5th Beach Road Magazine Car Rally on June 18

With 18 registered teams and counting, this year’s Beach Road Magazine Car Rally promises to be the biggest and most diverse iteration of the motoring competition in its five-year history.

Business executives, legal eagles, a musician, an art shop curator, an activities manager at a water park, families, friends, office workers, warehouse staff, merchandisers, a U.S. District Court staffer are among the participants who will vie for cash, gifts, and yes, bragging rights to victory over the most challenging car rally on Saipan happening on Saturday, June 18.

Most of the entries are newcomers with a smattering of repeat contestants aiming to finish the course with a close-to-perfect precision in timing and answers to general knowledge questions.

Triple J Motors, aside from being a major sponsor, has also entered 10 teams composed of drivers or navigators who bought their car from the dealership. Randy Steele, vice president of Triple J, leads the contingent with his navigator, lawyer Mike White. Triple J Motors will give two limited edition car rally shirts with Triple J and BRM Car Rally logos to all teams driving cars from the dealership.

The top winner will get valuable cash prizes and corporate gifts from sponsors including Triple J Motors, Coca-Cola, Foremost, Ideal Signs, Subway, Oleai Bar and Grill, Scoops, Docomo, KZMI, Fiesta Resort & Spa, Saipan Advertising, PIC, Coral Ocean Point, Megabyte, and T&L Get Covered.

According to Susan Marchitti, car rally master and Beach Road Magazine account manager, this will be the longest car rally yet. It will start at 9am in the morning at a clearing at the base of Mt. Tapochao. From there, it’s going to be one long, circuitous drive to the checkpoints and finally, to the road savvy, to the finish line.

Beach Road Magazine introduced the car rally in 2007, with the objective of offering Saipan and neighboring Guam a fresh form of entertainment that would bring families, friends, and companies together in a friendly competition. Guam experienced its first car rally this year through MDM, the sister publication of Beach Road Magazine.

A car rally is a timed and predetermined course combined with aspects of a scavenger hunt, general knowledge, and trivia. Car rallies lend a new meaning to road warriors as participants pit skills and wit with the car rally master whose course design is littered with tricks to throw expert drivers and navigators off course.

The Beach Road Magazine Car Rally is open to drivers 16 years and older. Families, companies, friends, and tourists are invited to participate. Each car is required to have at least one driver and as many navigators as the legal capacity of the vehicle will allow to complete the course.

Patterned after car rallies in the United States and Europe, the Beach Road Magazine Car Rally requires drivers to complete a course by following instructions that test the team’s attention to detail and navigational skills. Each team will be given a new set of instructions at every checkpoint. Following the checkpoint instructions to the letter is an important discipline, as it affects the team’s chances of collecting points to win the car rally.

Registration is $15, and space is limited to 60 cars. Grab a copy of Beach Road Magazine for the entry forms, fill them out and submit to the Glimpses of Saipan office on the second floor of the Transpac Business Center along Chalan Pale Arnold Rd., Gualo Rai (near Subway Restaurant) up to 5pm today or 9am tomorrow at the rally starting point.

See Beach Road Magazine print ads or call Susan Marchitti at 235-7645 or 483-3145 for details. [B][I](PR)[/I][/B]