Quote Originally Posted by janvanvurpa View Post
Yeah I guess cruising around winning without effort is plastered over with money..Cures a lot I guess..
The terrain here is good to great, the local organisers enthusiastic, but the competition is really really thin..and I am straining to be as diplomatic as I can...
What does it say if guys with ZERO prior rally experience can buy a Subaru, spend 70k and instantly be doing top 3-4 SS times...?
Either that guy is an undiscovered GENIUS! or the field is er um er shall we say "thin"...

I won't see it has to be seen to belived, but its close.. 8-9 years into doing rally here i went to some BTRDA evens 'up norf" and I was flat shocked at the driving and aggressiveness...those guys were hammering the cars. It was great fun watchin--and i ain't a good speccie...

Then I was in Sweden weeks later--and since--where I'd lived in the 70s---but in moto-cross, not rally and I was again even more shocked--RELATIVE to what we were then doing in our US "Nationals"..
Looks on film...deceptive and subject to "editing"...

Not to say a lotta guys aren't having fun.
Off topic but,

Firar du ännu valborgsmässoafton what you probably did when you lived in Sweden? Lot of balloons, girls, beer, bubbling wine and fun.

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valborgsm%C3%A4ssoafton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day