Northern Nights Rally Results
Friday August 26, 2011
| Place | Driver/Navigator | Leg_1 | 2_ | 3_ | 4_ | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAVIGATIONAL CLASS | ||||||
| 1st | Bob DeMeritt/Marianne DeMeritt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2nd | Angela Patrick/Gary Patrick | 97 | 26 | 200 | 200 | 523 |
| SEAT OF PANTS CLASS | ||||||
| 1st | Jerry White/Jonathan Flora | 20 | 42 | 18 | 22 | 102 |
| 2nd | Brian Grable/Sandy Grable | 122 | 26 | 55 | 5 | 208 |
| 3rd | Mike Blackwelder/Jim Hamilton | 10 | 10 | 23 | 185 | 228 |
| NOVICE CLASS | ||||||
| 1st | Shawn Martin/Brandon Hasselbring | 174 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 774 |
Rallymaster: Bill Wagner
Cold Run and Checkpoint: Bob Townsend
Winding River Roads 2 Rally Report
Very Close scores on Winding River Roads Rally!
Saturday August 13, 2011
| Place_Driver/Navigator____Leg | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7_Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAVIGATIONAL CLASS | |||||||||
| 1st | Bob DeMeritt/Marianne DeMeritt Subaru Forester |
0 | 3 | 12 | 100 | 1 | 100 | 12 | 228 |
| SEAT OF PANTS CLASS | |||||||||
| 1st | Mike Blackwelder/Jim Hamilton Ford Focus |
21 | 66 | 25 | 43 | 65 | 13 | 2 | 235 |
| 2nd | Brian Grable/Sandy Grable Ford Explorer |
19 | 0 | 13 | 68 | 26 | 78 | 33 | 237 |
| 3rd | Jerry White/Brian Ford Plymouth Van |
24 | 24 | 24 | 70 | 40 | 55 | 18 | 255 |
Only 27 points separated the first place and the last place teams on the rally. Bob and Marianne Demerit barely eked out a first place overall victory on this scenic drive through Champaign, Douglas and Coles counties. Taking a wrong turn cost them a max on leg four and a tactical error cost them another max on leg six after deciding to assign themselves an early out time, thus beating the checkpoint crew to the control.
Blackwelder and Hamilton missed seeing a “DEAD END” sign and found themselves at the end of the road and had to turn around in a farmers driveway to return to the course, but using a time delay slip, they remained in the hunt. and earned a first place finish.
No other teams got lost, and the scores were quite close. It was a near perfect day for a rally after getting a break from the hot weather. Three checkpoint crews kept the event moving. Brisk speeds through a variety of interesting roads kept the teams on their toes.
A cookout with brats and drinks followed, with some wonderful dishes prepared by Karen.
Rallymaster: Bob Townsend
Cold run: Bill Wagner
Control Workers: Mike Sage, Jannsen Sage, Jennifer Lauher, Karen Townsend, Bill Wagner
Conemelter Autocross, Rantoul Aviation Center
Event report yet to be posted – but so far we know that a cone DID melt!
Navigator’s Nightmare Rally Report
A CCSCC Saturday Morning Simple Road Rally…..
July 16, 2011
When CCSCC decided to hold short, Saturday morning road rallies, I just knew I had to get in on this! A short rally is much easier to put on than a LOOONNNNGGG Sunday afternoon rally and I just don’t see well enough in the dark anymore to put on a Friday night rally. So I decided this was for me! I originally volunteered for the June Sat. AM rally, but had to leave town for that weekend (I guess my daughter graduating from U of Chicago with an MSW IS more important…..) so Jerry White very graciously traded weekends with me. Thanks, Jerry!
I originally wanted to set up this rally to somewhat duplicate my first rally — “The All-Ametrican Rally”, held on July 4, 1976. It was done all in the metric system as at that time the USA was switching over. I taught the Metric System to businesses and teachers, so it was a natural! I did use the same (roughly) ODO leg, but after that, it was a totally new rally.
