Yup, I was there for the fourth time, and Diane was navigating for her second time. I agree -- the conditions were phenomenal, and it was so much fun driving those snow-packed roller-coaster roads all night!
This is always one of the high points of my motorsports year. It's a really great event, and we're so fortunate to have it practically in our back yard. This was the best-attended running of the event that I've seen, and it was great to see it filled to capacity.
Did we get to talk during the event? Hard to say unless you introduced yourself as Gravelguy, and I think I would have remembered that.
We were driving the black BMW E30. We ended up finishing the event first in Class S, but as far as I'm concerned everyone who ran the event "won", because it was so damn much fun. (Well, except maybe for the team that had the off into a tree, but even they looked to be in good spirits at the end.)
Here are the results for Class S as they were posted on the wall at the finish:
Hats off to John Buffum for creating this event and keeping it going each winter, and to all the workers who toiled all night so the rest of us could have our fun. It was good to see Steve J. there and working some checkpoints.
Can't wait to do it again next year!