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July 2017 Friday Nighter, July 14th 2017

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This coming Friday will be the July Friday Nighter, presented by ORCA.  Kathy and Dave Sacry are joint rallymasters, and have prepared an extremely entertaining course.  Kathy says, “It has been a lot of fun putting this event together. There are some familiar roads if you did the June event, but it has some different ones along with a few traps to get your navigator thinking.  The title is ‘Crusin’ and it should be a fun run!” I expect a fun run indeed!  The rally ends at Brava Pizza and Pasta in Snohomish, same as last month.

Registration for this novice oriented event opens at 6:45 PM at the Eastgate Park & Ride Parking lot in Bellevue (14200 SE Eastgate Way). The drivers meeting is at 7:10 and first car out will be 7:31. The entry fee is $20. The “bring a new team and your entry is free” special continues, so invite some friends and enjoy free entry.

Come on out and join us for a fun night of “Cruisin’ “, and bring your friends!

 

 

June 2017 Friday Nighter Results

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The June Friday Nighter made its way from the Park & Ride to Fall City, and then started winding it’s way North toward Snohomish.  The first leg was just short of an hour, giving competitors a test for keeping speed for a long time.  Many did great!  The second leg went up Stillwater Hill, a road that in the 80s was a challenge for the underpowered cars of the day.  While the new cars get up the hill smartly, it is still an entertaining route.  After the route returned to 203, we transited through Duvall, and started timing again at Crescent Lake Rd. where a grumpy local yelled at some of the competitors.  My apologies.  We had originally planned to end the transit sooner, but the reference we used disappeared between the measurement and the checkout.  Leg 3 was a short run up to the outskirts of Snohomish, and it was marred by an accident by a non-competitor.  Most cars got held up and filed time decs, but the problem was that the accident was close enough to the control that there was no space to complete the pause taken.  About half the cars would have been unfairly penalized, so we elected to throw the leg, and score the rally on two.  My condolences to the folks who got a good score on leg 3.  Also to the checkpoint crew whose work was tossed out with the leg.  I’m truly sorry.

Thanks to the workers from all of the clubs that made this thing happen.  We had a great, well attended checkout and the crews worked flawlessly.  Thanks to all that helped.

May 2017 Friday Nighter Results

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John and Derris Humphrey won the Masters Class via the tie breaker, most legs won.

Thanks to the crews who worked the checkpoints.  Without them, we wouldn’t be able to do this.  Special Thanks to Dave Treen and Vasco DePinna for assembling the trophies.

May Friday Nighter. May 12, 2017

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It’s this coming Friday, May 12th.  PSRC Presents “Getting Squirrelly”, the May Friday Nighter.  This rally traverses the byways between Bellevue and Maple Valley using an almost totally different route from last month.  We’ll finish at Farrelli’s Pizza again and you may see a couple of roads that look familiar, but we avoided overlap with the previous event everywhere we could.  It’s a fun run with a few light traps with small penalties.  That,  coupled with daylight that should last well into the rally, is a receipe for FUN!

Registration for this novice oriented event opens at 6:45 PM at the Eastgate Park & Ride Parking lot in Bellevue (14200 SE Eastgate Way). The drivers meeting is at 7:10 and first car out will be 7:31. The entry fee is $20. The “bring a new team and your entry is free” special continues, so invite some friends and enjoy free entry.

Come on out and join us, and bring your friends!