Rally of the Tall Pines 2004

Another year, another great rally.
Ian and I went to Bancroft for the rally last Saturday and had a great time. It would have been nice to have more open class cars and have less of the ones that were there to go out in the first half of the day, but thats what makes rallying interesting I guess.
This year we had a different spectating area than last year as the bridge that they usually go over was out last year and redone over the summer. We had a good viewing area that had the cars coming toward us at about 120km/h turning a hard right (their right) then going up about a 500m straight into a hard left. They did that twice and came from the other direction on the third pass. This was over about a 6 hour period.
They then did 2 passes at night at a different location. I think watching the cars a night is the best as they seem to be moving faster and the huge lights on them do add an extra bit of show. There were no mishapsthis year but there were some close calls.
The weather of the day was pretty cooperative except for some rain for a couple hours in the afternoon. We were a little more prepared for it this year though and fell warm.
Overall it was a success and we had a great time. Hopefully next year we can get a few more people to go. We are probably going to go to one more rally in New York in the fall next year as well.