Eighteen teams entered Cascade Sports Car Club’s final event in the 2024 Saturday Rally Series on August 17. Rallymasters Bill and Kelly Ferber gave us a route through Clackamas and Marion counties of about 90 miles from the start at Milwaukie Lowe’s to the ending location in Canby.

It took about three hours to complete the course, including a mid-rally break at the Historic Butteville
Store. The August rally – Have you met Mr. D? – was based on a Cascade classic time-speed-distance trick-and-trap Friday Nighter road rally written by the Ferbers in 2007. That event had four legs and two route controls, all manned. One checkpoint location was revisited by routing the rally around to reuse roads to reapproach the same checkpoint location from different directions.

The 2024 version of the rally had thirteen scored checkpoints using directional GPS checkpoints that detected direction traveled and captured arrival times only when traveling the correct direction. Delayed opening times were set in the Richta app for checkpoints that were encountered early in the event, but were not to be scored until later in the event. Watching cars travel through the rally course using the Richta Rallymaster Map on rally day was like watching ants trace twisted pretzels. 

Challenges

As the title of the event suggests, many of the challenges in this event were based on the MRDs (aka Main Road Determinants). For example, a route instruction directed:

L at T. PAUSE 15 seconds. ITIS.

At this particular T-shaped intersection, you were not ONTO nor were you TOWARD. Protection did not define the main road here (no back-facing stop signs on the left or the right). You couldn’t go straight, so what’s left? You tried to apply all the MRDs in order and there’s only one MRD left. That’s it!

So the correct action was to follow the main road to the left and continue to look for an opportunity to execute the L. However, you encountered the next instruction first, so you skipped the ITIS NRI and its 15-point penalty.

Another example was an ONTO, deceptively disguised by distracting intervening instructions:

5.14 73. R ONTO ARNDT. PAUSE one minute. CAST 42.
         74. PAUSE one minute at "AIRPORT".
         75. CAST 50 at "SPEED 55".
         76. CAST 43 at "RACING COMPLEX" SOL.
         77. R first OPP. PAUSE 15 seconds. ITIS.
7.44 78. R at BARLOW RD.

NRI 73 places you ONTO Arndt. NRIs 74 through 76 have you pause and change your average speed, but they contain no deviations (L, R or S) so when you get to NRI 77, you are still ONTO Arndt. The R first OPP in NRI 77 seems to occur where Arndt veers off to the right as a sideroad.

So the correct action is to follow Arndt to the right (because you are ONTO Arndt) and continue looking for an opportunity to go right first opportunity; however, you reach OM 7.44 first, so you skip NRI 77 and its 15-point penalty.

A couple of challenges were based on the order in which instructions are to be executed. The rally contained a note, Note Boones: TURN ONTO BOONES FERRY RD. So what happens if a route instruction places you ONTO Boones Ferry, but then while the note is effective your next NRI is an ITIS that directs you to turn on that same road name? The answer is found in RRR 2.1 which says the rally route is determined by executing instructions in the following order:

 Execute a note route instruction
 Execute a numbered route instruction
 Follow the main road

The correct action was to execute the note and continue looking for the ITIS instruction, which along with its 15-point penalty was never found so never executed. Notes are always the highest priority.

Congratulations to the top finishers

First overall and first in the Equipped Category – Bob Morseburg and Cheri Eddy
Second overall and first in the SOP Class – Alexander Castaneda and Eric Hanson
Third overall and second in the SOP Class – David and JoAnn Gattman
Third in the SOP class – Joel and Aksel Bristol
First in the Novice Class – Sean Pitman and Grant Heinzenrader
Second Novice – Mike and Cheryl Knight
Third Novice – Jon and La Vonne Albertson
Second in the Equipped Category – Gary Davis and Reid Trummel

The top three teams in each class received car wash coupons, coffee cards and candy bars. The taste of victory is always sweet. Congratulations to all!

