Colorado Springs 9/2009 XRRA finals and wheelin penrose

[macgyvr]

The weekend of the 19th/20th, the Branik crew from Indiana took a 2600 mile road trip to Colorado Springs for the XRRA Finals. I spot for the #302 buggy and we finished 8th in the finals!...We finished 4th in the East Coast division for the year!

Here's Rosco taking on the gap jump at the Finals.
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Here's the finish of that run.
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And here's his 4th run.
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Here's the link to the rest of the videos that I have uploaded to you tube from the event.
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Random pics of the event:

The Team at the awards banquet:

Rosco and I (I'm on the right, not crazy looking) with the 4th place East coast plaque:

the rest of my pics

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[macgyvr]

Our trip out was 1200 miles in three stops in 18.5 hours...quite a feat for 9 people in two rigs with trailers and a honda running 75mph across the country...

After the XRRA event on Saturday, we went sight seeing and wheeling with JT Taylor to Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods and Penrose.

My girlfriend and I

Most of our crew with JT

The view from Pikes Peak never stops

156 turns to get up the peak...JT is racing in the big race next year in his buggy

Garden of the Gods looks a lot like moab

Except its greener

rest of colorado pics

mac 'almost felt like a vacation' gyvr

 

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Now, the Penrose pics you've been waiting for...
Grace (my girlfriend, rode with JT in his buggy)

Dino in the #518

This was a toyota that JT and his spotter Matt and other built for an Iraq war vet (Matt is driving, the vet was playing war games).

Stan Haynes in the #008

Rosco spotting while his wife michelle drove the #302 with another spotter (Bill Bill's wife) riding shot gun.

all the penrose pics here

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More pics from the day:

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mac 'wished i could've drug my junk out' gyvr

 

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The last waterfall:

penrose pics here

we would've turned around and wheeled ran it the other way out but we were running out of time and daylight...

mac 'had a blast!' gyvr

 

[macgyvr]

Pirate has a video posted of the finals.

click here

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[crazyjim]

WTF since when can we embed videos?

 

[Pat]

I have been waiting for the wheeling pics...nice shots!

Pat

 

[85xjwoody]

Very nice!!! Thanks for the pics and vids.