- January 25, 2013
- Historic Racing 911, TwinSpark Porsche Parts, Winter Trial Rally
- Posted by Rick Bruins
- Comments Off on Day 6: We finished 1st in Class, 8th in Club!
After a harrowing morning on the final regularity and a driving test on closed track in Austria we have finished Winter Trial 2013 in one piece. The Regularity this morning posed as many challenges as we expected, based on our experience of earlier years. After 1,2 km out of 33km total, we took an early turn and as luck has it, not only was this the wrong road, but I hit a bit of soft snow taking the first turn and ended up back end first in a meadow with deep snow. Even Silverado’s 210 horses had to surrender to the forces of snow and gravity and we were officially stuck!
As we started digging ourselves out of the ditch a farmer showed up out of nowhere on a small tractor and he was kind enough to take the other end of our tow-rope (There [...]
After a harrowing morning on the final regularity and a driving test on closed track in Austria we have finished Winter Trial 2013 in one piece. The Regularity this morning posed as many challenges as we expected, based on our experience of earlier years. After 1,2 km out of 33km total, we took an early turn and as luck has it, not only was this the wrong road, but I hit a bit of soft snow taking the first turn and ended up back end first in a meadow with deep snow. Even Silverado’s 210 horses had to surrender to the forces of snow and gravity and we were officially stuck!
As we started digging ourselves out of the ditch a farmer showed up out of nowhere on a small tractor and he was kind enough to take the other end of our tow-rope (There [...]
- January 24, 2013
- Historic Racing 911, Porsche 911 Rally, TwinSpark Porsche Parts, Winter Trial Rally
- Posted by Rick Bruins
- Comments Off on Day 5 Day of Reckoning
Today the Winter Trial presented us with 5 Regularities, 1 Navigation Test and two speed tests. A true test of grit and concentration. We started the day in corrected 4th position, still in contention for the podium. With so many events in one day and truly icy surfaces to cover the expectation was for a shake up in the classifications. There were too many possibilities to pick up penalties and big offs.
As we got into our rhythm today we had good hopes to stay in the game. The test at Nordring in Austria was mostly covered in thick snow and presented a chance to beach oneself… We just wanted to play it a bit safe to make sure we ended up with a decent time and avoid big penalties when getting stuck in a snow wall. This strategy worked out well and it [...]
