Route of All Evil Road Rally • CNY SCCA Region

I, a rally junkie, make up imaginary courses rather than counting sheep. My time waster is Google Maps. My New Years resolutions involve rallies and my 2018 list included a Route of All Evil to celebrate my 50th year of getting lost on back roads.

Routes of All Evil have been offered infrequently since 1975. Upstate NY is my backyard and a nice place to play, developing ideas to road test my friends and try to guess how they’ll react to various “situations” and leave some laughter out in the woods. Dr Devio, my “altered” ego, is the devil on
my shoulder, whispering into my ear with trickery as we pound the dirt in the lonely hours of rally creation. We’ve enjoy the anticipation of sending rally crews wandering/wondering hither and yon.

I tried my hardest setting up this year’s event. Past exploits provided the opportunity of enticing the best worker crew a rallymaster could hope for, including my friends and longtime rally buddies Ed Brennan, Diane Houseal, Greg Lester, Ken Swarm, Steve McKelvie, Gary Thomas, Jon
Coffin and especially my rally partner/Safety Steward Mike Mazoway, bringing hundreds of rally years and stories to Norwich to light the candles on my cake. I also had Jim Crittenden, John Buffum, Mark Johnson, Rick Beattie, Rich Bireta and Peter Schneider on the Contact List for advice behind the scenes to keep me honest and make sure “straightforward” described the course.

This was my first attempt at a true Divisional; having all that experience on the team helped wading through all the SCCA rules & regs fine print.

Many folks don’t realize how rural Upstate is and I think that I caught some rookies off-guard with the course. Many of the legs were 50 – 80% dirt if you overlooked the transit sections through and around villages. One comment was that it wasn’t fair to have to run unpaved roads that were smoother than the paved. I aimed to use roads that could turn into a performance rally if I could ever get permission to close them off. I think we met the goal
with the exception of the last leg, which had to re-route around a beautiful dirt section blocked by flooding created by an unrepentant beaver.

Sixteen cars, sixteen finishers. Everybody on their best behavior. Hardly anyone got off course and a good portion of the 267 miles were run with the cars in the starting order, making it a fun run for the checkpoint crews and scoring. Check out these scores for 11 legs:

Driver/Navigator                                          Score  Class  Overall Overall

L Mark Stone/Marc Goldfarb                        6              E                   1st               

R Bruce Gezon/Robert Morseburg              12             E                  2nd

Alan Smith/Eric Hobron                              32             E                   3rd

Satish Gopalkrishnan/Savera D’Souza      53             L                   4th               

Everett/Ian Everett                                      94             E                   5th               

Patrick Mark Munhall/Griffin Munhall        173             E                   6th              

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Adam Bullis/Steve Gressel                       416            S                   9^th

Bruce Coulombe/James Coulombe           424            S                  10^th

Griff Jones/Christine Haka                         440            S                   11^th

Ryan Meenan/Michael Venetlozzi            526            S                  12^th

Rick Ottman/Christopher Murphy                 529            S                13^th

John Bullis/Gene Bullis                                534             S             14^th

Dave Stedman/Matt Cataldo                      550             S              T-15th Laura Piscitello/Joe Piscitello                       550           S           T-15th

I wanted to point out a couple of performances to be sure they aren’t overlooked: Satish Gopalkrishnan & Savera D’Souza actually had the best performance of the rally, running Class L. They messed up one checkpoint in the heat of driving up twisty Light Hill Rd to the third checkpoint, took a Time Allowance they didn’t need and scored 48 of their 53 pts on ONE leg. What a great job.

Two father/son combinations made their rally debuts, and did it in Class E. The dads’ best decisions were in bringing the boys along. Both teams scored well. Congratulations, Ian Everett and Griffin Munhall. Welcome.

Hey, Class S, what a showing. I can’t remember an event when so many beginners made it all the way through an 11 hour rally, pretty much in order for most of the trip, and, nobody gave up. Everybody finished! And, thanks to one of the crews who stopped to help a local who tried to see if his PT Cruiser could jump a ditch.

Frank Beyer aka Dr Devio, Rallymaster