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Race News (2011) read down for cool pics... November 1-4th PRIMITIVE worked in the KING SPRINGS booth at SEMA to get more familiar with this terrific PRODUCT for outfitting most any vehicle. We also introduced our new LIGHTBAR for WRX October 20-22 Primitive heads down to Santa Rosa rally school with 30 students all from a Silicon Valley software company. October 7-9th, Primitive Rally School and RallyCross was a big success with 18 driving and 2 co-driving students and 57 entrants into the fast, fun RallyCross where everyone got 5 timed runs and we finished the regular runs at 2:20pm and then did almost an hour of fun runs before finishing and packing up by 3:30pm July 2011,
Paul finally flips his lid. At the North Nevada Rally, Paul
and guest navigator Karen Jankowski clip the inside edge of a corner
on stage 6 of this night rally, and after bicycling on 2 wheels for
about 100 feet or so, the car rolled and then rolled off the edge of
a very steep hillside, rolling a total of 5 times, for a fairly
significant crash leaving the car 100 feet below the road on the
desolate hillside. No one was injured as the safety gear did
its job, but the car is in sad shape. May 1, 2011 The PRIMITIVE RALLY TEAM of Paul Eklund and Jeff Price fought off the rust of not having hit the RA stages since May of 2010 and quickly got up to speed at the OLYMPUS RALLY on April 30th-May 1st in Aberdeen, WA. Despite a rusty start (25 seconds slow on Stage 1) the team worked up speed with the refreshed 2008 Subaru STi (the screaming yellow, Subaru Performance Tuning/Primitive Racing Super Production car). One of the few teams to break the 7 minute barrier both UP and DOWN the famed Brooklyn Tavern Stage, the team worked its way up to 4th place in the competitive SUPER PRODUCTION class and 12th overall, before the rally was cut short due to a tragic accident involving a team running off the Smith Creek Stage and into some trees. The next scheduled event for PRIMITIVE is the 3-day long Oregon Trail Rally on May 13-15th, 2011 in Portland and the Dalles, Oregon. Primitive will also be at the Columbia Gorge Classic (Historic Rallye) on June 26th, 2011 driving the new, bright red PRIMITIVE FIAT 124 Spider, with RD Kraushaar navigating. January 2011 Winter Rally Driving school in Enterprise, Oregon has less snow than we hoped, but tons of frozen grounds, fast slippery conditions and great training for the 18 students who attended. Most say they will be BACK for the mid-December 2011 WINTER SCHOOL, some to prepare for the up-coming 2012 Alcan Winter Rally, others just to enjoy the HUGE 40acre course, smooth ground and great views. December 20 Primitive acquires 1972 Fiat 124 Spider (red of course) for Historic TSD rallies in 2011 and 2012 December 1 Our 2008 STi is getting new bearings and a turbo after a turbo failure at the Oregon Trail Rally. It is also getting a new CUSCO 1.5 way front differential! Our venerable Ol' Yeller 2004 STi just got new headers and tune for its VF-37 TWIN SCROLL turbo setup. Our H6 Impreza is also getting a new DIFFERENTIAL. October 2, Paul teamed up with longtime rally partner R.Dale Kraushaar to take on the NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN Rally in the Primitive Alcan Forester rally car. The team lead from the start, but faltered with a small misread instruction near the end and fell to 2nd place overall behind the team of Marinus and Renee Damm. Primitive unveiled its new H6 powered Impreza RallyCross car at the Chehalis RallyCross weekend (August 7-8th). The car proved quick and should become a championship contender. The awesome H6 sound and INSTANT torque left everyone with a big smile. HEAR IT by clicking on this nice video: Mountains to the Sea Rally for 2010 went well for Primitive after a lengthy absence from TSD rallies. For the late July event, the team got lots of ZEROS and had a score of 22 for the entire rally (from Portland to Rockaway Beach). The rally ended with a big BBQ and bonfire on the beach. Lots o fun. Brandon and Marcus won with a score of 10... We missed the
Idaho Rally in July, bummer. Just too busy with the SHOP and
