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Old 10-05-2014, 09:05 AM
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Top work Brendon. And you called it right on Glenney. 5th outright for you now as his box have up. Epic comeback by your guys. Reasonably comfortable gap behind and a tough one to bridge in front, but close and vandenberg are having a big battle so anything could happen. Hoping yt can hang it together. Will be an emotional victory if he manages to pull it off. There will be tears. Best of luck for the rest of it.
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Old 10-05-2014, 03:06 PM
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What a day. Learnt some things about the car as its the first time i have really driven it is pouring rain. Dont want to write an even bigger essay than usual but the amount of extra grip you can get by the way you set up the suspension, tyre pressures and driving style is biblical. Was so wet normal lines went out the window and just looking for the smoothest, dryest, grippiest bit of tarmac.

Glenneys boys tried to make one good box out of two broken ones. Supposedly all good, got it back in the car but the computer wouldnt re learn the clutch engagement points or something. End result was they only had a crunchy first gear so they were / are out.

Day was going pretty uneventfully trading times with quinny. We actually pulled a bit of time out of him today but he's still 7 minutes ahead so he could be cautious.

Got to the start of rianna and at every start they have a big white board with the road conditions. I.e. Wet, dry or intermediate. This of course was wet.

Then they have a list of the cars off the road. It starts with the car number, the distance into the stage, whether they are off the road and 99% it will have ok aswell. You put it in your pace noted so you know its coming up and off you go.

Also if there is oil or gravel anywhere it will list the distance into the stage.

The last thing it has is if there is the fiv on the course. The fiv is the first intervention vehicle and is usually staffed by paramedics who will go and investigate a crash and try to stabilise anyone and make a call on whether to stop the stage to get an ambulance in or keep the stage going.... So...

We get to rianna... Close was in front of us and white behind. No worries. 31 or 32 km' stage. Never going to catch close and figured we would need to keep an eye out for white for when he ineveitably caught us. On the board there were 4 cars off at 29.4km's. There was a fiv at 29.4km's. There was oil and gravel at 29.4 km's. Its a shit of a left hand corner downhill, off camber, new roadworks, pouring with rain....white catches us about 23 or so k's in and we let him pass. We were getting close to 29km's and there were maybe 20 people on the side of the road slowing everyone down. We get to this corner expecting to see cars everywhere yet there were people running down the road... Figured white had gone off. We stopped but there were so many peole we got waved on to tell the stop control. What had happened was a porsche in the porsche tour (no helmets or cages) had gone off, hit a tree and ended up on his side. Then a 944 porsche had gone off and run into him. Then an escort had gone off literally 5 metres away. You couldnt see any of this from the road. Then white has started felling trees i shit you not 4m off the ground. Couldnt even see the car it was so far off the road. Anyways they are all fine but i dont get that obviously the corner was treacherous otherwise the other kids wouldnt have gone off and he was leading by 2 and a half minutes. Why he was pushing so hard i dont know.

So we were taking is incredibly easy and then you would get to the end of a stage and say wow we did ok through there.

Long and the short of it is that we are now up to 4th in modern and 6th outright.

Forecast for tomorrow looks dry. First and second are inly 16 seconds apart and neiter have won the event before so i doubt they will be leaving anything on the table.

More rumours of gearbox dramas in vandenburgs gtr but lets wait and see. We are in sight of hobart now.

One thing i will say if up until now how much faster the event has been this year. Last year into rinadeena (a 30 odd km run into strahan) our time was 3 seconds off winning the stage. Yesterday we did exactly the same time and whilst we were 5th again we were beaten by 40 seconds. The top guys are just in another league and their commitment is unquestionable.

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Based on your writing over the past few days, essay away.
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Cheers.

Cant question whites commitment to the event....

Here are some before and during photos. Reckons he will be restarting today...

This is it insitu in the bush....



This is it a few hours later.....





Stolen from facebook: '15 minutes worth of phone calls, one team, 6 hours work down! So far, one new headgasket, timing kit, power steering pump, one chassis rail, two front tubs, one radiator support panel, two front guards, a bonnet, two headlights, a front and rear windscreen, a full rear right hand rear suspension assembly, two slabs of red bull, and a whole heap more work left to do. See you tomorrow targa '

Most people wouldnt know but this event is a bit emotional for white and hence the reason to get back out there at any cost in any shape. He buried his old man a week and a half ago after a long battle with cancer and then the day after the funeral his grandad died. Its a very close family and this really was a crusade / tribute to / for his old man. I think there will be a few tears at hobart tonight...

Here is a photo of our jigger at service yesterday afternoon....



Here is sale of the century Glen Ridges genuine rx7 sp. he had a small off in the same place white did and it caught fire....



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I was talking to someone about whites crash and how it happened given all the warnings and someone made a good point. For those that dont know white doesnt run normal pace notes. He runs this ipad thing that has a map of the stage and his nav has to keep turning it to point north. As they move towards a corner it flashes up what the severity of the corner is etc. all well and good until you get some big tree cover and it cant get signal. The other issue i hadnt though of was when the start line tells you there is an issue on course how are you meant to add it to the notes? Maybe he just logs it in his head and watches the trip meter. I dont know. I'll ask him tonight.

We also got given a nice derived time for Rianna so we are now 3:47 ahead of 5th place. No need to take any risks through mt arrowsmith this morning which is a bitch of a 60km stage. Super fast and flowing and if you are super committed in a gtr you can pick up a lot of time.

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Shouldnt rallysafe give notice of any accidents that have happened?
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Shouldnt rallysafe give notice of any accidents that have happened?
Not in the sense that you are asking. It gives you warnings of people stopped on stage, but that is only when you are coming up to it. To be honest it can be hard to see it when it occurs
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Making a bracket so we can fit the Rallysafe for the first time.

Thinking about what the driver does, and what the navigator does, the change of a screen could be very hard to pick esp with eyes forward, ( or checking ts & ps) or eyes down for the other seat.

The system may need 2 more cables, one for a red led, one for a yellow, so they could go onto the a pillar area for the driver, up near eye level. One as a warning, one as a closed stage. More wiring but would possibly be easier to pick up.

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Apparently closey has binned it. Champagne showers for Brendon. At this rate he will win the thing top job fellas.
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Looks like Brendon got 3rd in Modern. Congrats mate. Awesome drive.....assuming Vandenberg makes it back to Wrest Point....apparently it's using more oil than fuel!! Then it might be 2nd
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