Multiple updates from both Des @ GT Spirit (check out his frequently updated photo gallery and forums) and Team Polizei’s very own Piloten Jon Goodrich, vacationing with Ashley Van Dyke on this year’s Players Run:

We left the Monaco Hotel in Salt Lake City at 0930hr Mountain Time with a police escort out of town. Not 5 minutes after we left the escort, Ashley got pulled for no aparent reason. The cop was friendly enough, asked us a few questions and then let us go, but not before every SINGLE car in the rally passed us waving and honking.  Back on the road after a 15 minute delay, we knew we had our work cut out for us.  A few miles down the road we saw Jonathan Katz in the LP640 pulled as well.  Apparently he got the same friendly warning we did.  With Friday metro traffic, there was not much to be done and we did not see a single rally car for miles.  We feared the worst, last posiiton. 

Ashley got us out of town and picked up the pace, but we still did not see any other cars.  We phoned a few friends and found out that miracolously we had passed a number of cars who apparently pulled off together for fuel. A few other guys stopped for lunch, vacation style.

We chose the Polizei lunch method, gas stop, taco bell and out in less than 4 minutes.  I took the wheel outside of Cedar City, UT at 12:24 PM Mountain Time according to the gas reciept and began my chicken burrito in the left hand Aston assault.  It was a fast, beautiful ride down I-15 South, with little police and lots of scenery.  We arrived at the Andretti Racing school at 2:20 Mountain Time, 1:20 Pacific in P1. 

We have checked into the Wynn, showered and are returning to the track to turn some laps at 4PM.

Ashley has yet to accept my vegas marriage proposal, but we have not had any drinks yet and the chapel is open 24 hours.  I checked.

Jon9