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First of all I know I left an e out of the word sure in my title.I could not go back and change it.
A little back ground just for those that do not know.
We work for Honda in Lincoln.We have a company race team.We ran the One lap of America since 2006 and had a very good budget.We even got paid to go to the event's.
Well as everyone knows the economy went south and so did our money for the race team.We started doing autocross because it took very little money and was good to teach car control. Last Summer we started looking at rallycross for both of the same reasons. We had a Pilot just sitting so we built it with pretty much what we had and a little of our own money. Our team still had no budget to work with, which is fine we were just glad to have a job and thrilled that they let us still drive the cars.
We finished the Pilot over the winter and have been doing rallycross events with it. Also they gave us 2 GREAT fields at the plant to ptactice and test. All of the management had been in our vans and knew what they could do but none had ever been in the Pilot. With it being 100% stock parts I am sure they expected it to be pretty much like a stock Pilot. A week or so ago we got a small amount of money to buy some safety things like a cage,seats etc. for the Pilot and the Accord.They also gave us 3 stock 4wd Pilots to test with or use for parts, one had only 27 miles on it .That is a good start and we are glad to have some money back.Our plant manager went out to our track in a stock Pilot on his own and had a good time. Dan ( who is the Race team manager) sent me an E-mail today and said he ,the president and vice president wanted to go for a ride after work today.
The ride went great.It was hot and dusty but they had a good time and I am sure were very surprised at how quick the Pilot was for being pretty stock.We let them drive it some and that went over pretty good also.
This could be good and it could be bad,here is how. Good because with little to no money we built a pretty fun and quick rallycross vehicle,not WRX or STI or even black pearl quick but for a SUV with stock parts it does pretty good. Bad because of the same reason.Now they know how quick it can be .I bet they are glad we will be putting a cage in it now. Also we plan to get some real race seats and a couple hans device's also just to be safe.
It was a good day and we are very glad we work for a company like Honda that takes care of us when times are good and when times are bad .
Honda The Power of Dreams
A little back ground just for those that do not know.
We work for Honda in Lincoln.We have a company race team.We ran the One lap of America since 2006 and had a very good budget.We even got paid to go to the event's.
Well as everyone knows the economy went south and so did our money for the race team.We started doing autocross because it took very little money and was good to teach car control. Last Summer we started looking at rallycross for both of the same reasons. We had a Pilot just sitting so we built it with pretty much what we had and a little of our own money. Our team still had no budget to work with, which is fine we were just glad to have a job and thrilled that they let us still drive the cars.
We finished the Pilot over the winter and have been doing rallycross events with it. Also they gave us 2 GREAT fields at the plant to ptactice and test. All of the management had been in our vans and knew what they could do but none had ever been in the Pilot. With it being 100% stock parts I am sure they expected it to be pretty much like a stock Pilot. A week or so ago we got a small amount of money to buy some safety things like a cage,seats etc. for the Pilot and the Accord.They also gave us 3 stock 4wd Pilots to test with or use for parts, one had only 27 miles on it .That is a good start and we are glad to have some money back.Our plant manager went out to our track in a stock Pilot on his own and had a good time. Dan ( who is the Race team manager) sent me an E-mail today and said he ,the president and vice president wanted to go for a ride after work today.
The ride went great.It was hot and dusty but they had a good time and I am sure were very surprised at how quick the Pilot was for being pretty stock.We let them drive it some and that went over pretty good also.
This could be good and it could be bad,here is how. Good because with little to no money we built a pretty fun and quick rallycross vehicle,not WRX or STI or even black pearl quick but for a SUV with stock parts it does pretty good. Bad because of the same reason.Now they know how quick it can be .I bet they are glad we will be putting a cage in it now. Also we plan to get some real race seats and a couple hans device's also just to be safe.
It was a good day and we are very glad we work for a company like Honda that takes care of us when times are good and when times are bad .
Honda The Power of Dreams
We're all pretty lucky to be in the positions we are. 
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