Please come and join your fellow RSR members — and maybe a few other folks — on our 2023 Fall Color Tour.  Here are the basics:

* Date: Sunday October 15th
* Start location: Chelsea Car Pool Lot, 1629 S. Main Street, Chelsea, 48118; just north of I-94 at Exit 159
* Times: Gather 10:00am; team meeting 10:15am; first car off 10:30am
* Length: 99 miles and 2½ hours total with a short pit stop in the middle
* Ends at our lunch location, Chateau Aeronautique Winery & Blue Skies Brewery, an aero themed winery/restaurant a few miles east of Michigan International Speedway (MIS) in Onsted, MI
* Cost: FREE!  You’ll buy your own lunch if you wish to stay, nosh and chat.  Please scroll to the bottom of this section for instructions on how to pre-order your food.  Pre-order is STRONGLY recommended so the Cherry Creek folks can ensure they’ll have plenty of food for us.

Link to register: https://www.motorsportreg.com/events/2023-rsp-pca-fall-color-tour-chelsea-carpool-lot-rally-sport-148847

YOU MUST start with a full tank of fuel — there’s a Shell station (with a Dunkin) next to the lot and a Sunoco across the street.  If you’re hungry there’s a McDonald’s a ¼-mile north plus others.  PLEASE plan your food and fuel to arrive at the lot ≤10:00am.

The route book is a colaboration between me and one of my OG Team Viper coworkers, we’ll call him Ken (because that’s his name) and his initials are on the bottom of instruction pages — credit where credit is due.  He’s been involved in the Press on Regardless (POR) Rally for 45 years as a driver, navigator and/or organizer, plus a few other Pro rallies like Michigan’s Snow*Drift.  Because of his ProRally experience y’all will experience a few new things like Tulip diagrams and Delta intersections.  Details below and more at the team meeting.

Good news: there are NO DIRT ROADS on this driving tour!  There is about 80 feet of gravel to get into Chateau Aeronautique parking lot, south from US-12 — go slowly.  My lowered Cayman S survived, so your Porsches will be fine!

It is strongly recommended to have at least two people in the car — one to drive and one to navigate.  No maximum limit so bring your family, friends, pets, et al.  If you’ll be solo you can always try following someone — assuming they won’t get lost!  (‘shouldn’t happen, but ….)  Or bring your Porsche SUV and stuff it with yourself a friend, neighbor, coworker or better yet a potential Rally Sport PCA member and bring them along.

What is a Tulip diagram?  Borrowing from a UK website: “Tulip, or ball and arrow instructions, are simple diagrams of the route junctions with the ball indicating where you come from and the arrow indicating where you are going to.”  Here’s the website where I plucked that quote:

SpeedWaiver Link

https://rsppca.speedwaiver.com/spost

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Registration

https://www.motorsportreg.com/events/2023-rsp-pca-fall-color-tour-chelsea-carpool-lot-rally-sport-148847

SmugMug Upload Link

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