klaus
April 22nd, 2008, 13:49
4/22/2008 10:31:51 AM
SS3A
SS3B
Tuesday@ Desesti more or less
SS3S
The Finish Line was the Starting line for the day be fore’s two Special Stages
ENTRY DATA
• Cars – 75
• MONSTER TRUCKS – 40 (!)
• MOTORCYCLES – 120
• QUADS – 10
• TOTAL - 245
Rain, rain and even more rain.
Bogs.
Rivelets.
Mud.
Run-off.
Slop.
This was up very twisty tn roads, indeed, with white water brooks, streams and rivers.
Lucky rallyists have “parabrisas”!. And hopefully new windshield swipes.
The surrounding mountains were snow capped.
April halfway gone?
WTF
No vehicle access, even with PRESS pass … due to mountainous terrain and zippo spaceO.
#1 Uno finisher, again, was Carlos Sainz …. very precise, very WRC … like a surgeon (not a sturgeon). BJ roared in, slippin’ n a-slidin’. In general everyone ran their race in their start slot …
However Dieter Depping was the quickest
A truck accident shortened the following Truck race … some trucks had started so they simply “neutralized” the section. Word in the bogs was that a Mitsubishi (of some undeclared sort … real car or blivet) stopped for some undeclared problem, open the door, stepped out into a competior who was said to have assumed that e stop was to allow a pass. No further info, fact, rumor or assessment available.
In lieu of any real HARD race news a little cultural views from Borat City:
• Peasants
• Gypsies
• Horinca.. a white homemade likker from plums … like tequila. I got a liter bottle t a gypsy village fro 20 whatever. Not bad … the national drink of the peasants. Better than absinthe? Hard to say. Boyd didn’t buy any.
The villagers took quite a shine to Boyd Jaynes while he stole their souls with his photographs. He even exhibited a propensity to attract the village idjuts … the droolers .. the drunks. Great fun. All seriousness aside, the photo ops were of Nat Geo magnitude.
Traffic, already horrible, free-form, was magnified by the racer crews and trucks, who bivvie right down town.
SS 3B
No rain across the mtns … microclimes at their finest. It was boggy, tho.
Passers by
213 Depping VW
200 Peterhansel Mit
205 Nasser X5 BMW (hauls butt)
202 Luc Mit
204 Roma Mit
212 Robby
201 Sainz VW
Xxx Sorry
209 Sousa VW
211 Gaby BMW (HOT!)
208 Chicherit BMW
26th BJ looked strong
Apparently the VW factory Taueregs have offset “reduction” boxes on the outboard whether they are 1: 1 or reduction or what is unknown at this time.
GOT ANY QUESTIONS? TECH? ISSUES? POST and we will ask, if time, location, and inclination allow.
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TECH UPDATE
The Dutch GINAT trucks use an 8-speed manual gearbox; they changed one in two hours with huge thick men.
Many of the giant trucks had A-arms front an rear.
The Mike Petersen car came through almost last with the gullwing doors open ..word is that ventilation was so bad that window foggy was a major issue.
THIS N THAT
• We are now on the highway from Biai Mare and suburb Ba Mare (which means “Large Bathroom” … guy told me so it must be so) on the way to Debrecen, Hungary. 19:16 CEST
• SS2 and SS3 areas abut 430 meters ASL per GPS … 1,300 feet.
• These two stages totally favored WRC rail job cars … particularly on the slick rock roads. 2WD sliders were cool but lost time (?)
• From the texted results it appears that times are important down to the split-seconds level.
• A flat would spell D O O M! The Monster trucks loose tens of minutes … and the left the tire.
• And no Mexicans grabbed it for the garage. (But now that the word is out .. )
• A demo TT sprint would drive ‘em NUTS!
• This was a major event for the entertainment-starved people. The ox-cart-crowd, however, was unimpressed.
• Food and services are cheapo.
• The nightly impound is good for tech snooping.
• We did NOT see the RG Monster Truck.
• The Rooskie Tatra team, one of the fastest, was not on hand: “reliable” sources suggest that Soviets are not welcome.
• Spectators were quite interested in our racing and, of course, Robby.
• They race to the checkered.
• We keep on running into the same crews and fans!
• Faster or not, the VWs look the best on the track. We miss Mark …
• Locals flash head lights for cop warnings: but never see anyone stopped. GREAT.
• Organization seemed straight fwd … but we saw no flagmen, vests, ribbons for delineation, or officials … just the jandarme cops who handled parking issues and kept cars off the course. Spectators had totally free reign.
