Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Ojibwe Forests - Pre-Rally Report


We've got 500 miles to go. No hotel reservations. The Jetta is jammed with tools. Its 11:46 PM and I haven't even started packing.

Hit it.

The Rally America national championship series makes its return to the midwest this weekend, as crews roll into Bemidji Minnesota for the Ojibwe Forests Rally. As is typical for us this time of year, we're out of cash, so the Datsun will not be making an appearance. However the Gravel-Spec crew will be lending their service expertise to PPD Motorsports for the weekend, to crew for Piotr Wiktorczyk and Greg Dorman, fresh from their appearance at X Games.

Winner of the 2004 Headwaters Rally, Piotr Wiktorczyk is a dark horse at Ojibwe, finishing a strong 4th overall at last year's event and had a podium finish the previous year stripped away by the stewards.

As your Co-Driver in Exile, I'll provide daily updates assuming I have access to the sweet, sweet nectar of the interweb, and that a certain un-named Japanese manufacturers glass transmissions don't go Carl Lewis on us.

Oh no, you won't make up for it now.

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