TSD Rally Home of the Pacific Northwest
Well, the long off-season is coming to a close as we kick of the 2017 rally season with the April Friday Nighter. As you all know, the weather has been extremely wet, and it has wreaked havoc on some of our favorite rally roads. John Humphrey is the rallymaster this month, and he selected are really cool course, only to have some of the roads close. So he altered the course, only to have some more roads close. He altered it once again, and we checked the rally out Friday night. The course is really fun and has a couple of easy traps just to make things interesting. The rally is about two hours long and finishes at Ferrelli’s Pizza in Maple Valley. Http://farrellispizza.com/locations/farrellis-maple-valley-wa/. It will be a fun run!
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!
The 2017 Schedule is out! Click on “Events” and “2017 Schedule”. We’re starting in April this year and running through October. No Alibi is on hiatus this year, as Rainier Auto Sports Club concentrates their effort on the 50th Anniversary of Nor’wester, scheduled for September 15-17. Also scheduled to return this fall is Night On Bald Mountain, ORCA’s Fly-by Nighter.
All in all it should be a fun season. We hope to see you out there!
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!