Rally roundup

Hello everybody,

The second leg of the annual club TSD rally season was run on Sunday 25 September. The weather was great and our rally master had picked an interesting route.

Given the runaway victory from the Spring Rally, Sue and Geoffrey beat everyone by a wide margin…. (most of us missed one turn and incurred a 300 point penalty) the bets were on whether they could win again or score well enough for the championship.

The route took us from Nanaimo to Port Alberni and back to Errington, for a total of 6 regularity sections. Unfortunately some of the regularity scores had to be cancelled as the Richta scoring app produced a few inconsistent results.

The event ended at the Trees Restaurant, near Coombs, for refreshments, lunch and unwinding while the scores were added. The results were once again unexpected ….. Once all the “wrong turns” were accounted for, the scores were released. Remember the score is demerit points, so the lowest score wins:

1st Place: Paul Rossmo/ Klaus Kreye – 26.8 points 2nd place: Don Gosse/ Glen Fraser – 27.2 points 3rd place: Sue Frew / Geoffrey Melneychuk – 123.4 points 4thplace: Didier Brard/ Irene Brard – 339 points 5th place: Ron Dempsey/ Scott Blaylock – 602 points 6th place: Jeffrey Rebiffe/ Cindy Rebiffe - 622 points

Well… that certainly was a close result – it could have gone either way!

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Around the bend

May 25-28, 2023

SAVE THE DATES and CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS VIRPCA Multi-Region Event

Crown Isle Resort

Details to follow in the New Year Contact: Trevor and Sonia at crownisle2023@virpca.org

if you’d like to volunteer or have general questions.

A big thank you to the organizers and all the participants.

There were a total of 3 teams that entered both the Spring and Fall Rally and are thus eligible for the annual rally championship….. and the cup!

Totalling the scores from the two events gives the following 2022 TSD Overall

Results:

Entry TSD 1 TSD 2 Total

1 Melneychuck/Frew 61 123 184 2 Rossmo/Kreye 450 27 477 3 Rebiffe/Rebiffe 426 622 1048

Well done Sue and Geoffrey! – can you repeat that next year?

We have some ideas for next year: The creation of various classes to make it easier to partake and remove “the maths” ……for those that wish to avoid it. Alternatively, you can try a really cool app!

On the BC Rally front, the Thunderbird Rally (usually held in February) was unfortunately cancelled at the last minute. So the entry fee was rolled over and we used that for the Totem Rally in November. Three weeks of car and navigational preparations unfortunately did not take us very far. We made a great start with 7 checkpoints on regularity 1 and a score of only 18…. But that was the end as a rather large pothole put paid to the rest of our event.

At the time of writing I have volunteered to support the Big White Stage Rally, held near Kelowna early December. This rally relies on many volunteers, and specifically Radio HAM’s, to help monitor the road and ensure it stays closed. This rally ran on a very small scale last year and there is hope that we can return to a more normal format. At this stage the schedule calls for all the competitive sections to be run on one day, typically with daytime and night sections.

As usual, please let me have any comments or feedback to improve the rally experience. Klaus Kreye