April 5, 2003 Mini Rally

Hosted with the BMW Car Club of BC

Designed as a Training Rally to spark interest in Classic TSD; this full day Rally took place in Aldergrove, Abbostford & Chilliwack.  Lunch was held at Delair Park and catered by Kelly Beddows & Linda Watson with food from Costco & Subway.  The rally consisted of 3 course traps and 13 timed checkpoints. The rally also had 1 Monte Carlo Section.  Added for another challenge were the many railway crossing delays.  The teams that paid attention to the time declaration procedure were credited for their waits at the crossings.  Below is a brief description of the traps:
Trap 1(on course) - Most Protected Route
Trap 2(off course) - ONTO Trap
Trap 3(on course) - Loop Road Trap (Teams got an ON course depending on how they came through)

The Teams: (The real names for BMW colours were not used to avoid rally worker confusion.)

Car # Description Driver Navigator
1 '89 BMW 325iC Bronze John Levine Lee Cross
2 '76 BMW 2002 Beige Al Larson Eddy Cooper
3 '99 VW Golf Dark Green Caroline Rapson Sarah Morton
4 '02 BMW 325i Grey Alicia Renoirte Bernd Schmitzer
5 '02 BMW 325Ci Blue George Kent Dave Wilder
6 '98 BMW 328iC White Rick Gaisford Jason Gaisford
7 '86 BMW 535i Silver Rob Dunlop Shelley Owen
8 '02 BMW M3 Cabriolet Grey Don Gibson Kim Gibson
9 '98 BMW 328is Dark Red Sultan Karim Garth Fraser
   

The Rally Crews: (Thank you all for your help)
Dean Schindell  (Assistant RallyMaster) - '?? BMW 328is Silver
Steve Coulter - '88 BMW 535i Blue
Craig Evans (On Course #1) - '75 BMW 3.0si Fjord Blue
Kelly Beddows & Linda Watson (Off Course #2) & Lunch Caterers - '72 BMW E3 Alpina Polaris Silver
Dave Beddows (RallyMaster) (On Course #3) - '72 BMW E3 Alpina Polaris Silver
Dave & Kelly Beddows are sometimes driving the MAGIC BUS or our '85 Ford Escort

Combined Results In Order Of Place

Car # Team Points Seconds
3 Rapson/Morton 9 669
1 Levine/Cross 13 812
2 Larson/Cooper 16 974
9 Karim/Fraser 19 1270
5 Kent/Wilder 19 1175
4 Renoirte/Schmitzer 22 1298
8 Gibson/Gibson 24 1446
7 Dunlop/Owen 43 2517
6 Gaisford/Gaisford 44 2645

Teams 9 and 5 were tied at 19 points.  Under Classic Rally rules the 1st tie breaker is the number of zeroed checkpoints.  Car 9 zeroed 9 checkpoints and car 5 zeroed 6 checkpoints.  As car 9 zeroed more than car 6 they placed better even though their total seconds for the day were greater than car 6.  If you want a .pdf of your results sent to you by email please email me a request.

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