No Alibi Rally 2004

Rainier Auto Sports Club presents an early summer touring rally in the Pacific Northwest. Bring out what you love to drive and challenge your driving and navigation skills on paved and unpaved roads while viewing beautiful vistas of the Cascade Mountains, Columbia River, Snake River and arid agricultural region of Eastern Washington. No Alibi spans two days and almost 600 miles of the finest backroads. This event is suitable for beginner or novice rallyists.

Date: June 19-20, 2004

Rallymaster: Kirk Simons

A Note From The Rallymaster:

Yet another No Alibi rally is in the past. The rally couldn't of had better weather. Even the dusty conditions were minimal due to a slight breeze on both days allowing us to view a land full of multicolored flowers dotting the country side, the hop fields, pea fields and wheat fields and lets not forget the breathtaking views. I hope everyone enjoyed the rally, I know I did even after all the work that Terry and I and several other club members put into it. It was really great to see the returning teams from past No Alibi Rally's and to meet the new teams that came out to run the event for the first time. As I do every year, I definitely want to thank all of our workers and this year there were a lot of them. It couldn't have turned out this well without them. Thanks again, and I hope everyone has had a safe journey home with some good rally tales under their belt.

Thanks To The Workers:

Kirk Simons (Advance car, outstanding planning and oversight)
Terry Simons (Route books, shirts, buttons and more.)
Gretchen and Mike Jones (Registration, Saturday lunch, checkpoint timing.)
Eric Horst and Steve Willey (Checkpoint timing, scoring)
Michael Garvais and Kim Prater (Checkpoint timing)
Mark Simons and Shauna Bert (Checkpoint timing)
Roy Ward and Sherry Schlosser (Route survey, sweep, checkpoint timing)
Mark Nolte and Sally Devore (Checkpoint timing)
Dan Comden and Marvin Crippen (Sweep, scoring)
Joel Wright (Checkpoint timing)
Casey Woodrum (Checkpoint timing)
Jim Hogan (Checkpoint timing)
Carl and Ellen Graf (Checkpoint timing)
Richard Crosier Sharon Euster (Checkpoint timing)
Richard Fuhrman (Checkpoint timing)

Pictures:

Dan and Marvin got some shots from the sweep vehicle.
Kim and Steve's pictures
Steve took some pictures on the checkout run for No Alibi 2004.
Casey Woodrum's pictures

Results:

Car #	Competitors	Class	Saturday	Sunday	Total	O/A	Tie	by Class	Tie
13	Satch Carlson / Russ Kraushaar	UNL	15	22	37	1		1
1	Michael Daily / Steve Pfau	UNL	27	15	42	2		2
2	Lee Sorenson / Rod Sorenson	UNL	33	17	50	3		3
3	Steve Richards / Gary Reid	UNL	44	21	65	4	*	4	�
21	Dennis Gunn / Rebecca Rocks	UNL	37	28	65	4	*	4	�
17	Pat Biggar / Jack Heppes	UNL	49	24	73	7		6
9	Ron Sorem / Max Vaysburd	UNL	45	35	80	8		7
5	R.Dale Kraushaar / Francesca Carozza	UNL	79	22	101	9		8
22	Brian Hackney / Bob "Rusty" Link	UNL	61	46	107	10		9
4	Paul "Pablo" Eklund / Kala Rounds	UNL	56	59	115	11		10
14	John Kisela / David Jensen	UNL	111	37	148	12		11
20	Steve Brown / Dave Glassman	UNL	359	308	667	19	&	12
23	Philip Widner / Patrick Widner	SOP	266	164	430	14		1
8	Vasco de Pinna / Kevin Mullins	SOP	288	239	527	15		2
7	Steve R. Perret / Kathryn S. Hansen	SOP	228	312	540	16		3
16	Jason Carter / Jered Carter	SOP	467	93	560	17		4
19	Tom Burress / Don Burress	SOP	466	165	631	18		5
25	Conrad Berg / Angela Tovar	SOP	430	237	667	19	&	6
26	Jason Webster / Brandon Harer	SOP	529	339	868	22		7
12	Walter J. Wendolowski / Zoe A. Wendolowski	SOP	754	335	1089	24		8
24	Rob Bouthillier / Jody Phillips	NOV	266	162	428	13		1
27	Nate Foley / Aaron Cardin	NOV	1498	585	2083	25		2
11	Mark Pace / Devika Pace	NOV	2571	157	2728	26		3
10	Don Gibson / MIke Workman	EQU	41	24	65	4	*	1
6	Dave Burroughs / Dave Karraker	EQU	335	363	698	21		2
15	William McRae / Dave Harms	VINT	634	292	926	23		1

* 3 cars tied for 4th overall (Steve Richards / Gary Reid, Dennis Gunn / Rebecca Rocks, and Don Gibson / MIke Workman)
� 2 cars tied for 4th Unlimited (Steve Richards / Gary Reid and Dennis Gunn / Rebecca Rocks)
& 2 cars tied for 19th Overall (Steve Brown / Dave Glassman and Conrad Berg / Angela Tovar)

Scoring detail for Saturday (PDF) and Sunday (PDF)

What Do I Do Now??

We hope you enjoyed No Alibi? Isn't driving on gravel fun? Here are the events we put at the top of our list for this year. You'd probably enjoy them too:

Golden West 2004: A new rally based in Yreka, California Golden West 2004 will run in the hills and mountains of Northern California and Southern Oregon. Saturday will also run late, until nearly midnight, giving you a chance to test your driving lights. This 300+ mile, two-day event is featured as Round 2 of the Pacific Coast Challenge. July 17 and 18, 2003
Night On Bald Mountain: A brisk one-day gravel TSD rally running on the unpaved forest roads of the Washington Cascades. Round 3 of the Pacific Coast Challenge. October 2, 2004.
Totem Rally: Challenging two day event starting and ending in the interior of BC. Uses many famous stage rally roads as part of it's route. Can be a tough fall event with a good chance of finding snow. November 13/14, 2004.

Pacific Coast Challenge International Rally Series: No Alibi 2004 was not part of the PCC series this year. No Alibi and Night On Bald Mountain alternate years as the Washington PCC event.