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Contents2009 CCSCC General Information p 2July 19th & 20th AutoX Report p 3Double Arrow Rally report p 3Strategic Cone Command Resutls p 4-5Four Counties Rally Report p 5Tilting at Windmills Rally Report p 63rd Annual Fall Foliage Tour Rally Report P 7Tour De Witt Rally Report p 8Happy Fourth Rally Report p 8Historic Scenic Tour Rally Report p 9Whitewash p 9
AUSPUFF 51 years of Motoring Enthusiasm by the Champaign County Sports Car Club
www.ccsportscarclub.org
Volume 51 Issue 3 December, 2008
Results on page 4 & 5 Continued on page 4
Parkland Labor Day Autocross
Continued on page2
A spin at Cone Helloween IV photo courtesy of John Li
August Coles County AutoXTom Ingles, Event Chairman
The August 2nd and 3rd CCSCC autocross event was one that I willremember. You see, this was my first as Event Chairman. I had spentsome time trying to figure out how to get two different courses run atColes County Airport, a venue with a great surface but limited courselayout possibilities. During the week prior to the event I received an email from Dan Marxasking if I needed help with the event on Saturday. He also mentionedthat he had an idea for a course layout. I encouraged Dan to come andhelp. Saturday when he arrived he gave me a preview of his courselayout. Remember that Dan is a Mini Cooper owner. He also men-tioned that he got spanked pretty good at the last event that he at-tended, not a CCSCC event. So, he was going to use this as a training
John Li, Event Chairman
The club has quite a history with the B lots upon which we ran on thatweekend, history that, being a very new member of the club comparedto some of the other club regulars, I was not aware of. Not until someof the club veterans started talking to me about running in these lotsdecades earlier.
Jim Hamilton was the one who got me thinking about making a longParkland course. Big thanks go to Dennis Miller and Barry Rowe, whohelped me figure out how to place the course as to avoid the light polesand the large island that split the course in half. I also had to figure outwhere to grid the cars; I had mistakenly put the pits in the lot next tothe course, thinking that there would be enough space on the course fora grid, but there wasn't, so in the end I had to move the grid to a furtherlot that was not in direct sight of the start line! Thankfully, the volun-teers who worked grid on Sunday met the challenge and did a good jobof keeping cars moving through grid. On Sunday, there was a courseabout 60 seconds long, a course length unheard of in recent ParklandCollege autocross history.
A lot more cars showed up than I had expected. I was expecting aturnout similar to the Parkland autocross that was held in May in con-junction with Parkland's car show. Instead, over sixty drivers showedappearance on Sunday, bringing out a Saturn Sky for people to check
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Tom Ingles, Event Chairman
I want to thank all of you who made the event a joy to run. I feel likemy goals were met. From my view everyone got plenty of course time,although Saturday's course was a little frustrating for some (my planexactly) and Sunday's was a bunch quicker.
It is a joy to put together an event when you get the help I got thisweekend. Thanks to Dennis Miller (Safety Steward), Jason Kositarutand John Li (registration), Russ Bedford (Bump Master and alwaysmister fast), Greg Lukach, Emanuel Martin, Jim Landes and thoseothers that worked in the cold and just flat made the weekend fun.
I know I had at least twenty offers to co-drive cars from the Z06, toMiata's, Subaru's, Camaro's, etc. I can guarantee, none of you had any
Strategic Cone Command II
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AuspuffThe Newletter of the Champaign County
Sports Car Club.Editor:
Jonathan FloraOccasional Autocross
Photographer:Barry Rowe & John Li
CLUB MEETINGS areheld the first Wednesdayof the month at Monical’s
Pizza on Kirby Ave inChampaign. ~7:30 pm.
Coles County report continued
course for slalom. Greg Lukach was the Safety Steward and workedwith Dan to tweak the course. When it was set it was a good coursewith lots of back and forth. When the participants arrived to walk thecourse, they found a layout that some felt favored the small car over thebigger high horse power cars. Variety, they say, is the spice of life. The first day went very well, in my opinion. We got started at 11:45,just 15 minutes past advertised time. The runs went fairly fast and itwas obvious that six runs could be attained. During the first heat, Itried something a little different and assigned work stations to everyone in the grid during their driving session. We finished the sixth runat about 1:40 and I asked all the workers for the second heat to be inplace so we could start at 1:50. We got started at 2:00 and were fin-ished at about 3:30. Fun runs were the order for the next 40 minutesand then it was time for trophies. The FTD when to Galen Williams,FTDI was Russ Bedford, and FTDIS was Clint Greist. I had great help on Saturday and registration was started and finishedon time. Although, we were a little late with the drivers meeting, Ithink it was a very smooth, fun, exhilarating day. Sunday, I arrived at 6:45 and set the course I had prepared. While Doug
