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March Madness, Meet April Anticipation

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In just two weeks, the NWRC 2025 Friday Nighter season begins, when Puget Sound Rally Club presents “Sprung Spring” on April 11th.

Rallymaster Dave Treen describes it as “a 2 hour driving event with no intentional traps” which sounds perfect for waking rally skills from winter hibernation.

Don’t forget to grab the updated General Instructions new for 2025.

Season Championships will be run for Novice, Seat-Of-Pants, and Masters classes. Run the April Friday Nighter to establish yourself as point leader! Note that due to the six-way tie for 1st place in the 2024 Novice championship, all participants remain eligible to compete as Novices in the 2025 championship.

Signs Of Rallies Past – Results and Recap

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Scores for 9/8/23 Signs Of Rallies Past NWRC Friday Nighter

(pictures courtesy of N. Hightower)

Rallymaster (and NWRC President) John Humphrey writes:

First, I would like to thank Mike Daily, our NWRC Vice President for all his help in measuring, pace assistance, scoring, and trophy making.  Secondly, the world is an imperfect place, which brings us to rally night.  I had a premonition the night before that there would be a ‘road closed’ on the rally.  I attribute this to my Native American ancestry.  I was so taken by this thought that I wanted to drive the course on Friday before the event but didn’t have the time due to other priorities.  And, finding an impaled dead bat (most likely collected during our rally checkout) in the grille of my X3 at rally registration was confirmation of an imperfect night ahead.

My premonition was right as there was an emergency road closure for a bridge repair on SE 156th ST which was announced late Thursday 9/7 and effective Friday 8AM 9/8!!  The Leg 1 Checkpoint was on that road.  This forced us to throw Leg 1.  Mike, on the fly, figured out how we could potentially save Leg 2, but several cars were already beyond the selected restart point.  Hence, Leg 2 was thrown also!!

We did send out Broadcast Messages however at the end found out, that due to the differences in Android/iPhone functionality/behavior and the issue of gaps in cellular coverage for the variety of open vs. wooded vs. commercial areas we drove through, not everyone received the messages in a timely manner or at all.

I hope you were able to view all the wildlife that SE King County has to offer – a small posse of Elk (12?) between NRI 35 and 36 (258 AVE SE); a jogging coyote after NRI 56; and ‘observing raccoons’ watching us near NRI 69 and NRI 72!!  Fortunately, the suicidal deer encountered on checkout just after NRI 56 were no shows!!

Anyway, despite the turn of bad luck for Legs 1 and 2, I hope you enjoyed the balance of the rally.

Greg Hightower is the Rally Master for October and I know he will have an entertaining rally for all of us!!

Again, thank you all for attending and understanding that life happens.


JRH III

Some Friday Nighter rallies in the 2023 NWRC season will use the Richta GPS Checkpoints.

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Those events using the Richta system will need to be run under a modified set of the NWRC General Instructions. The supplementary changes will define some new official terms, remove conflicting language, and add framework to support use of the Richta system. Two new documents will soon be available on this site. One is a summary listing just the additions, deletions, or adjustments to be made. The other is a complete set of NWRC General Instructions with the supplementary changes incorporated into it already.

Go to richtarally.com to get a jump start on learning about the Richta GPS Checkpoint system.

More information will be provided here at nwrally.org shortly.