Friday, June 10th: This morning was rally school - which is just a meeting for the drivers and navigators to learn about new rules, course instructions, and the day's events. At noon we took off for a "practice" rally. It was more like a one-day separate competitive rally sponsored by Hagerty insurance. First place in each division took home some cash and a trophy. We came in fourth in our class so no scratch for Dixie Racing today. :(
Sorry hon.
Just for the record, a "leg" is the period from check point to check point. And a "stage" is a day's events. So each Stage consists of multiple legs - and you get a score for each leg. Clear as mud? I thought so...
Here is our car getting tech inspected and stickers put on it.
Number 73 is reserved for only the best team. Okay, that's a lie. It was actually the previous owner's graduation year from high school.
Thanks to Honest Charlie's Speed Shop for getting us ready....
Here is Coker Tire's replica of the 1911 Indy 500 winning Marmon Wasp. Now THIS is a cool car! I'm not sure how they painted it, but it looks like a nicely maintained 100 year old car.
When your name is Coker and the company's named Coker too, you get to have a few perks... like having your own city. Corkyville. That reminds me, have you ever seen the SNL Cork Soaking skit? FUNNY!
Here's Joe (Naviguesser) and Bud (Crew Chief) hard at work on something very, very important!
Here's my view out the Sopwith Pup just before a time-of-day restart. See that sign up ahead on the right? We have to depart at exactly the right time and right speed....
So today's efforts were just okay. We had a few good leg scores, but weren't very competitive. The first place finisher (Jim Menneto) in our class had a whopping 6.48 second day! Wow, nice job Jim. Our scores:
Leg 1: 1 sec late
Leg 2: 5 sec late
Leg 3: 10 sec late
Leg 4: 13 sec late
Leg 5: 6 sec late
Total: 27.30 sec which put us 4th in class and 23 out of 59 cars overall.
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