Miller and I were getting our cars ready we had a visitor, prior to8:00am. He asked what was going on and we gave him low-down. Hetold us about his new Saturn Sky and a 67 Mustang. We told him tobring a car back and sign up. He said he would be back later to see howit all works. He came back later in the day during the second heat, andwas very excited about getting involved, but too late to drive. GregLukach arrived about 8:00 with Russ Bedford and we did the obliga-tory test run of the Event Chair and Safety Steward. I think Greg likedthe course. More help arrived and we started everything on time ex-cept Sunday we had the drivers meeting on time and actually got startedat 11:15. EARLY. We even had WICD TV do interviews with KerryRiley and myself. I paid the guy more and it got on the news and website. It was a nice plug for the club. This early start set us up for 7 runsand plenty of fun runs for those that had too much rubber left. The toptrophies on Sunday went as follows: Russ Bedford FTD, Kerry RileyFTDI, and FTDIS went to Adam Deffanbaugh. Both days allowed me to mingle and enjoy the participants enjoyingthe event. Both days allowed me to give out all of the trophy T-Shirts. And, both days allowed me to have all of the help that was needed to
Position(s) Name & e-mail Phone(s) Address
President Jerry [email protected]
Home: 217 351-2181 2202 Misty Meadow PlChampaign IL 61822
Vice-President & Hotline Barry [email protected]
Home: 217 351-1907Cell: 217 493-1329
3702 Glenn Brooke RdChampaign IL 61822
Secretary & Assistant Webmaster
John [email protected]
Cell: 217 714-28053107 Summithill PlChampaign IL 61822
Treasurer Jim HamiltonHome: 217 892-8560Cell: 217 722-9694
620 N PenfieldRantoul IL 61866
Registered Agent & Archiving Chair
Home: 217 684-2378 704 S AdamsPhilo IL 61864
Autocross Chair Dennis [email protected]
Home: 217 367-0132Cell: 217 714-5146
1706 Eagle Ridge RdUrbana IL 61802
Autocross Steward Greg [email protected]
Home: 217 586-4220Cell: 217 841-5677
908 N Edgewood DrMahomet IL 61853
Assistant Autocross Steward & Registrar
Home: 217 543-3449Cell: 217 433-1755
517 S Vine StArthur IL 61911
Assistant Autocross Stew-ard & Van Quartermaster
Emanuel [email protected]
Cell: 217-390-52481797 Aero PlaceUrbana IL 61802
Rally Chair Sandy [email protected]
Home: 217 749-2521Cell: 217 898-6858
26 N 1000EGibson City IL 60936
Rally Steward Brian [email protected]
Home: 217 749-2521Cell: 217 778-2050
26 N 1000EGibson City IL 60936
Safety Chair & Points Chair Russ [email protected]
Home: 217 586-4971Cell: 217 778-5253
401E CR 2500NMahomet IL 61853
Webmaster Doug [email protected]
Cell: 217-390-8531 403 S 4th StSt Joseph IL 61873
Scholarship Chair Beau [email protected]
Cell: 217 377-8929 401C CR 2500NMahomet IL 61853
To Be Determined Armando (AJ) [email protected]
Cell: 217 714-239298 S PineEl Paso IL 61738
Senior Webmaster Philip [email protected]
Cell: 478-284-70858064 Kilkelly LnJacksonville FL 32244
Assistant Webmaster Bill Wagner, [email protected]
Cell: 217 369-9204Work: 217 244-4136
414 N High StRantoul IL 61866
Auspuff Editor Jonathan [email protected]
Home: 217 531-8926 306 N Ellen StHomer IL 61849
Quartermaster - Electronic Equip.
Mike [email protected]
Home: 217 356-8970Cell: 217-377-3414
908 W ColumbiaChampaign IL 61821
2009 CCSCC Officers, Board Members, Committee Chairs, etc.
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1st 2009 CLUB MEETINGWednesday January 14th at
Monical on Kirby
NOTE CLUB MEETINGDATE CHANGE
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July 25, 2008Rallymaster: Bob TownsendWorkers: Karen Townsend, John ColemanCold Run: Jerry White
The Friday Nighter rally for July was the 2nd annual Double ArrowRally. Rallymaster Bob Townsend used a different kind of main roadrule in setting up this rally. Although, the rally was very straight-forward with no tricks, drivers were instructed to make a turn at every“Double Arrow”sign that was at a sideroad. This made for long stretcheswithout an instruction. In fact, on the first leg, no instructions wereused to reach the first check point after the odometer leg. Even thoughthere were few instructions, the main road rule caused the teams to beon their toes throughout the event.
Rally expert Chuck Hanson ventured over from Indianapolis, but with-out a partner, so he teamed up with our Jon Flora, in the Nav. class.For the first time in the last several events, we did not have any novice
Navigational Class Leg Scores 1. 2. 3. 4. Total
1. Jonathon Flora-Chuck Hanson Ford Contour 1 2 0 1 42. Russ & Chris Bedford Chev. Corvette 10 3 7 200 220
Seat of Pants Class
1. Jim Koltz-Caitlin French Subaru Legacy 29 200 10 31 2702. Mike Blackwelder-Jim Hamilton Ford Focus 200 200 20 80 3003. Brian & Sandy Grable Ford Explorer 200 200 23 200 623
Double Arrow Rallyteams. Even though John Coleman was suffering with a broken leg, heshowed up to help Bob with the check point duties.
The rally started out uneventfully, but it quickly turned a little chaoticwhen a sherrif’s deputy stopped a car shortly after the Odometer legbecause of “suspicious”activity in the area. After explaining that wewere not doing anything illegal, cars were allowed to proceed. Thiscause them to miss the first check point, and the lone checkpoint crewto have to hurry to the next control to avoid missing the front runningcars. Bob and John made it to control 2 with only about 10 seconds tospare. All of the cars were able to make it to the control and were ableto make it through the rest of the rally. Russ & Chriss Bedford missedthe last control because Chris was starting to experience car-sickness.
After the last control, the teams met at the Home of Bob & Karen forthe results and a cookout prepared by Karen. Everyone agreed that thefood was delicious and the rally was fun.
July 19 & 20 AutoX’s at Rantoul
Barry Rowe
On Saturday, July 19 and Sunday, July 20, CCSCC held their onlySCCA sanctioned autocrosses at the Rantoul Aviation Center in Rantoul.We had great events with 37 entrants on Saturday and 46 entrants onSunday. The course was a "usual" Rantoul course, with a slightlyshorter (in time) course on Sunday. Russ Bedford got FTD on Satur-day and Barney Carlson on Sunday. FTDi went to Russ Bedford onSaturday, with Brian Davis (a 2nd generation CCSCC autocrosser) ac-tually getting the trophy and to Barney Carlson on Sunday with PeteHetman actually getting the trophy. Remember that you can only getone trophy, so if you get FTD, FTDi goes to the 2nd place fastest in-dexed time.
