The Tour featured an awesome Karen Babb designed course that utilized the topography well to provide many off camber challenges yet avoiding the sites harsher areas and also allowing for good drainage. Patience was the word with key sweepers being of the decreasing radius variety. Even in the wet the start was a hoot with nearly 300 ft of straight after a sharp entry box. The weather was a challenge for drivers, as forecast worsened running up to the event.  Saturday started with heavy rain failing and a very wet course. Several drivers were unprepared and ran on drys resulting in more than a few spins. Heat two saw drying conditions that started as bad as heat one and ended with a drying line. Many classes saw 1st day winners based upon latest runs on the tight but dry line including Bob Bundy in SSM who took a .8 second lead into day two. Drivers who pushed too hard wound up off line, in the wet and often backwards. Some STU drama occurred when the Mikko family STU car had a dead clutch after arriving on site. Co-drive Geoff Clark spent 12 hours under the car Friday night and replaced the damaged clutch component and a turbo bolt that broke along the way. Further troubles arose during heat 3 competition when the cars sway bar link broke. Spare in hand, Clark again came to the rescue and fixed the car just in time for Tasha's final run on which she took the lead. As always, the Packwood Tour featured great social opportunities.  The party at the town’s firehouse included good home cooked chicken and wine, and many awesome raffle prizes including $250 Tire Rack gift certificates and free alignments from Fordahl Motorsports. Sundays course was the reverse of Saturday’s with some minor tweaks and finished with an exciting off camber right hand turn into a very fast finish.  Competitors awoke to dry conditions on Sunday, but in a cruel twist of fate, a light drizzle started during course walks and by the time heat one started Heat one was again completely wet and featured many spins as folks sought to make up the margins the previous day's weather left them with.  The stand out from the crowd was the Hyman Nissan GTR, utilizing both AWD and rain tires to navagate the course as though it were dry. Heat 2 was again changing conditions but started drier then on Sunday.  A lack of direct sun light left the course moister then by the end of Saturday’s competition but again was mostly dry by the end. Several great battles including H-Stock where Joe Austin almost snatched the win from Local Bill Zerr, but in the end wound up a few hundredths short. The tour featured some seldom seen autocross cars this year, including a 67 Luv Pickup competing in SSM and and an electric powered Tesla finding its way onto the podium in SS.