Rally Report – No Frills Rally 2013

Date: Saturday, March 2, 2013
Rallymaster: Bill Wagner, Jr.
Cold run: (none)
Workers: (none)

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The first event of the 2013 CCSCC competition year is now on the books. I caused it to be a non-starter last weekend, but managed to pull things together in time for March 2, 2013, for five teams who came out in the cold to play. I had a couple of problems to contend with right from the start. I managed to mess up the spreadsheet with the details for leg 1 and had to do a corrected one. I was looking at it because the first car, DeMeritts, had arrived at checkpoint 1 early and then presented me with a time delay slip. Since they are usually spot on and tough to beat, I started investigating. I sent all the other teams on their way for leg two while I made up some corrected out slips. Then mistake two appeared on the horizon with a phone call from the Townsends looking for a blank sign. I had made use of a crossroad sign as a landmark on one instruction, but forgot to draw it into the instructions. I called up the other teams and got them all back on course to return to the checkpoint. Since this was a rally master error, I opted to throw that leg out. The other legs of the rally went by without much of a hitch from my point of view.

The scores in Seat of the Pants were very good overall, especially the B&B team of Bedford and Blackwelder, who scored in single digits on legs 1 and 3. They dropped off a bit on legs 4 and 5, but still had a respectable score. Ingles and Flora were only 21 points back at the end. If they had been closer on leg 1 they would have made it a real race. The 3rd team in SOP was the father/son team of Gary and Sean Patrick. Sean was out for his first rally and the two made a respectable showing. I hope we’ll see them out for more this year.

Final congratulations should go to the Townsends who really killed the legs and scored only 5 points for the rally. An excellent start to the year for them. Thank-you to all who came out. It’s always great when a rally actually comes together.

Bill Wagner