The long weekend just isn’t long enough. Especially with the week I have ahead. Yech!

Yesterday a bunch of Subaru nuts got together at a local tuners place for some burgers and boasting. It was a good time and I hope we have more of these over the summer. Its good to talk grease with like minded folks. Unfortunately it planted visions of Stage 2 tunes in my head. Especially when I started adding up how few parts I need to get there. Hmmmm. Stupid expensive hobbies!

Our last RallyCross of the year is coming up this Sunday. I’ll miss the series over the summer but there’s plenty of other things to keep us way too busy. Especially with the upcoming RallySprint events.

In photography news I ordered a pair of new generation Pocket Wizards last week and can’t wait for them to arrive. Truthfully though I have no idea what I’m doing with off-camera flash, but you can’t learn if you don’t try, right? I played around a bit with my Poverty Wizards this weekend but I can already tell I should have ordered another receiver and flash. Stupid expensive hobbies!

I’ll have to attempt this shot again soon, there’s definitely some things I would do differently to improve it. Fun experiement though.

Off to Indianapolis (For work, not motorsports, alas) next week!

RallyCross season is wrapping up with two more events to go. I admit I haven’t been particularly enthused about this season in general. The car was working relatively well (compared to last year, that is), but I just haven’t been feeling it. Half the time I showed up at the event and decided to take pictures rather than drive. Thankfully Sunday’s event reminded me why we do this madness in the first place.

T-Shirt weather, extremely fast course, fairly tight competition, this is what Rallying is supposed to be!

The only downside to the day was a newly exposed weakness in our jury-rigged fuel filter system. When you drive really quickly on loose surfaces the entire area gets pretty soundly pelted with all manner of rocks and mud. On my second run the rocks took out the hose clamps to the fuel line leaving me with a DNF. On my third run a rock went THROUGH the plastic filter though it didn’t impact the run. We have some modifications to make before this Sundays event, obviously.

In other Rally News, we had our monthly Bluenose AutoSport club meeting last night and finally put dates on the Rally Sprint events! July 20th and August 16th will see the return of performance rally to Nova Scotia, hopefully with an eventual eye to the return of full stage events! More details are coming as they get worked out.