SWISCC Newsletter May 2014

May 2014
VOLUME 56
UNDER THE BO NNET
The Official Publication of the Southwest Idaho Sports Car Club
Board of Directors
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President
Juanita Thiel
385-9513
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Vice President
Margaret Harmon
362-6459
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Treasurer
Christine Donnell
871-9315
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Recording Secretary
Ross Dando
908-2173
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Activities Director
Mike & Julie Lemna
362-0359
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Newsletter Editor
Jerry Howard
323-3655
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Past President
Keith Hatcher
From The President
My thanks to Jerry and Gary for hosting April’s “So Easy a
Caveman Could Do It” rallye. Thanks to their crew as well. It was a
beautiful day with sixteen cars participating.
This rallye found me driving with a new navigator, Pam Moodie.
I’m always a bit nervous when working with a new team member – but we
did pretty well. Well until the 6th leg that is. We got so messed up on it –
we went back and started it over and finally gave up and went to the restaurant taking our 300
point penalty. I was tempted not to even turn our sheet in, but we did and much to our
surprise we won 2nd SOP! So see – we’re proof….if you just give it a good try and have fun
doing it you might just win a prize! Thanks Pam – it was a fun trip!
Thanks also to Mike & Julie for finding rallye hosts Scott & Kate to take over our
August rallye. With that we are booked up for the year! We couldn’t do it without great
volunteers – thanks to all who have stepped up this year.
Just a reminder for those who may not have gotten your copy at the last general
meeting or April’s rallye: the 2014 Rallye Code is available. I’ll have copies at the May’s
meeting next Friday the 2nd – please pick up your copy!
Included as a separate attachment with this month’s “Under the Bonnet” is our
membership roster for your use. Should you have corrections or updates to the information
listed please let Christine know.
Hope to see you next week!
288-0255
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Until next month….
Life is short - hug those you love!
Southwest Idaho Sports Car Club
General Meeting - April 4, 2014
Called to Order @ 19:35
Members Present: 27
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1. Welcome: New Members & Guests - Juanita - March Rallye School, Practice & Graduation Rallyes Thanks Jim & Dan, Jack & Ellen/Crew and Bill & Christine/Crew.
2. Officer Reports:
Secretary – Ross - Approval of March 7th Minutes - Motioned and approved.
Treasurer – Christine - not present - new membership applications received.
Vice President - Margaret - No report
Newsletter Editor – Jerry - Submittal Deadline April 25th
Activities Director – Mike & Julie - We have a Rallye master for August 17th - Scott and Kate. We have three good options for the Christmas Party, the
board will be reviewing and deciding at the next board meeting.
3. Committee Reports:
Membership - Bruce not present.
Web Site - Lynn - Will be posting the Rallye code on the website.
4. April Events: 13th “So Easy a Caveman Could Do It” Rallye – Jerry & Gary
5. Other Business: 2014 Rallye Code Handout – Mike & Julie. Dues Are Due/
Membership Roster - Next Newsletter. The date for the Oct. Rallye will be the
first week of the month 3rd & 4th. May 18th Bob and Rene will be putting on the
"Country Roads" Rallye. May 25th second annual Eagle Car show. Idaho Offroad Rallye is in need of volunteers! Contact Dave Erickson's 6. Name Badge Drawing - Juanita has taken control.......and the winner is, have to wait
until next meeting.
7. Adjourn @ 20:03
Treasurer’s Report
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Balance as of March 27, 2014
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$90.00
Income:
Member dues : April Rallye
Car Number
Total Income: $266.00
Expenses:
Code Printing;
Rallye Expenses:
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$2,508.58
$2,595.40
$166.00
$10.00
$63.72
$115.46
Total Expenses:
Ending Balance as of March 27, 2014: $179.18
Thanks Jerry and Gang for a nice scenic spring April Rallye. We enjoyed getting
out of the winter hum-drums and seeing everybody have a good time on a beautiful day.
We are thankful for all the novices giving us a try, come on back, it gets easier each
time. It was a good Rallye with nice roads,blooming trees, good instructions and Gary at
a "real" checkpoint.
My opportunity is getting used to the new Rallye Mobile. The car is set up just
different enough that I have to think about things differently. For instance, the cruise
control is on a "stick" below the turn signal stick, so instead of setting the speed, I was
flashing my brights and slowing down. The average speed reset is two clicks on the "idrive." Oh the heck with it,just try to maintain speed. I guess we did OK, since we won.
