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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.
28 Cars made their way down to Chehalis to run the Raindrop Rally on Sunday, 5/7/17. As is the norm for Raindrop, in spite of the name, Sunday was a beautiful dry sunny day. Winning score with 12 in the Unlimited class was Pat Biggar and Jack Heppes. 1st Equipped with an excellent score of 28 was Eric Hobbes and Ben Thompson. 1st SOP with a tidy 164 was Scott Margerum and Mike Workman. 1st Novice with an impressive score of 109 was Victor Sung and Yushan Duan. Congratulations to the winners! Detailed results are available on the RASC Website: http://www.rainierautosports.com/events/2017/raindrop/default.htm
October’s Friday Nighter by RASC had an interesting collection of roads made more interesting by varying weather conditions. Rain and wind dominated most of the night. There were numerous challenges for many, and the scores reflect that. Leg 2 was thrown. There is more discussion of that on Rainier’s website: http://www.rainierautosports.com/events/2016/fridayniter/default.htm
Whether you think it should have been or not, it was. It did have some effect on the outcome, particularly in the SOP class. We made it NWRC policy many years ago that decisions made the night of the event were final, so the result stand as published here. Congratulations to Marvin Weaver and Jack Heppes who both nailed down the SOP Championship for Driver and Navigator Respectively (although they are not part of the same team. Congratulations to Aaron and Annette Nelson, who survived their worst night of the season to collect the Novice Championship and move up to SOP for next season.
It was a fun year! We’ll start making plans for 2017 and announce them in February. Have a great off-season, and we look forward to seeing you in the Spring!