One must work hard to make the cars grow big and strong
This cool Turkish rally team
Inside the custom buggy of Team SMG's Phillipe and Francois
Racing an X5 on Bio-Fuels. Team X-Raid's Saleh and Tina
In memory of Colin McRae
Romanian achitecture whoopdies
Co-driver studying the day's road book. There are no street names, town names, or things like that. Only diagrams of intersections, bridges, rivers, train tracks, and other features, with mileage (well, kilometerage) next to them. We used the liaison road book to navigate from Baia Mare, Romania to Debrecen, Hungary today.
Carlos Sainz, one of the best rally drivers in history. He's retired from WRC and now races rally-raid for VW/Red Bull.
Robby Gordon of Monster Energy Hummer (and of course NASCAR and Baja 1000 fame) chats with Carlos Sainz and others about start times. Two people at the very top of two very different games.
Robby Gordon and Andy Grider of Monster Energy Hummer. Andy is Robby's co-driver. He used to ride for KTM but was sidelined from riding after a broken pelvis.
The Monster Energy crew works the Hummer for the next special stage in Baia Mare, Romania
Green through and through. And, of course, not your usual H2. I spoke to Andy Grider today and asked why they run a two-wheel drive machine in a race sries that nearly demands 4x4 grip. The answer? Suspension travel. Twenty inches as a two-wheel drive machine, but only ten as a 4x4.
There are no "ladies tees" on this golf course!
Suspense
Hopefully you only need two spares, at most.
Carbon fiber dashboard
Note the shovers. unlike the desert Dakar, there is little need for digging out of sand in Eastern Europe.
So much race tech to gawk at. I'm always drawn to the shocks. I also dig the strap that keeps the suspension in check.
Jonah Street, #17 leaves for the strt of today's second special stage in the mountains above Baia Mare. This is the only time these other two guys (Kastan and Gyenes) will be in front of him.
