We arrived at about 2:30 AM thursday night/friday morning and we all slept in our respective vans at the fair grounds. We spent all of friday getting the car ready, barely making it through tech, and getting the car in great working order. Saturday morning we talked to the Rally America stewards and they let us start at the beginning of the day instead of waiting for the official start of the second rally which wasnt until 4:30. Since our scoring was off due to not rallying the first 3 stages, we agreed to start from the rear of the pack and work our way up. Park expose was nice, we got to park next to Per, I think Max got some pictures of us at the start. The first stage of the day, stage 4 was transited because Pastrana rolled his car rather violently and it apparently caught fire. Luke and I used this as a practice run for me to read the stage notes for him, which was a good teaching aid. Before we knew it, it was time for stage 5 and we were all strapped in and ready to go! Stage 5 went really well and we were FLYING! I picked up the co-drivers rather quickly and found myself strangely comfortable with soaring through the forest roads. The car was running and handling BEAUTIFULLY and we were sliding the car wonderfully through every turn. We passed two cars on our debut. At the end of our First stage, on our first run in the car, with a first time co-driver, we beat the 2nd place group 5 car by 56 seconds, and set a respectable stage record for the new stage in group 5. It was a quick transit to stage 6 and we were off into the woods once again. Things went just as well and the car was performing very well. We passed another car on this stage, and caught a second as the stage came to a close, unable to find a place to squeeze by. Again, we beat our closest opposition by 57 seconds, showing a strong Saab force. After going through our rally computer data, it read that we hit a top speed of 94 MPH, which was rather intense. Stage 7, titled, Bear was the same as stage 6, but in reverse. We Got off to a strong start in this stage and our quick pace continued. This stage (as well as stage 6) was filled with a lot of high speed sections, and quite a bit of off camber turns, some that even had very high cliffs too close for comfort. As we came into the 9th of 12 miles in this stage the trouble began. Coming out of a series of 5 and 6 rated turns we were traveling with great momentum. As the turns quickly became 3’s and 4’s things were well under control. On a routine Right 3 or 4, we were tracking out and we tagged the left rear of the car on a high bank with a firm thud. We hit directly on the rear wheel area which we later discovered folded the pan-hard rod mount. I kept reading in the notes as Luke commented the handling had changed. I called a left 3 into a right 2 and the fun began. With many variables at hand such as our recent mis-alignment and the lack of fine tuning our brake bias, we got our rear end a bit loose under braking approaching our left 3. We started sliding towards the left side of the road where a steep embankment awaited us. Our front left wheel climbed the bank and it instantly sent the car airborne. Before we knew it, we had gone on our side, hitting the top of the passenger A-pillar, getting airborne again long enough to not leave a mark on our roof scoop, and we landed on the drivers a-pillar and front left, before landing back on our wheels as graceful as could be. Amidst our acrobatics I saw the front windshield depart sadly, realizing we needed that in order to continue competing. The side window on my side shattered, cutting my right hand superficially in a few spots. The cage held of fantastically, not showing any sides of being compromised. With what appeared to have been the most delicate roll in history, the car will surely be salvaged. In about 1.5 seconds after our trouble began, we were back on 4 wheels again, rolling forward. Since the engine never turned off, Luke merely put the car in gear and off we went. We got endless praise from the fans who conveniently occupied the spectator area we just barrel rolled through. We we about 1/4 mile until there was a spot to pull of and then we shut the car down, and began emergency protocol. With such a non-violent occurrence Luke and I were 99% unscathed. We looked at each other in disbelief, completely astounded that we were upside only moments ago. We waited for sweep and then decided to continue driving the car 15 miles back to service, instead of waiting for a tow. We arrived to Germania where our crew greeted us. We eventually got the car loaded up and made our way back to the hotel. We all felt a little glum with the roll, as of all of the work it would require, but the car drove perfectly straight and did not leak any fluids on its ride back to service. It will take some time and money but it will be back in no time. Once we were all situated, we loaded 14 people, and one dog in one of the finest Vanagon’s known to man and headed back to the fairgrounds to watch the last stage. With combined intoxicated humor from Matt Joseph and myself, everyone singing Sweeeeeet Carolineeee (bah bah bah), and Buzz warning us of possums, we all found ourselves to strongly salvage the weekend. Thanks to everyone who came and supported us and helped out, aside of the roll-over the weekend was a strong success. Although there is now remedial work to be done on the worlds best Saab, it proved to be heavily competent from the start and it wont be long until its back in action.