2005 Pacific Forest Rally - Merritt, BC
Oct 14-15, 2004
Round 5 of the Canadian National Rally Championship
Leg 2 - Round 5 of the Western Canada Rally Championship
Legs 1 & 2 Qualifies for NORPAC out of region points
Legs 1 & 2 are Round 5 of the Cascade Cup for 2wd cars
Round 15 of the North American Rally Cup (NARC)

2005 Pacific Forest Rally - Event Commentary
Day 2 - October 15
  
 
Section 3 Stages Start Time Section 4 Stages Start Time
SS8 - Active Mountain 10:15 SS11 - Helmer Lake South 13:00
SS9 - Helmer Lake South 10:53 SS12 - Helmer Lake South 13:59
SS10 - Active Mountain 11:43 Service 4 14:41
Service 3 11:56    
Section 5 Stages Start Time Section 6 Stages Start Time
SS13 - Nicola Lake North 15:59 SS15 - Nicola Lake North 18:06
SS14 - Mab Lake North 16:29 SS16 - Mab Lake North 18:36
Service 5 17:08 Final MTC 19:15
Time
 Item
10:00
 Crews have completed recce of the AMR spectator stages at Active Mountain
10:18
 Cars are starting SS8 at Active Mountain,
Car 22 - Kris Dahl has rejoined the competition.
Conditions have changed from the warm and dry of Friday night to cold and wet, but it's stopped raining and is drying out.
10:32
 Car 07 - Scott Trinder out after SS8 - rear suspension damage from big rock.
11:50
 Car 18 - Warren Currie out on SS9 - on roof
12:20
 Cars arriving at Service 3
13:16
 Cars are starting SS11
13:33
 Car 17 - Neil Wright out at service 3, suspension damage
Car 22 - out of event, lost another half shaft
13:42
 Car 21 - Chad Manley - out on SS11, parked on side of road with triangles out.
14:06
 Car 16 - Josh Keatley heading to service, mechanical problem.
14:10
 Car 21 - Chad Manley - got going, finished stage within max lateness.
14:23
 Cars are starting SS12
14:28
 Car 29 - Pat Harris - retired after SS11
14:41
 Car 09 - Gord Olsen was off on SS12, moving again at reduced speed
Car 15 - Colin Armstrong off on SS12, Car 28 - John McLaren stopped to pull him out with the mighty Justy.
15:30
 Car 09 - Gord Olsen into service, hope to fix problem (broken flange)
Many teams were under the cars before going into the 40 minute service.
Car 21 - Chad Manley has retired between SS11 & SS12
15:48
 Cars are leaving service for Nicola Lake North
16:58
 Car 09 - Gord Olsen has DNF'd,
17:20
 Cars back to service for the final time.
20:00

Car 24 - Colby Boles off in SS16.
Podeum was done.
Provisional results to be posted at 20:15
Rally is over for another year.

Day 1 - October 14
  
 
Section 1 Stages Start Time Section 2 Stages Start Time
SS1 - Railyard Mall 19:45 SS4 - Comstock North 21:22
SS2 - Comstock North 20:08 SS5 - Princeton Cutoff Road 21:55
SS3 - Railyard Mall 20:29 SS6 - Comstock North 22:23
Service 1 20:37 SS7 - Princeton Cutoff Road 22:56
Time
 Item
14:45
 Cars starting to arrive for Parc Exposé & Scrutineering.
18:00
 Start of Seed 5 & 6 driver's meeting
19:00
 Driver's meetings are done, getting ready for start
21:00
 Half the field into Service 1, scoring watched the first spectator stage (in town),
big crowds, real cars real fast, stage was a mix of pavement and gravel.
22:00

Car 22 - Kris Dahl - out after SS1 - broken drive shaft.

22:40
 Car 01 - Pat Richard - out on SS6 - Turbo failure
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