Cone Hunting II: Going for Ace (2014)

Event Chair: Dennis Miller

4/12/2014 Final Results
4/12/2014 PAX Results
4/12/2014 Raw Results

4/13/2014 Final Results
4/13/2014 PAX Results
4/13/2014 Raw Results

2014 Autocross School and Test ‘N Tune

4/5/2014 Autocross School – All Timed Runs
(NOTE: Unofficial times, cones not counted in Advanced class, classes may be incorrect, instructor-driven times are recorded on students’ car numbers, drivers may have switched cars without changing numbers, etc.)

4/6/2014 Test N Tune – All Timed Runs
(NOTE: Unofficial times, cones not counted in Advanced class, classes may be incorrect, instructor-driven times are recorded on students’ car numbers, drivers may have switched cars without changing numbers, etc.)

Let’s Get It Started IV (2014)

Event Chairs: Emanuel Martin and David Guimond

3/29/2014 Final Results
3/29/2014 PAX Results
3/29/2014 Raw Results

3/30/2014 Final Results
3/30/2014 PAX Results
3/30/2014 Raw Results

Last Cone Standing III (2013)

Event Chairs: Emanuel Martin and David Guimond

11/9/2013 Final Results
11/9/2013 PAX Results
11/9/2013 Raw Results

11/10/2013 Final Results
11/10/2013 PAX Results
11/10/2013 Raw Results

Cone Hunting 2013

Event Chair: Dennis Miller

10/19/2013 Final Results
10/19/2013 PAX Results
10/19/2013 Raw Results

10/20/2013 Final Results
10/20/2013 PAX Results
10/20/2013 Raw Results

Rally Report – Evil Numbers Halloween Rally 2013

Date: Friday, October 25, 2013
Rallymasters: Bill Wagner
Cold run: Jerry White
Workers: Jerry White
Weenie Roast: Jim Hamilton

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After messing up last year I finally managed to put a Halloween rally together. I kept the build-your-own-instructions-aspect of past rallies by making people dig through a bag of candy to find the instruction slips, but then added a bit of brain work to the mix. The teams had to do some translation of the sign and speed numbers since I disguised them a bit. I did provide translation grids but they needed to have read through the general instructions to understand what to do. Most teams figured out what to do fairly quickly. Only one team, Miner/Schrepfer, resorted to a panic envelope on Leg 1.

We had some newcomers out for this rally. Gail (“He’s a terrible navigator”) and Gary (“My wife is lost”) Nielsen made the 100 mile trip down from Matteson, IL for their first rally. Gary is one of our regular autocrossers but apparently struggles when he’s in the right seat. They had some difficulties navigating the course, but didn’t seem too discouraged and are thinking of giving it another try at the November rally. Another Novice, Maxim Schrepfer, made it just in time and teamed up with Gale Miner. They had some difficulties on Leg 1 (“Who writes numbers in binary!”), but pulled it together and had two good legs to finish the rally.

Another new ralliest, Scott Beatty, came along with Emanuel Martin in SOP. The Martin/Beatty team was on their way to a solid win until they missed a speed change at the start of Leg 3. The max score they received gave the SOP win to Tom (“No tape in this car.”) and Linda Ingles.

There would have been a good contest in Navigational until the Townsends had to pull out during the first leg. Jesse Farrell teamed up with Jonathan Flora, moving from the autocross course into the navigator seat complete with rally computer. These two made a good team scoring less than 30 total points. Their scores were so consistent that we would love to know if their clock or correction factor was off just a bit.

Thank you to all who came out to the rally. Special thanks to Jerry White for helping with the cold-run and rally check and to Jim Hamilton for organizing the after-rally weenie roast. I’m already thinking about next year.

-Bill (“Hope I didn’t offend anyone with the above quotes”) Wagner

Driver/
Navigator
1 2 3 Total
NAVIGATIONAL CLASS
1st Jonathan Flora
Jesse Farrell
10 8 9 27
2nd Bob Townsend
Karen Townsend
100 100 100 300
SEAT OF PANTS CLASS
1st Tom Ingles
Linda Ingles
24 25 13 62
2nd Emanuel Martin
Scott Beatty
5 17 100 122
NOVICE CLASS
1st Gale Miner
Maxim Schrepfer
150 40 73 263
2nd Gail Nielsen
Gary Nielsen
100 100 100 300

Rally Report – Cornhusker Rally 2013

Date: Saturday, July 6, 2013
Rallymasters: Mike Blackwelder
Cold run: (unknown)
Workers: Russ Bedford

The July rally went to Hoopeston this year. A few months before I had heard about Henning’s Root Beer Stand. People had said the food was pretty good. Cheryel and I tried it a few times while laying out the rally. It was better than the usual fast food.

We had seven cars for the rally with a bigger Nav class than usual. The route took the entrants through a large area of windmills on their way to Potomac. We went through the town on the way to checkpoint two. Potomac just happened to pick that day for their fourth of July parade. I missed it going to man the checkpoint but it caught every team on their way. They had to pause for the parade to end and turn in delay slips at the checkpoint. It did not seem to affect the times though.

There was six checkpoints, three before the break and three after. Russ Bedford worked the odd numbers and I worked the even ones. One of the Novice teams dropped out after the first checkpoint with a sick navigator. The other Novice team made a mistake on the first leg but after a phone call to me I managed to get them to the second checkpoint. They ran the rest of the rally without incidents. This was their first time and have since run several more. They keep getting better every time.

Our Nav class consisted of the Townsends, the Demeritts, and Jonathan Flora and Kevin Morris. We haven’t seen Kevin for a while and this was the first time they have run as well as the first time in Nav. They had their act together though as they won the class.

Driver/
Navigator
1 2 3 4 5 6 Total
NAVIGATIONAL CLASS
1st Jonathan Flora
Kevin Morris
0 6 3 3 3 8 23
2nd Bob DeMeritt
Marianne DeMeritt
0 9 2 10 0 6 27
3rd Bob Townsend
Karen Townsend
21 4 6 10 0 4 45
SEAT OF PANTS CLASS
1st Jerry White
C. Board
9 56 22 7 1 90 185
2nd Gale Miner
Bill Wagner
18 5 13 14 28 135 213
NOVICE CLASS
1st Andra Manczur
Chris Saunders
500 500 308 62 99 146 1615
2nd Jesse Farrell
Chuck Geigner
26 500 500 500 500 500 2526

Richland Fall Scholarship Autocross 2013

Event Chairs: Mike and Deb Erpelding

10/5/2013 Final Results
10/5/2013 PAX Results
10/5/2013 Raw Results

10/6/2013 Final Results
10/6/2013 PAX Results
10/6/2013 Raw Results

Conemelter III (2013)

Event Chairs: Beau Renshaw, Greg Renshaw, and Scott Spear

9/21/2013 Final Results
9/21/2013 PAX Results
9/21/2013 Raw Results

9/22/2013 Final Results
9/22/2013 PAX Results
9/22/2013 Raw Results

Fall 2013 Parkland Scholarship Autocross

Event Chair: Tom Ingles

9/1/2013 Final Results
9/1/2013 PAX Results
9/1/2013 Raw Results

9/2/2013 Final Results
9/2/2013 PAX Results
9/2/2013 Raw Results