Rainier Auto Sports Club

No Alibi Rally 2005

Join Rainier Auto Sports Club on 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 lush agricultural region of Eastern Washington. No Alibi spans two days and almost 600 miles of the finest back roads. This year we again focus on the Washington wine country and the rolling hills of the Palouse. This event is suitable for beginner or novice rallyists.

This year No Alibi serves as Round 2 of the Pacific Coast Challenge International Rally Series for 2005. This world-class series features four grueling unpaved TSD events and the toughest competition around. Your No Alibi entry automatically earns you points in the PCC Series and we encourage you to contest them all.

Date:

June 11-12, 2005

Rallymaster:

Kirk Simons

From The Rallymaster:

Once again we conclude a fantastic year of No Alibi. The weather was stunning, roads were tight and twisty in spots and rather calm in others. I did try talking to the rally gods, but they just wouldn't do anything about the gale force winds we encountered, especially on Saturday. Not everything can be perfect. Thirty teams entered the event and 30 teams finished the event. At least everyone found their way to the finish. It was a joy to see so many faces grinning throughout the weekend, even if they were covered with a fine coat of dirt. Those smiles mean we, as a club, have done our job. I would like to conclude with a big thanks to all those that entered the event, hope you had a great time and a really big thanks to all of our worker crews. It would be really impossible to pull of a rally of this caliber without such a great team of volunteers. Thanks again and hope to see you at future rallies. --Kirk

Thanks to the Workers:

Roy Ward, route finding and pace, with Sherry Schlosser
Joel Wright, checkpoints
Mark Nolte and Sally Devore, checkpoints
Ken and Sue Lingbloom, checkpoints
Dave and Dot Robinson, checkpoints
Marvin Crippen and Dan Comden, checkpoints and scoring
Kip Shirey and Tracy Shirey, checkpoints
Kevin Barrows and Joe Gardner, sweep
Brian and Megan Hackney, checkpoints
Jeff McMillen, checkpoints
Stephen Willey and Eric Horst, checkpoints and scoring
Kim Prater and Michael Garvais, checkpoints
Richard Fuhrman, checkpoints
Kirk and Terry Simons, checkpoints, route books, lunch, trophies, planning and oversight.

Pictures:

Pictures by Jeremy Stewart of car 15.
Car #18 driven by Tom Palidar got some pictures.
Pictures from Dan Comden, worker in green Saab.
Esko Mannisto, car #19 sent these pictures.
Kirk and Terry Simons found some time to relax and take pictures.
Worker Jeff McMillen shot pictures which include every competitor.
Checkout pictures taken three weeks before the event.
A couple comparison shots from the checkout.

Charts and Graphs:

Elevation profiles for the route. Highest point was 4504 feet and lowest 378.
The route plotted on aerial images.

Results:

	Driver / Navigator	Class	Saturday	Sunday	Total	O/A	Tie	by Class	Tie
25	Roger W. Greene / Trevor Hitch	NOV	497	547	1044	27		1
23	Paul Pagac / Josh Snerch	NOV	814	533	1347	28		2
14	Vasco de Pinna / Kevin Mullins	SOP	159	123	282	16		1
26	Robert Bouthillier / Jody Phillips	SOP	164	164	328	17		2
7	Steve R. Perret / Kathryn S. Hansen	SOP	270	119	389	18		3
15	Jeremy Stewart / Holly Stewart	SOP	390	117	507	19		4
22	Philip Widner / Patrick Widner	SOP	372	174	546	20		5
29	Hal Dittman / Susan Everett	SOP	484	138	622	23		6
18	Tom Palidar / Brian Palidar	SOP	409	345	754	25		7
24	Keith Regier / Luke Rickert	SOP	1063	610	1673	29		8
20	Scott Margerum / Ben Johnson	SOP	3735	1389	5124	30		9
19	Esko Mannisto / Peter Mannisto	EQU	75	23	98	13		1
16	Don Gibson / Mike Workman	EQU	122	34	156	14		2
27	Walt Wendolowski / Zoe Wendolowski	EQU	139	70	209	15		3
30	Chris Waterman / Holly Odegard	EQU	821	141	962	26		4
1	Satch Carlson / Russ Kraushaar	UNL	20	11	31	1		1
11	Peter Ryce / Timothy Ryce	UNL	25	17	42	2	T	2	T
4	Lee Sorenson / Rod Sorenson	UNL	23	19	42	3	T	3	T
17	Pat Biggar / Jack Heppes	UNL	33	16	49	4		4
2	R. Dale Kraushaar / Francesca Carozza	UNL	24	26	50	5		5
3	Ron Sorem / Max Vaysburd	UNL	31	22	53	6		6
5	Michael Daily / Steve Pfau	UNL	36	28	64	7		7
9	Paul Eklund / Kala Rounds	UNL	41	26	67	8		8
10	Steve Brown / Larry Richardson	UNL	45	26	71	9		9
12	Steve Richards / Gary Reid	UNL	51	23	74	10		10
13	Jason Webster / Brandon Harer	UNL	56	20	76	11		11
8	Glyn Trafford / Bart Vogelzang	UNL	65	28	93	12		12
21	Conrad Berg / Imelda Jacob	UNL	489	125	614	22		13
28	William McRae / Dave Harms	VINT	386	200	586	21		1
6	Dave Burroughs / Dave Karraker	VINT	223	416	639	24		2

T - Tie for 2nd place broken by car #11 having 25 zeros and car #4 having 19.
Detailed scores for Saturday (16K PDF)
Detailed scores for Sunday (16K PDF)

What Do I Do Now?

Developed a taste for dust? Need to find ways to satisfy your need for rally competition and adventure? Try some of these upcoming events:

Golden West 2005 is a two-day SCCA National Tour format rally that will run on the backroads through the hills and mountains of Siskiyu County and the Klamath National Forest near the California-Oregon border. Based in Yreka, California Golden West 2005 contestants will attempt to maintain moderate to brisk, but legal assigned average speeds on tarmac and unpaved surfaces varying from fine silt and sand to gravel and rocks. Saturday will also run late, until 11:00, giving you a chance to test your driving lights. This is featured as Round 3 of the Pacific Coast Challenge. July 23 and 24, 2005.
Night On Bald Mountain: A brisk one-day gravel TSD rally running on the unpaved forest roads of the Washington Cascades. October 1, 2005.
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. Round 4 of the Pacific Coast Challenge for 2005. November 19 and 20, 2005.

Pacific Coast Challenge International Rally Series:

No Alibi 2005 is a proud part of the PCC series this year. No Alibi and Night On Bald Mountain serve alternate years as the Washington PCC event. Information on the series is available at the Pacific Coast Challenge Website.