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The Northwest Rally Council is an organization of Western Washington clubs dedicated to Time|Speed|Distance (TSD) rallies and similar non-performance autosports activities. NWRC events are generally held between the months of February and November for all skill levels.

Deja Vu Recap

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First, I hope everyone enjoyed the rally.  The rally started with a twist by the NOTE: To Find Outcone.  The note contained the old first opp/secondopp trap.  I was extremely encouraged that everyone executed the note correctly and found the on-course route control on the way to the outcone!  Very good everyone!!

I apologize for the editing errors with respect to leg two.  An NRI introduced NOTE: “Skinny Roads” but the note was “Skinny Road”.  A nice trap, since there is no note called Skinny Roads.  The Note:  “Skinny Roads” cannot be introduced.  Unfortunately, I did not plan this to be a trap Note instruction.  Maybe I’ll plan for that trap next year.  Second, NOTE: Harbinger was deleted from the rally as the sign references were too hard to see at night.  However, no matter how many times I edited the note out, it showed up again on the Final rally version of the instructions.  Due to these unplanned editing errors, I decided to simply drop the second leg scores.

Thank you to Kelly Smith for his support of reading and editing of the rally instructions; to my wife Derris for her help with measuring the rally, TSD calculations and physical checkout of the rally.  I want to thank Mike Daily for the help with the Dash Plaques and trophies for the rally and the championship trophies for the Novice & SOP classes.

For next year, monitor the NWRC website for updates to the General Instructions and the 2025 Rally Schedule.

John Humphrey
NWRC President

10/11 – Last Friday Nighter of the 2024 Season

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Join us Friday 10/11 for “Deja Vu” the final installment of 2024 NWRC season.

October was to be the second event in 2024 from Greg Hightower, who wrote June’s “Are You Sure?” However, life happens, and he had to rescind that plan.

NWRC president John Humphrey stepped up to close out the series. If anyone is counting, that makes three rallies this year with John as rallymaster.

October’s rally will end in Maple Valley.

Usual fine print:

$30 per car, cash only.

We’ll be using Richta GPS Checkpoints. Make sure you have the current version of Richta Competitor installed on your Android or iOS device. Unfamiliar with Richta? Read the Quick Guide.

Rules were updated at the start of 2024. Make sure you have the current Generals.

Rally starts in the NE corner of the Eastgate Park&Ride in Bellevue. Registration opens at 6:45pm. Address, map, directions, and other information here.

13th Place

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First, I would like to thank Mike Daily, Charles Aggenbach and Derris Humphrey for all their help with writing, measuring, calculating, and checking out the rally.  Second, I want to thank all the contestants who came out to rally on a rainy-drippy night.

The route explored a couple of old rally roads that haven’t been used in a while as the course meandered around the Maple Valley area.  To keep the navigators engaged, we had three notes in effect looking for double-headed arrows, horse & rider signs and small children pedestrian signs.  Now, the “little walkers” were found at school crossing signs, but were also found on the graphic signs of school bus stop ahead.  To help cut down on any uncertainty with the “sign accounting” at the checkpoints, I provided an “official count” of the active notes sign counts.

When I was planning the rally, I did not realize how quickly darkness would arrive on rally night.  Hence, the hunting for signs was much more challenging than what I had planned.

I hope everyone who participated had fun and hope to see all of you back for the last rally of the year, in October.

John Humphrey – Rallymaster

Equipped Class, Raise Your Hand(s)

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I reviewed the event results for recent years and found that there have been no entries in the Equipped class on Friday Nighters sanctioned by NWRC since we resumed our schedule post-pandemic.

I made the trophies for six of the twelve Friday Nighters since then. And after each event, the Equipped trophies went in the trash.

In the interest of reducing event production costs and minimizing waste, I am going to stop making trophies for the Equipped class on Friday Nighters unless informed of someone planning to run in the class. I’ll gladly make them in that circumstance.