The Rallynotes.com team were out in Ridgecrest last weekend helping to teach and instruct the 2010 California Rally Series Rally School. Matt Farah and the guys from The Smoking Tire showed up with a couple of Mitsu’s and it looks like they had a blast sliding around the test course. In the video you can see Christine going over the timing controls, and I’m covering skidplate material – and aluminum types. Not all exciting stuff, but you’re going to need to know it if you want to do well out on the stages.

We had a great time teaching the new recruits and encourage you to sign up for the next California Rally Series Rally School. If you want to do some more sliding around in the dirt with your daily driver check out the CRS Rallycross Schedule for 2010!

How fast a year slides by… I’m sitting in the study behind my desk. This desk is just down the hall, across the living room, and out the patio door to the garage. Inside that garage sits my rally car. Not in Yorba Linda, not in San Clemente, and certainly not in Boyle Heights. The house has hit its first of many ‘completion points’. Besides little things, the lawn, and taking out the garbage – the pile of ‘destroy-bathroom-renovation-plumbing-painting’ housing projects have subsided. For those of you that are lucky enough to be two rooms away from your rally car, make sure you appreciate it. Working on the car after driving 25 miles gets old. The days of dropping the tranny in the UCI parking lot are over. “What? Oh this? Yeah… I’m just changing my oil…”

I pulled the retrospective I started for now and will publish it when I’m done with it. I have enough for a next installment, but I don’t have enough for the rest of the story. I know a lot of you enjoyed it – and this gives me fuel to finish it.

Rally Project 2010 #1 – High Desert Trails. We moved the rally forward into April and I’m really glad we did. I am focused on putting on a really great event and I hope to see a lot of new faces out there this year. HDT is a rally that Christine and I put on in Ridgecrest, California. We started it last year and had a very successful event. We want to continue this success every year.

Rally Project 2010 #2 – New G5 rally car. (that’s Group 5 – as in Open 2WD)

* obtain running shell
* clean and gut
* rewire and prep
* suspension
* cage

Working on it. – Kris