QuoteCab Treadwayhenceforth "that stupid Canadian" should be called "Turdinhand." A turd in hand is worth two in the bush. But a Ferdinand is worth twice more than a Bush.by Ferdinand - Community Forum
QuoteMichiel 318iS I only got to read the first two or three pages of the first thread, then I quit because of the brainless insulting, so I have missed your contribution(s). I stepped into the thread starting on the 9th page, post #131.by Ferdinand - Community Forum
We haven't had any good political debates in this new version of the BENN forum yet. I didn't want to be the first to test the tolerance of our new moderators here, so I resorted to venting pent up steam debating American Constitutional rights with the strange folks over on r3vLimited instead. It was entertaining for a while and seemed to be going along just fine, until they lockedby Ferdinand - Community Forum
QuoteArcheo-peteriX QuoteFerdinandIt's not browser dependent. The same thing happens in MS-Explorer. Different OS or versions? No, it has nothing to do with operating systems or browser versions. When you log-in to this forum it sets a browser cookie as "bmwe30network.net" called "phorum_session_v5". That cookie is set to expire in one month. As long as you donby Ferdinand - Suggestions and questions
QuoteArcheo-peteriX QuoteFerdinandIt's the "www". http://bmwe30network.net/forums/ http://www.bmwe30network.net/forums/ They both work, but only the one without the www will remember that you're logged in. By crikey, I think you've nailed it! Excellent sleuthing Ferd It's not browser dependent. The same thing happens in MS-Explorer.by Ferdinand - Suggestions and questions
QuoteDave_GThat strengthens my suspicion that this is an issue with cookies on your office computer. Check the settings under Tools > Options > Privacy, and make sure that Firefox is configured to accept cookies, and to keep them until they expire. Aha! I think I figured it out. I compared the Privacy settings for cookies on both computers and the only difference was that the work compuby Ferdinand - Suggestions and questions
QuoteArcheo-peteriXIf your work computer is on a network, the IT people probably log it off automatically when they do backups. It's only doing this with the BENN forum. Every other forum, when logging in, I can select an option to stay logged in. I can close my browser or visit another site, but when I revisit these other forums I'm still logged in. But not the BENN forum. If I cloby Ferdinand - Suggestions and questions
On my home computer I stay permanently logged in to this forum. Whenever I visit I can see which topic sections have new unread messages etc. But on my office computer I always have to log in first. If I close my browser, or even just go visit a different site, when I return to the BENN forum I find I've been automatically logged out and must log in again before being able to post. Wby Ferdinand - Suggestions and questions
QuoteFerdinand TV coverage of the Tall Pines Rally will be shown on TSN on Dec 28 08, 14:30 est. The English broadcast of the Tall Pines Rally coverage is now available online at .by Ferdinand - Community Forum
QuoteArcheo-peteriX it's dumped an inch of snow since I wrote the original post Wow, that's a huge amount of snow for Vancouver!by Ferdinand - Community Forum
TV coverage of the Tall Pines Rally will be shown on TSN on Dec 28 08, 14:30 est. Episodes of this year's previous events, after they've been aired on TV, are posted online at .by Ferdinand - Community Forum
B3 - Middle Old Hastings; I really did not enjoy Lower Old Hastings. I suspect Martin didn't either. The worst part of feeling car-sick is the waiting and feeling miserable. If you try to suppress it, thinking happy thoughts, you'll just prolong the misery and feel awful for a longer time. It's much better to get it over with. Normally, once the deed is done, I'll feby Ferdinand - Community Forum
Although the videos are useful for replaying and studying all my mistakes, some of those mistakes make me cringe when I watch them again. For example, both of these last two stages make me cringe when I watch them now. I had some "issues" with nausea. B2 - Lower Old Hastings; (see map) Normally, I never have a problem while I'm reading the stage notes. That's becauby Ferdinand - Community Forum
B1 - Egan Creek: The Ontario Regional competitors are already all safely tucked away in Parc Fermé, whereas we National competitors have one more lonnnng loop to complete of Egan Creek, Lower Old Hastings, and Middle Old Hastings before we also get to call it quits. We saved our only set of ice tires for this loop. They work MUCH better than gravel tires, just as long as we don't getby Ferdinand - Community Forum