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The July rally – Rally by the Numbers – is a reflection of classic time-speed-distance trick-and-trap road rally. In addition to traditional sign hunts and main road traps, the July rally included some brain tickling math and logic puzzles. Yep, our kind of fun.

The route followed roads familiar to long-time local rallyists. We’ve written many events in this fertile rallyland. This time we ran much of the usual route backwards, just for a different perspective.  A local attraction that appears along the rally route shortly after the end of the odometer calibration section is a display of amazing yardart. Metal statues, carvings of animals and people, historic buildings, and a stream with waterfalls decorate this long roadside frontage. Search “Farm carvings Ridgefield Washington” to see this overlooked display. We take our rally route by it whenever we’re in that area.

Challenges

Despite the rally puzzle fun, the July rally was an easy rally. A couple of sign-hunt notes and a pretty good main road trap kept things interesting.

Early in the rally, an ITIS (if there is such) instruction offered a speed change at a sign reading Pinegrove Tables. There is such a sign, sort of. It actually reads “Pinegrove Stables” but the S is very stylized and might be discounted as decorative. So the correct action was to skip this ITIS instruction as you never encountered the referenced sign. Teams that used the ITIS and decreased their CAST from 40 to 35 were late on Leg 6.

The first of the two sign-hunt notes, Note Horses, directed you to CSD (change speed down) 3 at
each equestrian sign. This note was introduced but never canceled so it remained active until the end of the rally. The second note, Note View, directed you to CSU (change speed up) 3 at each sign reading View. The two notes overlapped for a good part of the rally so you were looking for both signs at the same time. Note Horses was used four times: twice on Leg 9, once on Leg 10, and once on Leg 18. Note View was used three times: twice on Leg 10 and once on Leg 11.

The main road trap was set up by these two route instructions:

R first OPP.
R on 135TH ITIS.

Some rallyists were tempted to execute the R first OPP at the pictured intersection. However, there’s a back-facing stop sign on the road straight ahead, while there is no back-facing stop sign on the road coming from the right. So the main road at this intersection goes right. Meaning you cannot execute an instruction here directing you to go right.

The correct action was to follow the main road to the right and continue looking for an opportunity to executive the R first OPP. And yes, there is an opportunity just about a block down the road to go right on 124th. So 124th was where you should have executed the R first OPP. Having done so, you never do encounter an opportunity to execute the ITIS instruction, so you skip it. If you decided to use the R first OPP at this pictured intersection, then you continued down the road to 135th where you used the R on 135th ITIS.

The first of two math logic puzzles was presented in this route instruction: CAST 25 for half the distance to the next NRI then CAST 35. The challenge is you don’t know the distance to the next route instruction. Seems like you could just split the difference and average 30 mph, but that’s not quite right. It takes longer to drive a distance at 25 mph than it does to drive that same distance at 35 mph.

One clever team at a previous rally where this puzzle was presented approached the problem by driving a tenth of a mile at 25, then a tenth of a mile at 35, then another tenth at 25, etc. until the next route instruction was reached. That approach might come close, but a more accurate strategy is to calculate an average speed to maintain over the entire distance.

Here’s the formula that works: Calculate the factor (minutes per mile = 60/speed) for each speed, add the factors together and divide by 2, then divide 60 by the calculated average factor to determine the appropriate average speed. Using this approach, the perfect average speed for the entire distance is 29.167 mph. If you just drove the entire distance at 30 mph, you’d be early. TSD road rally is all about precision.

The second and final math logic puzzle was presented at that same intersection pictured above. The route looped around and returned here after the break. The route instruction read:

S AFTER “YIELD”. Decrease CAST by 100% for 30 seconds, then increase CAST by 100% for 30 seconds, then CAST 36.

We previously established that the main road goes right at this intersection by Protection (only one route leaving the intersection without a back-facing stop or yield sign). So, yes, the instruction S (straight) can be executed at this intersection. But then what do you do with the rest of the instruction?

