2023 RSP PCA Fall Color Tour

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

* Date: Sunday October 15th
* Start location: Chelsea Carpool 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 for the color tour; we're working on the lunch details, but it'll be ~$20-25 each.  

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:
         Tulip diagrams explained

Here's a chunk of our Route Book with a few instructions to talk about: ADD NEW CHUNK BELOW & following explantion
    
YOU are the big, black dot at the bottom of each "stick figure," aka Tulip diagram.
* Instruction #9 is just a heads-up to show you'll pass Wildflower Road on your right at 4.54 miles form the start
* Instruction #10 is your first "Delta Tee" where you will bear or sweep to the Right where the roads form into a triangle or Delta.
* Instruction #13 is an early STOP sign where you'll STOP, wait for traffic to clear, and continue straight on Stofer Road (which becomes Hadley)
Got the idea?  Note: This is NOT a TSD rally, so there's no need to worry about time lost crossing the many intersections you'll see along the way.

The end of the route is the Chateau Aeronautique Winery & Blue Skies Brewery, an aero themed winery/restaurant a few miles east of Michigan International Speedway (MIS) 12000 Pentcost Hwy., Onsted, MI 49265.  It's got a HUGE covered and encloseable patio in the back where we'll be gathering.

PLEASE indicate whether you're coming to lunch.

And to get home jump on US-12 and head east.

Electronic pre-registration through MotorsportReg (MSR) is REQUIRED!  Here is a link to detailed instructions for those who are familiar with MSR and especially for those who are not:

        MSR Registration Instructions 040722.docx

Registrar and Tourmeister: Charlie Brown, III, registrar.rsr@gmail.com, 734.358.2393