Jaguar Rally Weekend !! (Day 2)

Sunday morning brought day 2 of the Jaguar Rally. Thanks again to DM for being my driver. By the way both events started out from Franklin Square plaza in Frankfort, KY.

Day 2 was a much better day than Day 1. We again were car number 1 and headed out at 9:31 am for our adventure. We hit the first timing control 14 hundredths off, which equates to about 8 secs. All scoring is done by hundredths of a minute. For every .01 or 1/100 of a minute off you get one pt. The second and fifth legs were both DIYC (Do it Yourself Controls). At DIYC, you get to calculate what you believe should have been the exact arrival time at that control and that is your in time for that leg. Your out time for the next leg is exactly 2 mins after your in time. We received 0 on both of our DIYC legs. Leg 3 resulted in 24 pts and Leg 4 resulted in 15 pts. Leg 6 ended out being thrown because of a mileage error in the directions. First of all, we hit Washburn and figured that was most likely the right spot though the directions said Wash. We completed our DIYC Leg 5 and headed down the rd but never found the next turn before we had hit two stop signs and a major rd. Thinking well maybe there was another rd pass Washburn called wash. We headed back the other directions. Passing every single other car in the rally. Of course all asking what the heck is going on. We backed tracked and found no other rd in correct proximity so we whipped back around and headed back where we first became confused to recheck the mileage. In the meantime, two others had followed us. Amazingly the same two cars that followed us yesterday. Apparently they did not learn there lesson from day one. We got back to the lost spot and were still rather confused so we took the rd to the left following what was the next instruction and following another car who had stopped and asked a local something. Apparently the local was of no help because we had to turn back around and head the other direction. Finally we found where we were in the instructions and continued at lightening speed to follow the directions. Not knowing at that time that the last leg had been thrown. We passed the last leg some 10 mins behind schedule according to the numbers on the rally sheet.

But in conclusion, we finished the weekend with the best one event score. I am not sure where that put us overall for the weekend. We concluded with 53 pts and the next team had 150 something pts.

1st place day 2 and 5th place on day 1. Overall not a very bad weekend and a lot of fun, minus the whole working Saturday night thing.

If your interested in participating in a Road Rally, let me know. I am currently usually in need of a driver for the events and we are always encouraging more teams to come out and participate. I am not sure when the next event will be but I will let you know.