NISMO Stuff Remains in 1st Place!!

The NISMO Stuff Racing team remains in 1st place overall in the New England Region SCCA Rallycross--but not by much...

This weekend's 4/24 Rallycross event at the Rochester Fairgrounds in Rochester, NH marked the best group of vehicles in the Prepared Rear class seen so far this year. While the NISMO Stuff Frontier was up to the task durability and terrain handling wise, its 4 cyl engine and its driver could not keep up with its competitors and finished in 4th out of five entries.

Typically I don't make excuses for a poor performance and won't make one here. I will merely describe the facts surrounding the three vehicles that finished ahead of the team. In first was a Merkur XR4ti driven by a rally instructor from the Team O'Neil Rally School...In second was a BMW 325M and in third was another Merkur XR4ti but with a Mustang 5.0 engine transplant. Make your own determination as to how much fault the team bears for its poor performance this weekend.

Outside of the racing, there were close to 100 spectators during the course of the day who came to view the action and more notably, I received a dozen or more comments from fellow competitors on just how clean and great looking the new bedsides on the truck look. The new bedsides by the way, held up to the jarring and gravel just fine with nary a squeak or rattle from them all day...

The next New England Region Rallycross event is not for another month and its location is not yet announced...we'll have to see if the team can generate a better performance at that time...

2010 SCCA NER Rallycross Standings...