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I know there were a few at least:

• Tom Hoppe was supposed to get his first co-drive but did not
• Kevin Hoff had his first co-drive, but it ended early
• Anders had metal-to-metal contact during the race
• Kevin and Christine Allen worked and had fun

Any others? Photo links anyone?

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Carl Fisher

Be Cool to the Pizza Dude:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4651531

Here is the official nasioc thread
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthr ... did=476972

I had a codrive lined up with dan brosnan in a Sentra SE-R. When he got there though, he has a mini-me codriver seat. I couldn't come CLOSE to fitting into the damn thing I did fit perfectly in the drivers seat though, but he couldn't fit in the codriver seat either... He had a really skinny guy on his crew, so I let him borrow my driving suit and that guy codrove instead....

We has a blast spectating though and we helped marshall on stage 4 a bit.

-Tom

I'll let Anders tell the full metal-on-metal story but suffice to say that it was due to Kent and I getting stuck in a _really_ dangerous spot and the @#$%$ sweep (sweep ran between 2wd and 4wd for "safety") didn't hold the stage to get our cars pulled out of the way.

Co-driving was a lot of fun. I got completely lost in the notes on stage 1 but resynced at the spectator area then was fine for the rest of the time. NASA is using a strange Canadian style timecard that confused the heck out of everyone, including the control workers. I was instructing the worker on how to fill out our card, that's how ugly it was! (Remember, I've never done this before! )

After we slid off and got stuck then pulled out by Anders after his impact things were going very well. I had finally figured out how to read the notes, Kent was getting comfortable with the car and surface, and things were getting fun. Suddenly, over a small crest it feels like the car popped out of gear. Cuss a bit, "Put it back in gear!" Kent's like "it is!" Hmm... What's happening here? We coasted off to a very safe spot and stopped the car. As soon as we stopped moving we noticed the clouds of smoke rising from the hood. After putting out the one surviving triangle (The others got hit at the place we got stuck. Told you it was dangerous!) we started poking around on the transmission as the grinding noise sounded like half-engaged gears. Turns out it was an outer CV joint. Apparently DSM's like to eat CV's. After sitting in the woods for about an hour, waiting on a tow, a huge lifted bronco showed up towing a VW. We made a 3-car tow rope train and got drug out to the service area. I found someone with a spare axle (like idiots we left them in Kent's garage. D'oh!) and we started trying to swap it out. Unfortunately, after much thrashing, we figured out that the axle we borrowed was the wrong one for the car. Its splined area that plugs into the transmission was too long so it would never work. Finally at about 2:00 or so we gave up, packed the trailer, and went to spectate/drink beer for the rest of the afternoon.

Apparently Rally is sort of intense... After spectating we went back to the hotel to clean up. I laid down to take a nap and woke up at 9:45 pm!

--Kevin H.

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2003 WRX (again!)

We had a great time. Worked start control on stage 1, so we got to see all the guys come through looking really nervous. Marshalled at the coolest spot on stage 4, and a good spot on stage 6 (it got dark during that one, so we got to see how bright those lights are from really close up)

And we got to go through the water splash/ mud that you'll see if you check out the photos...

http://kevinmallen.home.att.net/racephotosindex.htm

Great pictures Kevin!

Scott

Thanks. Did anybody notice that in the next-to-last picture, the Evo's exhaust is glowing? I'm guessing that's from the anti-lag system.

Really wish we could've done some video, but we left the camcorder in the room. The sounds coming from the WRX and EVO's using anti-lag were just... well, you just had to be there.