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Old 05-15-2011, 07:26 PM   #17 (permalink)
JethroBodine
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Thank you very much, for the congrats and the heads up. This was quite a learning experience( both for me and my navigator). Did get to chat with Hobbit. He was quite busy, so I tried not to take up too much of his time. I didn't take any pics during the ralley as I was REALLY driving my a$$ off. I'm just glad there wasn't any traffic behind me. I think there were 23 competitors and Wayne drove a Plug in prius as an exhibition run. He completed the route without needing to run the ICEngine, but said that he did run it up one hill just to use SOME fuel. He had .1 miles left of travel after the run. The tent( lucky THAT was there), was pretty full after the ralley, about 100 people, for the seminar. Lots of good tips for all( tire pressure, slow down, unload the junk in the trunk,...) and a good amount of Prius specific tips. I think Neil and I were the only non-Prius running, and Wayne said that he spoke to the guys that ran it to let us in. Personally, I would have enjoyed it just running it in a seperate class just for the experience and to see if I could talk my son into doing it again. They chose the winners by percentage over EPA. I wasn''t expecting that. I got there a little late and didn't get to hear all of the drivers briefing.
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