- Location
- Bakersfield, CA
Wow! What a couple of days. We made it into the 2011 KOH LCQ, but just barely. It was posted on Pirate on Oct 20th that registration was open for the 2011 Last Chance Qualifier. Within a few days there were already 28 entries received, which was amazing. I've been racing with Fred Hill this year, I went back to PA for the Rausch Creek qualifier in May and to MO for the SMORR qualifier in July, but we broke both times. Fred has been out of town for a week and not able to get our app completed. Within another couple of days there were 41 entries in already, and they're accepting 50. Damn.
I got the stuff together to get our app in yesterday and sent it FedEx yesterday morning. By the end of the day there were 46 apps in already, so only four spots left. It looked like there were 7 or more people who had overnighted apps in to be received today, and we were one of them. UPS delivered in the morning and there were 3 more apps, so only one spot left! Post office delivered around noon with one app, so that was the 50th spot. CRAP! But, then one of the 50 was given a merit spot in the big race (they were already working on it before, finalized it today), so that opened up one more spot and ours was the next app in so we got it!!
So, we have to be in the top 10 out of 50 in the LCQ to get into the big race. LCQ is on Wed 2-9, KOH is on Fri 2-11. Right now it looks like we're going to be racing the car built on Extreme 4x4 which Ian raced last year. We'll be prepping it at the G&G Off Road shop in Bakersfield. We're going to run car number 109, which is Fred and my combined age.
I got the stuff together to get our app in yesterday and sent it FedEx yesterday morning. By the end of the day there were 46 apps in already, so only four spots left. It looked like there were 7 or more people who had overnighted apps in to be received today, and we were one of them. UPS delivered in the morning and there were 3 more apps, so only one spot left! Post office delivered around noon with one app, so that was the 50th spot. CRAP! But, then one of the 50 was given a merit spot in the big race (they were already working on it before, finalized it today), so that opened up one more spot and ours was the next app in so we got it!!
So, we have to be in the top 10 out of 50 in the LCQ to get into the big race. LCQ is on Wed 2-9, KOH is on Fri 2-11. Right now it looks like we're going to be racing the car built on Extreme 4x4 which Ian raced last year. We'll be prepping it at the G&G Off Road shop in Bakersfield. We're going to run car number 109, which is Fred and my combined age.
