Alcan 5000 Winter rally in Feb
11-28-2003, 04:56 PM
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Alcan 5000 Winter rally in Feb
The 5000 mile long Alcan Winter Rally starts February 18th 2004 and will feature Subaru vs Mitsubishi (amongst others). Road and Track is sending a veteran team.
visit: www.alcan5000.com for more info
or see updates soon at:
www.challengedriving.com
It is the longest rally in North America and one of the longest in the world, since 1984...
This was from the last winter event...
visit: www.alcan5000.com for more info
or see updates soon at:
www.challengedriving.com
It is the longest rally in North America and one of the longest in the world, since 1984...
This was from the last winter event...
Last edited by Primitive Racer; 11-28-2003 at 04:58 PM.
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12-18-2003, 08:44 AM
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Alcan Website for Updates
Click on link to www.challengedriving.com for our Alcan website. We will post additional info over next 2 months and then daily (not quite real time) updates during the 9 days of competition.
Articles planned for Jan:
Prepping for an Arctic Attack (rally raid)
Profile on Alcan competitors: Gary Webb, Wiley & Horst, etc
www.challengedriving.com
Articles planned for Jan:
Prepping for an Arctic Attack (rally raid)
Profile on Alcan competitors: Gary Webb, Wiley & Horst, etc
www.challengedriving.com
12-18-2003, 08:47 AM
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Forester XT !
12-23-2003, 08:51 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Bizerkeley
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Car Info: MBP 02 WRX wagon
Gee Paul, that's all the better you can link to for the Forester?
And I love the picture of Greg, Glenn and Francesca -trudgin across the tundra, mile after mile..... I expect we might see this scene played out in real life on the banks of the frozen MacKenzie when Glenn does one of his famous north of the border "stuffs"
hopefully not though.
Glenn's always saying the WRX was too fast for a TSD car, and now he's takin' an STi?
I hope you're getting him set up with some wicked tires, with amazing road grabbing adhesion.
And I'm glad Dave and I are timing and scoring instead of sweep!
:banana: :banana:
And I love the picture of Greg, Glenn and Francesca -trudgin across the tundra, mile after mile..... I expect we might see this scene played out in real life on the banks of the frozen MacKenzie when Glenn does one of his famous north of the border "stuffs"
hopefully not though.
Glenn's always saying the WRX was too fast for a TSD car, and now he's takin' an STi?
I hope you're getting him set up with some wicked tires, with amazing road grabbing adhesion.And I'm glad Dave and I are timing and scoring instead of sweep!
:banana: :banana:
Last edited by psoper; 12-23-2003 at 08:55 PM.
03-03-2004, 06:28 PM
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Location: Bizerkeley
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Car Info: MBP 02 WRX wagon
Another awesome trip north!
The Challenge driving Subaru team placed very well, Paul, Kala and Gary turned in scores running without a computer that put a lot of the computer equipped teams to shame, and Paul, Jake, and Glenn consistantly turned in some of the fastest times on the ice races.
They would have dominated were it not for the BMW X3's that were entered with some of the most experienced, seasoned, veteran Alcan competitors alive behind the wheel.
Privateers in Subarus also faired quite well, car 11 was a silver WRX wagon from Washington, and car 14 was the 2.5 RS that won the winter rally in 2000, now being piloted by it's new owners the Weavers from Colorado.
I'm going to be spending a long time sorting through the 18 hours of video we shot, between Dave and I we took some 7GB of pictures too.
My car is thrashed though, I need a windsheild, another front bumper (this makes 3) I put big dents in the passenger door, rear qtr panel and front fender while stuffing it in the snowbank 3 times, and on top of that we blew out 2 tires on the ice road coming back from Tuktoyaktuk.
I don't think the center diff was happy runing that last 4000 miles with BF goodrich ultra grips on back and cooper weathermasters in front despite them having the same size stamped on all the sidewalls.
But it was all well worth it, I can hardly wait for the next time!
The Challenge driving Subaru team placed very well, Paul, Kala and Gary turned in scores running without a computer that put a lot of the computer equipped teams to shame, and Paul, Jake, and Glenn consistantly turned in some of the fastest times on the ice races.
They would have dominated were it not for the BMW X3's that were entered with some of the most experienced, seasoned, veteran Alcan competitors alive behind the wheel.
Privateers in Subarus also faired quite well, car 11 was a silver WRX wagon from Washington, and car 14 was the 2.5 RS that won the winter rally in 2000, now being piloted by it's new owners the Weavers from Colorado.
I'm going to be spending a long time sorting through the 18 hours of video we shot, between Dave and I we took some 7GB of pictures too.
My car is thrashed though, I need a windsheild, another front bumper (this makes 3) I put big dents in the passenger door, rear qtr panel and front fender while stuffing it in the snowbank 3 times, and on top of that we blew out 2 tires on the ice road coming back from Tuktoyaktuk.
I don't think the center diff was happy runing that last 4000 miles with BF goodrich ultra grips on back and cooper weathermasters in front despite them having the same size stamped on all the sidewalls.
But it was all well worth it, I can hardly wait for the next time!