Rainier Auto Sports Club

No Alibi Rally 2002

No Alibi is a TSD touring rally in the Grand Tour tradition. A challenge of driving accuracy and navigational skills in a friendly two-day competition for driver and co-driver. The rally covered 591 miles of paved and smooth gravel roads through the scenic Cascade Mountains and Eastern Washington.

This third running of the rally started at Snoqualmie Summit, East of Seattle and proceeded across the Cascade Mountains perusing the environments around such places as Cle Elum, Quincy, Soap Lake, Wilbur and Reardon before ending the day in Spokane for the night. Sunday we headed back west through areas such as Cheney, Harrington, Wilson Creek, Ephrata and finished in Wenatchee in the early afternoon.

Date: June 1-2, 2002

Rallymaster: Kirk Simons

A Word From The Rallymaster:

A time of reflection.

It is now a day after the rally and my stress level has receded. I think back on the preparation for No Alibi as being a challenging task, but also fun. It is great to get out and meet new people, see new things and finding new roads is the best part of all. There is also no greater satisfaction when the day of the event, everything has come together and I can pretty much stand back and let our workers do the rest. My hat is off to our workers. I planned out 34 checkpoints for the rally and we scored every one. They did a great job!

Out of the 23 cars and trucks that started, including four 1969 and 1970 Saab Sonnets, all finished having survived two days and 600 miles of rallying on paved and smooth gravel roads that at times had some brisk sections to them. Unfortunately, there were some flat tires, mechanical problems and one team had an untimely encounter with a deer, but everyone overcame these obstacles and continued on to the finish. This is the true sense of rallying. Congratulations to all the class winners and Lee Sorenson and Rod Sorenson for the overall victory in their 1999 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS.

I am looking forward to getting out and exploring all new roads to be used on next years No Alibi. Keep visiting Rainier's web site, we will keep it updated with new information on next years rally. Thanks again for attending this years No Alibi rally. Hope to see you out at upcoming rally's.

Kirk Simons; No Alibi Rally Master.

Pictures:

Official Pictures: Registration/Start, Section 4, Section 11, Section 23, Section 34, Finish
Pictures from Steve Richards, driver of car 6.
Pictures from Lee Sorenson of car 7.
Pictures from Dan Comden (Car 15)
Pictures from Eric Horst (Worker)
Pictures from Steve Willey (Scoring)

Stories:

Results:

#	Team	Vehicle	Class	Total	O/A
7	Lee Sorenson / Rod Sorenson	1999 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS	UNL	34	1
1	Satch Carlson / Russ Kraushaar	1969 Saab Sonett II V4	UNL	41	2
6	Steve Richards / Gary Reid	2002 Subaru Impreza OB Spt	UNL	67	5
12	Teresa Davenport / Rusty Link	1968 Saab Sonett	UNL	195	7
9	Guy Recordon / David Recordon	1969 Saab Sonett	UNL	1686	19
2	Bob Chandler / Michael Chandler	1989 Mazda MX6	UNL	1896	21
23	Rebecca Rocks / Dennis Gunn	1969 Saab Sonett	UNL	4551	23
4	Mike Daily / Steve Pfau	1984 VW Jetta	EQU	63	3
11	Ron Sorem / Max Vaysburd	1988 Acura Integra	EQU	65	4
15	Dan Comden / Marvin Crippen	1994 Chevrolet Blazer	EQU	185	6
13	Tom Palidar / Brian Palidar	1984 VW GTI	EQU	260	8
18	Michael Garvais / Kim Prater	1989 Toyota MR2	EQU	330	11
25	John Cain / Pam Cain	Subaru Legacy	EQU	2257	22
16	Vasco de Pinna / Kevin Mullins	1997 Subaru Legacy	SOP	315	9
22	Wade Pennington / Page Palmer	2000 Land Rover Discovery	SOP	323	10
3	Eric Muller / Michael Workman	1989 BMW 325ix	SOP	821	16
20	Ryan Douthit / Aaron Bartel	1992 Subaru Legacy Turbo	SOP	893	17
10	Taylor Van Vleet / Holly Odegard	1992 Honda Accord	NOV	378	12
8	Steve R. Perret / Kathryn S. Hansen	1986 Subaru GL10	NOV	400	13
14	Sasha Horst / Nicole Nuber	1993 Subaru Loyale	NOV	482	14
5	Jeremy Stewart / Holly Stewart	2000 Toyota Tacoma	NOV	648	15
21	Dennis Gorman / Tom Gorman	1989 BMW 325i	NOV	1113	18
24	Dave Karraker / Dave Burroughs	1997 Ford T-Bird	NOV	1804	20

Detailed scores (HTML)
Detailed scores (PDF)

Thanks to the Workers:

Gretchen and Mike Jones (Registration, Saturday lunch, MTC)
Mark and Mary Hillman (Checkpoint timing)
Carl and Ellen Graff (Checkpoint timing)
Dave Smith and Steve Dazey (Checkpoint timing)
Eric Horst and Steve Willey (Checkpoint timing, scoring)
Ken and Sue Lingbloom (Checkpoint timing)
Terry Simons and Mark Simons (Pictures, trophies and prizes)
Roy Ward and Shari (Sweep, Checkpoint timing)
Mark Nolte and Sally Devore (Checkpoint timing)
Richard Crosier and Sharon Euster (Checkpoint timing)
Kirk Simons (Advance and outstanding oversight)

What Do I Do Now?

Did you enjoy No Alibi? Discovering your taste for gravel roads? Here are some other fine events you'd probably enjoy:

Coast to Coast Rally: A grueling two-day, 1000km, gravel adventure on beautiful Vancouver Island. June 29/30, 2002
The Road Not Taken: A Rally Adventure During the New Moon of August. A one-day, 250 mile event, running on wiggly unpaved roads of the Siuslaw National Forest of Oregon. August 10, 2002.
Night On Bald Mountain: Brisk gravel TSD rally running on the unpaved forest roads of Snoqualmie Pass and beyond. October 5, 2002.

Pacific Coast Challenge International Rally Series: No Alibi 2002 is not part of the Pacific Coast Challenge Series for 2002. It will return to the PCC calendar in 2003, alternating years with Night on Bald Mountain. Information on the series is available at the Pacific Coast Challenge Website.