This season’s first rally event for our crew was our home event Milzis 2004 which took place in Cesis. Although the rally season was almost over, we finished meritoriously. Of course, the first-time stress did its job but after finishing SS1 in Auciems the feeling was way better. The second stage went near a place called Rauna. This was the only special stage held on normal roads not special tracks. That’s why we liked it the best. Only at the end of this stage I mentioned some problems with clutch when there had been coming smoke from it and the whole car was full with them.

As a result we lost time in every start because the connection of engine and the wheels was poor. And we couldn’t use more than first two gears without loosing the connection in clutch. We also used special 15” gravel tires instead of normal 14” which makes the clutch to work even harder. But there were very few times when there was a need for the 3 gear, the speeds were up to 100km/h (60 miles/h). We also liked one other stage which was quite fast and most dangerous of all. We scored the best result exactly in this stage. There were some quite spicy moments but it just goes with the rallying.

We didn’t like Smiltenes stage that much because it was a joint of a go-cart track and an auto-cross track. That way making us to rip the gravel tires on tarmac. Plus there were some other stupid figures like a lot of tires where you have to maneuver thru. But there was one fun part also – a big puddle which going the first time stretched across two corners. Later it was smaller, though.

Although we cannot expect a good result going for the first time, we are satisfied with the successful finish and having the car in one piece.

Start #38.

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