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inneedof

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Jul 23, 2006
puyallup, Washington
My weekend started out at Portland International Raceway on Thursday at about 2. I met up with a few friends and talked to some teams that i haven't seen since Olympus. There was a lot of pictures being taken and catching up with old friends before the press stage began.

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Ken Block and Tanner Foust

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Matt Johnson and Travis Pastrana

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Travis getting some help putting on a wrist band

As the press stage began Scott (Rallydsm) told me that he had arranged for me to go for a ride along on the press stage with Pat Moro.

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Pat is an amazing drive and truly scared the living crap out of be the entire way around the course. I don't think I have ever had that much fun in my life. I really Want to thank Scott, Pat and Ananda Siverts for making this happen for me.

After my ride i was walking back in to the pits only to find this.

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ACP had a small encounter with with a tree on the press stage taking out the passenger side fender and headlight as well as damaging the coilover on that side. A few of us quickly sourced ACP the fender and headlight he needed and had the parts delivered from English Racing with in the hour.

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The Fender came off of Paul Nelsons 8 second drag car, showing everyone what racing is all about: Helping your fellow racers.

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The fender received some of the cars wrap.

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The coilover was fixed

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Codriver Robbie Durant set the suspension back up properly. And the car was back on the road.

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The next morning we arrived back at PIR at 11 am to find all of the teams arriving

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Jimmy Keeney / Melissa Keeney Driving to PIR Friday morning.

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Bill Lockwood's 2011 Ford Fiesta. Bill through a Fiesta Tail Gate party with Matt Johnson at one of the spectator areas on Saturday, witch will go down as one of my favorite rally memory's of all time.

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The car of Mark Mager and Miller Dumaoal

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Carl Jardevall and Jason Grahn heading off on the parade lap.

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Andi Mancin and Maciej Wislawski

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After the parade lap on Friday i put my camera away for the weekend and picked up a video camera to shoot for a friend.

The stages were great this weekend, I really could not have asked for a better rally! If you guys out there have never attended a rally, this is something that you need to do. It is an event like nothing else out there.

and yes there was a 1g in the rally

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