Thanks to everyone who helped. The usual crew was there, along withClark Walker and several others who really helped us get going closeto on time. The course was pretty simple both days with a crossovernear the end of the course for the first day, but none for the second day.This time the course didn't spell anything out......
Thanks for everyone who attended and made it a success for CCSCCand for CIR/SCCA. This event is the only one that counts for points inboth the CIR championship and the CCSCC championship.
run the event. I will say that there was not one person that came todrive that did not help in a big way. I want to thank all of the partici-pants for the effort they gave to make this event go. I felt blessed by thecomments on both days. It appeared to me that everyone had a goodtime. I tried to be laid back and I think I was successful because of theterrific help I got from the Club Members and non-member regulars. Doug Miller, Barry Rowe, Dennis Miller, Emanuel Martin, Brian andSandy Grable, John Li, Russ Bedford, Kerry Riley, Mike Mathews,Austin Maguire, Nick Owens, Dan Marx, Adam Deffanbaugh,MaurieLight, Mark Hudson, John Gnuechtel and the other newer autocrossers.And most of all I want to thank my Safety Steward, Greg Lukach. A side note: Barry had a problem with his car, and Greg stepped upand loaned him his car to drive home. Freeing up Greg’s trailer to putBarry’s car on. That left his tire trailer and so I volunteered to bring itback to my house until he needed it. This meant swapping tires fromBarry’s to Greg’s. I saw at least five or six people helping to getthe changes made. We were picked up, packed and even with the extra work to get Barryhomeward bound we were able to be seated in the restaurant by 5:00. Imust say I enjoyed every minute of this weekend’s event.
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Rantoul: Nov 15, 2008
Name CarClass
N/L No. Pos. Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Run 5 Run 6FAST TIME
INDEX TIME
Russ Bedford 03 Corvette Z06 ss 1 1 57.476 1 56.895 55.043 1 55.809 2 55.343 55.187 55.187 47.019Dennis Miller 1999 Chevrolet Camaro ss 5 2 68.459 1 59.258 1 58.943 1 58.126 58.944 60.269 1 58.126 49.523Austin Maguire 2007 Subaru WRX STI as 68 1 64.171 1 61.205 1 60.300 60.214 1 60.606 61.133 1 60.300 50.772Greg Lukach 96 Chevy Corvette as 7 2 65.535 1 62.731 62.801 1 61.775 60.865 61.273 60.865 51.248Pete Hetman 2005 nissan 350Z bs 43 1 60.352 59.707 59.286 dnf 62.941 62.010 59.286 49.326Brandon Lavender 02 Mazda Miata bs 464 2 57.849 3 57.844 2 dnf 62.558 60.543 dnf 60.543 50.371John Li 1990 Mazda Miata es 10 1 65.575 1 61.983 63.927 1 60.706 1 61.892 2 60.841 60.841 49.707Clint Griest 1990 Mazda Miata es 107 2 dnf 61.826 60.989 62.765 dnf 60.218 1 60.989 49.828Beau Renshaw 2001 Ford Bullitt fs 163 1 66.609 1 66.611 65.096 65.126 1 64.930 63.890 63.890 52.453Brian Grable 2003 Ford SVT Cobra Mustangfs 255 2 68.103 1 67.276 63.958 65.181 65.187 64.064 63.958 52.509Greg Renshaw 2001 Ford Mustang Bullittfs 4163 3 67.199 65.821 2 64.032 65.333 3 63.961 1 dnf 64.032 52.570Chris Norris 07 Nissan Sentra gs 137 1 66.519 64.198 1 - off 64.149 62.789 2 62.365 62.365 50.827Darryl Dupre 97 gs 235 2 66.237 67.029 65.004 65.430 64.418 65.520 1 64.418 52.500Daniel Marx 1982 Renault Leaker hs 127 1 62.083 1 59.995 60.088 1 - off 64.356 62.943 1 59.995 47.516kia gharib 04 cooper hs 217 2 62.447 2 OC oc - off 63.102 2 0.000 0.000 61.156 48.435Alex Larson civic hs 31 3 65.412 65.600 64.740 1 63.467 63.634 2 64.647 1 63.467 50.265Brent Kalman 93 Accord hs 88 4 70.665 67.751 66.383 65.655 65.860 65.831 1 65.655 51.998john fricano 93 accord hs 818 5 OC oc - off 73.846 2 71.979 1 74.786 2 73.653 1 73.979 58.591Nick Owens 2005 Mazda RX-8 stu 80 1 62.622 62.702 - off 61.197 60.409 60.500 60.409 50.139John Gnuechtel 2007 Subaru WRX Wagonstu 96 2 64.384 1 63.252 2 62.272 1 61.850 61.162 1 - off 61.850 51.335Jason Kositarut 2005 Mazda RX-8 stu 14 3 63.300 1 63.282 1 61.765 1 61.839 1 60.766 1 71.092 1 62.766 52.095Kerry Riley 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo asp 814 1 61.076 63.009 1 59.013 58.594 1 58.004 58.814 1 58.004 49.999Clark Walker 2002 BMW Z3 3.0 asp 274 2 64.699 2 63.448 63.690 1 62.197 65.222 2 62.566 62.197 53.613Emanuel Martin 1997 Subaru Legacy csp 373 1 61.218 2 61.437 60.890 1 61.844 61.285 1 61.082 2 61.437 51.177Steve