October 2005 Friday Night Rally

"A Friday Nite Rally" Hosted by Rainier Auto Sports

 

 

Eric Horst, Rallymaster

 

Entitled simply "A Friday Nite Rally" for lack of inspiration the course was also quite simple and relatively trap free. The odometer check transit departed Eastgate Park and Ride, followed I-90 East to the Sunset exit and up over the Issaquah highlands. The highlands are growing but they haven't yet inflated the "quaint business district" portion of their Town In A Box kit so this is a nice detour around the heavy traffic of the business district at the foot of the hill. The transit continued to end west of Beaver Lake. The first leg was a shorty of only 3.11 miles around Beaver Lake ending with a checkpoint in a quiet space between residential areas.

 

Leg two got things moving putting competitors on one of the rare bits of fun roads left, the tail end of Issaquah Fall City Road from Duthie Hill Road in to Fall City. Turning north out of Fall City checkpoint two was found on West Snoqualmie Valley Road which was happily not under water this week. The third leg was a long one at just over 51 minutes and 28.4 miles. It cruised through Carnation and up Fay Road onto the hills behind Duvall. This is still a nice area except for the painfully slow 25MPH speed limit in places. The route looped back down north of Duvall, continued north on highway 203 to another quick loop up High Rock Road and back down. Leg three concluded with a trapped loop around Tualco Loop Road to the final checkpoint at the now abandoned State Corrections Farm on 203rd. A quick cool-down transit to Monroe brought everyone in to Alfy's Pizza at a respectable hour.

 

Overall the route was 57.91 miles and 1:52. There were 24 competitors, 23 finishers.

 

 

Final Results

 

CAR # DRIVER/NAVIGATOR CLUB CLASS CP1 CP2 CP3 TOTAL OVERALL
23 Smith / Treen ORCA UNL 2 1 0 3 1
2 Biggar / Gibson ORCA/PSRC UNL 1 1 3 5 2
7 Pfau / Workman PSRC UNL 2 21 1 24 3
17 Sjodin / Sjodin ORCA UNL 6 2 18 26 4
8 Roberts / Heppes ORCA UNL 0 39 10 49 9
22 Mannisto / Mannisto ORCA MAS 13 15 1 29 5
16 Humphrey / Humphrey NWRC MAS 25 14 1 40 7
6 Daily / Palidar FOOTZ/PSRC MAS 27 15 102 144 18
12 Jones / Gilbert ORCA VIN 118 5 107 230 20
24 Maloney / Boswell NONE VIN 254 1 2 257 21
4 Chandler / Campbell-Hegg NONE SOP 1 6 27 34 6
19 Watt / Watt ORCA SOP 9 32 10 51 8
15 Black / Black PSRC SOP 3 9 48 60 10
18 Weaver / Weaver NONE SOP 6 6 58 70 11
14 McClure / McClure ORCA SOP 4 2 65 71 12
10 Chinnick / Bloom NONE SOP 14 60 1 75 13
21 Lome / Remington ORCA SOP 8 12 73 93 14
9 Lien / Eves ORCA SOP 21 41 61 123 16
20 Margerum / DeLong PSRC SOP 22 20 89 131 17
13 Stewart / Stewart PSRC SOP 1 30 114 145 19
5 Preston / Preston NONE SOP 300 2 56 358 23
1 Preston / Ferguson NONE SOP 29 300 300 629 24
11 Johnston / Johnston PSRC NOV 10 76 25 111 15
3 Weber / Weber RASC NOV 106 84 87 277 22