After spending the last 6 months building, testing, and refining the car at Raven Performance with John Dimoff, Steve Barnett, Steve Gailits, and Bryan Corlett, the car has left the building and is currently on the way to the Targa Newfoundland Rally.
Gary (Geoff's Dad) and Bryan (Geoff's brother) are trailering the race car out to Newfoundland. They left Monday morning and now have about 1200 km under their belts which puts them more than half way to North Sydney, NS where they will catch the ferry Wednesday morning for Newfoundland. They have to be there for 4:30 AM EDT. Ouch!
The truck and trailer are behaving well as are the occupants, except for a bit of crankiness at the end of the day on the part of the occupants of the truck. We are all looking forward to getting there and finishing the last bit of work on the car in the St. Johns Holiday Inn parking lot, namely installing roll cage padding, fire suppression sys, ballast weights, and most importantly the novelty horn. Then hopefully Gary and Bryan will have little to do other than check tire pressures, oil, and keep ‘er filled up with rocket fuel and watch Geoff and Scott, cool, calm, and collected, kick some serious butt out on the course.
Here are some additional pre race pictures. More to come from St. John's.
