Prescott Rally ##VIDEO##

[bobylax]

Action from Saturday stages 5 & 6.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Y7SmcQflI"]YouTube - 2009 Prescott Rally[/ame]

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[bajascott1]

cool video, i used to love to take that corner at speed in my ranger,on my way back from the english kitchen.....

[trent06]

Thanks for sharing the video! In the truck I thought I was going much faster then what the video makes it out to be.....LOL

Good meeting you too!

[GunnSlinger]

Thanks for sharing the video! In the truck I thought I was going much faster then what the video makes it out to be.....LOL

..... ya a little easier on the breaks next time there big guy.... haha jk ...


looks like fun stuff... ive been wanting to rally for quite sometime now... what sanctioning(s) body do you race in trent?... any sites where i can find info about the different classes of vehicles etc?..

[bobylax]

Thanks for sharing the video! In the truck I thought I was going much faster then what the video makes it out to be.....LOL

Good meeting you too!

That's alot of weight to get slowed down for a hairpin turn! You did have better exit speed than most though.

[trent06]

..... ya a little easier on the breaks next time there big guy.... haha jk ...


looks like fun stuff... ive been wanting to rally for quite sometime now... what sanctioning(s) body do you race in trent?... any sites where i can find info about the different classes of vehicles etc?..

Here some information for you Adam...

The Prescott Rally event is kind of different in that it is one event for two seperate sanctioning bodies. It is an event for the United States Rally Championship - Pacific Series and it is also an event for the California Rally Series. You can get points toward a championship from the Prescott Rally for the USRC or for both the USRC and the CRS. A couple links for info on it and online rulebooks are here.

http://www.californiarallyseries.com/home/index.aspx

http://www.prescottrally.com/

http://www.nasarallysport.com/main/rules

For this event I raced in the Open 2WD class in the United States Rally Championship and for the California Rally Series, I race in what they call Group 5.

Some of the other places the CRS races at is Ridgecrest, CA. Blythe, CA. (near Parker) Erenberg, AZ. (near Parker) Jean, NV (near Primm) Farzier Park, CA for the Gorman Ridge Rally. Let me know if you need anything else. It was definitely a good time!


ABOUT THE VIDEO.......

My two excuses, the first direction you are coming from a pretty long down hill section into the U-turn and the pee gravel makes it tough to get slowed down, their was no sense for me to wreck the truck as at that point the 2 people in front of me in the overall were 20 and 25 seconds ahead and they werent in my class. However, I did end up beating them both in the overall.

Going the other direction which would be up hill, I am not sure it Robert has the video but the corner before the U-turn is a left hander that I almost blew as a Dove committed suicide into the front of the truck and I was thinking about the bird and not the left handed so I was still trying to get my crap back together for that turn. I will try and find the bird incident in our in-car video.....

[trent06]

That's alot of weight to get slowed down for a hairpin turn! You did have better exit speed than most though.

Exactly! LOL

[scottm]

Very cool. I have wanted to go up to that event for years. Dont the race vehicles need to be street legal though? If so could you just rent an eclipse or subaru and show up?

[trent06]

Very cool. I have wanted to go up to that event for years. Dont the race vehicles need to be street legal though? If so could you just rent an eclipse or subaru and show up?

YES, the vehicles must be street legal....The things I was told their was no way around is the vehicle must have a windshield, must have mud flaps on any driven wheel, and must have a license plate. As well as the safety requirements, but as our truck passes BITD and Score tech it is no problem to pass the safety part of tech for the rally.

That is also part of the reason why we raced our pre-runner, it was the only thing remotely close to being legal, and it already had a windshield. 2 Bolts and a 5/8 wrench and we had mud flaps, and luckily since we have the Ford dealership in Parker, we got to use a Dealer Plate. Which (dealer plate) use is common in rally racing. Yes you or we could have rented a rally Subaru that met all the reuirements, but that is just another expense and we are desert racers! LOL I am sure next year when we run it, it will be in the same truck, but our setup will be much different. Let me know if they're anymore questions related to rules etc I can answer....

[Quailhunter]

Trent,

That looks like fun!

You say your setup will be different next year, are you referring to suspension
or engine tune?

I had a look at the map and was surprised to see the elevation for that area. Did that play into anything?

How were the daytime temps?