2009 Alpine Rally

[Robert Wilson]

Congratulations to Geoff/Ross on an excellent performance and result Can any BMSC members enlighten me on the Commodore,s spec,s ???

Regards Robert Wilson Northern Rivers

[Stewy]

On its side just before next car came through.


The tree we first hit in 4th gear. Looking down the road where Anna is standing is where the car finished up.


Back on its wheels. the tree behind the car is what we both looked at with fear at the speed we were doing. The other tree we ran up its dirt mound at the base and then hit rolling the car on its side. We then were stopped by another log punching the roof.

More of a report to come

[bstrat]

Originally Posted by Rallyray

HOLY FUG!

Does that Porsche hook up or what!

Is that you Jarryd as the paasenger?

Fug you all... I'm stuck at home with the cartlidge off my knee bone.

Yeah that car is soooo fast. SOOOOOOO much fun too. I dont remember a time where we wernt going under 100kmh.

[wagy]

They seem to have lost all the night times we did! We were 24th after sat arvo and then we are given starting number of LAST for sunday!! so we sucked that in and started the morning. We managed to get an 8min dust gap for the 45k stage and it was great till we hit the 30 k and we were in a train of cars. the car in front of this train was not wearing helmets. p**sed off and missed the last 3 stages due dangers in dust, limped to the end and handed time card in.

[Nigel]

Originally Posted by Stewy

The tree we first hit in 4th gear. Looking down the road where Anna is standing is where the car finished up.

That's tragic man, I feel pain just looking at it.

Glad everyone's physically ok!

Nigel.

[wbell]

Stewy:

As I came down that road I seen the Datsun off into the trees. I said **** that is a big one and had that sinking feeling you get when you see something like that.

I tell you I was so releived to see Anna displaying the OK board.

Mate you were so lucky as that was a quick piece of road.

I am surprised looking at the pictures there dose not appear to be too much damage. Hope you her get up and running soon.
Cheers
Wayne Bell

[pvda]

Originally Posted by Trevor Stilling

Ty rolled on the tramac stage last night, crew ok car is apparently ****ed..

Not how I like meeting competitors (I was driving the FIV sent in to check up on them).

I do have to say that's one great road to have as a rally stage

[Spac]

Event reportto come, but for now, a huge thanks to:
Ethan, Simon Leigh, Boormat, Nick, Phil, Lisi, Anna, Jason Stinky Pants, Matt Searle, Frinky, Rob Mules, Andy C & crew, and Stewy for their parts in getting us to the end of the event (and home again).


Despite the above results saying that we missed 10 controls, we completed 100% of the course. It seems that some of our stage times were sucked into the same black hole as Wagy's, which explains our únusual'starting position on Sunday morning.

Semi-epic report sometime in the next couple of days....

[tara]

Alpine 09 had a great event up until tarmac stage saturday night car was going great and Ty did a great job driving but we will rebuild it and be back next time

Thanks to everyone that helped us the FIV crew, the crane crew and Andy Crane, Tracey Ell and Dave Anderson and Mum, Dad and Aaron.

Thanks to everyone who has rang Ty and who came up to us at the event to wondering how we were, Ty is ok but a bit sore and ive got a sore left arm but otherwise we are ok.

attached is pictures of the car being recovered

[Rallydat]

[QUOTE=Stewy;226196]

[jamar]

Originally Posted by Robert Wilson

Congratulations to Geoff/Ross on an excellent performance and result Can any BMSC members enlighten me on the Commodore,s spec,s ???

Regards Robert Wilson Northern Rivers

No Specs available - apart from it's a blue motored, triple webered thing that has been built brilliantly.. one of those cars that looks like nothing special until you either: a) know what to look for with that type of car, or b) spend sooo long looking at it, you pick some of the tricks of the trade involved... of course the win may also have a bit to do with the nuts (of various specification) in the cabin (well done Geoff & Ross)

[fro]

Fantastic event, will buy again A+++++

Had a great event that ended in (self-inflicted) heartbreak. I was hoping to finish in the top 30, so to be 16th on Sunday morning was unbelievable.

I didn't feel like I gave Matt Searle or Naomi any time to do a million things all weekend. Always felt like we just got everything done in the time we had at every opportunity, including getting there.

A million people to thank, but most of all:

Matt Searle - Champion guy, and service legend of unfathomable proportions.
Paulie - You can be my wingman any time. Pretty darn good navigator, too, even if he tells you different.
Orange Roughy Massive - Great bunch of dudes and dudettes that know what's important.
Kari, Tim and the Seldom Seen crew - Helped me more than they know.

and of course Naomi, who puts up with the crazy, the adrenalin, and the aftermath.

More much later, when the hurt is dulled.

[MattSearle]

Rallying can be a cruel bitch, but I love her anyway.

I had an awesome weekend, the highs the lows, just awesome!

It would have been a new low in Rallying for me, when we got the call from Fro saying he had centre punched a tree and was out.
I was glad to hear they were OK, but devastated that we were out.

The damage isn't that bad, but will still need a bit of work to get going again.

The B love is strong, and the special sauce tangy.

We will be back.

[Dweller]

Originally Posted by fro

Fantastic event, will buy again A+++++

Had a great event that ended in (self-inflicted) heartbreak. I was hoping to finish in the top 30, so to be 16th on Sunday morning was unbelievable.

I didn't feel like I gave Matt Searle or Naomi any time to do a million things all weekend. Always felt like we just got everything done in the time we had at every opportunity, including getting there.

A million people to thank, but most of all:


More much later, when the hurt is dulled.

At least you got there, my head still hurts from the turkey I had to drink over the weekend to ease the pain.

Maybe less time in a G string and more in RWD

[Jimbo]

Bugger if a way to finish an event Stewy, hopefully this will help ease the pain..



And a few more randoms after we went spectating following Grimace breaking the gearbox on the night tarmac stage..