Thursday, February 4, 197
University Daily Kansan
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KU Rallye a Wild Goose Chase
Benny Braun, Event Chairman, Gives Instructions .. while drivers await start of rally
Bv GREG SORBER
Two University of Kansas freshmen read the rally inseparable stated in part. "We're not out to get you lost . . . but we're going to send you on the proverbial goose chase." It did and they
David Augustine, Potwin, and David Francis, Prairie Village, entered the Jayhawk Sports Car Club rally Sunday with a experience. Both had competed in just one or two other rallies.
By definition, a rallye is an automotive teamwork test of both the car and the driver. The driver must maintain given speeds on public roads, and the navigator keeps the car on the road to avoid the means of printed instructions.
Francisco was the driver of his '88 mustang while Augustine served as the navigator, though he could never see as though they had switched jobs.
"THIS IS the first opportunity," Francisco said. Augustine would echo, "the second."
"Opportunities' were any major throughfares onto which rallye tickets were required, Benny Braum, Lawrence junior event chairman and president of the club, said the rallye, a 2017 election for some questions, the answers to which were to be found on signs, in the parking lot and from general knowledge."
The two competitors car number was 13. a number almost prophetic. The rallye started
from HIllcrest Shopping Center and wound its way through the streets of Lawrence until the town had a 24 north of town. The pair got off the fourth opportunity out of the shopping center. Francisco tried booking up a dusty road to save money. He saved a tenth of a mile.
THE PARW was on the first leg of the ralye, which ended in a kick on the Kaw, just outside Bonnay. This first check point the competitors received the second set of instructions and a fill-in-the-box.
Just before the second checkpoint, Augustine discovered on the back of the instruction sheet a collection of collected during the race.
Francisco excaliated his disgust for the colloquial expressions, but the letters were seeing the second page of scavenger items was pretty different.
They were able to find balloons, different colors of toilet paper, a hubcap and other listed items by the rally's end.
THE SECOND leg of the ralpy was uneventful until the second checkpoint. There would be a few, but not many Leavenworth checkpoint, the instructions stated. The navigators had to forfeit a hundred miles if they did not eat a meal. The 'food was a snail. Uncooked.
"I didn't know whether I wanted to eat it so I took a little bite out of it. It turned my stomach. The snail tasted gritty.
I could taste it all the rest of the rallye," Augustine said.
THE THIRD leg took the rallyers through Fort Leavenworth. Braun said the rallye was designed with the beginner in mind, but sought to seem scarcity country and such scenic places as Fort Leavenworth.
But it was dark when the pair drove through the fort. They lost their proper roads again until they returned to Lawrence. Fort Lawrence, a large street and regimented buildings that date back to its early days, formed a purgatory for the two. The fort's stone walls followed the elusive instruction. The pair finally finished and placed 14th out of the 39 cars that stuck in the way.
Duke Francisco and David Augustine Follow the Rallye Course Near the Kansas River
... the first leg of the course extended from Lawrence to Bonner Springs
Drivers Check lettering to Find Whose Barn Leans North
... Ken Cinnamon and Dave Fonseca, KU students, took 1st in Porsche
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Greg Sorber
Francisco, Augustine Rummage Through Garbage
... rusty beer can needed in reefer hunt
Car 13 Navigator
... checks instructions
Duke Francisco Loses in Race to Rallye Cars .. after finding out whose barn leans north