life. For June, Pablo was on a tour of Eastern Europe visiting Subaru dealerships in Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. Missed out on the rallies though, but had a great time. May was the Oregon Trail Rally and after a great start on the Friday Night stages (in the top 10) a pissant penalty and then a clogged exhaust followed by a blown turbo ended the teams hopes for a good finish. Primitive tackles the Olympus Rally. With the FRESH YELLOW STi in SP CLASS, Eklund and Price took the car for a shakedown and finished without a scratch, but down in the standings. Why? The biggest reason is that "Pablo" left his 32mm PGT turbo restrictor in (leftover from the Wild West Rally where we rolled (see below), aaargh. Busy getting the bodywork together, he forgot to switch out the restrictors for the bigger 34mm one, robbing him of the power needed to run with the National entries. This will be fixed for Oregon Trail in mid-May. Despite the handicap, the team finished, and the new 2-pot rear brake conversion brackets worked FLAWLESSLY. These will now be available for purchase for anyone with a 2008+ STi wishing to downsize to the 2-pot SUBARU rear brakes to run GRAVEL wheel and tire setup. The OLYMPUS RALLY ran the Tahola stages north of Aberdeen, WA on Day 1 including Wreck Creek and sloppy wet Crane Creek stages. Ken Block went out early and Travis Pastrana stamped out a solid win. In the popular SP class, Ramana Lagemann and Chrissy Beavis kicked everyone's ass by a mile. Day 2 were the great "southern" roads including awesome Palix, lightning fast Smith Creek and the classic Brooklyn Tavern stage were thousands of spectators lined the route. Conditions were great, but the Primitive Team suffered a high speed spin and went off the road losing precious time clawing back up to the road and then facing the WRONG WAY on stage and having to spin around to continue. They finished 7th in Class. Paul "Pablo" Eklund returns to CO-DRIVING for the delightful DOO WOPS Rally!!! March found Paul back in the silly seat (he won a National Co-Driver Championship in 1999 with Lee Shadbolt driving). Doug Heredos found himself in need a a navigator for his sweet new Open Class Subaru WRX and called on PABLO to jump in at the last minute for Dan Brown. The team meshed well and Doug drove the car to a 4th OVERALL finish!!! The Primitive Rally season has ended with the completion of the Mt Hood Rally on October 24. Once again we were blessed with perfect northwest autumn weather and great views of our public lands! Of course, being a bit preoccupied with staying on the road, the views take a backseat for us…at least until the celebrations are over! The Primitive team had a varied and sometimes trying season so far: . DooWops, and its mixed bag of weather, saw a third place finish in the venerable screaming yellow STi – with only 3 cylinders firing for the 2-day test… Olympus Rally saw us back in the sexy black 2008 Subaru STi – unfortunately, we baked the turbo…. The month of May brought the local Oregon Trails Rally – where I baked the call on a right hander…. Then Idaho Rally came to us with a 3rd overall placing [in the yellow ’04 – WITH all 4 cylinders working]… The 2009 version of Wild West tested the relationship of car and railroad tie/fence post…..hint: fence post wins: Bringing us back to the 2009 MT HOOD RALLY where we fell short of the three-peat of the top podium position – but did have a good time trying to win the event 3 times in a row... (back in the yellow car again) After running the Friday recce for this event, we started the one-day rally second on the road – positions are achieved by seeding which is derived from past race finishes and compared against other entered competitors. Second starting position turned into first on the road after stage 2 where Carl Decker/Adam Craig flipped their car on the Seventeen road. That left us first on the road and sweeping the gravel for everyone else - a position that at the same time rewards and penalizes a team. There are a few approaches here – go all out and maintain the best times and position possible [and of course, risk yourselves as well] or bide your time and see who might run into trouble later. We had two goals for this event – finish it whole and enjoy the day and get that rental car home in one piece! We knew that a reseed would take place somewhere in