Registration is open for the 2026 Raindrop Rally.
Rallymaster Bill Walsh has put together a winding tour of Snohomish, Skagit and Whatcom counties. At about 140 miles and 6.5 hours long, there are plenty of breaks along the way and lunch stop with EV charging available.
Go to RASC Raindrop Event Page to signup and get all the details.
This event will be SUNDAY, May 3rd. It will count towards the 2026 NWRC Season Championship. Please note that this is the only May event for NWRC. There will not be a Friday or Saturday event held the second weekend.
Raindrop will use the Richta GPS Checkpoint system.
Raindrop uses different General Instructions than the rest of the 2026 NWRC Weekend Series.
See you there!
My grandson Dominic and I ran the Sunday May 3rd 2026 Raindrop rally and found it to be very enjoyable. Its starting time and duration was just right for us. The route instructions were well done and very clear for following the rally course.
The rally provided a number of RESTART sections allowing brief stops for mingling and chatting with the other rallyists, along with a meeting place at the end of the rally at Skagit River Brewery.
Personally, I liked the rally scoring style where cars were not required to stop at checkpoint controls, and could simple keep on driving knowing that checkpoint legs were scored on their own merits. The time reaching a checkpoint was in fact the time out for the next checkpoint leg with the knowledge the previous checkpoint leg’s completion had no effect on the following checkpoint leg’s scoring…. Known as Evansville scoring style. NWRC General Instructions describe the style of scoring.
We left at around 7:15 am to get to the Mt Vernon starting point for the 2026 Raindrop. with about 15 cars being ready to run the rally. There were cars from Canada, Oregon and WA attending. Most of us ran as Novices and/or SOP.
The rally roads chosen for this rally were truly awesome and were a driver’s delight IMO… .so much so as we found ourselvesat the beginning of the rally reaching many of the checkpoint controls early. I blame my speed odometer, so toward the end of the rally I adopted to use the tachometer and gear selection to maintain average speeds. This worked nicely as the last few checkpoint legs were done with single digit scores and even was greeted with one zero score.
The 2027 Raindrop rally will be on my 2027 Calendar for sure.