Day Two of Oregon Trail Rally is COMPLETE! Not a lot of time for a write up, so here is a quick one:

The first two stages DEFINITELY thinned out the competition with LOTS of attrition! Out of the 60+ cars that entered, I think we probably passed about 20 of them on these stages… including both Ken Block and Dave Mirra, who rolled their cars in front of us.

We had a near off on stage 2, which put our rear driver side into a ditch… I powered out of it just barely missing some trees and large boulders, but as we exited, we separated a brake rotor hat from the disc and bent the spindle. The rest of the stage was SCARY with no rear driver side brake and some pretty crazy rear steer. BUT, we finished it! Made it back into service and scrambled to find parts from other competitors. Thanks to Chrissie Beavis and the Lockharts for getting us back on the road. We ended up leaving service 4 minutes late, but that was not too bad considering the repairs we had to get through… 40 second penalty for being late.  We got popped speeding at an observation control (something we’ve never seen at the smaller regional events we’ve done) on a transit stage.. 20mph in a 15mph zone and ended up with another penalty… 1:30… DAMN!

The rest of the stages on day 2 were SUPER fast and fun… LOTS of spectators!

Met some new friends on Day 2… Tony from Idaho helped us out with service and made our lives a little easier.

We are looking forward to making up some of that lost time today and getting back up into the Max Attack money standings… pushing for 4th place!

If you are looking for the results at http://rally-america.com you need to look at the regional events… when entering a national event as a regional competitor, they treat each day as a separate race.  ”Wagons Ho!” was day one, “Shunpiker Stages” is day two, and today is “Trails End”.  RALLY!