April 11th, Rally, Let’s Try This Again

For the first time in about 1 ½ years, Champaign County Sports Car Club sponsored a Rally. The last rally we held was in November 2019. This is, hopefully, the first of many rallies to be held in 2021.

Thanks to some effective social media and email announcements the information about this rally got out. There may have been a pent-up demand as well. 12 teams registered and showed up to try the rally.

Although weather predictions for most of the week before were for a breezy, partly sunny day, Sunday proved to be pretty lousy. Windy and rainy, not too warm either. Oh well.

We met at Eastwood Center in Mahomet. Joe Siedenburg and Barry Rowe shared their many years of rally experience with the new folks. They described how to read rally instructions, what to look for on the road, and provided tips to successfully navigate a TSD (time-speed-distance) rally using CCSCC rules and practices. The results speak well of their effort: almost no off-courses by participants.

Four legs of varying distances challenged the teams. The rain came and went, and came again, but didn’t daunt the drivers and navigators.

We finished back in Mahomet, at the Monical’s restaurant where we compared experiences and announced results.

Thanks to all for helping make this rally such a success….Russ Bedford, Rally Chair and Event Chair

THE RESULTS:

  Novice Class Leg 1 Leg 2 Leg 3 Leg 4 Total
1 Dean Plumadore / Deb Plumadore 27 101 43 29 200
2 Andrew Pelz / Kristen Pelz 32 152 32 218 434
3 Jay Yost / Blake Riley 144 310 97 161 612
4 Eric Stahl / Angela Stahl 205 277 70 134 686
5 Dimitri Atanasov / Clip Board 63 85 82 500 730
6 AJ Miramontes / Jennifer Roberts 149 82 48 500 779
7 Bailey McNulty / Molly Meyer 500 260 111 131 1002
8 Darrell Hoemann / Mike Loyd 177 151 DNF DNF *DNF
  *Darrell and Mike withdrew due to a previous commitment          
             
  SOP (Seat of the Pants) Class          
1 Emanuel Martin / Lucy Martin 118 53 31 6 208
2 Joe Siedenburg / Diana Siedenburg 46 154 44 42 286
3 Barry Rowe / Gale Miner 18 199 60 66 343
4 Chris Bedford / Amaya Gula 28 159 53 500 740

 

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