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Getting Ready to Head to LSPR

Ben — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:28:10 +0000

Well, I leave tomorrow night for the Lake Superior Rally. Like at New England, I am going to be posting interviews and information during the course of the rally from the service areas. Hopefully the Rally America satellite truck will be working, and internet access won't be a problem.

I always love going to the Lake Superior Rally (née POR). It was my first SCCA national rally as a co-driver (1990, with Erik Thompson in a Volvo 142). I have DNFed on the transit from the last stage to the final time control (with Jim Anderson in a Honda Prelude in 1994). I have broken at the end of the last stage and was towed into the final time control (with Dave Turner in a Mitsubishi PIckup in 1995). I was Matt Iorio's first-ever co-driver at the 2002 Lake Superior Rally.

Lake Superior is the site of my only ever national stage rally podium, in 2001 with Patrick Richard. We finished third, behind Mark Lovell/Mike Kidd and Rhys Millen/Lauchlin O'Sullivan (yes, Lauchlin was actually co-driving for Rhys!). It was a truly special weekend.

I love the scenery of the Upper Peninsula. I love the stages and the unpredictability of the weather. I love the friendly people, pasties at the Suomi Bakery, beers at the Library, fishbowls at the Ambassador... I miss the old Library too (I did get to visit it before it burned).

Obviously I wish I was competing, but I look forward to bringing the excitement of the MaxAttack! two-wheel-drive rally series presented by the Danza del Sol winery to fans via the internet. Look for updates on this page, of course, and also at http://www.specialstage.com and the occasional Tweet when there is breaking news.

Events:

Lake Superior Performance Rally

MAXATTACK! TEAM NW PREPARES FOR BATTLE AT LSPR

Jason — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:25:25 +0000

A multi-car team has been formed in the Pacific Northwest with the intent of keeping the MaxAttack! 2WD Championship Title on the West Coast for another year. What originally began as a grassroots effort to send under-funded two-wheel drive dynamo Cody Crane to contest the third and final round of MaxAttack! has quickly evolved in to a three-car program. The MaxAttack! Team NW is comprised of Cody Crane/Billy Irvin in a 1988 Honda CRX, Dave Henderson/Terrance McDowell in the 2006 Mazda3, and Brian Gottlieb/Pat Darrow...who have recently acquired a new rally car after their 1987 Toyota FX-16 Corolla burned to a crisp at the Idaho Rally this past July (We’ll reveal what Brian’s new car is next Wednesday!).

Read the full story with promo video at http://www.worldrallysport.com/node/6650

MaxAttack TeamNW is formed!

Jason — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:03:53 +0000

The NorthWest has consolodated their effort to get to LSPR! Follow the status of the team and watch the updates through their facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/MaxAttackTeamNW

Oh, owning a racecar

Paul Donlin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:38:23 +0000

Well, it's a week before I plan on leaving for Ojibwe. The car is running fairly well, still leaks a little oil but runs nice. With the help of a friend I just put in a new clutch and replaced the front brake rotors and lines. Now, I have no brake pressure.

To answer the obvious question: yes, I bled the brakes. Then bled them again. And again. And again. Then replaced the master cylinder, and bled them yet another time. The pedal still goes to the floor and no, there are no leaks. Off to a friend's house to get the brakes vacuum bled. Hopefully that works.

New max-attack.com features

Shenan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:46:09 +0000

I opened max-attack.com to user registrations a couple of weeks back (just ahead of NEFR). Several people have registered and applied to be contributors and be able to write blogs and stories here. You can see a list of who has registered so far and who is a contributor at this page: http://max-attack.com/userlist - you can also click on each username to see their profile. I look forward to seeing what people will be writing in their blogs and stories!

New stage for max-attack.com

Shenan — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:14:39 +0000

Last week, ahead of Idaho Rally, I enabled the live updates pages on max-attack.com (see the Live Updates link on the top menu bar). For the most part it worked out ok. Some people had issues with the live chat function, but I have now changed to a different chat room tool, by Meebo, which seems to work much better so far. We will see how it goes this weekend, for New England Forest Rally.

The next phase of max-attack.com is that I'm going to invite everyone who is interested in writing and blogging about MaxAttack! to register for a user account here and start writing! Let's see how it all works. I'm still feeling my way around with this site's configuration.