Sometimes it pays to stay up way, way too late. We have to get up at 4:30 AM for Day 3 and I'm still up sharing the internet connection with Satch Carlson at 12:25AM. But as we sat the Day 2 provisional scores arrived in our hands. The results improve my mood considerably.
The TeamD summary is that Eric and Steve move the BMW to first in class and fifth overall. This despite taking max points at Gold Pan Speedway and ruining a tire and some bodywork. Eric and Steve were also the only team to score zero points on the controversial Do-It-Yourself TSD section late in the evening.
Nick and Rob make waves in their lowly Mazda 323, taking only 4.5 points in the unstudded tire group at the Gold Pan ice race. This means they were only 4.5 seconds slower on their two runs than a high-performance Mitsubishi Lancer EVO driven by a professional driver!
Both Jim/Dan and Rob/Nick have outstanding queries in to the scoring committee about confusion at the DIY section and until those are resolved they stand with max scores of 200 points for that section, making their day two scores abnormally high.
Top positions have all changed around, read on for full scores:
1. Car #3 Carlson, Joy, Kraushaar with 24.7 points 2. Car #2 Kraushaar, Engstrom, Richardson, 28.6 points 3. Car #1 Ahearns, Schneider, Webb with 30.9 points 4. Car #4 Eklund, Rounds, Reid, 38 points 5. Car #7 Horst, Willey with 54 points 6. Car #12 Miller, Duchene, Wood with 59 points 7. Car #10 Wallace, Hightower, Carozza, 71.1points 8. Car #8 Bornhop, Kott, 116 points 9. Car #11 Hogan, Comden with 259.1 points 10. Car #6 Dunn, Marcuse, 317.5 points 11. Car #9 Wright, Fuhrman, 378 points (got a flat and accidentally discharged fire extinguisher in their car!) 12. Car #5 Elder, Elder, 481 points 13. Car #16 Brown, Morris, 499.1 points 14. Car #13 Gilland, Boyd with 627 points 15. Car #14 Weaver, Weaver, 644.3 points 16. Car #15 von Richthofen, Touring Class (raced on the ice track with his trailer!)Posted by erich at February 20, 2004 12:09 AM