
03/03/2025
Once considered our home event, Sandblast Rally was this weekend. It's been 7 years now (wow!) since we were last there.
We took 1st place and celebrated appropriately as a team. We won what was probably the most awesome award ever.
In retrospect, it would be the last time that "the team" was really a team:
In June, we went up to the UP in Michigan to race at CUPR where we basically trashed the car and decided to build a new car. Gino didn't want to make trek up to Michigan and I can't blame him. So Steve was our head honcho for the event.
This picture is the last one I have of Gino working on the car at an event. It's going to be incredibly eerie once we get the new car done and ready for shakedown as Gino won't be a part of it. I think he realized how much he was like glue (and an abrasive!) for the team.
We miss ya Gino Malinoski... ya jerk.