All right, we are at Sam Blast Rally and I'm crewing. Lost by choice. Motor sports is running what I think is the coolest car here. It is a V8 Mustang. I love it and it has an amazing wrap. It is a V8. It has all the right noises and it is throwing up a bunch of dirt as we speak. I am super psyched about this opportunity to crew. Yeah, this is cool. This is new and I'm really excited. Everybody on the team is awesome. Crew chief, he had the old V8 Rally Ranger and this is just a cool setup. Much better than my two-person setup. We actually have a nice fan to work out of. People with uniforms, a whole pile of tools, a bunch of spare parts, all things that I wish I had before. It is just a hell of a time and I am super excited. Everybody say hi. So the first chaotic challenge that we had was before Dan pulled the car into first service. We got a call that he was stopped on stage, possibly with fuel leak. So we all quickly hopped on the bus, headed to his last known location and he wasn't there. Ends up he got towed further down the stage. Which meant we had to go down some of these sketchy roads like a poor man's Dakar truck. And when we arrived, we realized that he wasn't leaking fuel. He described the problem and then he got a quick google. We figured out that the fuel inertia switch had been tripped after they hit a nasty bump. And that happened, it cut fuel and it sputtered out and wouldn't start. Dan just went, pressed the button, everything fired back up and they actually got to continue down the stage without us having to do any work on the car. He did lose a fender liner which I had to take with us but that was it. So we raced back to service to try and make him but ends up he didn't have enough time to do a service so he drove straight on through into line to go the next stages and we all just kind of crossed our fingers they had enough fuel and was going to make it. So when the car pulled in for technically second service, we knew we needed to do a thorough look over the car because it missed the first service. I also knew that it was going to need a lot of fuel. Spiritedly not as much as I thought but I have to give credit to the team for actually having a nice checklist for us to use when going through this service. So you'll see me here, I'm going through, I'm checking fluids, oil, power steering, brake, etc. making sure all is good. We had somebody pulling off the tires, check brakes, make sure everything was good there, check troll arms. The one thing that was causing a weird issue, so Dan the driver complained that the rear was like having a really nasty vibration. Ends up we must kicked, I don't know how many pounds of sand that built up in the wheels. We kicked that out and that's really all it was. Yeah so you'll see me here, I did need to fix some damage. It was that fender liner that fell off that I collected after Dan drove off when he was stopped on stage. You see me zip tying it, I spent way too long, need to come up with a better solution for a fender liner but we made it work. This felt kind of chaotic but looking back on the footage, it seemed almost relaxed. We got everything done really quick, did what we needed to do. We had pretty good communication back and forth. You'll even see me going and checking off stuff that we did so I could know that we were ready to go. So you see driver and co-driver getting their haunts and helmets back on and we're they're getting ready to head out. We're still filling up with fuel. So one person does have to hold the fire extinguisher while the other person's feeling so unfortunately it is a two person job and we were way down to the very end of service when we got that done but they got to drive away and I'll continue on to the next set of stages and we got to have some lunch. Gary is the chef. Oh don't tell my daughter, she's the chef. Well on to final service. This was pretty uneventful. The car really didn't have anything crazy, just more dirt that needed to get kicked out of the back tires. Fluids are fine, nothing was really out of the ordinary on it. Really the only noteworthy thing is the exhaust on the rear was getting pretty hammered. Yeah ends up a three inch tubing does have some problems in rally. So that'll have to get addressed at some point but for this it really wasn't causing any problems. Everything was pretty boring. Not to mention this was a long service. It was a 60 minute service so an hour. We got done really quick and just cleaned windows and then sat around and talked and once it was finally close to time we sent our driver and co-driver on their way. All right and that is it. We are done. We are packed up. We are ready to go. The uh the bus did amazing. I don't even know how but oh god. I don't remember that. So yeah hopefully Dan makes it through since I don't know yet and we'll see him at next time. Thank you for everybody else's a good thank you and unfortunately I have to head back home. Well now that I'm back home and have the rally in the rear view mirror I can say that Dan did an amazing job driving. He ended up third in class and eleventh overall and this was his first stage rally was a great finish. I'm super excited for him for the for the rest of the season to see what he can do. He's got a good car and he definitely has a good support structure. I'm really excited to see where this takes him.