We arrived at this instruction traveling at a CAST of 42 mph. We can all agree that 100% of 42 is 42, right? So decreasing 42 by 100% equals zero. So you pause for 30 seconds. Then increasing zero by 100% is still zero, so you pause another 30 seconds. And finally you change your average speed to 36 and carry on. The instruction as we originally wrote it said to go straight through the intersection and then pause a minute to enjoy the view of Mt. St. Helens. But this was a much more interesting way to say that, don’t you think?

Congratulations to the top finishers

First overall and first in the Equipped Category is the team of Bob Morseburg and Cheri Eddy in Car #25 with a total of 48 points over 16 scored legs.  They zeroed five legs, and nine of their leg scores were single digit. Impressive!

Second overall and first in the Novice Class is the team of Bill and Felix Kayser in Car #11 with a score of 90. They ran one perfect zero leg and got single digit scores on twelve legs. Wow! What a great performance from this Novice team!

Third overall and first in the SOP Class is the team of Russ and Kate Sherrell in Car # 2 with a score of 105. They zeroed one leg and got single digit scores on eleven legs. Very nicely done!

Second SOP is the team of David and JoAnn Gattman in Car # 1 with a score of 160. They were doing so well until they fell for a math problem and maxed Leg 15. Can’t win ‘em all.

Second in the Novice class is the team of Sean Pitman and Grant Heizenrader in Car # 15 with a total score of 173. They turned in a good performance with one zero and eight single digit scores.

Third SOP is the team of Torm Kelsey-Green and Kasey Klaus in Car # 13 with a score of 185. They zeroed one leg and had five single digit scores.

Finishing third in the Novice class is the team of Mike and Cheryl Knight in Car # 12.

The top three teams in each class received car wash coupons, coffee cards and candy bars. The taste of victory is always sweet. Congratulations to all!

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Seventeen teams entered Cascade Sports Car Club’s fourth event in the 2024 Saturday Rally Series on June 22 –Hey-Hey What Can I Do.

The rally traveled from Milwaukie Lowes, through Redland and Springwater, then a break in Estacada, then Eagle Creek and Boring, ending at the Troutdale Station Food Carts. The route was about 80 miles and took a bit over three hours to complete.

What the rallymasters said

The June rally – Hey-Hey What Can I Do – is an ode to the start of Summer. For our family, many of those summers were spent camping and hiking as our son earned the rank of Eagle with the Boy Scouts of America. The Clackamas recreation area is home to some of our favorite camping locations, Metzler Park being our first choice. Numerous cobbler's songs and tall tales were shared in these woods, creating lasting family memories. We hope as you traveled the roads on this rally, you received more than you were seeking.

Happy trails, rally friends!

Challenges

The June rally was a slightly challenging event with a few simple navigational or time-keeping challenges. Three cleverly crafted loops provided opportunities for teams to see each other traveling in the opposite direction or to take different routes to get to the same place.

The first off course loop opportunity was created by this route instruction:

R on LYONS AFTER “35 MPH”. CAST 32 OR R on SPRAGUE. CAST 32.

Road Rally Rule 6.18 states, “The reference point of the two possibilities which is located first determines which half of the OR instruction is to be executed.”

In this case the sign reading 35 mph occurs before Sprague Road, so on course teams passed up Sprague and continued on to go right on Lyons Road. Off course teams used the second part of the OR instruction and went right on Sprague Road. The off course route was shorter, making off course teams early by about a half minute on Leg 5. The Sprague-Lyons loop provided an opportunity for rally teams to pass each other going in opposite directions.

The second off course route opportunity was also set up by an OR instruction, but it involved a note and an ITIS instruction.

The note directed a pause for 40 seconds at a sign reading End School Zone.
Here are the route instructions:

R on LUSTED (blinker). CAST 42.
S OR OBSERVE “500 FEET”.
L on ALTMAN. PAUSE 15 seconds. ITIS.

