Stan, Lou, and Rick

We've just unloaded at the PetroCanada service station. It is 9ish. Jim will sit isolated in the car for the next six hours.

Hey! It's out already, er, ready to go back in. In an hour and a half, Stan and Lou have the transmission out. They have never seen a Porsche before, but have the correct CV-bolt socket from a VW they worked on once decades ago. Rick Bye with Porsche then came over and freed/re-aligned the shifter forks. This picture was taken after the transaxle was repaired, about 1:00am. Nobody thought about pictures until then.

Ready to go back in

Check out that transmission jack!

Stan and Lou

Time to put the linkage back together

Rolling again. 3:05am

The end of out first day of competition went well into the next. The day itself was a disappointment. I just went too slow in the second stage (after seeing four cars off in the first, cancelled, stage), and went six seconds out of first. This doesn't sound so bad, except that most of the other teams were tied for first place. The ones that weren't, were, like us, most likely to have incurred stupid road penalties.

With what would turn out to be a 4:06 deficit to first place, we were now reduced to competing for a Targa Plate. As only special stage times counted for a Targa Plate, our four minutes in road penalties (incurred because I calculated an incorrect time-in) wouldn't matter.

It was 4:30am when we went to bed.

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