Cross Grid Rally
Around Main Grid in one day!
The 2008 Rally was held July 20th, with 14 rallyer's in attendance
1.Yetrates Bates - Team RedLine Leader
2.Kandy Tomorrow - Team KC
3.Tazzy Rozenberg
4.Amanda Shinji
5.ScaryMary Spitz
6.Kurai Kaminski -Team RedLine
7.Bert Trenchcoat -Team RedLine co-driver:
8. Brin Leigh
9. Subwoofer Fuhr
10. Brin Leigh
11. Master Nestler
12. Calubious Panacek
13. ac14 Hutson - Team NTBI
14. Will Szymborska - Team NTBI
The Starting location was Grouse ending 67 sims later at Coniston for a short autoshow event. It then covered 70 various sims, on Stage 2. Stage 3 started Humuli and went on to Trabala. Several drivers were DNF by the time the first stage had finished, narrowing down the total number of people who actually completed all 3 stages
In total the event lasted 2 and a half hours, and some several hundred sims were covered.
"The start was full of problems, no one could rez at the starting location, but that was soon figured out, then we started letting people through the gate. Me and ac14 were at the back of the pack. A big RV was blocking the way at the first major intersection, the police pushed him aside as I can remember.
I passed Tazzy, and kept seeing the almost unlimited number of Austrian Police parked at every intersection. They had every side road closed off; There had to have been 40 Police Officers along the route. I could see the spectators on the sides of the road... they were sounding their airhorns. It was an amazing feeling seeing them all and hearing them along the way. I was on skype with Ac14, and I can recall he got stuck and the police in german as he passed told him "Go go go!" Everyone was enthusiastic about the event, it was alot of fun. Kandy was an extremely experienced driver, as well as the drivers on Team RedLine, they were leading the way almost the entire event. About half the event was SL's finest as far as driving and racing goes."
"On Stage 2 it was a mess, was confusing, and everyone else agreed with me on that. Stage 3 was a different story. I had Kite in the car with me and he was on voice chat. We were cruising through sims at 100MPH+ when it was really safe to cross at 60. The Menzoni was handling all the sim crossings flawlessly when typicaly, older versions handled horribly. We were very lucky though. Quite a few other people got stranded, or were upside down at least half a sim off the roadway. Or had a simcrossing of death and had to log out."
"It was great to see so many talented drivers enter the event. I'm hoping next years event, and similar events we may hold this Fall/ Winter Season will be just as exciting. I cant thank everyone enough for making this event possible."
-Will Szymborska
CGR Founder and Owner of Szym Motors
I spotted 15 different Austrian Police Units when I got the landmarks for the spectation points right before the event started. When I actually rallyed along the route with everyone else, there had to have been more. There was litteraly one unit at every side road and dotted randomly along the way; They must have stayed there for an hour or so. Maybe 20 different active units, with two people in each. Amazing. Even that one tank! Cant thank Miller Thor enough for that. It was like having the entire Austrian Government along the route.
1.Yetrates Bates - Team RedLine Leader
2.Kandy Tomorrow - Team KC
3.Tazzy Rozenberg
4.Amanda Shinji
5.ScaryMary Spitz
6.Kurai Kaminski -Team RedLine
7.Bert Trenchcoat -Team RedLine co-driver:
8. Brin Leigh
9. Subwoofer Fuhr
10. Brin Leigh
11. Master Nestler
12. Calubious Panacek
13. ac14 Hutson - Team NTBI
14. Will Szymborska - Team NTBI
The Starting location was Grouse ending 67 sims later at Coniston for a short autoshow event. It then covered 70 various sims, on Stage 2. Stage 3 started Humuli and went on to Trabala. Several drivers were DNF by the time the first stage had finished, narrowing down the total number of people who actually completed all 3 stages
In total the event lasted 2 and a half hours, and some several hundred sims were covered.
"The start was full of problems, no one could rez at the starting location, but that was soon figured out, then we started letting people through the gate. Me and ac14 were at the back of the pack. A big RV was blocking the way at the first major intersection, the police pushed him aside as I can remember.
I passed Tazzy, and kept seeing the almost unlimited number of Austrian Police parked at every intersection. They had every side road closed off; There had to have been 40 Police Officers along the route. I could see the spectators on the sides of the road... they were sounding their airhorns. It was an amazing feeling seeing them all and hearing them along the way. I was on skype with Ac14, and I can recall he got stuck and the police in german as he passed told him "Go go go!" Everyone was enthusiastic about the event, it was alot of fun. Kandy was an extremely experienced driver, as well as the drivers on Team RedLine, they were leading the way almost the entire event. About half the event was SL's finest as far as driving and racing goes."
"On Stage 2 it was a mess, was confusing, and everyone else agreed with me on that. Stage 3 was a different story. I had Kite in the car with me and he was on voice chat. We were cruising through sims at 100MPH+ when it was really safe to cross at 60. The Menzoni was handling all the sim crossings flawlessly when typicaly, older versions handled horribly. We were very lucky though. Quite a few other people got stranded, or were upside down at least half a sim off the roadway. Or had a simcrossing of death and had to log out."
"It was great to see so many talented drivers enter the event. I'm hoping next years event, and similar events we may hold this Fall/ Winter Season will be just as exciting. I cant thank everyone enough for making this event possible."
-Will Szymborska
CGR Founder and Owner of Szym Motors
I spotted 15 different Austrian Police Units when I got the landmarks for the spectation points right before the event started. When I actually rallyed along the route with everyone else, there had to have been more. There was litteraly one unit at every side road and dotted randomly along the way; They must have stayed there for an hour or so. Maybe 20 different active units, with two people in each. Amazing. Even that one tank! Cant thank Miller Thor enough for that. It was like having the entire Austrian Government along the route.