New England Forest Rally 2012
New England Forest Rally 2012
Friday, July 13, 2012
Kieran was back in the navigator’s seat with Simon this year at the New England Forest Rally. It was this event last year that the car suffered a catastrophic failure of the front right strut tower necessitating repair and reinforcement. Now with new Hotbits front struts and using Hotbits top mounts rather than the stock Ford ones we were hoping for a successful finish at this event. Here is all our in-car video...
Just a day or two before we head off to Maine we learn that Marcel cannot crew for us as he had intended. So we’re scrambling for replacement crew, calling around everyone we know. Nathan McCarthy, who had offered his help earlier is suddenly promoted to team Crew Chief at his very first rally event. Also Jessie Lewis and friends, who were also crewing for TAG Rally Sport, offered to help us out and to train Nathan in his new role.
The first stage is a run through the super special stage at Sunday River and we’re flying our US and UK flags again.
Stage 2 was the fun Concord Pond stage followed by 2 runs (up and back) of the Icicle Brook stage. We were a bit disappointed in our 7th place finish in the first of the two regional raliies.
We did a bit better finishing 5th in class on the second regional rally.