Well, the the Mustang debuted this weekend and unfortunately we had a mini-spin, a mega-spin, a tiny spin, and a DNF. The two small spins were just sliding 90 degrees sideways on the exits of corners, but the mega-spin was a full-bodied humongazoid effort, with us going down the road over some sixes (slight turns), followed by a five over the finish line. When Mark lifted for the 5, the rear came around while we were going over 100mph, and we started spinning at that speed, at night, with the trees whipping by - whoo-whee! The car rotated such that the headlights seemed fixated on the finish control the whole time as we spun. Luckily we hit nothing, and as the spin came around Mark popped it into 3rd and the engine came up to about 4000rpm - so we were going 60mph at the END of the spin. Lucky lucky lucky. Unfortunately during the last stage of Friday the engine's balancer decided to unbalance and we ended up with a bent crankshaft, thus ending our rally. Got to spectate Delware Mine the next day - that's a fun stage! Then we drove Brockway on the way back - fun in a street car but not as fun as in a rally car...
Nice article in the Michigan Tech's on-line newspaper at:
http://www.mtulode.com/index.php?issuedate=§ion=12&artid=4752
The Twin Cities is having Tombstone, their big fun rally this Saturday:
http://www.marblesoft.com/tombstone/index.html
Plus, the Twin Cities are having a Rally Cross:
http://www.specialstage.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=241&topic_id=3841&mesg_id=3841&page=