Any of you guys do road rallies with your 4WD Proteges? If not, here's what you're missing out on:
I use my 4WD Sentra primarily for winter tsd rallies, like in the Finger Lakes Region of SCCA winter rally series. This past weekend I ran in their 2nd event this season down in Ithaca, NY.
You guys might like this one. This is Rick Barnes' Mazda 323GTX rally car. These are cool cars, and just like the 4WD Protege's, good examples are getting hard to find.
The turbocharged 1.6 liter Mazda engine in Rick's 323GTX.
The daylight pics were all taken before the event. The events themselves are run in the dark, hence all of the additional lighting on most cars.
Getting ready to start leg 1 of the event.
This was taken at a checkpoint, where all cars pause and stage before starting the next section. Winter rally events like these are run on relatively deserted mountain roads at night. Most of the 160 mile route was on dirt/gravel surfaces. Usually they are snow covered, but this weekend's event lacked good snow cover. I ran on unstudded Firestone Winteforce tires and got along just fine on the mostly dirt surfaces with some intermittant patches of ice here and there, which kept us on our toes!
How about some 4WD Protege rally stories?
Mike
I use my 4WD Sentra primarily for winter tsd rallies, like in the Finger Lakes Region of SCCA winter rally series. This past weekend I ran in their 2nd event this season down in Ithaca, NY.
You guys might like this one. This is Rick Barnes' Mazda 323GTX rally car. These are cool cars, and just like the 4WD Protege's, good examples are getting hard to find.
The turbocharged 1.6 liter Mazda engine in Rick's 323GTX.
The daylight pics were all taken before the event. The events themselves are run in the dark, hence all of the additional lighting on most cars.
Getting ready to start leg 1 of the event.
This was taken at a checkpoint, where all cars pause and stage before starting the next section. Winter rally events like these are run on relatively deserted mountain roads at night. Most of the 160 mile route was on dirt/gravel surfaces. Usually they are snow covered, but this weekend's event lacked good snow cover. I ran on unstudded Firestone Winteforce tires and got along just fine on the mostly dirt surfaces with some intermittant patches of ice here and there, which kept us on our toes!
How about some 4WD Protege rally stories?
Mike
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