From Lusted Road, on course teams went straight (past a back-facing stop sign) onto Pipeline Road where they quickly encountered a sign reading End School Zone where they paused 40 seconds. On course teams continued on Pipeline to a T with Altman, where they followed the main road to the left (L at T is the main road) and skipped the ITIS instruction with its 15-second penalty pause. Off course teams continued on Lusted Road, past the straight on Pipeline. They observed a sign reading 500 feet, used the ITIS instruction to go left on Altman at a crossroad using the 15 second pause, and never saw the End School Zone sign. Off course teams drove a longer route and were about half a minute late on Leg 17.

The final off course loop challenge occurred with this route instruction:

R BEFORE “STOP” AFTER “ADOPT-A ROAD”. CAST 32. OR R on 287TH. CAST 32.

Similar to the Sprague-Lyons loop, this is all about which reference is located first. Since the first reference encountered is the Adopt-A Road sign, the first half of the OR instruction is what you execute. On course teams saw the Adopt-A Road sign, continued past 287th until they came to a fork in the road where they saw a stop sign ahead on the road on the left, so they went right and changed their speed to 32. Off course teams may or may not have seen the Adopt-a Road sign, but they took the right on 287th, and the rest is history. Taking this shorter route made off course teams about half a minute early on Leg 18.

Meanwhile, Note Kashmir was introduced early in the rally and stayed active throughout. Note Kashmir directed you to CSD (change speed down) 5 mph at a sign reading SLOW for the next 0.1 mile. Each time you saw this sign along your route, you reduced your speed by 5 mph for a tenth of a mile. After the tenth of a mile, you reverted to your previous speed. This note occurred eight times along the on course rally route. Its impact was relatively minor, equivalent to a couple seconds pause each time.

L at T. And just to make sure you were paying attention, there were at least half a dozen times when you either didn’t have an instruction at an intersection or the route instruction at an intersection did not instruct which way to go. So you had to know which way the main road goes to decide how to proceed. Most of these were at T intersections, and by now you know the main road almost always goes left at a T.

Unplanned challenges do occur during a rally. Bicyclists, pedestrians, equestrians, local traffic, and other rally cars can impede a rally team’s ability to stay on time. We advise: slow down, use caution, take time allowances as needed. The rally rules stress “safety of the occupants of their own vehicle, other participants, or the public.”

What a rally team said

We really enjoyed this rally. The puzzle complexities and the variety of roads (driver challenge) made for a really fun day.

Congratulations to the top finishers

First overall and first in the Equipped Category is the team of Marcus Gattman and Brandon Harer with a total f 83 points over 14 scored legs. They zeroed four legs, and seven of their leg scores were single digit. Nice!

Second overall and first in the SOP Class is the team of Alex Castenada and Eric Hanson with a score of 105. They ran three perfect zero legs and got single digit scores on seven legs. Alex and Eric are the team to watch in the Saturday Series competition. With two Series events remaining in the season, they have pulled into the lead in the Unequipped (Stock) category.

Third overall and first in the Novice Class is the team of Barbara Jacobs and Kat Iverson with a score of 235. Although they fell for a rally trick or two and maxed a couple of legs, they managed to get single digit scores on nine legs. An outstanding performance for this novice team who had not

rallied together before this event!

The team of Robert Paxman and Chris Lane finished second in the Equipped Category with a score of 258. Finishing second in the SOP Class is the team of Dave and Kathy Sacry with a score of 264. Right on their heels with a score of 265 is the team of Torm Kelsey- Green and Kasey Klaus in third place SOP.

In addition to car wash coupons, coffee cards and candy bars, the top teams received commemorative “wood cookies” depicting outdoor summer activities, parks and natural spaces lovingly handmade by Rallymaster JoAnn Gattman. The taste of victory is always sweet.

Congratulations to all!

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Twenty-two teams entered Cascade Sports Car Club’s third event in the 2024 Saturday Rally Series on May 25 – the Trail of the Lonely Llama. The rally led teams through northwest Portland, into Beaverton, to end the odometer calibration transit at the Cooper Mountain Nature Park.

