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WCRC - Canadian
Rally Championship - Merritt, BC - For Immediate Release - June
21,2006
Driver Jamie "Subie
Gal" Thomas along with superstar guest navigator Ben Bradley
headed north across the boarder to tackle a round of the Western
Canadian Rally Championship. Jamie had not been to Merritt to
compete in over two years, but the team blasted down the stages to a
3rd place podium finish and captured 1st in car class as well!
Mt. Trials is a full recce rally
event. Basically this differs from other events as the team
was permitted to make 2 passes over the rally stages BEFORE the day
of the event. This allowed Jamie to make her own rally notes, rather
than utilize organizer supplied course notes and descriptions.
This makes for a bit of a challenge as it is imperative to get the
notes "right" and to make sure tricky sections of the rally are well
noted, well documented. Having seasoned navigator Ben Bradley along,
made this part of the rally much easier as Jamie had only competed
in one other recce event.
Once the stages
started, the team ran
into problems nearly immediately, not
with the recce notes, but with tires. Just before the start of
stage 2, the team realized that one of the front tires had gone
flat. Jamie had to drive the stage with a completely flatted tire,
losing over 20 seconds. This was just the beginning, the team
would suffer 2 additional punctures before the end of the rally,
losing in all over 6 minutes. The final puncture came on the final
stage of the rally, with the team sitting 2nd overall with over a 4
minute lead over 3rd place. Frustrating as it was, the team swapped
the flatted tire, and finished the stage saving their podium
position and earn 1st in car class (P4) to end an excellent weekend
of racing.
"The roads
were fun in spots, rough in others. I just could not believe all of
the tires we were blowing through, this has never happened
before." grinned Jamie
Thomas, team owner/driver, "Pretty fantastic weekend. Ben was
amazing, the notes were good, and the car is in one piece covered in
champagne - what
more can you ask for?!"
Subie Gal Racing team thanks 2005
season sponsors:
PDXTuning,
EBCBrakes,,
Smart-Service,
Nasioc, ClutchMasters,
Cobb
Tuning,
Shaneyfeltmotorsports,
Forced Performance,
Rallispec,
FTL Performance,
Fleet Sign and
Graphics, Subie
Gal Supporters
Very Special
Thanks to:
Ben Bradley and Nat Stow for their support of this event. Also: Crew Chief Nick,
and the crew of Cavett Rally Motorsports (Kevin, Erik, and Ryan)
For more
information contact:
Info@subiegal.com
www.subiegalracing.com
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