Who's going to Wild West?

[Sister7]

I'll be there saturday helping set up at the ORV park and running radios on the Dayton stage. I can't wait for rally time!!!

[cmiller]

I might be going, depends on my schedule.

[edrach]

This might be bad news:

http://www.specialstage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24932

[edrach]

Here's another update for workers on WW:

 

2006 Wild West rally plan B

 

Simpson/Green Diamond has pulled the road use permit for the rally. The

first notification of this decision came Monday and as you can imagine,

the committee has been scrambling to find alternative roads while our

appeal was pending, with unfortunately no success. We don't yet know if

our 11th hour appeal to the President of the company will succeed. This

message is being sent with the assumption that our appeal will not be

successful.

 

I will send a e-mail to all if we get the roads. If so go to your

originally assigned Rendezvous point. If you do not receive such notice

or if you were not already assigned to a stage captain/rendezvous, meet

at the ORV at 7:30 AM. You can be deployed to the woods from there in

the events the woods are available.

 

Unless you hear differently, we will be implementing the following Plan

B.

 

Friday events will proceed as scheduled. The press stage will be held on

Rick Schmelling’s property located on SE Ellis Rd.(directions below).

 

Saturday, all stages will be at the ORV park. All workers will be

admitted to the park for free, but are encouraged to bring a toy for

“Toys for Tots” who will be collecting toys at the Park. Workers may

enter the park and sign the waivers and get your wristbands and T-shirts

beginning at 07:30 AM. Enter through the service crew gate.

 

Sunday, all stages will be at the Pacific Raceways in Kent. The schedule

of events for Sunday will be announced Saturday at the ORV park.

 

Directions:

 

Press stage: From Olympia take exit 105 from I-5 west toward

Aberdeen/Ocean Beaches. In 6 miles, bear right onto Hwy 101 N toward

Shelton. Turn right (east) from Hwy 101 onto Lynch Rd at Taylor Towne

(approximately 1 mile N of the Hwy 108/Casino exit). Drive 2.7 miles and

turn left onto Cole Rd. In 0.7 miles turn right onto SE Ellis Rd. In

approximately 0.3 miles turn left through a big yellow gate.

 

Straddle-line ORV Park: From Olympia take exit 105 from I-5 west toward

Aberdeen/Ocean Beaches. In approximately 15 miles (about 1 mile west of

MP 12 (numbers count down)) turn left into the park. Workers enter

through the Service crew gate.

 

Pacific Raceways: Take Exit 142 A from I-5 in Federal Way onto Hwy 18.

In about 10 miles follow the signs to Pacific Raceway.

 

Originally posted by John Nispel

 

-Erik Lyden

[Dr. RX]

Yea, they knew Monday, but we are just finding out about it today. If I were an out of state team coming to compete, I would be pissed big time. I can't believe Rally America did this.

[Dr. RX]

Here is the latest from Rally America, http://www.rally-america.com/event.wildwest2006.php?section=results_stage&y=2006%3E+++%0D%0A%09%3Cinput+name%3D&c=&stage=1 . Looks like Matt is 2nd place in PGT, ahead of Jamie. Mark is doing great too. Paul Eklund is in first, ahead of the national guys. I guess I should have looked at the web site closer, that was the results after stage 1. LOL

 

Went back and did a time difference between Matt and Jamie, after 5 events, Matt leads by 5.1 seconds.

[djbroadus]

I went, it was pretty fun. Sucks about simpson

[Sister7]

Well...that wasn't exactly what I had been waiting for, but it was still fun. I felt that the competitors and organizers did a great job of responding to the situation. On the plus side, I met a lot of people who had never been to a rally before and we had running water and hot food. They ran through part of the campground which sort of simulated a "real" stage road, though the turns were really tight through the trees so speeds were low. Anybody know when Doo Wop is suppost to be?