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Riding off a conditional qualification for ASC 2018, we started the day knowing that we either had to make it to the checkpoint at Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer before it closed, or make it to the stage stop on time without trailering MSXII. The goal for the day was to get qualification out of the way, so we didn't need to worry about it the next day. We could worry about fixing other problems with the car after we had qualified.

I think It's probably fair to say that a lot of us were pretty worried after seeing one of the other teams need a push to get out of the parking lot at Lewis & Clark Landing. However, we seemed to be fine and managed to drive a fair bit before hitting our first fault of the day—a BPS fault.

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It was pretty stressful for everyone in the convoy, since we all thought that the checkpoint closed at 3:00 pm. I think we ended up The actual number was something like faulting about 7 times in 200 m before we finally were able to keep on going and make it past the finish line. Our observer knew otherwise, but due to race regulations, he couldn't say anything to us to tell us otherwisethat the checkpoint actually closed at 3:30 pm. But when we crossed the finish line, we were all super pumped and psyched that we had made it—we could deal with the other problems later as they came up.

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