Wright 1992 Mazda Miata csp 92 2 dnf 60.485 59.999 60.418 60.277 60.329 1 59.999 51.359Ross Maguire sm 86 1 OC oc 59.543 59.673 1 58.947 59.792 5 59.008 3 58.947 50.694Andrew Garland 2005 Subar Impreza WRX STism 141 2 67.274 2 62.274 2 59.437 1 62.764 2 60.248 4 59.800 59.800 51.428Dean Clason 71 austin Mini sm 99 3 OC oc 67.562 66.803 0.000 0.000 0.000 66.803 57.450Daniel Chism 71 austin mini sm 66 4 77.052 - off 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 77.052 66.264Thomas Hutton 1996 Mazda Miata bsn 619 1 69.922 64.976 65.669 64.212 1 64.865 1 63.369 63.369 51.772Dennis Leslie 2004 mazda RX-8 bsn 4273 2 77.648 dnf OC oc - off 67.368 64.673 64.463 64.463 53.633Reece Johnson 1998 Chrysler Sebring aspn 418 1 74.132 69.290 67.571 68.473 dnf 65.461 3 64.506 2 67.571 56.286Sam Lee 06 Mitsubishi Evo aspn 52 2 72.052 1 68.174 1 65.666 67.031 66.402 1 66.822 1 65.666 56.341tomas martinez 02 BMW Z3 aspn 247 3 71.780 dnf 74.975 68.683 68.213 66.132 1 68.132 58.729Peter Stynoski 02 Focus smn 27 1 78.939 - off 65.447 dsq 64.514 65.475 64.514 55.482Krystal Broom 2002 Mazda Miata bsl 4641 1 66.528 64.921 1 63.446 1 60.566 60.051 59.811 59.811 49.762Sandy Grable 2003 Ford SVT Cobra Mustangbsl 525 2 78.093 67.966 1 66.724 2 67.152 1 66.188 66.839 66.188 54.340
more fun than I did. There was some reallygood completion. And one of the things I likebest about this group of drivers. We had sev-eral drivers with problems, from oil pressureto suspension issues and every one of them gotto drive because of other unselfish people thatcame to the rescue and let those with issuesco-drive.
I do not have any experience with other re-gions or clubs, but this one really hits the spotwhen it comes to, well I'll just call it family,always willing to help out fellow competitors.
Thanks again and I am looking forward to see-ing all of you next year.
SCC continued from page 1Four Counties Rally 1 2 3 4 5 Total
Bob TownsendKaren TownsedSamuel CritesCharles HansonRuss BedfordJoe SiedenburgEmanuel MartinJohn LiJerry WhiteKatie MartinBrian GrableSandy GrableMike BlackwelderJim HamiltonArmando MiramontesAaron WoolridgeDustin JenkingsTraivs Burich
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Rantoul: Nov 16, 2008
Name CarClass
N/L No. Pos. Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Run 5 Run 6FAST TIME
INDEX TIME
Russ Bedford 03 Corvette Z06 ss 1 1 53.438 1 52.080 1 51.241 51.403 51.332 50.177 50.177 42.750Dennis Miller 03 Corvette Z06 ss 5 2 86.564 1 56.040 54.760 55.564 60.885 1 53.132 53.132 45.268Barry Rowe Corvette as 8 1 54.376 54.872 1 54.663 54.571 54.555 54.963 54.376 45.784Austin Maguire Subaru WRX STI as 68 2 57.300 1 56.188 55.567 1 55.198 1 55.651 1 54.722 54.722 46.075Greg Renshaw 2001 Ford Mustang Bullittes 4163 1 61.303 60.354 60.653 60.086 59.146 59.563 59.146 48.558Chris Beyer Civic SI es 416 2 84.440 67.494 63.497 62.065 60.834 60.032 60.032 48.926Barney Carlson 2005 Subaru WRX Wagonsts 271 1 57.162 56.647 1 55.783 55.504 57.022 56.121 55.504 45.513Matt Lipe 2000 Nissan Sentra sts 70 2 58.280 58.010 57.073 56.999 67.193 2 68.929 1 56.999 46.511Emanuel Martin 05 Mazda RX-8 stu 373 1 56.057 55.354 1 55.219 54.807 55.565 54.753 54.753 45.445Nick Owens 2005 Mazda RX-8 stu 80 2 56.371 56.735 55.386 55.570 55.351 55.038 55.038 45.681Jason Kositarut 2005 Mazda RX-8 stu 14 3 57.084 57.123 57.077 56.125 56.483 1 55.398 55.398 45.980John Gnuechtel 2007 Subaru WRX Wagonstu 96 4 58.047 59.049 59.307 58.015 56.323 56.392 56.323 46.748Jim Landes 2006 Ford Mustang GT stu 64 5 60.616 59.318 58.279 58.352 58.071 57.611 57.611 47.817Kerry Riley 2002 Porsche 911 Turbo asp 814 1 54.195 53.379 dnf 53.411 1 53.229 53.702 53.229 45.883Brian Grable 2003 Ford SVT Cobra Mustangasp 81 2 dnf 56.882 54.971 55.559 55.242 54.703 54.703 47.154Scott Miller 08 Dodge Viper asp 105 3 64.973 67.000 59.933 58.623 1 57.545 57.739 57.545 49.603Beau Renshaw 2003 mitsubishi evo8 bsp 40 1 53.911 1 53.769 53.736 54.075 53.143 53.229 53.143 45.596Paul Chrt 02 S2000 bsp 811 2 55.263 60.216 53.360 53.254 55.173 1 52.637 1 53.254 45.691Steve Wright 1992 Mazda Miata csp 92 1 55.989 2 57.212 1 56.033 61.700 2 55.953 57.943 55.953 47.895John Li 1990 Mazda Miata csp 10 2 60.519 59.664 58.880 2 57.496 56.967 1 65.057 1 57.496 49.216Bobby Anderson 1988 RX-7 csp 230 3 60.893 59.975 59.378 58.610 57.628 58.141 57.628 49.329Joe Page '89 240SX