LSPR 2013

I know this isn't really a rally crowd, but any GRMers going to LSPR? I will be there with a rally-virgin friend thats coming up from Houston.

I'll be there. Working for car 75 and 600. Fly out tomorrow.

Your rally virgin friend from Houston should be rallycrossing with us. . I wish I was going to be up there. Many fond memories of watching the cars drive by below my dorm window in college. Have fun.

I was up there a few years ago. Would love to go again sometime. Kids make things difficult to take time to go to rally.

Pretty bummed out I'm not able to make the trip.

In reply to mazdeuce: He is much more into motorcycles. His only 4 wheeled vehicle is a un-rallyx friendly Wrangler.

We head up Thursday. Its a 530 mile drive.

sachilles wrote: I'll be there. Working for car 75 and 600. Fly out tomorrow.

Higgins going to win it all?

I will be there crewing for the blue subaru!

errr ummm

the blue 2.5 RS swapped FWD.

logdog wrote:

sachilles wrote: I'll be there. Working for car 75 and 600. Fly out tomorrow.

Higgins going to win it all?

It would certainly make me happy.

Glad to have made it in. Weather made flying the friendly skies a little more challenging for some of my team mates today.

Well that went about as well for us as I could have hoped. Higgins/Drew won and took the championship. We do the car for VanWay/Edwards super production effort, and he won SP and took 3rd overall after only his second event in the car/awd. L'estage took 2nd overall in car sourced from us. So, we had our hands in the top three spots. Made for a lot of smiles from out crew. Beautiful area, I'd like to visit in the warmer months. The people up their were very nice and hospitable. I can't say enough about how good the hosting communities were to us. We covered a lot of ground on this event, and anyone we dealt with from hotels, airports, restaurants, stores and shops were all top notch.

In reply to sachilles:

Were you at the Ramada? I saw the subaru trucks outside all the time and there were lots of matching blue jackets at breakfast. We may have passed each other in the hall without knowing. Did you go to the awards?

Bummed I couldn't go this year, as I've attended and marshalled the past few years, but with a newborn at home this year it wasn't in the cards.

The scenery and area is reason in and of itself to go. We usually leave a day early and go up to Copper Harbor for mountain biking, and we tend to stop and hike some waterfalls on the way up, and way back south.

fidelity101 wrote: I will be there crewing for the blue subaru! errr ummm the blue 2.5 RS swapped FWD.

What broke to cause the DNF?

sachilles wrote: Well that went about as well for us as I could have hoped. Higgins/Drew won and took the championship. We do the car for VanWay/Edwards super production effort, and he won SP and took 3rd overall after only his second event in the car/awd. L'estage took 2nd overall in car sourced from us. So, we had our hands in the top three spots. Made for a lot of smiles from out crew. Beautiful area, I'd like to visit in the warmer months. The people up their were very nice and hospitable. I can't say enough about how good the hosting communities were to us. We covered a lot of ground on this event, and anyone we dealt with from hotels, airports, restaurants, stores and shops were all top notch.

Congrats on the great weekend, I was excited to see Dillon's results, and am looking forward to see what he does in 2014 (likely in an SP car full time). It'd be interested to say the least if he managed to finish top 3 in the season overall in such a car, which wouldn't be likely, but also isn't entirely out of the question depending on the luck of Higgins, Block and L'Estage next year.

logdog wrote: In reply to sachilles: Were you at the Ramada? I saw the subaru trucks outside all the time and there were lots of matching blue jackets at breakfast. We may have passed each other in the hall without knowing. Did you go to the awards?

I was at the Ramada for several of the nights we were there. Since I was flopping between teams depending on needs I wasn't wearing full team gear most of the time. I would have had a generic blue rain coat and a black hat with three white stripes. We were not able to go to the awards banquet as we had to get some stuff done behind the scenes. I was at the finish for the presentation of trophies.

logdog wrote:

fidelity101 wrote: I will be there crewing for the blue subaru! errr ummm the blue 2.5 RS swapped FWD.

What broke to cause the DNF?

Driver side axle (STI) failed in transit between stages, he said it started to pull then it snapped. It is a 1.5 way diff so without the one axle it was imobile. Axle failed the same spot last year (just 3 miles less) but different failure. Last year was sheared on the shaft, this year the bearing retainer clip must have failed on the inboard CV bearing assy.

captdownshift wrote:

sachilles wrote: Well that went about as well for us as I could have hoped. Higgins/Drew won and took the championship. We do the car for VanWay/Edwards super production effort, and he won SP and took 3rd overall after only his second event in the car/awd. L'estage took 2nd overall in car sourced from us. So, we had our hands in the top three spots. Made for a lot of smiles from out crew. Beautiful area, I'd like to visit in the warmer months. The people up their were very nice and hospitable. I can't say enough about how good the hosting communities were to us. We covered a lot of ground on this event, and anyone we dealt with from hotels, airports, restaurants, stores and shops were all top notch.

Congrats on the great weekend, I was excited to see Dillon's results, and am looking forward to see what he does in 2014 (likely in an SP car full time). It'd be interested to say the least if he managed to finish top 3 in the season overall in such a car, which wouldn't be likely, but also isn't entirely out of the question depending on the luck of Higgins, Block and L'Estage next year.

I just met him on this trip for the first time. My impression is that he really has his stuff together. I think SP suits him. Very nice guy. I think he has the potential to do great things. I spent most of my time in that camp, and he is very in tune with everything.