Northwest Rally Council

TSD Rally Home of the Pacific Northwest

Rules Updated!

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The NWRC General Instructions have been updated. The new edition is available in the Documents section of this site and also here.

Member clubs and interested parties submitted proposals last year and gathered in January to discuss and edit them, to then be voted on at the annual meeting in February. All amended proposals were approved unanimously.

A non-official summary of the changes adopted in 2025:

If supplemental instructions are needed for a Friday Nighter, they will be available at the finish of the prior month’s Friday Nighter.

Clarified requirement for two contestants per car: single contestant entries are not allowed.

Abbreviations AL and AR were added to the definitions.

Language was cleaned up in 9.3.2 for how ‘Evansville’ handles scoring and time allowances.

Restored the 300 point maximum penalty for a checkpoint. Rallymasters may choose to use a lower maximum for their event. The 60 maximum was an artifact from 2023 when Richta was hard coded to it.

Shortened the definition of the Equipped class (no change of intent).

Revised 9.7 Inquiries removing the same class requirement for peer review.

2025 NWRC Schedule

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NWRC Annual MeetingFebruary 15by NWRC
April Friday Nighter – “Sprung Spring”April 11by PSRC
Raindrop – “Farms to Foothills”May 4by RASC
May Friday Nighter – “Gremlins of Lost Time”May 9by NWRC
June Friday Nighter – “Just Redux”June 13by FOOTZ
July Friday Nighter – “Bug Slayer”July 11by NWRC
No August Friday NighterWe skip Augustbye
Nor’westerAugust 15-17by RASC
ALCAN 5000September 2-12by RASC
September Friday NighterSeptember 12by FOOTZ
October Friday NighterOctober 10by NWRC

Most, if not all, of the rallies above will use the Richta GPS checkpoint system. If you aren’t already familiar with it, check out our Quick Guide.

New to TSD rally? We have a short sample to try on your own. It gives a taste of how the instruction format works, along with explanations to guide you through it. The Example Rally takes about an hour to complete and does not use the Richta system.

There will be Friday Nighter season championships for 2025 for all paper classes (Novice, SOP, Masters).

Be sure to grab and review the updated 2025 NWRC General Instructions.

Deja Vu Recap

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<from the rallymaster>

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.