word on the street is this has been cancelled?

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First Rally: 2010 First RallyX: 2004 (a bunch)
Driver (0), Co-Driver (7)
Organizer (3), Volunteer (3)
Cars Built (2.5), Engines Blown (2) Cages Built (0) # of rotations (3.5)
Last Updated, Apr 9, 2023

From what I can tell, yep.

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Warren Rally Sport FB Page 10 hrs ago
THE MATTHEW MARKER RALLY SPRINT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

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Matthew Noble-Marker Livin' the Dream 2015 Rally Sprint FB page 10 hrs ago
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Since those are both of the links in the first post, I think that's probably an official announcement.

Unfortunate.

Anders

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Grassroots rally. It's what I think about.

I wonder why it was cancelled.

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Grant Hughes

Since nothing good could come from full disclosure of the details surrounding this I'd rather not elude to that at this time. I will say this, there is no room for new organizers or people who think outside of the box in rally. Your time, money and reputation will suffer a heavy price and in the end you will only hurt the people you are trying to help. You can take that to the bank from someone who tried.

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steevano61
Since nothing good could come from full disclosure of the details surrounding this I'd rather not elude to that at this time.
I will say this, there is no room for new organizers or people who think outside of the box in rally. Your time, money and reputation will suffer a heavy price and in the end you will only hurt the people you are trying to help. You can take that to the bank from someone who tried.

Sorry to hear than nothing has changed in the last 30 years....so much egos and so much rigidity and its only gotten worse.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

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Anders Green
From what I can tell, yep.

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Warren Rally Sport FB Page 10 hrs ago
THE MATTHEW MARKER RALLY SPRINT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

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Matthew Noble-Marker Livin' the Dream 2015 Rally Sprint FB page 10 hrs ago
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Since those are both of the links in the first post, I think that's probably an official announcement.

Unfortunate.

That is true Anders. The plug was pulled yesterday. I fully apologize to everyone who put their faith, time and effort into helping me make this event happen. To the teams that put all their time and money into preparing their cars and to the Marker family that was so excited for this event. In the eyes of a few: I took on the man and the man won...

Steven Warren


Anders

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steevano61
Since nothing good could come from full disclosure of the details surrounding this I'd rather not elude to that at this time.
I will say this, there is no room for new organizers or people who think outside of the box in rally. Your time, money and reputation will suffer a heavy price and in the end you will only hurt the people you are trying to help. You can take that to the bank from someone who tried.

Sorry to hear than nothing has changed in the last 30 years....so much egos and so much rigidity and its only gotten worse.

Thank you to Tino for so quickly organizing a replacement event to help the teams who worked so hard to prepare their cars for nothing.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/12/2015 02:00PM by steevano61.

Is the problem usra related? If so have you looked into using NRS's rally sprint in a box?

Like I stated, I dont have any comment on the sanction/ins. and I have looked into that.

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steevano61
Like I stated, I dont have any comment on the sanction/ins. and I have looked into that.

Really sorry to hear this.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

For the betterment of the sport, I hope the facts eventually come out. This BS and infighting (or whatever you want to call it) has got to stop. Why would anyone want to put them selves thru this. "The beatings will continue until moral improves".

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Don Kennedy

I completely agree Don. This has led to a lot of fighting within the sport and that is not and never was the intent of this event. As I have stated, at this time I can not elaborate further on the circumstances and assume full responsibility for this.

I hope this will be a learning experience for everyone, I know it was for myself and the others who worked so hard to make this happen. As a sport, people need to support the efforts of those like us who try to bring new venues, events or ideas to rally and also to the established groups who continue to organize the events we run.

Organizing an event is a huge undertaking especially something from the ground up as we were trying. I read a posting from Nate Tennis that really hit home, " Competitors and fans of the sport need to be more involved in supporting & helping event organizer rather than waiting & expecting events to magically happen." That is true and additionally established events need to look at new events as good for the sport and not as a threat, helping each other and helping rally grow is the answer to a brighter future.

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steevano61
and additionally established events need to look at new events as good for the sport and not as a threat, helping each other and helping rally grow is the answer to a brighter future.

Should... But don't hold your breath..

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

I feel like we should know what happened

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First Rally: 2010 First RallyX: 2004 (a bunch)
Driver (0), Co-Driver (7)
Organizer (3), Volunteer (3)
Cars Built (2.5), Engines Blown (2) Cages Built (0) # of rotations (3.5)
Last Updated, Apr 9, 2023

Wait... Lemme get the popcorn ready