Rally West Virginia - your help needed! 8/12-13

[ericw]

Hey folks!

Rally WV is just around the corner and it's looking to be an awesome event this year hosted at Snowshoe Resort in Snowshoe, WV. The last time the rally was run occurred in 2008 in Elkins, WV, so the volunteer base is a little soft because momentum has been lost. Well what can you do?



We need you to come out and help out! Get an awesome seat right on stage, meet the drivers, codrivers, and riders. Hang out and have awesome parties with all of the rally folks. Take lots of great photos. Commit lots of great things to memory.

Oh, and there will be some memories. The rally is a car-breaker with some crazy offs. Check out this pic from 2007:


How can you help out? Register to volunteer at nasarallysport.com/nrsdb/

All of the event information is on the main Rally West Virginia site at www.rallywv.com but the meat and potatoes:

Rally: August 12-13.
Where: Snowshoe, WV
Website: www.rallywv.com

So sign up, and come on out. We need you guys to volunteer or the race won't happen! We do it FOR the volunteers, but can't do it without them either!

Email me at ewages at gmail dot com for more info if needed!

-E

[sashman15]

Whoa. Like, actual DIRT/WRC/SIDEWAYS rally? Wowwwwwwww. I'm going to check my schedule for this.

I've been looking for local rally events to attend, this is phenomenal if its what I think it is.



Edit: Just went to the website... Eyes watered a bit.

[sashman15]

Whats the schedule for the 1st and 2nd days? Its pretty far, about 6 hours, and I have work on the 13th unfortunately, so a 6 hour drive might be out of question. Still, whats the schedule?

[ericw]

Racing starts on Friday night at 4pm and run to 10-12pm. Racing resumes 8am on Saturday and goes to about 4-6pm (then party!)

[sashman15]

Ah thanks. I'm going to see if I can make that. So the rally goes on until midnight? Sweet. By the way I don't mean to sound picky or anything, but any idea of the kind of cars (Subaru, etc) we'll see there, or usually do? And perhaps the classes?

Thanks.

[ericw]

The entry list has most everything listed, but you'll see an assortment of Subarus, Mitsibushis, Fords, Hondas, etc. AND a bunch of motorcycles too!

Check out the whole entry list at: www.nasarallysport.com/results/2011-Rally-West-Virginia-registration-entry-list.htm

Here are the brief descriptions of all of the potential classes (you can line them up on the entry list):

3.1 Vehicle Class Rules Overview
As an overview only, the following car classes are briefly described:
• Open AWD Heavy - open class AWD turbo
• Open AWD Light - open class AWD naturally aspirated
• Open 2WD Heavy - open class 2WD turbo and large engine
• Open 2WD Light - open class 2WD naturally aspirated
• Stock Heavy - large displacement turbo AWD stock cars
• Stock Medium - powerful stock cars
• Stock Light - less powerful stock cars
• Group N - homologated FIA cars
• Spec WRX - in development
• Real Stock - in development
• Rally Spec Focus - specified parts

Rally will probably stop around 10 is my guess on Friday night.