csp 987 4 69.095 65.317 dnf 0.000 0.000 0.000 65.317 55.062Cameron Lane 240Z sm 85 1 53.990 54.398 53.373 53.239 53.294 53.442 53.239 47.223Kim Schlottach 1991 Nissan 240sx sm 401 2 62.694 59.318 58.816 58.143 59.237 1 dnf 58.143 50.003Adam Wirtz 2008 Honda Civic LX Coupesm 630 3 73.930 64.054 62.114 60.929 61.928 1 61.957 60.929 52.398Kyuhyung Lee S2000 asn 91 1 62.898 1 59.669 dnf 64.092 57.785 57.793 57.785 48.655Michal SokolowlskiS2000 asn 654 2 70.446 - off 63.988 63.238 62.679 61.247 61.247 51.570Victor Eloy 2002 Boxster S asn 1045 3 72.028 70.366 dsq 70.081 68.839 65.839 65.839 55.436Dennis Leslie 2005 RX-8 bsn 4273 1 64.972 60.549 59.829 59.373 62.595 1 58.322 58.322 48.523Samarth Jain BMW 335xi bsn 169 2 dnf 73.252 71.911 68.219 65.199 62.742 62.742 50.946Brian Bailey 2008 Honda Civic Si gsn 36 1 65.049 62.079 60.004 58.917 58.247 58.138 58.138 47.382Jeffery Ehlers 08 Civic Si gsn 120 2 off 60.754 60.172 58.480 58.235 58.849 58.235 47.461James Lee 2005 Subaru Impreza 2.5RSgsn 777 3 47.488 64.560 62.885 1 63.906 1 62.546 61.431 1 62.546 50.975Lukasz Perkowski 96 BMW 328i stxn 876 1 66.337 - off 64.486 59.970 59.391 58.620 58.620 48.068Zack Strauss 04 VW R32 stxn 765 2 - 67.018 60.911 1 60.530 61.145 60.794 1 60.530 49.634Paul Terrio 94 Honda Prelude stxn 3211 3 64.637 - off 61.939 - off 62.804 61.034 61.034 49.803Mark Stoeven 2007 Subaru WRX stxn 45 4 65.817 63.501 63.038 61.226 62.785 61.051 61.051 51.343Sam Lee 06 Mitsubishi Evo smn 131 1 61.422 71.379 2 58.896 60.080 57.876 57.658 57.658 49.585Peter Stynoski 02 Focus smn 27 2 68.907 59.458 59.499 1 58.039 59.554 57.861 57.861 49.760Jeff Gray 0 smn 417 3 62.095 - off - off 61.958 59.681 59.242 1 59.681 51.325Richard Cohen 03 Subaru WRX smn 448 4 dnf 63.973 61.773 1 61.620 61.212 60.513 60.513 52.041Jennifer Carlson 2005 Subaru WRX Wagongsl 712 1 61.912 1 61.287 62.108 1 dnf 60.638 59.448 1 60.638 49.723Chelsea Terrio 94 Honda Prelude gsl 321 2 70.897 68.745 1 64.283 62.138 66.721 1 62.673 62.138 50.704Soyeon Park VW GTI gsl 48 3 89.684 dnf 70.691 dnf dnf 69.289 69.289 56.470Devin Wright 1995 Invader World Formulafj1 29 1 66.513 61.028 60.587 62.837 58.072 62.366 58.072 58.072
Four Counties RallyThe Four Counties Rally held on August 8th was run primarily as aMonte Carlo rally with one Time-Speed-Distance leg in the middle to"spread" the scores out a bit. The rally ran around the area where thefour counties of Champaign, Douglas, Vermilion and Edgar meet. Atleast a third of the rally on gravel roads. Nine cars showed up, threerunning Navigational class, four Seat-of-the-Pants and two Novice.
The got the rally of to a dusty start. After a long ODO leg just on theedge of Champaign County on the Old State Road. After that it ransouth paralleling the Champaign/Vermilion county line on mostly gravelroads. Our second novice team was called away following the ODO.
This rally was featured as Monte Carlo style event. That is where the
rallymaster provides you with the mileage and the ideal arrival timefor each checkpoint. The rally teams can calculate the average speedneeded to cover the course using the ideal arrival time but it may haveto be adjusted as appropriate to safely navigate the course to arrive.
The third leg of this rally was the TSD leg with intentional traps, onlythe remaining novice team was caught in the second trap. Therallymaster wishes to apologies for neglecting to remove the no-traplanguage from the generals. Next the rally ran on down to Newmanand at one point down a gravel road that could only be described likedriving on ball bearings. Upon leaving Newman the ralliest started along march towards Philo. Unfortunately, the instruction indicatingthe end of the march was incorrect forcing the 6th leg to be thrown.
Jonathan Flora, Rallymaster
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On 27 Sep 2008, Brian and Sandy Grable hosted their first rally aptly named "Tilting at Wind-mills." The 97 mile rally started in Gibson City and although went through Ford and Champaigncounties, the majority of it ran through McLean county. It featured some scenic country roadsthat allowed everyone to marvel at the enormous wind turbines that festoon the farmland be-tween Gibson City and Bloomington.
There was a 30 minute break at Moraine View State Park where everyone was allowed to rest,have a snack and stretch their legs a bit.
