Last wkd Peter participated for the first time in an offf-road contest, they call it Eurotrial, which took place in Cluj.
I was just a spectator of my husband's foolishness. He has driven that car for a few hours before the openning of the Eurotrial so it was a real madness to compete. But enthusiatic as he is he did it this time as well. I was at home clening the apt. and he called to say: "I am in" ...me speachless, he was supposed to go there as an organizer and our car just be exposed for advertising.
Strange, but I was excited about the ideea so I picked the camera and went for Polus Center parking, where the competition took place. And here it is (only the green "environmental friendly" car is ours:)
The organisers said he did well the first day and had a good total score. He was on the top 3 at the end of day 1. Unfortunatelly, along with other 7-8 cars in the competition, and because of the hard conditions, our Sammy broke up, the clutch failed completely and nedeed replacement (afterwards I've heard is a frequent suzuki problem). It was impossible to repair that during the night. So the contest ended for us day 1.
Conclusions:
1. we like this kind of contests and this sport;
2. this extreme sport is quite expensive for the owner of the car;
3. it's hard to drive and cross the finish line;
4. I was the craziest wife-supporter behind the "do not cross" line, tried (not succesfully though)to negociate with the arbitrators (the rules are very strict at this kind of competitions) - but didn't get any prize for that. So next time I'll be Peter's co-pilot;
5. you meet nice, relaxed, crazy people;
6. you always win something - Peter got experience and a participant diploma :)
Enjoy more pics on my picasa album!