the day – most likely the long second service after ss 4. If we bided our time and did not lose too many seconds, we would start the legs second loop of stages behind those we were slower than – it’s a test to be able to lose time yet not lose significant time. We had taken second fastest time on the first stage but unfortunately, we dropped significant time on stage 2 while slowing for the just overturned Decker ride. Stage 3 we ran further back finishing only with a time good enough for 5th. At stage 4 – a rerun of ss1 – Gilhouley, we set top time and grabbed some seconds back before the first major service of the day. We were reseeded to 3rd a mere 3 seconds from second position but a whopping 29 seconds out of first – not really a favorable gap. What we really did not think through was the fact that the second loop was all of previous stages and position in the field would not be an issue as all the tracks had been swept. That 29 seconds was looming and our repeat win was definitely in jeopardy. The downward trend continued on stage 5 – Seventeen road – somehow we ran slower than the previous time through and were now 15 seconds down from P2; 45 down from Mark Mager/Jake Blattner in the top spot. Only two stages remained. Up next was the Fir Mountain stage – a 13.25 mile test that runs north across the Surveyors’ Ridge spine and back down towards Odell. The stage is a good run with some nice character changes that keep a crew on their toes. A few nice hairpin turns, some fine spectator locations and a downhill section that will churn even a veterans stomach characterize this one. Paul attacked the stage hard figuring this is where we had to make back all the time we had previously given up. With the sun getting low on the horizon, we raced to another top stage time [14 mins 54 secs over the 13.25 miles] and found we had taken the Svedin Impreza by 23 seconds. Mager was still there, as we only put back 6 seconds on the blue 2007 STi. We had gained back the second podium place in the longest test of the day! The last stage – another rerun of Gilhouley – would afford only 5.14 miles of gravel to gain the nearly 39 seconds needed for P1 – did not mean we would not try though! One of the better stage roads remaining in the PNW, Gilhouley is a tight and twisty County road that many a northwest rallyist loves. Running it in the southerly direction the last 3rd is a rather steep decent through continuous right and left hand turns across the hillside above hwy 35. We drove it hard – trying to find that fine line between too much but not enough. Ultimately, the length was not there and though we set another top stage time [3rd of the event] and broke the record for the Gilhouley South stage it was not enough to cover Mager – we gained only a mere 3 seconds. So 36 seconds out of first overall and now 10 seconds in front of the 3rd place finisher secured our second position on the podium. Though not top for the day, we were pleased to have met our initial goals and had a good day battling back for a nice finish! Congrats to mark Mager/Jake Blattner – Mark’s first overall win. As for our crew chief Nate Foley and the Primitive Rally Experience rental? He finished 12th out of the 26 finishing cars in his first event. And better yet? In mostly one piece [a minor excursion left a wrinkled driver’s side fender]! So much THANKS and C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S to Nate and Billy for a fine event finishing 3rd in their class! So ends another Primitive season – many fine stories, many new friends, many old friends, and many fine times. We hope some of you can join us in the future!! Looking forward to it…. THANK YOU!! to everyone for following along this season. Especially to the people who have helped us throughout the year by working on the car or servicing or whatever other tasks were down along the line: Nate
Foley [we missed him at Hood but are glad he finally got into a
rally Also, one last thanks and farewell to our friend Mark Mattson (Mark Mark) who died late last year after bravely battling cancer, always with a smile. And lastly THANKS to all the organizers/volunteers/sweep/e-crew that spend their time, money, and effort on rally, as well the competitors we race against! Great season all!!
