Not the President's Prize Rally

[PeterWatt]

Not thePresident's Prize Rally

Eighth and penultimate round of the ORRC 2011 Championship
When: Saturday October 15, 2011
Start / Finish: Souvlaki Pit Restaurant 75 George St. N., Peterborough
Registration: 9:15 - 10:40 Competitors Meeting: 10:45
Car 0 starts: 11:00 am Approximate Finish: 16:30
Length: Approx 300 km One mid rally break
Cost: $40 if you let me know you're coming by Oct. 10
$50 at the door

Contact: peter dot watt at cogeco dot ca (705) 749-0563

Brief Description: A time/speed/distance car rally with three levels of instruction
Suitable for beginners to experts.
Featuring a variety of instructions
Paved and good gravel roads

Presented by: Peterborough Motor Sport Club

[romanm]

Anymore information on this?

Ive never done a rally....and ive wanted to try one with my lady friend since she is usually the one doing the navigating.

[PeterWatt]

As of the early entry deadline we are sitting at 11 potential entries.
We still have lots of room for more, but the instructions are going to the printer this morning. So far only two expert teams and one intermediate.
Hope to see a couple more on Saturday.
Cheers,
Peter

[Slowpoke]

Navigational Rally Battle Heats Up going into Peterborough

SPDA's October 1st No Winter Maintenance Rally (NWMR) saw the expert and intermediate class battles continue with no class champions yet declared. With 10 events this year, and a field of 22 cars at this inaugural fall event in Grey County. MLRC's Jane and Bruce Leonard added to their win count, putting the other three competitive Expert teams a step further back going into this weekend's President's Prize rally. SPDA teams of Trevor and Ted, and Opal with a new driver will seek to stop Bruce and Jane's winning streak.

MCO's Peter Brownhill and Gary Corbett decisively took the intermediate win to bring the fight to SPDA's Burgess and Ford. Tim and Perry will seek to bring the wins back into their column this weekend.

Novice class had the pleasant surprise of welcoming back Nikola Novak as a navigator and Iwan Mota driving to a first place finish. The novice driver championship is also still undecided this late in the season. SPDA welcomes Novice driver Chris Weigel as a new member who will be competing with Yevgeniy this weekend in Peterborough.

http://www.caslube.com/rally/nwm2011/images/NWMR2.jpg

Event results: http://www.caslube.com/rally/nwm2011/nwm2011.htm
*** New *** Event photos: http://caslube.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3222&g2_page=11

(Not the) Presidents Prize Oct 15th Event flyer: http://home.cogeco.ca/~peter.watt/PP211%20flier.pdf
Open Road Rally Nov 5th flyer: http://www.mco.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12134

[Slowpoke]

Anymore information on this?

Ive never done a rally....and ive wanted to try one with my lady friend since she is usually the one doing the navigating.

What type of information do you need? Your navigator should have a look at the BASIC Instructions here (ignore the other columns):

http://www.torontoautosportclub.ca/tac-rallymastersnote.html

And if you show up early, Peter should be able to have an experienced rallyist coach you on the instructions if there's anything that you don't understand.

It's very easy to do in any street car with a working odometer. You will want to bring a watch with a seconds indicator (and/or a stopwatch), a clipboard, and a pen.

[automatic]

I'm curious and maybe interested but want to know a little bit more about this.

Sorry if it seems like stupid questions but I want to know what I'd be getting myself into.

Is this like a timed rally race as in drive as fast as you can to the finish line?
Is it a closed course route?
Are the roads friendly to soft-ish (180 treadwear) tires?

[DaveCotie]

I'm curious and maybe interested but want to know a little bit more about this.

Sorry if it seems like stupid questions but I want to know what I'd be getting myself into.

Is this like a timed rally race as in drive as fast as you can to the finish line?
Is it a closed course route?
Are the roads friendly to soft-ish (180 treadwear) tires?

I know my answers are too late, however it may help you in the future.

- It is not a race or the fastest to the finish type rally. There are average speed zones and the idea is to maintain that average. The average must be at LEAST 10% under the posted limit. They must also allow time for stop signs and traffic lights.

- It is not closed course

- Most of the time the roads are regular road car (including soft tire) firendly, but I have seen times where lowerd cars or cars with really short sidewalls suffered some issues.

[automatic]

I know my answers are too late, however it may help you in the future.

- It is not a race or the fastest to the finish type rally. There are average speed zones and the idea is to maintain that average. The average must be at LEAST 10% under the posted limit. They must also allow time for stop signs and traffic lights.

- It is not closed course

- Most of the time the roads are regular road car (including soft tire) firendly, but I have seen times where lowerd cars or cars with really short sidewalls suffered some issues.

I ended up going to the rally out of curiosity and turned out to be quite fun! I initially thought it was a performance rally type event but it didnt matter too much anyway.

It was quite a bit of work but I enjoyed the scenery/exploring.

[PeterWatt]

To enter a performance rally is quite a bit more involved. The car must be caged, and logbooked with proper FIA approved seats and harnesses. The driver and co-drive require approved fireproof suits, an approved helmet and HANS device. Conservatively, the personal safety equipment would be an investment of around 1200 dollars and up. The car itself would be considerably more costly.
Glad you enjoyed the event on the weekend.
Cheers,
Peter