It was a fairly straightforward rally although there was perhaps a trick or two. One of the hosts'favorite was on the last leg when the rallymaster asked the rallyist to turn right onto 200N.Unknown to the rallyist, there were 2 roads marked 200 in a row: the first was 200E and the 2ndwhich was less than 100 feet down the road marked 200N. The route also had many roadsleading to windmills which could have been mistaken for real roads, although the distinctionseemed clear to us. The rally was mileaged with our '96 Explorer with oversized tires. Wefigured to share the fun of running a rally with an odometer that reads ~7% shy of reality. Also,our insincere apologies for the ninja CAST changes and stealth checkpoint locations. Overall,everyone had a good time and we met up at Monical's in Gibson City for awards, pizza andbeverages.
We had a great turnout for our first rally with 7 cars enrolled. Congratulations to the winnersand thanks to everyone who showed up and participated and made our first rally a success!The participants in attendance were as follows along with their scores:
Navigational:Driver Charles HansenNavigator Jonathon FloraScore 42Placement: 1st overall
SOP:Driver Russ BedfordNavigator Chris BedfordScore 163Placement 1st
Driver Mike BlackwelderNavigator Kooper BlackwelderScore 208Placement 2nd
Driver Jin Hwan ParkNavigator Jerry WhiteScore 258Placement 3rd
Driver Greg LukachNavigator John LiScore 346Placement 4th
Novice:Driver Pete NelsonNavigator Armondo MiramontesScore 342Placement 1st
Driver Tom InglesNavigator Clarimae InglesScore 450Placement 2nd
Tilting at Windmills Rally
A checkpoint amoung the windmills photo by J. Flora
out. Gary Patrick of Saturn of Champaign also brought a Sky toautocross, demonstrating the car's abilities on the autocross course.Thanks also go to Saturn of Champaign for providing the trophy t-shirts for the weekend.
For the most part, Sunday ran smoothly. There was, unfortunatey, oneincident that happened as the event drew to a close. One driver cookedit too hard through a set of offset gates and spun his car backward intoa curb. With the help of the corner workers, the disabled vehicle wasmoved off the course, and Gary Patrick trucked the car and the driverback home.
On Monday, the course was run backwards, and changes were made to
the course to freshen it up and shorten it slightly. I also swapped thelocations of the pits and the grid so that the grid would be the lot adja-cent to the course. Over forty drivers showed up for competition.
There were no on-course incidents. The event ran smoothly, allowingme to give some rides to my parents who showed up that day! I'm notquite sure that they enjoyed my driving, but at the very least they nowunderstand why I have four sets of wheels and tires sitting in my side ofthe garage.
To conclude, I would like to thank Jon Ross of Parkland for making itpossible to autocross on the B lots over Labor Day weekend. And Iwould like to thank all of the drivers who showed up. The event wasincredibly successful, and the scholarship fund got a huge boost!
Parkland Labor Day Autocross continued
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On Sunday, Nov. 9, 5 hearty rally crews ran the 3rd annual "Fall Foli-age Tour" rally. We were worried that we might not have enough cars,as Emanuel Martin and Jerry White were going to work checkpoints,but we decided to have Emanuel run with Bob Townsend, who didn'thave a partner, so we got 5 cars to run. Jerry worked the checkpoints.
I sent the rally northwest on beautiful roads to Il 47 north of Mahometand had a checkpoint on an oil and chip road where the checkpointcrew could see the ralliests stay on a road by number and not enter thecheckpoint. Then they went through Lotus -- an obscure and unlabeledtown on the western end of Champaign county and on north of Belflowerwhere they encountered the first march., where each left or right changedthe CAST. There was a checkpoint after a few turns and then theycontinued on a DIY leg to Farmer city, where the break was held at theHuck's mini-mart. Quality food, quality gas, quality rally stop!
The rally restarted north of Farmer City and soon they were marchingagain until they ended up at another checkpoint north of Centerville.After that they went through Galesville and Lodge before a long leg toa phantom checkpoint just north of Monticello. I wanted to take two ofmy favorite roads -- the road from Galesville to Lodge and the Lodgebypass, but they were too rough, so the ralliests didn't get to see thosefun roads! After the phantom checkpoint the ralliests drove around thearea towards route 10, then around the Centerville area, which is al-ways a grand time, returning to the same checkpoint as before, nearCenterville. Unfortunately, when I made a change on those previouslegs, I made a mileage error somewhere, so I had to throw those twolegs. I also found a mileage error in the first leg after the break, but wasable to go back and remileage it while the ralliests were wasting theirtime driving towards Monticello. Black Corvettes are pretty fast to getto place to record mileagesQ
But the next leg tookthem around theCenterville area againuntil they got to the fi-nal checkpoint south ofIl route 10 on an exten-sion of route 47 by theold interurban tracks. Afinal DIY leg broughtthem into the endingplace at Monical's,where we had a greattime, as always!I think everyone en-
3rd Annual Fall Foliage Tour
Place / Class Driver / Navigator Car Car # 1 2 3 4 7 8 Total1 / NAV Russ Bedford /
Joe Siedenburg Caddy 1 5 0 4 100 7 1 1171 / SOP Mike Blackwelder/
Jim Hamilton Ford 6 47 13 14 100 27 6 2072 / SOP Emanuel Martin /
Bob Townsend Subaru 3 50 1 79 84 40 14 2083 / SOP Brian Grable /
Sandy Grable Ford 4 37 39 34 100 10 9 2294 / SOP Jonathan Flora /
John Li Nissan 5 74 150 100 12 8 2 336
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3rd Annual Fall Foliage Tour Rally
joyed the rally. I enjoyed putting it on. Once again I enjoyed somelittle non-course following tricks -- marches with variable CASTsand always casting down to 30 on gravel roads (but only if you can'tsee the end of the gravel) makes for thinking on the part of the navi-gator and driver. Everyone did a splendid job!