WILD WEST Rally (Sept 2009) Team Primitive loaded the freshly repaired 2008 Subaru STi on the trailer this past weekend and headed to grand Pomeroy, Washington for what would unfortunately turn into a short weekend. The event lived up to its billing and was quite wild for the Primitive crew. But before we get to the particulars….. After our foray into the woods and subsequent DNF at Oregon Trail Rally earlier this year, we spent considerable time and effort with the strut suppliers to get the parts replaced and pieces we needed to be road worthy; that excessive delay saw us bringing out the screaming yellow Thunderlizard to Idaho where we placed on the podium. Nipping the suspension repairs on the ‘08 in at the last minute led us to decide our entry to the Wild West Rally would be in PGT trim – but this meant we had to reinstall the HUGE factory STi Brembo front brakes. We felt good about that though knowing we were heading to some of the smoothest and fastest roads in NW rally. The drawback was the fact we needed to run 17” wheels and thus cut street tires to be rules legal. Leg 1 had us running 9 specials and included 4 service stops – we were to run a single stage [Geiger Up] of 4.01 miles, then service, rerun of Geiger with an additional two stages for a three stage loop of 23 miles and then repeat after another service. The day was to end with a pair of passes on Malone Hill – a test of 7.79 miles. Primitive did not quite make it through the first three stage loop. We started the day third car on the road behind the ever untouchable Carl Jardeval in his open class Mitsubishi Evolution VIII and Washingtonian Mark Mager in a 2007 Subaru STi open class car. We felt good hoping that the two front runners would clear some of the looser gravel from the road surface affording us a better grip with our cut street tires. What we were not ready for was the number and size of large rocks that the leaders pulled from the roadsides and deposited in the track. At the end of ss2 we were in fourth position – a few of the lower seeded cars had been able to take advantage of the swept roads and better grip to post faster times. Entering the third stage, we were 4 seconds in front of P5 and 7 seconds in arrears of third position. The third stage threw us for a loop as it was way more rock-strewn and rough than we had anticipated – Paul was tip-toeing through the stage afraid of loosing a tire in the softball sized rock fields. To our amazement we came out with the third best time for the stage and clawed three seconds back on P3 – not bad considering we ‘felt’ we had lost at least 20 seconds dodging the minefields.
The fourth test of the day started well and Paul was pushing hard to keep our time competitive. We seemed to be doing well with only one bobble – of course at a spectator area – where we slid through acute left hander and kissed the bank. A quick reverse out and off we launched picking up even greater pace on the closed Garfield County road – afterall we had just lost a bit of time in that spectator corner. At mile 4.78 we entered a long right hander – ever fearful of rocks at the road edge, our line was not as aggressive as the first two cars through the stage - the car began to slide outside. The further out we went, the worse it got. Paul pinned the throttle hoping to rotate the car and get the AWD to dig us off the road edge but the ditch just got closer and closer. For a brief moment it seemed as if the Subaru would pull out of it – then we caught on the dirt berm as the exit of the corner revealed itself – and the fence end posts…the car gave a slight skip on the berm and it appeared as if Paul would take a post into his side of the car. At the last second the car caught and flipped up onto the driver side and there is the briefest moment that you see a fence corner post coming at you. It exploded the through the windshield and threw glass bits everywhere in the cockpit. The railroad-tie installed as post caught on the a-pillar at Paul’s corner and rotated through the laminated glass to the just inside the cage on the right side. The car then rocked down toward the ditch, a second smaller steel post piercing the rear triangular window behind the passenger door. The car continued to slide until the post caught the roll cage and held us cantilevered over the exposed edge. So now here you are on your side, wheels freely spinning in response to the still pressed throttle pedal, car solidly hung, dust swirling around and glass everywhere – I still held the book only tossing it away to shift the car to neutral and reach for the ignition while yelling ‘engine’ to Paul [he was already reaching for the key]. We both asked about the others condition – we were okay - and Paul directed me to exit through my side as his was blocked. With the dust windows the organizers had implemented, we had two full minutes to get out of the car and warn the oncoming competitors. Even after bracing myself, I fell across the car when I popped the safety harness, clawed up to wrestle the door open and grab the OKAY sign before