Double Arrow Rally
July 25, 2008

Results:

Place Driver / Navigator Car Legs 1 2 3 4 Total
Navigational Class
1 Jonathon Flora-Chuck Hanson Ford Contour 1 2 0 1 4
2 Russ & Chris Bedford Corvette 10 3 7 200 220
Seat of Pants Class
1 James Koltz - Caitlin French Subaru Legacy 29 200 10 31 270
2 Mike Blackwelder - Jim Hamilton Ford Focus 200 200 20 80 300
3 Brian & Sandy Grable Ford Explorer 200 200 23 200 623

Rallymaster: Bob Townsend
Workers: Karen Townsend, John Coleman
Cold Run: Jerry White

The Friday Nighter rally for July was the 2nd annual Double Arrow Rally. Rallymaster Bob Townsend used a different kind of main road rule in setting up this rally. Although, the rally was very straight-forward with no tricks, drivers were instructed to make a turn at every "Double Arrow"sign that was at a sideroad. This made for long stretches without an instruction. In fact, on the first leg, no instructions were used to reach the first check point after the odometer leg. Even though there were few instructions, the main road rule caused the teams to be on their toes throughout the event.

Rally expert Chuck Hanson ventured over from Indianapolis, but without a partner, so he teamed up with our Jon Flora, in the Nav. class. For the first time in the last several events, we did not have any novice teams. Even though John Coleman was suffering with a broken leg, he showed up to help Bob with the check point duties.

The rally started out uneventfully, but it quickly turned a little chaotic when a sherrif's deputy stopped a car shortly after the Odometer leg because of "suspicious"activity in the area. After explaining that we were not doing anything illegal, cars were allowed to proceed. This cause them to miss the first check point, and the lone checkpoint crew to have to hurry to the next control to avoid missing the front running cars. Bob and John made it to control 2 with only about 10 seconds to spare. All of the cars were able to make it to the control and were able to make it through the rest of the rally. Russ & Chriss Bedford missed the last control because Chris was starting to experience car-sickness.

After the last control, the teams met at the Home of Bob & Karen for the results and a cookout prepared by Karen. Everyone agreed that the food was delicious and the rally was fun.