We're headed to WRC Rally Mexico!
Everything came together around midnight on Tuesday so we spent 14hrs on the rally car Wednesday and loaded it up and made the 24hr drive Thursday and arrived in Laredo yesterday in time to drop everything with the broker to have it shipped to León. We'll cross ourselves and drive down tomorrow. The past few days have really all blurred into one and we're totally flying by the seat of our pants, but the grand adventure has begun!
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Our very delayed post-Rally Mexico write up...
...can be found here:
http://www.rallyteamfordreams.org/20...se-duh-winning
Short version...we cleaned up. Fastest 2WD car, won our class and the overall Rally America category, beating cars with double the hp, awd, and 7 figure budgets. Would have placed 10th overall in the WRC had our car owned FIA homologation papers - all despite running with limited spares, one mechanic, and losing power steering on day 1 of the rally.
The road and jumps were awesome and the fans were insane - treating us like rockstars (seriously reminiscent of when The Beatles first came to the states, I kid you not). We returned the love by posing for countless photos and signing thousands of autographs on crazy things including babies, baby food sources, and even a dog. :o
Fortunately the cartel allowed us to return home with our heads still attached and now we're back to being nobodys in the US. :)
The WRC is basically a big traveling circus and it was a great experience to be a part of it, if for only one event.
The best part is that to-date we've raised over $4500 for Camp Sunrise by selling blocks on our car. If you haven't yet, you should head over to our site and plop down $5 to get your ugly mug on our rally car - 100% of the proceeds goes to the camp, one of only a few summer camps specifically designed for the needs of kids impacted by HIV/AIDS.
Unfortunately we'll be missing Rally Tennessee this year as we blew a huge chunk of our budget competing in Mexico and the grueling stages really did a number on our car, but we will be continuing to support Camp Sunrise during the rest of the '11 season and hope to be out on the stages soon.