Minnesota Focus Owners Club

Ya'll got show cars, but there's got to be someone that like to get dirty!
Not sure if I can make this one, but it's fun as hell.

Hope you can make sense of this email


Bruce,
Primo gravel roads right around CF and Red Wing. This is an AWESOME rally...that is a bit more challenging than the one that Jeremy and I did - HIDDEN CHECKPOINTS could be ANYWHERE along the stage! I will be leaving for China this week-end. You guys should attend so you can relate stories to me. Pray for rain and mud!


Subject: [Rally-MN] Ides of October Rally 10/18/08
From: "Ed Solstad" <esolstad@pressenter.com>
Date: Thu, October 9, 2008 11:57 am
To: tcarp@yahoogroups.com
rally-mn@yahoogroups.com
aroc-sdn@yahoogroups.com
dave@longtermincome.com
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*The Ides of October Rally*
*Saturday, October 18^th , 2008***

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*Meet at:* Godfather's Pizza, Pottery Place, 2000 Old West Main St., Red Wing, MN.
*Registration:* 4:00 - 4:45pm
*First Car Out:* 5:01pm.
*Cost:* $15/car Alfa & Saab Club members; $20/car others.
*Ends at:* The Bierstube just across the parking lot from Godfather's.
*Trophies:* Sorry no cars on sticks just bottles of good wine to the top teams in Equipped, non-Equipped Experienced, non-Equipped Novice, plus the ever popular 2 bottles of Rogue Dead Guy Ale to the Dead Last But Finished Team.
The format will be the usual tulip style instructions run from out marker to out marker-checkpoints are NOT shown on the instructions, but they are out there! Expect to run at a brisk pace over the quality gravel roads of Goodhue and Wabasha County. Quality winter/gravel tires at all four corners are highly recommended. The rally is open to teams of all levels of experience.


To assist the Rallymaster please *RSVP* by Thursday, October16th-the rally is open to 15 teams, max. To RSVP-or for questions-please contact the Rallymaster, Dean Nelson, at _dfl__dean@comcast.net_, 651-636-3771 (h) or 612-865-7118 (c). Sponsored by the Stella del Nord Chapter of the Alfa Romeo Owners Club, most of whom now drive Subarus and Audis on gravel, with assistance from the Minnesota Saab Club, who sometimes have been know to drive Saabarus.


Thanks, and see ya on the 18th!
Dean

sooo.. anyone. i have stock focus. no extra safty anything. i've been looking for a anyone type thing. i have skills... in a stock focus. i just want to have fun. do you have to have a valid license???

BTW, where in cannon you live...

If you're the navigator, you don't need a license Need good traction though. It's way easy to over drive the tight gravel corners....especially in the dark.

I'm out in Sogn Valley...'bout 12 miles out of town.

well, that's a hugh bummer... i won't be valid after the 13th untill jan 11th, then i'll have a worek permit. i have had a lot of gravel and snow/ice experiance, i can handle night too, i do it every night.
my theory is, if you need to beef up suspention and rim/tires for better handling, then you don't know how to handle a car in the first place. practice and experiance are better then a mod.
is there a map of said event??? the email addy for info up there don't work.

12 miles eehy.. is that still cannon. which way from town. i'm right in town near the co-op

Monkey Gein wrote:my theory is, if you need to beef up suspention and rim/tires for better handling, then you don't know how to handle a car in the first place. practice and experiance are better then a mod.

haha, well that's good to a point. Then you can start driving faster than the car allows, be it suspension or tires. Gravel is the great equealizer (sp). This rally you need good eyes in the dark, while you drift the corners.

Hint
Take off the front stabilizer bar. It's almost like rear wheel drive. \

Can any of you guys drive a RWD car?

i might bring the escort for this one, gonna have to take the back seats off ...