I had the idea for doing this ever since the control workers handed Christine our timecard on special stage one and she announced that we beat our time from last year by over a minute. It’s setup like GT4 ‘one lap magic’, where the slow car starts and is allowed to get ahead before the fast car takes off. Not only am I faster with the car, but Christine is fast and accurate with the note calling. We are working on calling 1.5 – 2 turns ahead now and it’s clear as Christine catches up with her 2005 pace well before I get there with the car. It’s pretty cool to see what progress we’ve made in only a year.

The second video is a coast down one of the mountain roads after our DNF on SS7. As there is no audio, I threw in a little tune to coast down the hill to. It’s not really THAT exciting, just fun to see what I can do with little brakes and no power. It took Chris Wilson in the pirate sweep a while to catch me. At one point after not seeing me they hesitated and thought I went off – as “He can’t possibly be going THAT fast without power?!” Check it out if you’re bored.

The third video is some outside spectator stuff that Dan Lench (neighbor and friend) took. It’s the finish of SS1 and the start of SS2. It’s small too, just a scant 3.6MB.

“The Final Batch”
SS1 2005-2006 Comparison – 48.6MB WMV
The DNF Runaway – 41.7MB WMV
Outside spectator footage – 3.6MB WMV