Or should I say roll out?

The LDR crew has been working feverishly over the last several weeks in order to prep the rally car, service truck and support truck for the Regional Rally Championship event in Missouri next weekend.

We're 98% and will get the other 2% done before we leave tomorrow. Erik Lee and I have added a degree of difficulty to the process by entering Rally Mexico as well. Round 2 of the 2010 World Rally Championship, it's the closest WRC event to us North American rally folks.

Erik and I contested the event in 2010 with mixed results. We were consistently in the top 3 of the Peugeot 206 drivers and had a great time. We knew we could do better and vowed to return someday to give it another go. That someday is almost here! :-)

Why am I up at 11:30 the night before we leave?! Shouldn't be, I know. I'm up because I have to catch up on work for the office(yes, I have a day job). I'm wearing my wrist splints as I type for the first time in several months. All the recent wrenching on Subarus, Sprinters and Rovers has my wrists wishing they belong to someone else.

Won't help that I'll spend the majority of the next two weeks gripping a steering wheel-sometimes gently, sometimes not!

Exciting press release to come in the next 24-36 hours regarding some new partnerships for LDR and some new blingage for Senor Spank! All will soon be revealed. :-)

Taking my homemade TRX suspension training device on the road to give it a good workout(and vice versa). Trainer Scott will e-mail me workouts to do over the next couple of weeks. Should help balance the time spent in the car.

Space still available if you want to expose your product/business to the world via Rally Mexico. Contact me directly. Most bang for your buck you'll spend on advertising in 2010!

We'll have trials. We'll have tribulations(honestly, I don't know if I've ever had a tribulation-is that like a tank-slapper? If it is, then yes, I've tribulated!). ;-) We'll laugh, we'll cry, we'll talk in our sleep-maybe even sleep walk.

Such is the life of a working class rally team. We'll try and bring you the smells and sounds, a-la Spinal Tap, via our blog and youtube videos! Look for the first video soon!

Cheers! John