•
SS3A
SS3B
Tuesday@ Desesti more or less
SS3S
The Finish Line was the Starting line for the day be fore’s two Special Stages
ENTRY DATA
• Cars – 75
• MONSTER TRUCKS – 40 (!)
• MOTORCYCLES – 120
• QUADS – 10
• TOTAL - 245
Rain, rain and even more rain.
Bogs.
Rivelets.
Mud.
Run-off.
Slop.
This was up very twisty tn roads, indeed, with white water brooks, streams and rivers.
Lucky rallyists have “parabrisas”!. And hopefully new windshield swipes.
The surrounding mountains were snow capped.
April halfway gone?
WTF
No vehicle access, even with PRESS pass … due to mountainous terrain and zippo spaceO.
#1 Uno finisher, again, was Carlos Sainz …. very precise, very WRC … like a surgeon (not a sturgeon). BJ roared in, slippin’ n a-slidin’. In general everyone ran their race in their start slot …
However Dieter Depping was the quickest
A truck accident shortened the following Truck race … some trucks had started so they simply “neutralized” the section. Word in the bogs was that a Mitsubishi (of some undeclared sort … real car or blivet) stopped for some undeclared problem, open the door, stepped out into a competior who was said to have assumed that e stop was to allow a pass. No further info, fact, rumor or assessment available.
In lieu of any real HARD race news a little cultural views from Borat City:
• Peasants
• Gypsies
• Horinca.. a white homemade likker from plums … like tequila. I got a liter bottle t a gypsy village fro 20 whatever. Not bad … the national drink of the peasants. Better than absinthe? Hard to say. Boyd didn’t buy any.
The villagers took quite a shine to Boyd Jaynes while he stole their souls with his photographs. He even exhibited a propensity to attract the village idjuts … the droolers .. the drunks. Great fun. All seriousness aside, the photo ops were of Nat Geo magnitude.
Traffic, already horrible, free-form, was magnified by the racer crews and trucks, who bivvie right down town.
SS 3B
No rain across the mtns … microclimes at their finest. It was boggy, tho.
Passers by
213 Depping VW
200 Peterhansel Mit
205 Nasser X5 BMW (hauls butt)
202 Luc Mit
204 Roma Mit
212 Robby
201 Sainz VW
Xxx Sorry
209 Sousa VW
211 Gaby BMW (HOT!)
208 Chicherit BMW
26th BJ looked strong
Apparently the VW factory Taueregs have offset “reduction” boxes on the outboard whether they are 1: 1 or reduction or what is unknown at this time.
GOT ANY QUESTIONS? TECH? ISSUES? POST and we will ask, if time, location, and inclination allow.
\
TECH UPDATE
The Dutch GINAT trucks use an 8-speed manual gearbox; they changed one in two hours with huge thick men.
Many of the giant trucks had A-arms front an rear.
The Mike Petersen car came through almost last with the gullwing doors open ..word is that ventilation was so bad that window foggy was a major issue.
THIS N THAT
• We are now on the highway from Biai Mare and suburb Ba Mare (which means “Large Bathroom” … guy told me so it must be so) on the way to Debrecen, Hungary. 19:16 CEST
• SS2 and SS3 areas abut 430 meters ASL per GPS … 1,300 feet.
• These two stages totally favored WRC rail job cars … particularly on the slick rock roads. 2WD sliders were cool but lost time (?)
• From the texted results it appears that times are important down to the split-seconds level.
• A flat would spell D O O M! The Monster trucks loose tens of minutes … and the left the tire.
• And no Mexicans grabbed it for the garage. (But now that the word is out .. )
• A demo TT sprint would drive ‘em NUTS!
• This was a major event for the entertainment-starved people. The ox-cart-crowd, however, was unimpressed.
• Food and services are cheapo.
• The nightly impound is good for tech snooping.
• We did NOT see the RG Monster Truck.
• The Rooskie Tatra team, one of the fastest, was not on hand: “reliable” sources suggest that Soviets are not welcome.
• Spectators were quite interested in our racing and, of course, Robby.
• They race to the checkered.
• We keep on running into the same crews and fans!
• Faster or not, the VWs look the best on the track. We miss Mark …
• Locals flash head lights for cop warnings: but never see anyone stopped. GREAT.
• Organization seemed straight fwd … but we saw no flagmen, vests, ribbons for delineation, or officials … just the jandarme cops who handled parking issues and kept cars off the course. Spectators had totally free reign.
•