We had a great rally in the white GC8, drove the car down there on Friday after work, good recci, refining pace notes from last year, roads in great condition. Back to service, to put the gravel tyres on, driver briefing and start. We drove at a solid pace without taking any risks, had no overshoots, although we did get a lot of air over one downhill crest, but the DMS soaked it up fine. We hardly touched the car in service, didn't even jack it up! We were pretty surprised to look at the times at the second service, to find we were second outright, about 90 sec behind Hynes, and 40sec in front of Herridge, with Doug, Lee and Dylan close behind.
We were a little nervous going into the night loop, as our two $150 halogen spot lights were dwarfed by the huge HID things on everyone else's bonnets. But we didn't drop too much time, and were stoked to get second outright at the end, and an Experts cup.
Now we just need to find some coin, to replace the stock 5speed, and stock diffs, to get some more speed out of it.
Wavey.