I'm going to try and find my helmet,rubber boots, and other stuff after work tonight and roll in around 7:30 tomorrow am. And then hope I remember how to drive.
I'm going to try and find my helmet,rubber boots, and other stuff after work tonight and roll in around 7:30 tomorrow am. And then hope I remember how to drive.
I might not be staying for Sunday's event. The ex SWMBO left wee early this morning for a conference in OK or something, both sister's are road tripping to CA to see one off to head to Hawaii, and no one left to watch the dogs. The french bulldog is staying at a vet tech's house where he's been before, and he's happy.
The pitbull with major trauma in her former life was left at the kennel at ex's vet clinic. Never boarded, never in a cage since we got her 2-3yrs ago. Apparently an hour in ex went to check on her and found a pool of blood. She had gnawed at the cage door and completely bloodied her gums. They've put her in the isolation ward and drugged her heavily to calm her down. I asked ex if the problem was solved. She didn't know and said she'd know today when the clinic opened.
I told her if it wasn't working out I'd come home Saturday after the event, and treat it like a regular event, and pick up the dog Friday during the day. That abused, left for dead, pitbull means a lot to me.
Why not bring him with you? Would he be fine with chilling on a leash in the paddock?
irish44j wrote: Why not bring him with you? Would he be fine with chilling on a leash in the paddock?
This. Everyone loves a paddock pup :)
In reply to irish44j:
I wish, that would be awesome. She was found on the side of the road in Toledo in December a few years ago, 35# and covered in bite marks. Friends got her healthy & we adopted her about 2 years ago. We had a trainer-friend come work with her to get her used to people coming over to the house, and the ex put her through a doggie kindergarten thing to work with her a bit.
But she never got around to more social work so we could take her places without fierce barking at every person/dog/cat/squirrel/shiny object. I'd love to be able to bring her. I called the vet this morning, apparently she's doing better and eating, not panting/chewing on the bars, ate food and her med's. So looks like I'm still on for Sunday!
Whew! Everything but the cooler is packed in the van and ready to roll. A little call of duty, a stop for a big bag o ice, and I'm on my way.
Everyone try and bring some firewood.
In reply to fidelity101:
Er, that's not legal FYI. Emerald ash borer means you can't transport firewood across county lines in OH if memory serves.
wouldn't the fire kill the ash borer?
I duuno. Maybe the bug gets warm and takes off in search of cooler trees to eat?
Honestly, I don't really know that much about it other than they had huge signs posted at Hocking Hills saying that there was some fine for moving firewood across county lines. I think the county that Hebron is in is already affected, though, so practically speaking I doubt it would make any difference.
I think it's still in effect. I have 2 trees at my house that are dead/dying.
I think the concern is that the bugs will escape in transport or storage.
En route!
Alls quiet here at the site. Got a couple cars tucked in for the night and just got myself fed and beered.
We got here around 7 and did a quick course walk and dropped off the car and trailer. Course looks fun....very turny and technical. Now in the hot tub at hotel with a beer. See you guys in the morn!
Hope everyone made it home without drama. No "mechanical's" needed. 
Made it home just fine.
I'd like to thank Chris for letting me borrow some tires that allowed me to claw my way up from 20+ seconds behind (on my crappy overly wide tires) to 1/2 second out of first place after two Sunday runs, and nearly 1000 seconds of competition. It was a real eye opener not only as far as tire sizing is concerned, but also how adding more lateral grip to the rear makes the front more stable on a rough course.
I'd like to apologize to Chris for debeading one of those tires on my third Sunday run. Sorry Chris. I took the tire/wheel home with me so I can properly remove all of the dirt.
It was an incredibly rad event and it was awesome to meet so many of the people from points elsewhere. Stuff broke on the first day, displaced drivers found co-drives so they could keep racking up runs, we applied the Force of Will to the hurt cars at dusk and with driving-light illumination and made them come back for the second day.
Congratulations to Kevin for winning the closest class at the event. Mod Rear was something like one second between 1st and 3rd place!
I'd like to say thanks to Pete, ZB and Mike Golden for fixing my car when I gave up hope of finding the problem. Also thanks to Kevin for lending the multimeter. And thanks to Josh for the fuse, I owe you one (fuse).
I would have probably been in the same finishing position if my car was running saturday afternoon, I just couldn't keep it clean. I did have a blast driving the rx7 and now I really want to put my rotary in something.
So, how did MF class end up? Going to try to be at the duel in the dirt next month.
1 - Shaun Bailey
2 - Pat Mccartin
3 - Bill Ehrman
4 - Leon Drake
Great meeting you guys finally, was good times. Take away some unfortunate breakages, debeads and spins and MR could have very well finished up with 5-6 cars within a few seconds of each other at the end - a really evenly matched class for sure, possibly more than any of the other classes. We (the DC crew) really enjoyed the venue there and the course designs and hope some of you guys can make it out to NEDivs in a few weeks which is not that far away from Ohio.
Congrats to Kevin for taking the hard-fought win. I put every ounce of speed and aggression into my last run and just couldn't get that last half second from you, you just drove too fast and too damn clean all weekend!
And here we can note that MR class was dominated by GRM'ers from 1st to last place!
For anyone wanting to see the photo's Jason took all weekend, here's a link to his Facebook page and some teasers he's already posted: Productions by JPM Media
And for wae since he doesn't do that Facebooks thing:
Okay, three year old thread, but I was looking for the Ohio Rallycross 2017 thread and found this comment and laughed.
Knurled wrote: Hopefully I won't *need* to use 5 digit RPM again, but when faced with a broken transmission, your choices are sucking it up and winding the wee out of the engine, or giving up in a giant cloud of fail. Fail sucks, RPM is rad. https://www.youtube.com/embed/D4ipMAU7orA
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zks1brYyuAs
... because I broke the trans and couldn't upshift, and the options are either excessive RPM or failure and failure is not an option
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