 points.
The interesting point here is, you could be the worst driver and still "only" take the 5 points, where maybe we were 6 seconds slower than Paul and also take 5 points, not altering our relative positions (except of course for Paul who gained 5 points on everyone).
So the trick is, be within 5 seconds of Paul's time and hopefully you can put some points on the other competition.
Or better yet, beat Paul. Good luck with that.
Another big plug for the Cooper WeatherMaster tires, we drove on some very slippy roads and the car is just so predictable and easy to drive.
Day 3 preview
A short ten mile TSD, and then 800+ mile transit to Whitehorse.
Yes, we are getting up early.
See you down the road...
Glenn
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