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Dodge Neon ACR: Rallycross Rocks! May 11, 2009

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Greg Voth and Per Schroeder went to a rallycross at European Rally School this past weekend. Per hit a cone that was worth a staggering 30 seconds, bumping him from third to fifth place. D’oh! Luckily, we had a crackerjack co-driver in GRM salesguy Greg Voth. He finished the event in first place, trumping a well-driven Volkswagen GTI.

The event was a lot of fun, and we’ve got plans for suspension and horsepower improvements now that the car is running strong.

Here are the results:

• Greg Voth, 23:13, 1st Overall
• Peter Podsiedlik, 23:19, 1st in Class 3
• Nick Martinez, 23:32
• Carlos Filipe, 23:49, 1st in Class 1
• Per Schroeder, 23:54
• Dunker Felix, 24:02
• Brent Trail, 24:25
• Juan Cardozo, 24:36
• Julio Quilodran, 25:16
• Sharon Walters, 26:23
• Kelly Podsiedlik, 26:52
• Jamin Barret, 27:56, 1st in Class 4
• Alfonso Lopez, 28:58

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Comments

Wowak:

Oh man, I NEED one of those die-cuts to replace the bumper stickers on my front quarter panels. That'd look GREAT on BRG.
May 12, 2009 8:46 p.m.

thatsnowinnebago:

Are you sure it didn't break?
May 13, 2009 2:25 a.m.

Per Schroeder:

Well, some things are a little less functional now. I had to resolder the instrument cluster connectors so that the speedometer would work again, and I found a bad tie rod end last night. No biggie.
May 13, 2009 7:06 a.m.

thatsnowinnebago:

Ha! I knew it! Looks like you guys had a blast though. I'm surprised to see the bridgestones though, I wouldn't think they would like dirt much
May 13, 2009 11:59 a.m.

Per Schroeder:

They didn't. But…it was a mixed surface event with enough asphalt that it would have torn up tires that would have worked well on the dirt. It was actually kinda fun. Autocross-like kart track, 100 yard transition over dirt to 1/2 of a road course to dirt, back to road course through the finish. 4 minutes of “woohoo!” per run. Come to think of it, it was like Super Motard, but with cars and no jumps.
May 13, 2009 1:44 p.m.

jungle:

how was a single cone worth 30 seconds? Typically they are only two seconds each! What tire did you run? I run whatever snow tires I have around..they work soo much better than summer and no-season tires.
May 13, 2009 2:37 p.m.

Per Schroeder:

Yea, because it wasn't an SCCA or NASA event, the organizer can do whatever he wants…and since he wanted to slow us down through certain chicanes, those cones were worth a lot. We used the UHP Bridgestone RE01R. Not a good choice for dirt, but a great choice for the asphalt sections of the course. Winter tires would have been destroyed as there was at least 2 min. worth of asphalt in the 4 minute course run.
May 13, 2009 3:19 p.m.

Per Schroeder:

and holy crap, I just got the A/C working. I'm expecting it to blow up at any time.
May 13, 2009 5:35 p.m.

thatsnowinnebago:

I wish we had some awesome racing like there here. I look at the sub $1k cars on c-list all the time wishing I could buy one for rallyx action
May 13, 2009 6:39 p.m.

MadScientistMatt:

Now I just need to find out where (or if) they run rallycrosses in Georgia. Congratulations!
May 23, 2009 7:30 p.m.

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