What is Performance or Stage Rally?
Performance Rallying has long been a favorite form of motor sport in Europe, Asia, Africa and other parts of the world. In these places, rallies often draw crowds in the tens of thousands. Unlike conventional racing, rallies are held primarily on forest access roads. These roads consist of everything from loose gravel to mud or snow and ice. The conditions can dictate speeds from well over 200 km/h to as low as 30 km/h. Also, unlike racing, the route remains unknown to the driver until it is read at speed by the CO-driver (navigator). At every moment, the car, driver and CO-driver must be ready for whatever may be around the next curve! Performance Rallying displays a unique combination of driver skill, car performance, strategy, endurance and pure guts.
The Performance Rally format consists of two parts: Special Stages and Transit Sections. The Special Stages are the competitive sections of the route and are closed to public traffic during the event. These are flat-out runs against the clock, at speeds that the average motorist would never imagine possible. The Transit Sections are routes between Stages, in which the teams must obey all traffic laws. Ample time is provided to allow teams to arrive at the start of the next Stage without speeding, and penalties are assessed for arriving too early or too late. Any moving violation in a transit section is grounds for disqualification. The accumulation of times from the Special Stages and transit penalties makes up the final score and helps to determine the winner.
Performance Rally vehicles require certain safety equipment to protect the crew. This includes a full roll cage, with door bars and triangulation, fire extinguishers and special seat belts. The crew must wear approved fireproof suits and helmets, and must hold a St. John Ambulance First Aid certificate. All of this equipment is scrutinized by event officials before the start of each event
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Co-driver/navigator tips
Rally Navigator Tips and Tricks
Rallying is suppose to be a fun team sport. A chance for the driver to prove his ability to control a vehicle under a variety of road conditions, and the navigator who enjoys telling others where to go. These are some of the things you can do that could improve your score or your justification for not scoring well.
At start of rally.
Receive instructions.
Check for missing pages.
Highlight speed changes and pauses.
Calculate time to each speed change in regularity. Do calculations to at least 4 decimal places. Big note: do all calculations in decimal fraction of minutes not seconds ie: HH:MM.SSSS (12:24.7856 = 12 hours,24.7856 min,). Only convert to seconds after the calc?s are done (use a table to convert from decimal to seconds). If your time calc's match rally calc's, calculate remaining instructions using previous calc's to confirm your math.
Always do calc's based on given instruction values. The route instructions are the only truth even if wrong. Adjust your position on the road based on distance at each instruction. If that cattle guard is out .02, adjust your odometer to match and you've just saved a .02 min penalty on a 60 CAS.
Do a running total to end of regularity. Do not round each calculation and use at least 4 decimal places. If the rallymaster isn?t doing the same, he is doing it wrong.
If you have time, calculate all the regularities before the start. The only variable is your distance and the Rally Masters. The odo check will be used to calibrate what you have with rally distance. Beware of RMs that use rubber kilometers!
Rally Observations that you can use as excuses
or to state the obvious.
You can only hope the rallymaster has the controls as close to the top of the second as possible. If not, it's one of the many factors that will keep you from zeroing the rally.
It is much easier to be accurate during the rally than the rallymaster was setting it up. You do the event in one continuous flow. He probably stopped, ran at different speeds, different road conditions, etc.
Navigators job is to do the calculations and track progress of the vehicle. The more information you give the driver, the easier it will be to maintain accurate road position.
It doesn't matter what class your in, from seat-of-pants to computer, the rally is the same for everyone. Of course the calculations are easier with a computer.
Rallying is a percentage game, you won't be 100% accurate all the time, but the more time you spend in the 1 sec late side of true time the better your score will be.
Some people believe rallies prove you can't get there from here.
Rallying is suppose to be a fun team sport. A chance for the driver to prove his ability to control a vehicle under a variety of road conditions, and the navigator who enjoys telling others where to go. These are some of the things you can do that could improve your score or your justification for not scoring well.
At start of rally.
Receive instructions.
Check for missing pages.
Highlight speed changes and pauses.
Calculate time to each speed change in regularity. Do calculations to at least 4 decimal places. Big note: do all calculations in decimal fraction of minutes not seconds ie: HH:MM.SSSS (12:24.7856 = 12 hours,24.7856 min,). Only convert to seconds after the calc?s are done (use a table to convert from decimal to seconds). If your time calc's match rally calc's, calculate remaining instructions using previous calc's to confirm your math.
Always do calc's based on given instruction values. The route instructions are the only truth even if wrong. Adjust your position on the road based on distance at each instruction. If that cattle guard is out .02, adjust your odometer to match and you've just saved a .02 min penalty on a 60 CAS.
Do a running total to end of regularity. Do not round each calculation and use at least 4 decimal places. If the rallymaster isn?t doing the same, he is doing it wrong.
If you have time, calculate all the regularities before the start. The only variable is your distance and the Rally Masters. The odo check will be used to calibrate what you have with rally distance. Beware of RMs that use rubber kilometers!
Rally Observations that you can use as excuses
or to state the obvious.
You can only hope the rallymaster has the controls as close to the top of the second as possible. If not, it's one of the many factors that will keep you from zeroing the rally.
It is much easier to be accurate during the rally than the rallymaster was setting it up. You do the event in one continuous flow. He probably stopped, ran at different speeds, different road conditions, etc.
Navigators job is to do the calculations and track progress of the vehicle. The more information you give the driver, the easier it will be to maintain accurate road position.
It doesn't matter what class your in, from seat-of-pants to computer, the rally is the same for everyone. Of course the calculations are easier with a computer.
