Ok I let me give a quick run down on the weekend.
Clay and I with some help from some friends headed down to cedar city to run our first rock crawl in over a year. We ran xrra and rock cross last year and had a good time with it, but missed some old school crawling...
anyways, Friday was tech and catching up with old friends, Cedar City is a cool event site. Man the pro mod class has a ton of people in it these days.
Saturday after Drivers meeting we found ourselves lined up behind Nicole Johnson, Nick Campbell, (shannons brother) with Troy Bailey and Tracy Jordan behind us. First obstacle we walked away with an 11 not bad but most people were below ten. Second obstacle, was handiing everyone 40s, We took a chance on the bonus line and made it. Finished the course with a min or so left on the clock and a 5!
So with most teams in the 50s we went to the third course with a 16, a couple of big climbs with a straight down, no biggie we were going to skip the bonus get a 0 and move on for the day. The first climb was about 14 ft off camber vert. We made it up pretty easy but came over the top funny caught the belly skid and slid OFF. Clay fell 14ft into a tree! Needless to say recovery was a pig and Clay was upside down for 10+ min and in the process of recovery we stripped out the steering coupler. To add joy to the moment we were upside down long enough to hydro lock all 6 cylinders.
Needless to say getting the buggy back to the pits with no steering was was a pain.
and we took a 40 on that course and the last one. 16 to 96 in one whoops.
This is the cool part. trying to decide what to do. I started asking around for parts. I found Dean Bulloch and Tom from psc. With a little eventiveness and a lot of help from those guys we put the steering back together at Deans house! We went from "lets go home to lets play" in a couple of hours. The rest of the stuff I could fix so we spent the rest of the evening running around for parts and such while having the buggy torn down the motel parking lot. about 10;30 we were back together.
Sunday 1st course we timed out and took a 39, 2nd course we were one of a few buggys that didn't roll or break and finished with a 27, 3rd course we made it through the tough stuff and had a cheesy roll while lineing up for a steep decent. another 39. Mike Judd had a first row seat to the roll and trying to getting him back over. Recovery kinda sucked over weekend...
The 4th course was mean, and we took out the rear driveline on a bounce on the first vert. the bad part was I didn't believe that was our drive line. I had to climb down 15 feet to check... pretty sweet break if you like mangle parts.
Anyways we finished 19th overall. not where we wanted to be but at the same time, not too bad for being out of the seen for a while.
