Great Race 2006 is now over and I know I will want to update you on a few of my thoughts, feelings and musings but have been thrust back into the duties at home. I will be posting a few more thoughts now that I have a full size keyboard and do not have to punch my thoughts out at midnight on my crackberry on the road.

Theresa got this email from Bruce Gezon that went out to some of his friends which she suggested I post on the blog. So here it is:

Well it’s over and 3rd is where we finished after a rather bad day last Friday which had dropped us to seventh and eventual cost us 2nd overall. Just in case the scoring has been a blur I offer the following. It is based on one point per second early or late at a timing checkpoint located somewhere along the route. There are usually four to nine checkpoints per day. Overall scoring is a total of your best 9 of the first 11 days plus the last three days, for our class. Other class cars get to discard one or two more days out of the first 11. Everyone has to count the last three. The winning car got to drop three days but it didn’t matter. They would have won anyway. After all of that math each car’s final total is multiplied by a car age factor to further reduce the score to compensate for older vehicle problems. Our factor was 0.66 as were the other top cars.

Curtis has entered us in the 2008 world race but a lot has to happen to make it happen for us and for Great Race. Our two big needs are major sponsorship and a suitable vehicle. We’ll see how it goes over the next six months.

Bruce