Here is a good event for those of you that love to drive on gravel, snow, & mud: The Ides of March Rally Saturday, March 14th, 2009 The best gravel roads and topography within 100 miles of the Twin Cities - A 120 mile brisk TSD rally using an easy to follow tulip diagram format - Easy enough for beginners with roads challenging enough to keep the experienced teams entertained - Don’t miss this last scheduled gravel TSD event until next fall !!! Meet at: Godfather’s Pizza, Pottery Place, Old West Main St., Red Wing, MN. Registration: 4:30 - 5:15pm First Car Out: 5:31pm. Cost: $20/car Alfa & Saab Club members; $25/car others. Ends at: The Bierstube just across the parking lot from Godfather’s. Trophies: Sorry cars on sticks just bottles of good wine to the top teams in Equipped, non-Equipped Experienced, non-Equipped Novice, plus the ever popular 2 bottles of Rogue Dead Guy Ale to the Dead Last But Finished Team. (Would you really expect an Italian car club to offer anything but wine?) The format will be tulip style instructions run from out marker to out marker – checkpoints are NOT shown on the instructions, but they are out there! Drivers can expect a brisk pace over the quality gravel roads of southern and western Goodhue County. Quality winter tires at all four corners are highly recommended; be ready for snow, mud and/or ice! The rally is open to teams of all levels of experience. To assist the Rallymaster please RSVP by Thursday, March 12th – the rally is open to 15 teams, max. To RSVP – or for questions – please contact the Rallymaster, Dean Nelson, at [email protected], 651-636-3771 (h) or 612-865-7118 (w). Sponsored by the Stella del Nord Chapter of the Alfa Romeo Owners Club, most of whom now drive Subarus and Audis on gravel, with assistance from the Minnesota Saab Club, whose members have been know to drive Saabarus. Thanks, and see ya on the 14th! Dean
Dave and I will see you there Dean! This is an excellent shakedown for the new modifications done to our stage rally car
hmmm 2 tsd's in a row, i will know better on sunday night, after my first one is over, and see if my relationship with my navigator is still in tact... this one sounds like fun too. -dan
I like the Totally Sweet Driving rally definition. If you're into driving gravel on little twisty roads with lots of topography, that is probably an apt description for a Goodhue County rally. Ed
I can vouch that Dean puts together some pretty fun TSDs. I have done 2 or 3, the first one was full of failure for me as our stop watch broke just after we started. The most recent one we did pretty well save for some mechanical trouble on just one leg that left us waaay off time for that one (its what I get for driving Junk cars in the winter). Not sure if I will make this one or not, it should be pretty fun though!
as far as... i have a stock Odo. and navigator with a calculator. We are going to try to calculate arrive times if we can figure out how to. -Dan --and good winter tires, hoping for a fun route.
omfg moar rally. rally rally rally rally rally rally rally rally rally rally dan, kevin, brent - do you guys want to meet up and drive down together?
HAWT CARL is coming to EP to pick me up. Then we'll scoot over on 494 to 61. We can meet anywhere along there between 2:30-2:45PM
Kevin was drunk when he posted this /\ We are heading out now, sorry, we will not be meeting you on the way. See you there!
Manders and I had a great time. We were only 13 points out of dead last! We had one really good leg...it hurt us bad. Looking forward to doing more of these, a great way to spend a Saturday night. Our kids even enjoyed it; so much so that Ellie slept for all but the 1st leg. Carrie
Had a great time, interesting to do it at night/dusk insted of day time. i am looking around for one to do in the summer -dan