climbing down the underside of the car to reach the road. A few spectators, perched on the hillside above, screamed down asking about our condition; they got my thumbs up before scrambling downhill towards us. Paul followed my exit and brought triangles to further warn following cars of our demise. As the remaining cars made it through the stage one by one slowing for our triangles, we debated the merits of rolling the car back down and proceeding – it was close enough to the road that had we been able to move it, it would have ended up blocking the track and so we stood in the dust and waited for our friends with sweep. The sweep and e-crew support followed the last drivers through the stage knowing we were off but healthy. A few tow straps some strategic maneuvering with many discussions and the car came away from its perch. We’d been swept…We replaced the two debeaded tires, the car refired and belched some oil smoke, Paul donned some safety goggles and drove off the stage back to the trailer – the worst glass cut he got was from waving to spectators through the broken out windscreen and cutting his hand on the small amount of glass remaining at the perimeter of the opening. Thanks to Rachel, William, Ed and Paul Coleman – the intrepid volunteer saviors and medics of the day for working with us to extricate the Primitive car, check on our health and see us safely off the stage. The car came away with only two broken windows, two mushed up doors, a bumper, rocker cover and fender that need replacement and a dented a-pillar and rocker. And if anyone thinks the post was bad – it probably kept us from multiple rolls so even though we will not know for certain. We felt it was mostly a benefit in this instance. We came away with less than papercuts and no soreness thanks to the proper harnesses and snug fitting race seats, helmets and HANS devices. More thanks to crew chief Nate and now seasoned crewman James for making the trek over and giving us a hand – it was quite an effort for a short reward – our apologies guys!
And technically – we never crossed the fence so I don’t think we violated the sign….[and yes; the imprint dates are not correct..].
As for the rest of the event – Carl Jardeval took top honors after leading both days for the cars; Carl Decker in his Subaru kept things close and finished second in a great drive; another Subaru finished out the podium. Mark Mager grabbed 4th position while a VW GTI piloted by the speedy Burress Brothers rounded out the top five. Two more competitors went off at “our” corner on the next run through [uninjured but rolled]. RallyMoto was lightly subscribed but Pete Nielsen came away the winner on a Honda XR650R and Dennis Boone filling in the second podium position on a KTM 950. Noah Horak popped the motor of his Aprilia on Leg 1 and was unable to continue. Next up – Mt. Hood Rally on October 24 out of Parkdale, Oregon [south of Hood River]. And unless someone wants to donate a few parts, some paint and lots of labor we will most likely be back in the 2004 WRX/STi…..as usual anyone who wishes to volunteer will be welcomed by the Oregon rally community – see the website for details or Team Primitive could use some help as well as we will have two cars in the event [congrats to Nate who will be driving his first event in the Primitive rental 2.5RS….do it CONSERVATIVELY NATE!!!!! The garage [and neighbors] can only handle so many broken cars…]. Thanks as usual to everyone else! And please note the Primitive Skidplates on the bottom of our rally car above – a view you rarely have of the oil sump and diff protection for your Subaru or Suzuki… RALLY IDAHO JULY 2009 Team Primitive ended up on the overall podium for the second season in a row at the 2009 version of the Idaho Rally in July. The 2009 Idaho event had a total of 39 entrants thanks to a large contingent of two-wheel drive MaxAttack! entrants... CLICK HERE or BELOW to READ MORE.... Imagine, if you will, sitting in the seat of Subaru’s fastest production model sports car – the WRX STi. Your hands are on the steering wheel and your feet are dancing across the pedals as you snick the shifter through the six speed gearbox. Now, push the go pedal a bit deeper. Feel the sweat on the palms of your hands as you push for a bit more speed. Include gravel roads. Add some heat. Don’t forget the trees. Throw in a companion to occupy the right seat and have him bark instructions at you through the series of fast 5 and 6 graded corners. You are feeling the speed; the car is complying with your every wish; the intercom continues in your ear – “…and L5+(nc) 30….R5/Cr 100….st/(sm)Cr 50….(sm)Cr 70…..”
Feels great, no? That is, it felt great. Right up to that point where you realize there is a tight R3- mere meters beyond that last small crest. But by the time you hear the dreadfully late call from that right seat companion you are already at the top of the crest and have lost all hope for braking as you see the road disappear 90 degrees to the right. You stare at the wall of trees….
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