Congratulations to the team of John Fouse and Dennis Wende for taking first overall in what was an extra fun and exciting rally! Special congratulations go to the first place novice class team of Peter and Timothy Ryce in car # 6 who also placed third overall in their first rally ever!

  The conditions turned out to be very challenging from the expected brisk and dusty rally. Although the weatherman had predicted sunshine and dry for the weekend, Mother Nature had other plans and decided to give us rain. This made conditions very difficult, not only being at night, and making the roads extremely muddy and slippery!

   Congratulations go to all the novices however for keeping the cars on the road and the rubber down in some very tough conditions!  Hat's off to the team of Bruce Harnden and Adrien Field in car #8 for not giving up, although a broken axle prevented them from completing the rally, using some rope and tie straps to hold the car together for the last 2 stages to come about 20 kms short of the finish is still quite a feat!

  We would like to thank our sponsors; Nokian Tyres for their continued support and for the Nokian Tyre contingency program, and our series sponsors Wilkinson's automobilia, and Specialty Subaru for their contributions! A big thanks to all the check pointers, for without them, we would be unable to run these types of events. Thanks to Martin Wilson, Dennis Wende and Paul Westwick for their help, support, and guidance. We have a feeling with the conditions, they had fun too!

  Golddigger went very well this year, as we had a FABULOUS novice turnout of 6 cars! It is very good to see so many novices coming out to these events. We hope everyone had a good time and that you are hooked on rally - just like the rest of us. Shelley and I had fun organizing this rally and hope to see you all at the next TSD rally, The Coast to Coast Rally on August 26/27, or the next performance rally, The Pacific Forest Rally on September 23, 2000. Even if you can't compete, helping out is almost as much fun!