The ODO leg ended north of Market place and then the route went ALMOST to the CN tracks before turning north and going over I-57 where there was a checkpoint on the frontage road. Everyone arrived about on time and in order, with Bob Townsend and James Babiarz scoring a “0”! Well done.
Leg 2 marched south to Alto Vinyards and on to Bloomington road before arriving at checkpoint 3 that was back north east of Mahomet and the beginning of some lovely roads with 0.99 miles of gravel….
Leg 3 ended up another march towards Dewey and some more gravel. Leg 4 was a quick trip across the far north end of Champaign County with some CAST changes to keep the navigator busy and a checkpoint just south of Ludlow and west of the CN tracks. A DIY leg took everyone into Rantoul for lunch at Monical’s and I think everyone had fun.
I scored everyone with an “automatic delay allowance”, which meant that you didn’t need to request one and you could never get more than 49 points unless you missed a checkpoint (100 points). The score shows most everyone did VERY well.
Thanks to Jonathan Flora for cold running the rally and most of all to the 5 hearty teams that ran the rally. You guys made it enjoyable for me. Thanks. Here are the results.
| Place_Driver/Navigator_________Leg | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Panic | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAVIGATIONAL CLASS | ||||||||
| 1st | Bob Townsend/James Babiarz | 0 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 21 |
| SEAT OF PANTS CLASS | ||||||||
| 1st | Jerry White/Nick Choi & Neville Dias | 6 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 35 |
| 2nd | John Ligon/Tom Ingles | 10 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 37 |
| 3rd | Mike Blackwelder/Cheryel Blackwelder | 16 | 43 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 96 |
| 4th | Basil Arvin/Bill Wagner Jr. | 46 | 7 | 44 | 43 | 4 | 0 | 144 |
Barry Rowe, Rallymaster
Roamin’ Candle Rally Report
Saturday July 2, 2011
| Place_Driver/Navigator____Leg | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAVIGATIONAL CLASS | |||||||||
| 1st | Ted Drummond/Chuck Hanson | 3 | 200 | 11 | 45 | 15 | 3 | 15 | 292 |
| SEAT OF PANTS CLASS | |||||||||
| 1st | Basil Aruin/Bill Wagner | 14 | 200 | 28 | 31 | 80 | 7 | 5 | 365 |
| 2nd | Brian Grable/Sandy Grable | 27 | 200 | 6 | 56 | 16 | 100 | 45 | 450 |
| 3rd | Jerry White/Jon Flora | 94 | 200 | 45 | 22 | 30 | 32 | 189 | 612 |
| NOVICE CLASS | |||||||||
| 1st | Paul DeMerath/Marta DeMerath | 81 | 200 | 200 | 40 | 200 | 200 | 200 | 1121 |
One team from Indianapolis, 3 from the Champaign area and one from Belleville all congregated at the Valero station in Covington Indiana bright and early on Saturday July 2. Eight miles away was the endpoint of the event, however, straight lines were few and far between in Roamin’ Candle. The prairie was left behind as the teams left Lodi, our entrance to Parke County and found Covered Bridges, gravel roads with multiple switch backs going up and down hill, Amish Buggies and of course, organic fertilizer. Chuck Hanson admitted that we had found roads in the county that were even new to him.
Everyone was caught by a trap on Leg 2 and missed driving through 2 of the Covered Bridges on the route. All arrived in a timely fashion at the lunch break at the Rock Run Café in Roseville (population less than 50). The restaurant let us have the “loft” room for our lunch. Unfortunately, Brian Grable missed lunch dealing with a not so slow leaking tire.
Paul and Marta DeMerath from Belleville had some difficulties with the course and won the award for being first to the end point and first in Novice. Basil Aruin was driving in his first Rally and was teamed with Bill Wagner and finished first in SOP with only 165 points on the 6 legs that didn’t trap them into a max. Ted Drummond and Chuck Hanson took first in Navigation class, without Chuck’s Rally Computer. Chuck was using our event as practice for the upcoming National event in St. Louis and was busily pounding away on a calculator.
The Rallymasters want to thank all that attended and hope they enjoyed the event.
Mike Blackwelder, Karen Davis & Harold Davis