Land Rover G4 Challenge Nevada Passage

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Day 2 - A Mix of Driving and Running

08.05.2008

HELL’S HALF ACRE, Alamo, Nev. – The second day of competition at the Land Rover G4 Challenge Nevada Passage started with the ultimate test of driving control and teamwork as teams navigated through a challenging trials course in their Land Rover LR3s.

Pitted against some of Mother Nature’s roughest terrain teams were tasked with traversing a tight, narrow, twisting, sandy, uneven and rocky quarter-mile stretch of Nevada’s wide open to see who could complete the course in the quickest time with the fewest penalties.

The course featured 18 gates (orange cones simulating boulders that were positioned on either side of the road) that allowed just inches of clearance on either side to pass through. Each team member drove through nine gates while their partner used hand signals and voice commands to help guide them through and then they switched positions to the finish. The rules were simple; make contact with a cone and one-minute was added to your time.

The accomplished Land Rover driving instructors on site were clear in their advice to competitors… “slow, smooth and steady,� and “as slow as possible, as fast as necessary.�
With huge potential for not only flat tires, but real damage to the Land Rover’s they were driving through a maze of boulders, the entire field avoided both and as a whole performed admirably.

The best on the day was Team Green – Linda Lindsay and Tim Menoher – who traversed the course in eight minutes, 13 seconds while collecting just two penalties for a total time of 11:13.

Just Team Lime Green - Phil Glenn and Laura Home - managed a flawless run, yet their time of 15:48 was only good for seventh place. Jim Perkins and Brandyn Roark-Gray of Team Red, who were first to tackle the trials course, posted the second best time in 13:11 (11:11 plus two penalties). Team Turquoise – Peter Hanson and Sarah McMahan – edged Team Burgundy – Scott Fredricksen and Rachel Cieslewicz – by six-tenths of a second for third place.See All Event Posts