Vicali, do you think you could explain a little more about the TSD rally thing?
oh I
hate talking about Rally.. :icon_rolleyes: lol
I started because here in Kamloops we have a few member of the West Coast Rally Association who put together beginner classes to give people a chance to try the sport;
there are 6 rallies in the real
series around here; plus a Novice series for beginners. Last summer we ran the Novice series (3 events) and really had fun. We ended up coming in third overall, myself 3rd for drivers and my brother 2nd for Navi's.
You don't need any special car prep (unless you want to) there is an inspection but it is mostly lights/ insurance/ safety stuff. We ran our forester in a midst of Imprezas and a few others.. one of the local series winners runs a 07 FXT and does awesome.
Once you get started the whole idea is that you are trying to match a control cars speed (car 0) over the entire rally. Someone had run the course and recorded the distances and when they got to each point. You get notes with their start time and distances and have to calculate the rest for your car; ie car #6 runs car 0+6 minutes, one car starts every minute.. (we run in calculator class... there is a seperate class if you are using rally computers and then there is a hardcore class running paper and pencils!) you are trying to come in at each control
to the second that they did. Every second over is a points, in the novice class we were getting around 100 points over 300km, 6 stage rally. In the real series there are more than 10 cars within 10points over the same distance rally.
In our club we run pretty fair Rallies, there are some clubs that are full of tricks and traps to get you off time. Do some googling and find local clubs who put these on; they are also called Time Speed Distance rallies, Navigation Rally, Road Rally, Poker Rally... etc
They have been going on for a long time, the local one here is on it's 37th annual.. I started telling our parents about it and they used to run them when they were teenagers..:biggrin:
This year we are hanging back a bit, I got right sideways @ 70km/hr in the mud during the last one and lost 100 seconds calming down after that; can't ditch the daily driver.. we need a project that won't be the end of the world if it gets wrinkled up.. So this year I am volunteering with the stage events.
check out
Rally Central for more info in the states.
also
Specialstage North American Rally Resource has TSD sections in with the Stage big guns..