03-17-2012, 10:50 PM
What Clay said! The course was in great shape. Shocks worked awesome. Biggest things now are a louder horn (so that people can get the heck out of our way), and steering. It was still slow to steer. This was probably accentuated by our going faster, with the nice suspension setup.
We ended up pretty much running over 1 Cherokee. They were cool with it but said they couldn't hear our horn. We got beat by a Toyota Tacoma IFS truck by about 30-40 seconds. 3rd was 8 seconds behind us. It was a tight race! We would have won it if I hadn't literally driven us into the ditch on the 2nd or 3rd lap. I thought we were going to roll it. Got out of some ruts and wound up over the bank and into a big dug out gulley, listing to the port side at about a 45 degree angle. My head wasn't thinking very straight in the heat of battle. There was actually a time I thought it was going to go over, but I wanted to get out of there and back on track as quickly as possible.
Trans temps got to about 240 by the end of the race. We gained and lost a lot of elevation every lap. It was a course mostly comprised of really tight woods running with a few hair pin turns, A LOT of ruts, roots, and rocks. I have no idea how the whole field went yet. There were 19 rigs on the books registered. It kills me to know we could have won if I hadn't been so boneheaded at the beginning of the race. No pics from this one unfortuantely. I never got the camera out. Wish we had a go-pro on for this one. It was a ride!
There was a jump that was made almost like a mexican booby trap in the Baja. Had a little face to it with about a 5' deep gulley dug out of it and we guessed it was probably 16' across. The guys pitted next to us had yard darted it while prerunning and snapped their front axle housing, axle shaft, and weren't sure what all else. We hit that sucker every lap but the first. It was awesome!!
We ended up pretty much running over 1 Cherokee. They were cool with it but said they couldn't hear our horn. We got beat by a Toyota Tacoma IFS truck by about 30-40 seconds. 3rd was 8 seconds behind us. It was a tight race! We would have won it if I hadn't literally driven us into the ditch on the 2nd or 3rd lap. I thought we were going to roll it. Got out of some ruts and wound up over the bank and into a big dug out gulley, listing to the port side at about a 45 degree angle. My head wasn't thinking very straight in the heat of battle. There was actually a time I thought it was going to go over, but I wanted to get out of there and back on track as quickly as possible.
Trans temps got to about 240 by the end of the race. We gained and lost a lot of elevation every lap. It was a course mostly comprised of really tight woods running with a few hair pin turns, A LOT of ruts, roots, and rocks. I have no idea how the whole field went yet. There were 19 rigs on the books registered. It kills me to know we could have won if I hadn't been so boneheaded at the beginning of the race. No pics from this one unfortuantely. I never got the camera out. Wish we had a go-pro on for this one. It was a ride!
There was a jump that was made almost like a mexican booby trap in the Baja. Had a little face to it with about a 5' deep gulley dug out of it and we guessed it was probably 16' across. The guys pitted next to us had yard darted it while prerunning and snapped their front axle housing, axle shaft, and weren't sure what all else. We hit that sucker every lap but the first. It was awesome!!