West coast Success
The last few weeks have been very mad for me with two west coast events in three weeks and a trip home between them.
The first event was running very well when we had built up a nice lead in the new Subaru VT10, the rally was cut short due to the death of a fellow driver.
After Five days home with the family and some busy times at www.higginsrallyschool .com it was back on the plane to Oregon Trail rally. Although it is an event I have won in 2002/03 the event has moved and all the stages were new to us.
We had a great test on the Tuesday and the new Subaru VT10 ran perfect, we even had time to take the techs for a ride!!.
After the recce it was a long drive to Portland and then a 5.30am visit to the breakfast TV show, and then when that was done we had media day and then a visit to local Subaru dealer.
Friday night was the rally start at Portland race track with a mix of tarmac and gravel, we built up a good lead winning all stages, this car in awesome on tarmac!
Saturday was the start of the forest stages and we were looking forward to trying to build our lead, drama struck about 2 thirds of the way into the stage when we lost a brake line, I took the pipe of at the end and fitted a blank and set off for the next 2 stages with only front brakes. We lost the lead by 1 second so we were all very happy knowing that when the car was sorted in service we would be able to set a good pace.
At the end of the rally we managed to win by over 3 minutes and move to the top of the points.
Massive thanks go out to all at Subaru USA rally team and the guys at Vermont sports car. This new car is just awesome and I know how hard it has been for you guys to get to where we are now
The first event was running very well when we had built up a nice lead in the new Subaru VT10, the rally was cut short due to the death of a fellow driver.
After Five days home with the family and some busy times at www.higginsrallyschool .com it was back on the plane to Oregon Trail rally. Although it is an event I have won in 2002/03 the event has moved and all the stages were new to us.
We had a great test on the Tuesday and the new Subaru VT10 ran perfect, we even had time to take the techs for a ride!!.
After the recce it was a long drive to Portland and then a 5.30am visit to the breakfast TV show, and then when that was done we had media day and then a visit to local Subaru dealer.
Friday night was the rally start at Portland race track with a mix of tarmac and gravel, we built up a good lead winning all stages, this car in awesome on tarmac!
Saturday was the start of the forest stages and we were looking forward to trying to build our lead, drama struck about 2 thirds of the way into the stage when we lost a brake line, I took the pipe of at the end and fitted a blank and set off for the next 2 stages with only front brakes. We lost the lead by 1 second so we were all very happy knowing that when the car was sorted in service we would be able to set a good pace.
At the end of the rally we managed to win by over 3 minutes and move to the top of the points.
Massive thanks go out to all at Subaru USA rally team and the guys at Vermont sports car. This new car is just awesome and I know how hard it has been for you guys to get to where we are now
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