November 18th, 2007

And we’re off!

… Sort of. Today was the first Bluenose Autosport Club RallyCross event! We had a decent turnout with 13 entrants, two of which were new faces. The Audi behaved about how we expected. We’re still having fuelling issues that are probably pump related. Right from the start it was bogging and by the third run it could barely be coaxed to move. There’s a number of things we need to address in that area though so we’ll see what the actual issue is. We have the parts and a plan to address things so hopefully we’ll be ready for the next event.

We also started a new feature for the RallyCross events with a knockout elimination round at the end of the regular runs. It turned out to be great fun and there were actually some really entertaining battles!

Click here for a full gallery of the day’s event.

In other news that matters to pretty much nobody but me I picked up a new server from eBay to replace spoon.org. Its moving up from the 90′s into the early 2000s! From a ratty old Desktop PC, Celeron 850MHz with 384 megs of RAM to a flashy Compaq Proliant DL360 Dual Processor server! Fancy! You’ll probably notice absolutely no difference other than possibly a day or two of downtime while I transition.

November 3rd, 2007

Il fait pleu.

The leftovers of Hurricane Noel are circling overhead. So far a lot of rain and some wind.

We had the Rally Car out this morning for its first real test, luckily we were done before the rain started. Verdict, about 95% success. It drives a lot better than I even expected. It handles very well over the rough stuff and the brakes are incredibly solid, it stops like it hit something. Just a few little glitches left to sort out and we’ll be ready for RallyCross!

Rally Cross Schedule
November 18/07 – Scotia Speed World
December 2/07 – Scotia Speed World
January 7/08 – AMP
January 20/08 – Scotia Speed World
February 24/08 – AMP
March 9/08 – AMP
March 23/08 – Scotia Speed World
April 6/08 – AMP
April 20/08 – Scotia Speed World

Vroom!