Thanks to Jerry White for cold running the rally and manning thecheckpoints. I have a reputation (well deserved) of getting very ner-vous running a checkpoint, so Jerry's efforts were certainly appreci-ated, as well as his cold run help. A "sorry" to Emanuel Martin, whovolunteered to work checkpoints, but was needed to hold the rally. Ihope Jerry's rally will give you a chance to earn your work credit foryear-end rally points.
Barry Rowe, Rallymaster
Barry’s Favorate Checkpoint spot photo by B. Rowe
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Tour De Witt Rally Results: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 TotalNav Class
1. Siedenburg/Martin 27 27 8 57 23 6 39 187SOP Class
1. Blackwelder/Hamilton 1 6 500 40 1 85 2 6352. Martin/Li 66 17 500 11 13 90 56 7533. Grable/Grable 40 25 500 29 7 362 96 1059
Novice Class1. Miramontes/Woolridge 9 500 500 73 19 329 118 1548
Tour De Witt – Sept 7, 2008September Championship Rally
For the September Championship Rally I de-vised a trip to Clinton Lake. This included sev-eral legs to showcase some of the nicer roadsthat I’ve found in my years working in the area.Five teams signed up for the tour.
We started in the usual location, County Mar-ket in Champaign. From there, the ODO legended near Seymour. Then we headed towardthe lake through a couple different counties.One of the directions included a Siren as a land-mark. This was explained at the Driver’s meet-
ing as either a Greek Sea Nymph who luressailors towards the rocks or a loud device thatwarns people of impending disaster. Somehow,both of these possibilities seemed appropriatefor this rally. Entrants were told to turn atwhichever they saw first.
Unfortunately, leg 2 got our first entrants offcourse. AJ and Aaron took a wrong turn, or,more probably, didn’t take a turn. I also be-lieve that AJ’s car was running on autopilot atthe time, as they ended up near his currenthome (Farmer City, for those of you stickingpins in a map to follow along). Through themagic of cell phone technology, we were ableto recapture them and reinsert them into therally, albeit a couple legs later.
Leg 3 was looking good, as the first car camein just a few seconds off. But that was it, for awhile. More cell phone magic recaptured allthree SOP cars, who had each found a differ-ent way to go off course. We were still waitingfor the Farmer City crew to show up. All fivecars eventually made it to this checkpoint. Thethree SOP cars all maxed out the leg, whichnegated it for class competition, but took themall out of the running for low score of the day.
Leg 4 included some of the longest stretcheswithout crossing off instructions (i.e. using theMain Road Rule), which made some folks ner-vous. It ended at the Boondock’s Grill, on theshore of Clinton Lake, for a short break.
After the break, leg 5 skirted the southern edgeof the lake, past the Marina, ending at the samecheckpoint as legs 2 & 3. Leg 6 ran past FarmerCity. An important note here for anyrallymasters considering this area for possiblefuture routes: you probably ought to steer clearof the town of Harris for a few years, at least.But enough about that.
Leg 6 ended within a mile or so of the ODOleg endpoint. The last leg was a DIY which Iscrewed up right off the bat, specifying a start-ing point which didn’t exist. I got lucky though,as the entrants were flexible enough to recog-nize it and account for it.
Five very understanding, observant and astuteteams combined to make my rally a success.They were able to overcome all of my mistakes,and a couple of their own, to get to the end.Nobody protested, we all had a great time, sawsome beautiful scenery and had nice weather.
Russ Bedford, Rallymaster
NAV 1 2 3 4 Total1 Bob/Karen Townsend 2 5 0 16 232 Russ Bedford/JoeSiedenburg 31 28 32 19 110
SOP1 Sandy/Brian Grable 31 18 25 19 932 Barry Rowe/Jerry White 49 19 79 8 1553 Higuer Ruiz/John Li 35 3 27 107 1724 Jonathan Flora/Jim Hamilton 41 54 245 52 392
NOV1 Craig/Mary Chambers 79 28 300 16 423
The rally of July 4 was designed as a social event. The idea was to have a relaxed no tricks rallywith a nice lunch for the mid-rally break. Afterwards we would continue the same relaxedapproach to finish the rally at Monical's in Champaign to award trophies. The only problemwas someone who will go un-named forgot to bring the trophies. It was just as well they wereforgotten as I made a small calculation error on the last leg that reversed to positions of thesecond and third place car in SOP. For most everyone else it reduced their scores.
Our mid-rally break was at the Tuscany Steak and Pasta House in Tuscola, Illinois located onroute 36. We were seated in a separate room which was un-expected but welcomed. Everyoneseemed to enjoy the break and their meals. The food was good and prices were reasonable. Wecontinued the same pace on the way back and finished up in the mid afternoon which gaveeveryone time to go to any of the July 4th celebrations planned for the evening.
I did not hear any complaints so I will do some scouting for a different restaurant for next year.I am open to suggestions from anyone who has had good experiences with some of the otherrestaurants within fifty or sixty miles.
Mike Blackwelder, Rallymaster
Happy Fourth Rally
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Historic Scenic Tour or Tippecanoe and You RallyJim Hamilton, Rallymaster
This rally started from the McDonalds at the Oakwood exit off I17 inIllinois. Six cars started the first on off at 10:00 A.M. The first checkpoint was east of Danville on the south side of US 136 in Indiana, therewas a wording interpretation problem so I threw out leg one.
Leg two was in West Lebanon IN six cars still here, Leg three inWilliamsport IN, a short transit zone to see Indiana’shighest waterfall 90 feet from top to bottom. Very drysummer in western IN so the falls wasn’t falling.Checkpoint #4 was south east of W. Lafayette IN neara restored blockhouse near the site of a fort built bythe French in 1717.
