Apologies for not posting anything until now. I've had troubles getting internet access since I arrived.

At this point on Tuesday evening, two of the five competitive legs have been completed, along with the unscored prologue on Sunday.

Sunday - Prologue

The Sunday stagest were fairly uneventful - the teams spent the day shaking out the bugs in the car and working on in-car communication. The highlight of the day for me was the meet & greet session at the Legion senior's home - the residents were amazingly friendly.

Monday - Leg 1

Leg 1 was a good day for us. We finished the leg in second place in our category, with only 15 seconds in penalties.

Our one incident (and penalty) happened on stage 2. We came into a right hand turn, but the brakes faded. We overshot the turn, spun 180 and banged both left wheels against the curb. There was only a scuff to one wheel, but some of the rear suspension was a bit bent. At service, our crew bled the brakes and that solved the braking issue.

Tuesday - Leg 2

Leg 2 also started out well - we zeroed one stage, and came close on both runs of the high-speed Leading Tickles stage.

Our luck changed on the last stage of the day, though, the in-town stage through the streets of Gander. We got too wide on a sharp right-hander and hit a tree on the outside of the corner. Both Rob and I are fine, but the left front corner of the car was pretty much wrecked. We managed to finish the stage (and under our Trophy Time!), but our crew has some major work tonight. As I write this, Rob and the guys have found the parts we need and are putting the car back together for tomorrow.

Closing Notes

I'm on a borrowed computer at the moment, so I don't have any way to get photos posted. until I can, check out the Targa coverage at flatovercrest. Also, the event tracker on the Targa web site doesn't seem to be working - have a look at the Rally Scoring web site for semi-real-time scores.

Jeff