Happy birthday! and good luck on your future endeavor! :D
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Happy Birthday，生日快樂，Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!!
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Happy birthday and thanks for the train. Your Finland adventure sounds good to me. I used to volunteer as an official at Rally Australia when that was here but that ended years ago.
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Thanks :)
That sounds fun as well.
I was thinking about trying to get into organising events. But will see how that plan will turn out.
What did you volunteer as ? Helped around the track ?
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I did a few different things over the years: spectator marshall, scrutineering, and courtesy car driver. All of the officials for the event are volunteers. They are rewarded with dinner and a party on the final night but I somehow managed to still be officiating when that was on for all six years. Spectator marshalls basically just stand around stopping people from walking onto the track - it can be very boring or quite exciting, depending on where you are. My highlight of that was being close enough to see a driver's eyes widen when he almost got a corner badly wrong on the Langley Park Super Special Stage (it was Aussie touring car driver Dick Johnson driving a V8 rear wheel drive Ford Falcon against Peter Brock during an exhibition before the WRC vehicles). Scrutineering was mostly boring. Checking things like lights and turbo wire seals at the start of the event. It was a rushed affair out on the stages, getting the co-drivers to open the boots so we could check spare tyres, etc., and they wanted to spend as little time with us as possible. The highlight of my scrutineering experience was the post-race inspection of Sebastien Loeb's winning Citroen and having a difficult conversation with their lead mechanic who only spoke French. We also had to check that they had used the gear ratios they had claimed. It was pretty amazing watching the team drop and dismantle the gearbox so we could count the gear teeth, and then reinstall it to drive away within 20 minutes, all while it was still hot. The coordination and efficiency of the teamwork was a thing of beauty and they didn't spill a drop of oil. Courtesy car driving was the most removed from the action and the vehicles (my main interest as a mechanical engineer), but I did get a very memorable journey driving a van load of VIPs to a restaurant at the end of the event. I didn't know the restaurant, so former world champion Petter Solberg was issuing directions from the back while another (very drunk) former world champion, Carlos Sainz, sat next to me and complained that I wasn't taking the corners "flat". I pointed out that I was driving a van with 6 or 7 people in it but he kept telling me that the corners should be taken flat. XD
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Bumpy Birthday... eeeh Happy Bumpday.... no nono nono
Bump and Happy Birthday! 🎂😄😉
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"finally reached level 4 and can enter the last games on the train"-Bump
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.... and yesterday I handed in my Bachelors thesis. Had a rough half a year writing it, but on to that in a bit.
Results are in - I got a 9 in my thesis work. super psyched about it. On 21st I have graduation and officially am an engineer :D
Thank you all for the wishes who I didnt answer directly as well :) Appreciated
Turning 24 today. Sadly I wont be celebrating today as I had to move away from my hometown so everyone is back there, but Im happy to create a train as well, as I havent made a post or GA for some time.
Regarding the bachelors theses - I started to write it and when a month had passed it turned out to be not that thorough as I wanted and didnt really meet the criteria. So I had to change what I wrote about. Had less time and it was bit more stressful to come up with something else. In the end I wrote about horizontal road markings. Basically research on road safety regarding the markings. Handed it in yesterday and now its waiting game. I have to present it in front of jury now on June 10.
And the train ends on 10 of June as well.
The train goes on here, but further I write about my awesome experience in my internship/workplace. . Hope you find something for you on the train and find my little story interesting as well. Looking forward to discuss stuff if anyones interested. You can ask about rally as well if your interested and Id be glad to answer
Year started interesting - started an internship in rally racing team. We built Ford Fiesta rally cars and rented them for people. Met some interesting clients from all around the world - Japanese, Indians, Taiwanese, British, French.. Had a chance to go to Germany, Poland several times, Lithuania. Most exciting was a trip to Finland. We went to Lapland rally. Its beyond the polar circle (my first time going that far to north). Had constant -30 degrees celsius. Spent half an hour in the middle of night, in the middle of forest road with broken down car in -30 degrees. But I loved it and would love to go back again.
We went through Estonia there. We had a ferry to board in an early morning so we went in the evening and the plan was to spend the night in a hotel. It was 1 o`clock in the night. Google Maps lead us into some forest road and it ended going onto field. We got stuck with van that had the rally car on trailer. we fucked around for an hour and a half until we got everything unstuck. Had some 4 hours to sleep with 2 hour ferry ride, breakfast and full days drive through snowy Finland.
It was not just extreme for us but it was extreme for the car as well. It was our teams first experience with rally in such conditions. Car didnt work for most part, kept broking down and our lead mechanic kept working on it to try to fix it fully. In the end it worked great and we learned a lot and will know what to expect in the future when dealing with such conditions.
Sadly didnt stay with them due to lack of work as Rally after all is a pass time for rich people mostly. I still have contacts and I hope my ways will cross with them as rally is my passion but Im still excited about the time with them so wanted to share it here :)
Added some pictures. from top to bottom :
first is taken at service park that is in the middle of stages. The team has to go to designated place to fix the car. It was some 100 km from the actual service park where is all our stuff and its in open air. Embracing all the nature.
second picture is the place where we fueled the car (again in the middle of forest in the middle of stages)
third is the actual service park. Everyone is working on their cars shoulder to shoulder. With warm and colds drinks, some warm air being pumped in the tent and food.
forth is on the road to Lapland. Beautiful country and beautiful roads.
Reuploaded pics, hope they work now ;)
PS. Those who play Dirt Rally or Dirt 4 (any Dirt for that matter) or even Grid games feel free to add me on steam if you want to. I like comparing my times in racing games :)
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