Next up was a short lunch break. Checkpoint #5 wasat the site of the battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 as youall heard of Tippecanoe and Tyler too. By this time itwas time to head west toward home. Check point #6was west of Battleground IN. Then South and Weston what is called River Road on the Wabash from Atticato W. Lafayette along the North side of the Wabashriver checkpoint #6 was North of Attica. Check point
Historic Senic Tour or Tippecanoe and you RallyNAV Leg 2 Leg 3 Leg 4 Leg 5 Leg 6 Leg 7 Leg 8 Total
Russ Bedford 7 7 8 9 9 9 25 74Joe Siedenburg
SOPEmanuel Martin 54 12 6 5 35 49 22 183Jerry WhiteJim Koltz 33 6 32 3 39 24 64 201Caitlin FrenchMike Blackwelder 44 19 27 8 49 31 37 215Tom InglesBrian Grable / 28 12 39 15 67 49 3 216Sandy Grable Craig Chambers 80 64 144Mary Chambers
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#7 was South East of Rossville IL. A short transit zone past the MannChapel built in 1857 three years before Champaign was incorporated,we were going to stop and look around but there was a wedding goingon so we didn’t stop. The last leg was to take us to Monicals in Danvillebut somehow an extra stop sign appeared so I three that leg as well.Five cars made it to the finish. Very good nine leg over six-hour rally.Thank you for coming, hope you had a good time.
WhitewashAs I reported in Whitewash in the lastAuspuff the Champaign County Sports CarClub has enjoyed all of the expected ben-efits of insuring our autocrosses through ourown insurance policy for 2008. The main
ones being that we’ve been able to hold the line on autocross entry feesand that more club members have gotten the chance to be event chairs,safety stewards, etc. In addition, as we had hoped, our attendancehasn’t suffered any and our treasury has grown faster than ever. Fastenough that as of December 1st we already have our insurance coveragefor the 2009 autocross season in place. This has allowed us to provideour proof of insurance paperwork to Rantoul already so they have lockedin our 2009 Rantoul Aviation Center (RAC) event dates which are else-where in this Auspuff and on our website.
Not only that but we’ve built up enough funds that we’ve purchased awalk-in delivery van (aka a bread truck in this case) to use to store allof our autocross equipment and to haul it to events. We also plan onusing the van as the timing vehicle and perhaps will eventually evenuse it as the registration vehicle. In addition we’ve also decided to buya Honda generator to help power all of the electrical equipment that weuse at autocrosses. Emanuel Martin will be in charge of maintainingthe van and the Autocross Committee will come up with ideas andmake recommendations as to what modifications to make to the van toimprove its usability and versatility.
Now that the 2008 season is over it is also time to be thinking aboutpossible changes in our rules and procedures for next year. Ideas of allkinds are much appreciated at this time of year so please contact Den-nis Miller or one of the other members of the Autocross Committeewith your autocross suggestions. Let the Grable’s know if you haveideas about the club’s rally program. Talk to Russ Bedford if you haveany ideas about the club’s Championship Points rules. While you’re atit also please let me know if you are interested in serving on a commit-tee for next year. The annual addition of new faces to the committees is
the magic that has kept the club going for over fifty years. Elsewherein this Auspuff is a list of the 2009 officers and board members etc. asdetermined so far.
A few of areas we’re especially interested in getting additional helpwith are membership and publicity, our social activities and the club’selectronic endeavors. While the first two could be to serve in part or infull as a the Membership and Publicity Chair or Social Chair respec-tively, the latter would be in addition to the current folks that are work-ing with the club’s website, online systems and database. The latterwill also probably be more to serve as backups when the principal folksare busy with other life duties instead of as developers or principalswith regard to those endeavors but you never know.
On another subject here’s a quick report on CCSCC’s showing at thePress on Regardless rally on September 5, 6 & 7 in Michigan. JonFlora and Charles Hanson finished 3rd in the Equipped class and 7th
overall with 257 points and Jim White and Jerry White finished 4th inthe Limited class and 9th overall with 698 points. Jon and Charles’didn’t max (200) any legs but did get stuck in the sand in one place.Fortunately the sweep vehicle was able to pull them out. Jim and Jerrymaxed two legs, one due to getting off course and one due to a majorcalculation problem. They were very fortunate in that the sweep ve-hicle got off course at the same place they did and they were able torecover in time to stay ahead of it. The rally was run mostly in the darkand was over 500 miles long with 75 percent of the roads being un-paved. There were 50 counted controls and the Equipped class car thatwon had an overall score of 51. There were 4 cars in the equippedclass, 6 in the Limited class and 17 overall.
Last but not least, don’t forget to register for the Awards Banquet thatis coming up on Saturday January 24, 2009 at the Silvercreek Restau-rant in Urbana. Registration information is available elsewhere in thisAuspuff and on our website. At a minimum please mark it on yourcalendar now and plan to be there. As usual, please feel free to jump inand help out wherever you can.
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Permit No. 514Champaign, IL
Champaign County Sports Car Club704 S AdamsPhilo IL 61864
CCSCC Annual Awards BanquetSaturday January 24, 2009
When: Schedule: Social hour at 5:00pm (Cash Bar), Dinner at 6:00pmWhere: SilverCreek, 402 N Race St., Urbana
Cost is $25/person.Send reservations and checks by Jan 16th to
Cheryel Blackwelder908 W. ColumbiaChampaign IL 61821
Don't forget serious and humerous awards to give at the banquet. Come see who won the annualclub championships! Bring your club meeting Watchpot tickets to win great door-prizes. Preparefor the Trivia contest! See who wins the Bowling Trophie! A great time is to be had by all!!!
Please RSVP with checks payable to CCSCC by Jan 16, 2009
Remember to bring your Watch Pot Tickets for prizes.
1st 2009 CLUB MEETINGWednesday January 14th at
Monical on Kirby
NOTE CLUB MEETINGDATE CHANGE