It probably helped our cause that Lemna's were part of the crew, Erickson's had car
trouble (so sorry) and the "Rusty Corvette" was not among the starters. I told Larry that
we won because of my great navigator, and a much faster car. Larry reminded me that it
was just luck, and he is right, but I'll keep my navigator and my BMW M3.
April 2014,
Keith Hatcher
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I would like to thank everyone who helped me in this endeavor. Charlene for correcting my lefts
from my rights. Gary & Barb for manning the check point and Gary for being my scribe during our
forays through the bucolic countryside. Mike & Julie Lemna for their pre run of the rallye (making it look
so easy) and their manning of a check point. I know that check points can be very hectic and demanding
with numerous cars coming through at the same time (someone is not on time) and trying to
communicate above the drone of stressed out drivers & sniveling navigators.
It was my intention to make this rallye so simple a caveman could do it, but with a few subtle
twists to make it interesting. For the 4 cars that were drawn to the false check point, I feel for you. I to
have succumb to that siren’s song of the check point sign many times in the past. Navigators may keep
saying onto Track, onto Track, but the driver’s brain goes blank at the sight of that sign. Don’t worry,
with your navigator’s help you’ll get over it.
I would also like to apologize for messing up the paper work turned in at the end of the rallye. A
combination of score sheet misplacement, bad math on my part, and failure to see two obvious, but
accidental mistakes (on the part of the participants) in time had me screw up an award which was caught
during the double checking via computer (Thank You Dave) at a later time. Sorry, I’m just not perfect
anymore.
I hope everyone had fun, learned a few things about rallying. I’ll try to make the next one slower
and a little simpler.
Jerry Howard
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P.S. Thanks to Jim Van Dam for some of the photos of the rallye.
Ahhhhh, the infamous Track Road
No, no … This way
Once again someone is not on time.
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1st OVERALL
Keith & Valerie Hatcher
1st SOP+
2nd SOP+
Lee Barnasconi & Margaret Harmon
Larry & Linda Leach
1st SOP
Jim & Dan Van Dam
2nd SOP
Juanita Thiel & Pam Moodie
1st Novice
Kyle & Molly Phillips
2nd Novice
Realy Ann Wingert & Nick Brown
Best Check point
Bruce Altig & Tracy Marter
Dead Last, But Finished
Ned & Melaney Johnson
CAVEMAN STYLE. . . Alley Oop, OOP!!
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Look at those cavemen go!!
Ready Fred? Ready Barney? Yep, let’s do this thing. So in our best caveman game face, the
Toad Team departs on the ODO check segment. Hmm, we keep picking up a disconcerting
trip odo error – last month we were dead on. Fred, this ODO segment is perfect – straight
and simple – so why the growing error? Huh? At Kuna High we read 11.9 to the official
ODO of 11.6. Good’nuf for cavemen! We’ll run 1 mph over all day.
We’re off like a prom dress! 25 mph departure, but quickly up to 55 mph. The ol’ German
Flintmobile likes this speed. Gorgeous day! Catch the ONTO King cruising like two cave
boys with daddy’s ride. Before Forrey. . . mental note, gotta watch those before and
after's. Hey, hey, hey, wait a minute that’s tricky; RIs 16 & 17 are only feet apart. Real
cavemen might miss that first available right. A few more turns and voila, CP1! Hmm, nearly
a minute late, wonder if it’s us or them? Get hung up at tracks & SS in Kuna, so opt to use
only 14:30 mins of dead time at break.
Head west on Main (Glad Toad knows compass directions) finally getting around a Sunday
driver and begin bashing about on those glorious country roads. Yahooo!!!
Spy a checkpoint, but no. no. no, that’s so easy a caveman could do it! Grab a left to stay
ONTO Track Rd. Feeling good now but we keep seeing men on tractors – so let’s be on
course at that tractor guy on the yellow sign. No stress, the DIY is instructed and there it
is. Grab the time, and keep on shuffling our feet making good time with these “Good Stone”
wheels as we whizz past the gun club.
Now CST 20, enter Melba, R ONTO Potato (not potatoe) and mash into the CP. Dang, early
at DIY and late at CP. Too bad they don’t offset. Peel over to the break at Melba Valley
Market and wait. Write Note DIY on card, tape to dash, and then promptly forget about it.
. . toads and cavemen have bad memories. This is gonna hurt later. Calculate our errors and
discuss why we are usually late. Yo Barney! This is tricky again, we depart 180 out from our
arrival direction. Shuffle past the YIELD catch some on course signs and pick-up the
shuffle to 55 mph. Our sled loves cruising at these speeds. Gotta really hustle off the SSs
though.
