Rally For Kids

Ok, so yesterday wasn’t the best day for TeamCPX. We did well on all the missions except the last. We had to find a flying fish and take a picture under it somewhere in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It turned out to be a little fish sculpture on a corner downtown that you could crawl under for the pic. I guess we were thinking too big and ended up driving around in circles for 45min looking for it. We placed 22 out of 43, so our 2nd place position is going to drop some.

Then we had to do an autocross set up by the Tuscloosa police. This was no normal autocross, I don’t think you can even call it that. It was more an obstacle course with very tight figure eight turns and circles. Most cars could not make it through the course without backing up and doing 2-3 point turns through some parts. Then to top it off they made us wear these goggles that simulated being drunk. It made it very hard to see especially trying to figure out distances. It looked like there was cones everywhere. In fact I hit the first five cones off the start and that was just a straight part..  By the end I had knocked down a total of 14 cones which put us in 25th out of 43. So apparently I’m not very good at driving drunk, it was definitely a lot harder than I thought it would be. 

On a good note one of our missions was to bring children’s books to city hall. Carlton being the good guy that he is bought 260 books! That was the 2nd most out of everyone and as a reward the top 3 got a key to the city of Tuscaloosa from the mayor himself. So Carlton now has the key to the city.. watch out! 

Right now we are done with todays missions and about to do another autocross to finish the day off. This one looks like a normal one. Carlton is going to give this one a shot. Today went much better so far, we placed somewhere in the top 10 for the missions part. More on todays missions and the autocross later..

TJ