Do_It_Sidewayz
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Things were close all day, but even heading into Stage 6, we had personal goals to meet, and we wanted the sub 5 minute time. After some mistakes through out the day....we were leading the rally, but running down in 5 road position at this point, eating everyones dust.
At the final turn around, we went as far as dumping off our spare and tools with Nick and Massimo...
Started stage 6 on an absolute flyer through the dust, keeping it clean and super fast.... Probably half way through, it was for not, and the Water temp sky rocketed, and i backed way off to get to the finish. Trying to atleast just get the car back to the finish, and through the MTC, and parked, Phil made an adding error, as we were a little more focused on getting the thing parked, and not running the motor any more than needed....thus the 10 minutes. Evidently the 5:18 we ran even with a blown head gasket, and coolant all over my side of the windshield wasn't enough...by one second (seen the TV show from BAIE with L'estage in-car...yep...that was us). We are both completely convinced a sub 5:00 run was in the cars until the HG problem.
IMHO the road was not quite as fast as last year, as last years rain, helped "tack" it up a bit....and 2 minute windows really would have helped, but understand the timing constraints.
Thanks to the Organizing crew, and volunteers for putting up with the dust and heat.
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