Snowy MidDay Service Update

The 2009 Big White Rally Weekend is in progress; the public snowX has been running all morning, and just resumed after a break to let the rally cars give the icy course a try.  The snow is falling again, and the course is being adapted to suit the conditions.

Here are the unofficial Big White Winter Regional Rally results to the end of stage five:

1. Schmidtke/Vokes 25:53.3

2. Tezcan / Neumann 26.12.3

3. Kertes / Fudalej 30:12.6

4. Ross / Norkus 39:33.4

5. MJB / Hall 46:47.7

Car 3, Grochowski / Junnila, suffered engine failure early in the event and DNF’d.  Car 4, Bruce / Monasch, and the two US teams spent so much time in the snowbanks during the morning section that they came into the first super special over the max late time.  The situation was evaluated by the event organizers and Stewards, who made the decision to establish an extended snow rally max late time of 1h, allowing the teams to continue.

Valley Mitsubishi SnowX Fastest Laps

1. Tony Penny Forester 85.448

2. James Aubert Impreza 89.700

3. Tim Liong Impreza 96.515

The spectator area is busy, and the event is turning out to be a fun, flexible, challenging pure winter snow rally.  Some of the stages are reported to be a bit icy, but in the next section the teams will be taking on the snowy Gem Lake stage, a 13km descent into the forest between snowbanks as high as the windows, with six hairpins at its centre.