
The emergency knife I picked up from the Granite State Police Supply retail store (a division of Bodyarmoroutlet.com, located in Windham, NH) is well within reach should I ever need it to cut out of my harnesses but fortunately I had no use for it this weekend.
We (my codriver Ben Nadeau and myself) left for the event on early Friday morning and arrived some 1/2 a day later at about 6PM after stopping at Staples for some notepaper for stage notes and a new pencil to write them with.

The morning started around 7 AM with a wakeup serenade over the facility's PA system. By around 10AM we were beginning to give out demo rides to Hyperfest attendees. I took the first few rides and likely drove far too aggressively for what was just a glorified practice session. After lunch I handed the reigns over to my codriver Ben Nadeau to do the driving figuring that since the truck was not his vehicle he would likely be more careful with it than I would. Ben did most of the afternoon rides and finished up in fine fashion.

Sunday was raceday. Hyperfest is a decidedly laid back affair and the racing didn't really start till about 11AM. The course was done in loops of 1.2 miles per lap at 3 laps per session for the most part. The course was very tight and very twisty and I more or less drove around it redlined in first gear with brief moments of second gear. This was NOT the best course for the Nissan Frontier to excel at given its lack of cornering and lack of power coming out of the numerous turns.

The 12th place finish overall puts the team in 2nd place overall for the year in the Atlantic Rally Cup 2WD standings behind the very fast Ford Focus of Andrew Frick with three events to go.
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Great story Dan. Glad the truck is in one piece. When did you paint it brown?
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