Feb 22, 2003 Mini Rally

Hosted with the BMW Car Club of BC

Designed as a Training Rally to spark interest in Classic TSD; this 1hr 50 minute 3 Stage Rally went from Sultan's house in Burnaby to SFU and back again.
Although no timing checkpoints were used, the Rally did prove to have its traps. 5 in fact - 4 off course, 1 on course. In addition to the TSD was a Monte Carlo section which of course was timed.
Trap 1(off course) - ONTO Trap
Trap 2(off course) - OPPORTUNITY Trap
Trap 3(off course) - OCCURRENCE/BECOMES Trap
Trap 4(off course) - ACUTE TURN Trap
Trap 5(on course) - PHYSIOLOGICAL Trap (Unnerve the Navigator into thinking they messed up.)
Despite the weather being a little rainy, some diehards were out with the top down.

The Teams:
Car - Driver & Navigator - Year Make Model Colour
Car 1 - John Levine & Lee Cross - '89 BMW 325iC Bronzeite
Car 2 - Donni & Mark Klassen - '95 BMW 318ti Black
Car 3 - Don & Kim Gibson - '02 BMW M3 Cabriolet Stahlgrau
Car 4 - David & Carol Wilder - '00 BMW M5 Titansilber
Car 5 - Carrie Tang & Adrian Lee - '01 BMW X5 3.0 Black
Car 6 - Henry Ellis & Art Williams - '02 BMW M3 Red
Car 7 - Al Larson & Eddy Cooper - '76 BMW 2002 Sahara
Car 8 - Stephen & Kate Nemeth - '03 BMW 540i Titansilber
Car 9 - Terry & Karen Morris - '99 BMW M Coupe Black
Car 10 - Rick & Jason Gaisford - '98 BMW 328iC AlpinweiB
Car 11 - Stewart Goumans & Alan Chan - '91 BMW 318is Diamantens
Car 12 - Sandra & Philip Marques - '97 BMW 328is Madeiraviolett
Car 13 - Alicia Renoirte & Bernd Schmitzer - '02 BMW 325i Stahlgrau

The Rally Crews: (Thank you all for your help)
Dean Schindell (Off Course #1) (Assistant RallyMaster) - '?? BMW M3 Black
Steve Coulter (Off Course #2) - '86 BMW 535i Blue
Craig Evans (Off Course #3) - '75 BMW 3.0si Fjord Blue
John Rapson (Off Course #4) - '92 BMW 318is Arktissilber
Tom Fink (On Course #5) - '84 BMW 318i Polaris
Sultan Karim (Host) - '59 BMW 507 Staulbleu
Kelly Beddows (Monte Carlo/Start line) - '72 BMW E3 Alpina Polaris Silver
Dave Beddows (RallyMaster) (Monte Carlo/Start line) - '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	OC1	OC2	OC3	OC4	OC5	Monte Carlo
1	Levine/Cross	-2	-84	0	0	0	0	0	-2
6	Ellis/Williams	-2	-84	0	0	0	0	0	-2
7	Larson/Cooper	3	180	0	5	0	0	0	-2
13	Renoirte/Schmitzer	4	252	0	5	0	0	0	-1
4	Wilder/Wilder	4	252	0	0	5	0	0	-1
12	Marques/Marques	5	300	0	0	0	5	0	0
8	Nemeth/Nemeth	5	300	0	0	0	5	0	0
10	Gaisford/Gaisford	8	480	0	0	5	5	0	-2
3	Gibson/Gibson	9	540	5	0	0	5	0	-1
11	Goumans/Chan	9	564	0	0	5	5	0	-1
2	Klassen/Klassen	10	600	0	5	0	5	0	0
9	Morris/Morris	14	864	0	5	5	5	0	-1
5	Tang/Lee	15	900	0	5	5	5	0	0

Under a normal TSD Rally the Timed Checkpoints usually break the ties when points are equal. It is very rare that a RallyMaster has to look at 2 teams with the same score and make a decision as to who should place above the other. In the case of this rally I had to do so for Cars 1 & 6 and Cars 4 & 13 and Cars 8 & 12. Here is my reasoning for placing them as I did:
Cars 1 & 6
Car 1 still managed to zero the Monte Carlo despite the fact they were using the in dash clock which they set as I waved them off the start line. I feel this deserves credit because they had to wait for it to change before shooting for the timing line.
Cars 4 & 13
I based my decision on the fact that the Car 4 team has done TSD checkpoints in the past therefore they have some exposure to this game. That gives car 13 a slight handicap over them.
Cars 8 & 12
Car 8 was 39 seconds late to the Monte Carlo. Car 12 was only 17 seconds late to the Monte Carlo.

As a training rally, the scores don't really matter. However, this is a good example of how the scoring is done. For the first time the learning curve is always steep. Everyone did great and I know everyone will do much better on the March 16, 2003 Mini Rally.