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