The route wandered through the Scholls and Laurel areas before taking a break at Bald Peak State Park.Then went south into the Chehalem Valley toward the outskirts of Newberg before climbing back up to Mountaintop Road to ride the ridge and take in the expansive views of the valley.

The rally then changed gears and traveled through some of the rallymasters’ favorite roads close to home – Unger, Dober, Reidweg – only to return to the Laurel area for more rally fun before cruising into the pizza joint in Midway. All that, nearly 90 miles, in just a bit over three hours. It was a wild ride.

Challenges

This rally included a couple of simple navigational and time-keeping challenges. A note directed a PAUSE for 10 seconds at BUMP. Although there were a couple of signs reading “BUMPS”, there was only one sign reading “BUMP” and only one physical speed bump within sight of that sign. On course teams used the note once. Off course teams may have incorrectly paused at a number of speed bumps before the note was cancelled.

Another note directed a PAUSE for 10 seconds at “NUEGEBAUER”. This note was introduced early in the event and was never cancelled so it was in effect until the end of the rally. Twice during the event the rally route traveled by a sign that looked very similar but was not exactly the same. On course teams did not use the note.

Twice during the event rally teams were offered the opportunity to use an ITIS instruction which should have been skipped because the main road was left at T. The first opportunity was: L at STONECREEK. PAUSE 15 seconds. ITIS. The intersection Not "NUEGEBAUER" where this occurs is a T where the main road goes left. On course teams followed the main road to the left and continued looking for an opportunity to execute the ITIS instruction. No opportunity occurred, so they skipped the ITIS and its 15 second penalty pause.

The second opportunity was a bit more challenging. The instructions involved were:
L first OPP after “EGGER”.
L on MIDWAY. PAUSE 15 seconds. ITIS.

The first intersection after the sign reading Egger was a T intersection where the main road goes…that’s correct, call it out, the main road goes left at the T. So the instruction could not be used there. On course teams followed the main road to the left and continued looking for an opportunity to go left. They found the opportunity on (you guessed it) Midway. So the ITIS instruction and its 15 second penalty pause was never used.

What the Rallymasters said

Rallymasters Monte and Victoria Saager named this event for a llama they noticed in a field along the route. The poor thing was always by itself in an unkempt field with no company and seemingly no attention.

An extra credit bonus of 15 points was offered to anyone who brought a photo of this lonely llama to the end of the rally, but no one claimed that prize. JoAnn Gattman presented a bunch of photos of llamas, but none were like our lonely llama.

What ralliers said

Thanks for the fun rally, Monte and Victoria! It was a great use of a May Saturday afternoon and made use of some really spectacular and challenging roads! The Bald Peak run is one of my favorite local drives, but even I discovered some new roads around the area to come back to! Slowly getting better with each rally and continue to look forward to what the next adventure will bring.

Had a good time on the rally even though we fell for a couple of traps.

Guess that helps me improve and us up our rally game. Should have known you’d catch us. :)

We had a good time today. The rally was a lot of fun. Only got turned around once, and that was driver error.

We can’t make it in July, but we will be back in August looking for some more fun and good memories.

Thanks for the help and support, we look forward to the next rally.

Starting to get the hang of it. Thank you to you and Monte for all your hard work on these events.

Congratulations to the top finishers

First overall and first in the Equipped Category was the team of Bob Morseburg and Cheri Eddy in Car #25 with a total of 37 points over 19 scored legs. They zeroed nine legs, and all their leg scores were single digit. Impressive performance, as always from this team.

Second overall and first in the SOP Class was the team of David and Joann Gattman in Car #1 with a score of 90. Third overall and second in SOP was the team of Alex Casteneda and Eric Hanson in Car #4 with 130 points. Fourth overall and third SOP was the team of Lee and Marc Nielsen with 132 points.

First in the Novice class was the team of Sean Pitman and Grant Heizenrader in Car #16. Second Novice was Mike and Cheryl Knight in Car #18. Third Novice was Dan and Cindy Kuenzi in Car #19.