A11 - Golton Spectator Stage: What with all the excitement of arriving under the huge lights, seeing the thousands of spectators, camera strobes flashing, fancy countdown lights at the start line, etc,... um, I forgot to start the video camera. Too bad. We really made a dog's breakfast of this run. Too many tight hairpins, not enough traction anywhere, lots of sideways action, evenby Ferdinand - Community Forum
A10 - Middle Old Hastings: This road is amazing (see map). The stage starts off very fast, mostly straight, with a long series of crests and jumps. After that it twists and turns endlessly over one blind crest after another. This is another one of those stages where I can barely flap my lips fast enough to spit out the notes in time to keep up with Martin's driving. I was completeby Ferdinand - Community Forum
A9 - Lower Old Hastings: Sadly, this stage was cancelled. Dave Mirra's co-driver, Lance Smith, injured his back on landing over a big jump. They were so concerned about it that they pulled off at one of the controls, from where a marshal contacted Emergency Services to come deal with Lance. After some delay it was decided to cancel the stage. All remaining competitors were sent thby Ferdinand - Community Forum
A8 - Egan Creek: We wore out all our snow tires on the first seven stages and don't have enough spares left. With the snow tires worn thin, we're afraid of more punctures. So we're switching to gravel tires for this loop. It's a bit of a gamble as we know Egan Creek will be icy and gravel tires don't work so well on ice. But we're less likely to get punctures withby Ferdinand - Community Forum
A7 - Iron Bridge: Bo Skowronnek was working the start control of the Iron Bridge stage! Bit of trivia here. Bo finished 6th overall in the 1974 Rideau Lakes Rally, Canada's only WRC event. Martin pushed very hard on this Iron Bridge stage. We got HUGE air this time over the jump at 3:10 into the video! But, despite the fact that it felt way faster, we were only 2 seconds quicker cby Ferdinand - Community Forum
A6 - The Peanut: This is a repeat of A2, except the icy fast section at the beginning is now twice as icy. The Peanut starts with a wide open fast smooth section, at least it would be wide open and fast if it weren't so damn icy and scary. At about 4:10 into the clip, the stage turns sharp left off of the main road onto a very rough narrow forest trail, before eventually returning to aby Ferdinand - Community Forum
This stage (see map) uses the same roads as the last half of A3 - Old Detlor, but run in the opposite direction. This is a really FAST stage. It starts off fairly slow, with the spectator area and famous Iron Bridge at the beginning, until the left turn onto Landon Rd. From there on it's wicked fast, with a big jump 2:38 into the video. video: A5 - Iron Bridge We made good timeby Ferdinand - Community Forum
After the first Service stop, we do a repeat of A1 on Upper Old Hastings and this time in A4 we shave 12 seconds off our previous run. video: A4 - Upper Old Hastingsby Ferdinand - Community Forum
Service #1: Having successfully completed the first three stages, unlike several other teams, we finished Leg-1 by returning to the Service park at Rally HQ. If you listen carefully in the previous videos, you might have heard the engine misfiring occasionally. Martin thinks it's due to fuel starvation. We know for certain that we put a generous amount of fuel into the tank, so we caby Ferdinand - Community Forum
Here's a map of the Old Detlor stage, from A to B.by Ferdinand - Community Forum
Map of Upper Old Hastings stage.by Ferdinand - Community Forum
A3 - Old Detlor: I messed this one up badly. It's really too bad that we only do this stage once, because I was itching to have another go at it. It starts off fairly tight, then gets even tighter and busier, until I was drowning trying to keep up with the notes. It didn't help that it was on this stage that I got all pukey during recce, because that was at the back of my mind tby Ferdinand - Community Forum
A2 - The Peanut: This is a tricky stage with a little bit of everything thrown in. It starts really fast with wide open flowing corners winding over long crests. It would be insanely fast, if not for the fact that it's all covered in polished ice! Eventually the stage turns sharp left off of the main road and drops into a narrow, single lane, rough, cowpath through the woods that twby Ferdinand - Community Forum
Start of Rally: After sitting out in the extreme cold all night, the rally car refused to crank over in the morning and had to be pushed started and boosted to wake it up. Then we remembered that we needed to put more fuel in it too before the start, so we would need to switch off the engine again in the refuelling zone, which is after we check out of Service. If the car didn't start afby Ferdinand - Community Forum
Here's a map of the Old Detlor stage, from A to B, then returning through the town of Bancroft to rally HQ located at C.by Ferdinand - Community Forum