Monday, April 20, 2009

Olympus Rally 2009

Well, another successful year for the Olympus Rally, I kinda like the fact that it changes places every year, makes everything different and interesting.


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Fresh cut trees make for fresh rally roads.


The Pacific Ocean made for perfect spectating backgrounds.


Yeah, That's a Monster Energy floorjack


Bob Olson & Conrad Ketelsen go a bit wide and go for the tumble


The camera took this when I set it down to help them get out.


Dave Mirra and Derek Ringer set off up SS1 Wreck Creek


The Tabors doing the well known Brooklyn Stage in reverse Sunday Afternoon


Mark Fox & Jake Blattner flat out on the Tahola stage Saturday


Brooklyn was an excellent stage for the 100's of spectators that showed up


Travis Pastrana and Christian Edstrom half way to breaking the record of the Brooklyn Stage by almost 5 seconds.


Downtown Aberdeen, WA hosts the Parc' Expose'


Arkadiusz Gruszka & Lukasz Wronski make their way through spectator @ Wreck Creek


Piotr Kadlubowski & Krystian Ostrowski make their way up the hill on SS1


#40 tries to move the damaged 2008 STI down the course as Travis Hanson & Terry Hanson get ready to pass


#199 makes their way (sideways) through an acute uphill on Palix Stage


Dillon Van Way & Joshua Knott make their way up from the ocean


Just another day in the office for TP


Why use a jack when you can have Rally Fan's help you?


Dave Mirra and Derek Ringer full throttle through 9400 Road.


Olympus Rally group let spectators get where-ever they like as long at it was in a safe place for great viewing.


#199 furthers their lead...


The top teams line up before Palix in South Bend, WA


DM % DR sideways up Palix


Jimmy & Melissa Keeney spiral dust into the spectators on Brooklyn


#199 up the hill on Wreck Creek


Spectators duck as Piotr Wiktorczyk & Grzegorz Dorman fly by on Tahola W


#43 Up and away from the Pacific Coast


Paul Eklund and Jeff Price head up Wreck Creek


Byron Garth & Ryan McPhee Get a little too wide on Brooklyn


Steve Greer % Tracy Manspeaker fly through 9400 Road


Dave & Richard Hintz head up Tahola E


DM & DR make their way through the tough logging roads on SS1


The wide open peninsula made for excellent rally roads.


TP & CE make their way through the spectator crowds on Brooklyn


Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino literally at light speed through Tahola


#199 coming through Tahola


Mark Mager & Miller Dumaoal pushing through Palix W


DM through the clearcut on Brooklyn raising the dust.