WEC funny

[Steve Shaw <sshaw@pacbell.net>]

The Best Condition Judging was postponed from 11:00 AM to 12:00AM (Like 
everything else the entire week).
Here's why they changed it!

Late, late at night they were finally shutting down the race site and 
vet check out in the middle of the desert. By the way this site for all 
of us was a hour and twenty minute drive with absolutely no signage on 
how to get there. On race day it didn't matter because the dust was so 
thick and in the dark you wouldn't have been able to see the signs any 
ways. But it was not too hard to find the vetcheck, you simply followed 
the path of cars stuck in the sand, many abandoned with their flashers 
on. It only took my car two hours to find the vetcheck/race site and I 
had been there once already. But back to the race officials shutting 
down the vet check. All of the last vets, timers and officials were 
ready to leave for the hotels and barns. Jim Bryant says "I know the way 
on the ‘new road' and I'll lead you out, it will only take a half hour." 
So twenty vehicles with three to four in each take off across the 
desert. Halfway there the groups get separated and the lead group turns 
around to find the laggers, some of which are stuck in the sand. In the 
mess of getting everyone turned around they get disoriented and can't 
find the road. The French vets have two bottles of wine and Juan has a 
flash of rum. They all settled down and waited until dawn when they 
could figure out where they were. The convoy finally made it back to the 
barns close to 9:00 AM and that is why they postponed the BC judging.

Actually everyone was quite glad that the officials did not miss the 
experiences that the rest of us enjoyed throughout the week.

Steve Shaw