Mid America Motorplex
June 30, July 1

Pre-Race: Considering how much fun I had at the last NASA event in HPDE 4. I was really looking forward to push my DSM even harder at a true race. Normally a driver should spend at least 4 weekends in HPDE 4 before attempting Comp school but I somehow convinced the director of the Midwest Region to allow me to enter the school after only...

Dave532

NASA Road Racing
Iowa Speedway
April 28, 29

Pre-Event: Rally racing was becoming a bit too expensive for me with the recent insurance increases. I now had a wandering eye toward road racing. Coincidentally NASA had started a Midwest region in 2006. I purchased a white '93 GSX from Texas with a bad trans from a frustrated friend of mine. Supposedly this car had been on...

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Sno Drift Pro Rally
Atlanta, MI
Jan 27-28 2006

Pre-Race: I have had a fair amount of success at Sno-Drift so I like to run in this event when I can. I also wanted to race in a rally run by the new Rally America sanctioning body. I pulled the car out from under its cover and dusted her off. Mounted some Blizzaks and changed all the fluids.
Bob wanted to co-drive...

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Lake Superior Pro Rally
Oct 21, 22
Houghton, MI

Pre-Race: Due to finances and more traveling I was unable to rally for a full season. The last rally at Shooting Star was disastrous...we DNF'ed on the first stage with a hole in the side of the transmission. Over the summer Chris from Metric built yet another complete transmission from my existing spares in the hopes we...

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Shooting Star Clubrally
Mahnomen, MN
June 9, 2005

Pre Race: I took 2004 off from racing so I could recover financially and take some vacation. Not to mention the new WRX was the class of the field in American rallying...due to numerous rule changes within the PGT class, rally was becoming even more expensive and keeping a 15 year old DSM on pace with the latest Subaru...

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