Rainier Auto Sports Club

No Alibi Rally 2001

No Alibi 2001 Dash Plaque

Date: June 2-3, 2001

Rallymaster: Kirk Simons

Summary: A TSD rally in the Grand Tour tradition. Starting at the Family Pancake House at Snoqualmie Summit and proceeding east across the Cascade Mountains; perusing the environments around such places as Cle Elum, Quincy, Soap Lake, Reardon, and ending the day in Spokane. Saturday buffet dinner at the Bayou Brewery with Satch Carlson as featured entertainment. Sunday a return west by way of Cheney, Sprague, Odessa, Ephrata and finish in Wenatchee. The roads were about 50% gravel (smooth).

From The Rallymaster:

Now that I've had a day to rest and reflect back on the weekend, I'd like to thank all the competitors for coming out to play. I especially want to thank all of the workers who took part in the event performing various functions from working checkpoints, scoring, registration and those who helped set up the rally. It was quite the undertaking for our small club.

The weather was rainy off and on throughout the weekend and much cooler than last years heat wave. The roads surfaces remained smooth from the prior year, with a couple recent fresh graveled sections. It was surprising to see wet snow at the pass this late in the year, but it just goes to show that you can't count on the weather. The field of 26 cars was great, especially all of the Subies coming out and the number of classic cars we had. Wow.

Dinner worked out really well on Saturday night, even though we tried to get the Bayou to put us outside, but due to the weather, they decided to put us inside. Thanks Satch for the entertainment during dinner, you really heated up the room with your stories.

Congratulations to Satch and Russ on remaining the Top Dogs of the Rally for the 2nd year in a row. We will be looking over the critiques from the rally to see what we can improve on. Rainier is definitely looking forward to doing No Alibi again next year. Hope to see you there and at future rallies. Kirk.

Heard on the Street:

"I can tell you one thing I'm going to do this event every year whether I'm a co-driver or behind the wheel" - Scott Gratton

Photographs:

Trophy Pictures These are the pictures we used for the photo trophies.
Eric's Pictures. Including water crossing.
Pictures from Paul Appel.
Dave Karraker, Car #23, provided these.
The images of Jamie "Subiegal" Thomas, Car #20
View from the other half of car #20, John Felstead.
Pictures from Pete Soper, Car #22.

Results:

Driver	Navigator	Car #	Vehicle	Class	Total	Saturday	Sunday	Class Finish	Overall Finish
Peter Hadfield	Max Vaysburd	21	1990 Subaru Legacy	NOV	365	192	173	1	13
Shawn Breeding	Sasha Horst	14	1992 Toyota Pickup	NOV	543	241	302	2	17
Josh Fooks	Shelley McDannel	16	2002 Subaru WRX	NOV	563	330	233	3	18
Ryan Barker	Scott Gratton	18	2000 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS	NOV	739	364	375	4	21
Dustin Blundell	Gus Shuart	15	2000 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS	NOV	827	490	337	5	23
Dan Fealk	Stuart Fealk	17	2000 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS	SOP	190	93	97	1	8
Ron Sorem	Josh Sorem	6	1987 Subaru RX Coupe	SOP	273	116	157	2	10
Vasco de Pinna	Kevin Mullins	13	1997 Subaru Legacy GT	SOP	333	152	181	3	11
Mike Workman	Eric Muller	4	1989 VW Jetta GLI	SOP	362	176	186	4	12
Scott Huhn	Kristen Tabor	19	1984 Audi 4000S Quattro	SOP	587	304	283	5	19
Wade Pennington	Page Palmer	25	2001 Land Rover Discovery	SOP	740	451	289	6	22
Michael Daily	Steve Pfau	8	1984 VW Jetta	EQUIP	159	112	47	1	7
Tom Palidar	Brian Palidar	9	1984 VW Rabbit GTI	EQUIP	372	201	171	2	14
Rebbecca Rocks	John Kisela	2	1995 Subaru Legacy LS	UNL	57	22	35	1	2
Lee Sorenson	Rod Sorenson	7	1999 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS	UNL	63	17	46	2	3
R. Dale Kraushaar	Francesca Carozza	5	1998 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS	UNL	105	30	75	3	4
Peter Soper	Jane Barker	22	1985 BMW 635 CSi	UNL	124	70	54	4	5
Jamie Thomas	John Felstead	20	2001 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS	UNL	128	49	79	5	6
Michael Garvais	Kim Prater	11	1989 Toyota MR2	UNL	413	262	151	6	15
Steve Brown	David Glassman	10	1974 Porsche 914	CLS	541	172	369	1	16
Dave Burroughs	David Karraker	23	1980 Ford Fiesta	CLS	DNF	6364	DNF	2	26
Satch Carlson	Russ Kraushaar	1	1969 SAAB Sonett II V4	CLS UNL	38	21	17	1	1
Bob Chandler	Mark Clemmens	3	1970 Datsun 240Z	CLS UNL	207	87	120	2	9
Fred Ankeny	John Joyce	26	196? Saab 96	CLS UNL	702	485	217	3	20
Michael Ruge	Elly Ruge	24	1974 Pontiac Grandville	CLS UNL	1144	892	252	4	24
Gary Reid	Steve Richards	12	1965 MGB	CLS UNL	2569	97	2472	5	25

Detailed results for Saturday and Sunday

Pacific Coast Challenge International Rally Series: No Alibi 2001 is part of the Pacific Coast Challenge Series for 2001. Information on the series is available at the Pacific Coast Challenge Website.