TSD Rally Home of the Pacific Northwest
Puget Sound Rally Club presents “Why Not Jones Road?” from the mind of rallymaster Dave Treen.
Start location is the NE corner of the Eastgate Park&Ride, 14300 SE Eastgate Way in Bellevue.
Registration opens at 6:45pm.
Entry fee is $30 per car, cash only.
The event will use the Richta GPS checkpoint system. Each car will need the Richta Competitor app running on a suitable smart phone. If you have not used this app previously, please take a look at the quick guide.
See you there.
RASC’s annual crowd pleaser is next weekend! “Raindrop 2024: Rally In The Valleys” is Sunday, 5/5.
Start location is in Duvall, near once famous rally landmark The Big Rock. There is no on-site registration at the start. Find all the details and register your entry on the event website ASAP
A little less than two weeks until the May Friday Nighter; come out and join the fun.
On 5/10, Puget Sound Rally Club presents “Why Not Jones Road?” written by longtime local rallyist Dave Treen.
This novice friendly event begins at NWRC’s usual Friday Nighter starting location at the Eastgate Park&Ride and ends in Maple Valley. Registration opens on 6:45pm. Entry fee is $30 (cash only) per car. This event uses Richta GPS checkpoints, so you’ll need a iOS/Android device with the Richta Competitor app installed and working. If you haven’t used the Competitor app previously, please check out the Quick Reference Guide. Don’t forget, we updated the rulebook in the offseason, so grab the new edition, here.
See you on 5/10.
A small but enthusiastic group of Rallyists participated in the April 2024 Friday Nighter Rally. The course worked its way from the Eastgate Park-n-Ride down to Maple Valley, Kanasket, the Green River Gorge, Black Diamond, the Krain corner area, back to Black Diamond and the finish in Maple Valley. The Rally Gods continued to annoy me. On Checkout, the rally route into Black Diamond was closed due to a tree which fell across the road and took out the powerlines (Fire Truck and Police Cars with all lights shining.) At least this did not happen on Rally Night. This first of the year rally included some traps typically found in John Humphrey rallies. As one rallyist stated, it was a good rally to get out the cobwebs of Winter.
Everyone had a good time. The post-Rally gathering was pleasantly intimate and included great discussions about the early days of gathering at the Puget Power site in Bellevue. Special thanks to Mike Daily, NWRC VP, for his assistance in measuring the course, rally checkout, Richta application support, Sweep and Trophies/Dash Plaques. Thanks also go to Charles Aggenbach for rally checkout support and Derris Humphrey, NWRC Secretary, for TSD calculation support, registration, Richta monitoring during the event and other tasks as required to make the rally a success. Fortunately we had more rallyists than Rally workers!! Hopefully we will have a larger field for the May Friday Nighter. The May event will be hosted by PSRC, Rally Master Dave Treen.
John Humphrey
**Later realization that one of the changes in the updated Generals lowered the maximum penalty at a checkpoint to 60 points means car #3 actually scored 261 points, not the 744 shown above.
