Wow that is some cool racing, way to keep it off the rocks yet be so fast!

 

Good driving today, sorry to see Marty's evo wreck

 

I'll get back with more details & pics in the next day or two, but we did in fact take the Time Attack AWD win by almost 40 seconds, besting the record set last year by 61 seconds. In PPIHC speak, that's an eternity. The car was almost flawless, with just a few hiccups, but nothing other cars weren't dealing with either. The hot weather had dry-slicked the road, and it was in worse condition than last year, as evidenced by Monster's time drop of 17 or 18 seconds. Based on our practice times, we were expecting a better time, but we can't argue with a class win! It also looks like we finished 5th overall, behind perennial top spot takers, Leonard & Clint Vahsholtz, Paul Dallenbach, and Nobuhiro Tajima.

That was a great feeling, but was quickly washed away when we learned that two of our good friends were in a horrific crash just a few turns from the start line. They left the road going 70-90mph and clear cut an 18" diameter tree with the front of their Impreza. Both sustained broken backs and we're hoping they'll pull thru good as new. Thank god for HANS devices! Remember people, good safety equipment saves lives, don't scrimp in that area of your car builds...ever!!!!

Dave

 

Good job today dave! Too bad tom didn't get to finish out the day. But congrats!

 

We are thrilled about your work Dave! GREAT JOB!!! When we first started our relationship earlier in the year I knew you would do well....but this is phenomenal!

Our hearts go out to your friends and we wish them a safe recovery..... its horrible when things like this happen.

Eric

 

Congrats again Dave man!!

That was a lot of fun and it was also fun to watch you drive.

PM me when you get a chance Dave.


Mitch M

 

Some pics of the car and the race can be found here:


http://veengineering.wordpress.com/

I will post up some on here later.


Mitch M

 

Out of car short clips are up from our qualifying runs:

Run 1
Run 2
Run 3

You tube only allows for a 10 minute clip...so we're going to need to speed things up for next year. I'm going to need to figure out where to break the video up and will try to get the full mountain up later today.

Dave

 

Dave, Send me the full file footage and I can put together a nice video.

Eric

 

Uploading vids all afternoon...some of these take quite a while. These are just raw clips...no editing, no music, just straight off the cameras with lots of engine & transmission noise. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/profile_video...llyadvertising

Also, if anyone has any short clips of the car on race day or practice days, I'd love to get my hands on that.

Eric - I'm working on getting you those files...they're pretty large...so I may just burn you a disc since I already need to do that for the PPIHC organizers to use in the TV show.

Thanks,

Dave

 

Sweet vid Dave makes me want to pull out the old MX'r and hit some logging roads.

 

Awesome job!!!

 

Looks like the car ran really well. Looks like all that hard work was worth it.

How did you feel the aero worked for you. This is the first time Dave has made one for dirt use.

 

The vids are AWESOME!!! They should be mandatory viewing for all Evo owners. Finally someone using their Evo the way it was meant to be used.

Thanks for posting and huge congrats again.

l8r)

 

Congrats on the run.

I was watching up at 16 mile (Devils Playground) awesome view from up there, could see the whole race. All the EVO's took the corner at Devils Playground beautifully.

I would recommend to anyone who is in the area to come see this, you will not be disappointed. Awesome experience that you will never get anywhere else.

I live down here in Colorado Springs, if you guys ever need any help with anything let me know, really trying to get involved with these races.

Before he rolled the EVO he was doing really good and was taking the corners like an all-star.

Congrats and seriously any help that you guys need hit me up.