Finishing second in the Equipped Category was the team of Robert Paxman and Chris Lane in Car #8. Third in Equipped was the team of Andy and Mercedes Lilienthal in Car #6.

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Twenty-one teams entered Cascade Sports Car Club’s second event in the 2024 Saturday Rally Series on April 20.  The No Foolin’ rally was a fun cruise across Willamette Valley farmland into the foothills of the Cascades ending in Estacada. The 100-mile course took a bit over three hours to complete, including a mid-rally break in Hubbard.

The odometer calibration started at Milwaukie Lowe’s and ended at the historic Butteville Store. Extra time was provided for visiting the store for their famous ice cream, a coffee drink or a breakfast item.  David Gattman, driver of Car #1, reported that he found out from his mom on the morning of the rally that his grandfather went to Butteville School. He appreciated the warm fuzzy feeling of visiting the store where his grandfather likely got school supplies as a child around 1911.

Rallymasters Monte and Victoria Saager planned to hand out snacks and bottles of water at the mid-rally break at the Rivenes Park in Hubbard. However, due to a miscalculation in the drive time from their home in Hillsboro to the park in Hubbard, instead of arriving before teams arrived at the park, they got there just as the first teams were leaving at the end of their break. Oops! Most of the teams were able to grab a bag of chips and a bottle of water before rushing off to the restart.

To add more consternation, a couple of teams were delayed by a train on their short drive to the restart, affording an appropriate use of a time allowance.

Challenges

The April rally was mostly a tour-rally with just a few simple challenges - No Foolin'!

The first challenge was an ITIS (if there is such) instruction directing a 15-second pause at a yield sign. On course teams recognized that although the road they were on made a sweeping curve to the left, there was a straight off that led to the referenced yield sign at which they should correctly pause. Teams that missed the yield sign were just a bit early at Checkpoint 8.

The next challenge was another ITIS instruction directing a 15-second pause at a STOP. The first

opportunity was at a stop sign at a railroad crossing.  However, since STOP is defined in the rally rules as an intersection controlled by a stop sign at which you must legally stop, and since there is no intersection at a railroad crossing, the instruction could not be done there. In fact there was no opportunity to execute that instruction prior to the next route instruction, so the ITIS instruction should have been skipped. Teams that paused at the railroad crossing earned some penalty points on Checkpoint 10.

Soon after, a note was introduced directing a 15-second pause at each LAKE. In short succession, four sideroads were encountered, each with LAKE in their name. A fifth sideroad named LAKEVIEW didn’t count, so teams that paused a total of one minute correctly executed the note. Teams that also paused at LAKEVIEW earned 15 penalty points on Checkpoint 11.

The next challenge was a mileage trap. An instruction directed you to CAST 43 (average 43 mph) for 1.5 miles then CAST 37. The next instruction directed you to go right. Teams that did this correctly completed the 1.5 miles before going right. Teams that didn’t wait the full 1.5 miles took the first right and earned penalty points on Checkpoint 14.

The final challenge was a main road trap. You are looking for the first opportunity to go right. You come to a T intersection at which you could go either left or right. If you decide to use the right first opportunity at this T,  then you’ll use the next instruction which is to go right on a road named Skinner ITIS (if there is such) with a 30-second pause. However, if you happen to notice that the road to the left at that T has a back-facing stop sign but the road to the right does not, then you know the main road goes right by protection so you can’t use the right first opportunity instruction at the T. You correctly follow the main road to the right and use the right first opportunity to go right on Skinner. Teams that used the Skinner ITIS instruction earned penalty points on Checkpoint 20. 

Congratulate the winners

First overall and first in the Equipped Category was the team of Bob Morseburg and Cheri Eddy in Car #25 with a total of 16 points over 17 scored legs. They zeroed eight legs, and all their leg scores were single digit. Another outstanding run for this team.