Cavemen make off-color remarks about RI 58 (. . . turn on Dickman) and giggle. The Toad
Team would never be so crass. This is going so well now and there’s the instructed DIY at
Kuna Klassy Kuts. Sure can’t beat an alliterated DIY – unless it’s DIY at the Kit Kat Klub,
chuckled the cavemen.
Reality check! What’s this card taped to the dash? Oh, it’s only a Note DIY, but it’s so
easy, even two blonde cavemen can earn 300 points here. Sounds of slapping foreheads
can be heard over the shuffling of tender feet as Fred and Barney sullenly continue at a
blistering 50 mph pace.
Left ONTO Black Cat – Kats aren’t so funny now – and right across RR tracks to remain
ONTO Black Cat, which still isn’t funny, although it is a good rallye trap.
A somber Fred and Barney rallye toward the final CP, earnestly impressed by how the
RMs managed to plot a clean, congestion-free route right up to the door of the finish
restaurant. Wow, first RI after the CP puts us into the finish. Nicely done!
Clearly an understatement to say we were dumbfounded to place second in class with a
missed DIY checkpoint. 300 points on one leg is usually more than the total winning rallye
score. Maybe it wasn’t “So Easy A Caveman Could Do It!” But The Toad Team will vouch
that Jerry & Gary, Charlene and their crew members gave us a wonderful rallye on what
turned out to be a perfect day for bashing about the rock quarry in our Flintmobile.
Hey, !
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We did the Cave Man Rallye. Came out pretty good, and true it was
reasonably simple, but that cave man sure needed a fast horse. Lots of
traffic and corners. I drove as fast as I dared most of the time and was
still late on 4 of 6 checkpoints. !
Anyway, nice day and good ride except for the wind. Can't the RM fix
that?!
The new team Munson seems to be a fast learner. I followed him
through the last three checkpoints and could hardly keep up. Don't
know how he scored, (he missed the last turn) but he was certainly not
afraid to use the gas pedal. !
Good work.!
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Ole #3
So Easy a Caveman Could Do It!
Car Number
Driver
Navigator
Class
13 April 2014
Penalt
Check Check Check Check Check Check
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Math
Point 1 Point 2 Point 3 Point 4 Point 5 Point 6 Points Errors
Total
Points
Rank
Rallye
Points
25
Keith Hatcher
Valerie Hatcher
SOP+
55
108
31
8
11
33
0
0
246 1st Overall101.000
3
Lee Bernasconi
Margaret Harmon SOP+
17
169
0
7
40
42
0
0
275 1st SOP+ 98.134
15
Larry Leach
Linda Leach
SOP+
64
124
36
8
12
39
0
42
325 2nd SOP+ 94.916
6
Bob Gorton
Renae Gorton
SOP+
85
98
23
19
15
80
0
20
340
29
Kyle Phillips
Molly Phillips
NOV
69
26
120
4
38
104
150
*40
511 1st NOV 100.000
14
Dan Van Dam
Jim Van Dam
SOP
113
59
32
300
29
43
0
*60
576 1st SOP
22
Juanita Thiel
Pam Moodie
SOP
70
114
22
10
83
300
0
0
599 2nd SOP+ 93.173
42
Scott Henscheid Ian Fuller
NOV
68
69
300
16
22
28
0
102
605 2nd NOV 92.708
21
Realy Ann WingertNick Brown
NOV
158
38
20
300
22
118
0
*75
656
88.751
12
Bruce Altig
Tracy Marler
SOP
49
173
8
300
64
67
0
*86
661 Best CP
88.363
16
Roger Munson
Gaylene Munsen
NOV
107
212
36
27
27
126
150
0
685
86.501
66
Rick Phillips
Ranae Jolly
NOV
92
146
117
68
10
95
150
8
686
86.424
8
Jack Keifer
Ellen Keifer
SOP+
80
140
53
300
27
80
0
80
760
66.924
44
Sally Heller
Rod Heller
SOP
149
86
66
20
23
300
150
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794
78.045
9
Ned Johnson
Melaney Johnson SOP+
300
146
17
300
300
105
0
120
11
Dave Erickson
April Erickson
Rallye
Masters
Gerry Howard
Gary Allen
Rallye Crew Charlene Howard Barb Schuler
Rallye Crew Julie Lemna
SOP+
1288 DLBF
DNF
93.951
94.957
32.947
1.000
100.000
Min CK
Mike Lemna
* Math errors. Calculated scores were higher than scores turned in by that amount.
Getting help from "Old Heads" doesn't always help. April helped Rick and Ranae
Some of the error were caused by using an incorrect True Time.
90.000
90.000
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