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I hear others didn’t get the “full package”, so I’ve decided to show you what the “full package” looks like….
hohohohoho………

Saturday, our second foray into the Ontario Road Rally Championship series, the Northern Lights Rally. Chiu/Wong enter again. We’re beginning to become quite the familiar faces on the rally circuit.. seeing as we still haven’t met any other chinese participants.

Anyway.. I woke up fairly leisurely and got some Zelda in, a bit of Wii sports and played some bass. Meanwhile in waterloo, the other half of rallyPX played a badminton tournament with Eric and managed to come in 2nd (gj team). Around 1:30 we both arrived seperately in Campbellville (about halfway between Toronto and Waterloo, near Guelph) and filled out the necessary paperwork.

It was snowing in the morning but by the time 2pm came about the sun was out and the roads were dry. The Northern Lights Rally 2006 was comprised of two legs, the first being ~200km and the second being ~230km. It was pretty much one day/one night leg. As usual, we came out of the “untimed” odometer check too fast.. and ended up being early for the first checkpoint -_-..

For the most part the first leg went pretty well until the end, and we ended up losing some time due to some confusing instructions. We finished the first leg I think it was with a 5.6, putting us in third place for novice.

For the second leg.. we started by missing the first turn.. but it was untimed.. so we we’re ok. However we still came out of the untimed section too fast and ended up early for the first checkpoint again.. ALTHOUGH.. the scorecard shows we zero’d it.. so who knows.

There were was a bad instruction for the novice.. so one checkpoint became a route control. We also drove past a checkpoint completely without stopping.. but they were nice enough and gave us the proper time anyway.. otherwise we would have gotten an extra 20 added to our score (for a missed CP). The rest went fairly smoothly. YFA got sick/dizzy/headachey.. but managed to survive and we managed to get the best score (of the rally) for the second leg.

It pushed us into second place for novice and we got another plaque thing.. woo! 5 weeks until the next rally!