Second overall and first in the SOP Class was the team of Russ and Kate Sherrell in Car #2 Christmas tree farm with view of Mount Hood near Estacada with a score of 127. They had twelve single digit scores and no leg score over half a minute. Excellent performance for this SOP team.

There was a tie for third overall and second SOP. With a total of 132 points, just 5 points out of second place, were the teams of David and Joann Gattman in Car #1 and Alex Casteneda and Eric Hanson in Car #4. Very impressive.

Finishing first in the Novice class was the first-timer team of Bjorn and Duncan Roberts in Car #19. Second Novice was Sean Pitman and Grant Heizenrader in Car #17. Third Novice was Michael and Cheryl Knight in Car #15.

Finishing second in the Equipped Category was Car #8,  the team of Robert Paxman and Chris Lane.

Congratulations to all!

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Seventeen teams entered Cascade Sports Car Club’s first event in the 2024 Saturday Rally Series on March 23.  Rallymasters Cody and Sabrina Garvin’s second rallymaster endeavor – River Run – gave us a scenic drive along rivers and waterways in Clark and Skamania counties, ending in Woodland, Washington. The 110-mile route took about three and a half hours to complete.

The odometer calibration ended at Steamboat Landing Park on the Columbia River in Washougal. The first break was at Salmon Falls Park & Ride / Cape Horn Trailhead. The second break was at Lucia Falls Park. Each break provided a 15-minute opportunity to stretch your legs, clear your mind, and enjoy a truly beautiful encounter with nature.

Challenges

The March rally was mostly a tour-style rally, meaning there were only a couple of simple challenges (tricks and traps). Both were ITIS (if there is such) instructions, meaning the instruction could be skipped if the instruction following it could be executed first. All teams went in the same direction, but they had to decide whether they could use the ITIS instruction – and its 15-second pause – or not.

The first challenge – R on 212th ITIS, PAUSE 15 seconds – occurred at what appeared to be a T intersection. However, the road to left was signed dead end. So there really was no intersection so the R could not be executed there. The correct action was to skip this ITIS instruction and its 15-second penalty pause.

The second challenge – L on 58th ITIS, PAUSE 15 seconds – occurred where 58th is a sideroad on the left. However, the road straight ahead has a back-facing stop sign (RRR 3.3 – PROTECTION). Arrows at the intersection and paint on the roadway all indicate the main road goes left here. The correct action was to skip this ITIS instruction and its 15-second penalty pause.

What ralliers said

We had a great time as always!

We are slowly getting the hang of it, definitely a better understanding than the 1st time. However, a

lot more to perfect.

Appreciate all of your hard work on putting these on and being so welcoming and helpful!

Anybody else see the pot belly pig roaming in a yard? I believe it was in the last section at 30 mph for 8 miles looking for last two CPs.

Congratulate the winners

First overall and first in the Equipped Category is the team of Bob Morseburg and Cheri Eddy in Car #25 with a score of 17. They zeroed eight legs, and all their leg scores were single digit. We don’t expect less from this team.

Second overall and first in the SOP Class is the team of David and Joann Gattman in Car #1 with a score of 48. In addition to a couple of zeroes, all but one of their leg scores were single digit. Very good performance for an SOP team!

Tied for third overall and Second Place in the SOP Class are the teams of Alex Casteneda and Eric Hanson in Car #4 and Joel and Aksel Bristol in Car #14. Both teams had 104 points. This was a particularly special finish for Car #14 as this was their first run as SOP.

Finishing first in the Novice class is the team of Bill Kayser and Bjorn Freeman-Benson in Car #11. Second Novice is Barbara Jacobs and Jamie Anderson in Car # 9. Third Novice is Dan and Cindy Kuenzi in Car # 15.

Finishing second in the Equpped Category is the team of Gary David and Gabe Stephens in Car #6.

The top three teams in each class received a car wash coupon, a coffee card and candy bars. As always, the taste of victory is sweet.

Congratulations to all!

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