Rallying is a percentage game, you won't be 100% accurate all the time, but the more time you spend in the 1 sec late side of true time the better your score will be.
Some people believe rallies prove you can't get there from here.
Summary
Hi..its been along time i haven't wrote anything in my blog..sorry been busy lately..Anyway checking on the malaysian rally scene at present.I found out where does it leads to now?what happen next?....are we progressing or are we downgrading....Yes many newcomers are involves but where does it leads them to..i wonder.Looking at drift motorsports eventhou i myself dont like drifting..but it seem that drifting is one step above then rallying...Why? I tell u why..its because their marketing stratergy and they did their homework as many jump into drift to get media exposure and also european and asian are competing in drifting in malaysia...and many of them turning up each year to compete in malaysia...but what about rallying??maybe 1 or 3 european or asian..and how many competitors do we have....19-21 cars...or maybe less then that...how come?? we all know rallying in malaysia has been long establish since the glory days.where are the young upcoming stars...they been overshadowed by a 50 yr old driver.how do we plan to make them a good rally driver..is the veteran destroying the sport or there is no development for the newcomers and where is the excitement......till then there is more to come from me.......
Monday, September 21, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
PERT Rally Team History.
PERT is Petronas EON Racing Team. Combination between the giant company, Petronas (need to explain? no I guess) and EON which is Edaran Otomobile National (Malaysian First Automobile Company). Petronas currently sponsored many Motorsport scene in Malaysia, Such as 4 wheeler, 2 wheeler and others, you name it, and called the Department as Petronas Motorsport.
Once Petronas has sponsored Mitsubishi for the WRC in 1996, back then Mitsubishi uses the Mitsu EVO 3 as the Machine
that started to win the WRC. Man it was wonderful. The driver back then were Kenneth Eriksson, Tommi Makinen and our own,Karamjit Singh or Flying SIngh. All uses petronas Stripes.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Sumbangan Masjid Darul Ehsan Subang Jaya dalam sukan Rally.
Saya ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih atas sokongan dan bantuan yang diberi oleh pihak Masjid Darul Ehsan Subang jaya dalam sukan Rally malaysia 2008/2009.pihak masjid memberikan sokongan kepada Team Rally En.Khairul Faizal yang pernah menjuarai Malaysia rally tahun 2004 dan beliau kini hanya rally secara club rally apabila bersara selepas menjuarai pada tahun 2004.Dan pada 2008 dan 2009 beliau telah diberi sokongan oleh pihak masjid untuk meneruskan sukan rally.Pasukan En.Khairul Faizal yg membawa nama baik masjid Darul Ehsan telah mendapat tempat kedua berturut-turut.Alhamdullilah setelah lama bersara beliau masih mampu menduduki tempat teratas.Saya ingin mengucapkan terima kasih kepada Tuan pengurusi Masjid iaitu Ustaz Ahamd Shukri,Ustaz Muhamad Imran,ustaz Muhammad Nor Salami,ustaz Nukman dan juga AJK masjid.Yang telah banyak mendorongi dan memberi sokong padu kepada saya.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
PROFLEX 2008 (RALLY)
NEW FOR 2008In response to the recent FIA ruling for Group N cars such that roller bearing systems are no longer permitted, this shock absorber has been developed using only plain bearings.
Alister McRae played an important role in this development using the prototype shock absorber on the Rally New Zealand 2007.
•Now with plain bearings and internal lubrication system
•Meets all 2008 FIA regulations for Gp. N and Gp. A
•Available only in 55.0mm unit
PROFLEX (EVO 3)
Suitable for Gp. A, WRC and Circuit Racing the Evo 3 is available in both 45mm and 55mm sized units. This specification consists of one roller bearing assembly attached to the insert, and an additional roller bearing assembly at the top of the outer casing."The Full Roller Bearing" strut assembly, developed under WRC conditions, has lead to possibly the lowest friction strut assembly that is generally available
Drummonds (5-WAY Adjustable Suspension)
With tarmac, gravel or race shock absorbers and struts, it is always a contentious topic of when high shaft speed adjustment starts, or when low shaft speed adjustment stops!
With the new DMS 5-way shock absorber we have an external adjustment so we can shift the point at when the high speed adjustment starts. (the 3rd adjustment on Bump, on the canister).
To tune this system you need data logging to get the optimum performance from the extra adjustment. This system is best suited to Rally Gravel, Rally Tarmac, Circuit Racing.
The advantages in the above mentioned , is if a particular bump or hole is causing the vehicle to bottom out at a particular shaft speed, you can adjust the starting point of the high speed down to assist the shock at that shaft speed and you do not have to up set your low to middle shaft speed adjustment.
The rebound adjustment is located at the bottom of the strut.
The high speed rebound is the red knob and has 4 positions.
There are 20 clicks available for each 4 positions of the high speed. In total there are 80 clicks available on rebound. This gives a huge range of fine adjustment increments.
The rebound adjustment is located on the shaft the bump adjustment are all on the canister.
This system gives maximum traction and also stability through the range of shaft speeds used at any particular track or gravel surface. It also enables the team to get the best set up within a very short time. Therefore cutting down testing time and costs.
The remote canister system has big bore high flow hose and fittings manufactured by DMS to ensure highest flow possible
This system also comes with multi swivel joint for the hose fitting at the top of the strut insert. This helps with fitting and locating the DMS remote canister.
Silversotne rally Tyre
Provides maximum grip on gravel, clay, dry or moist surfaces.
Tread pattern designed for grooving to enhance traction in loose gravel and damp surfaces.
Specially formulated rubber compound.
The Malaysian Rally Idol
Karamjit Singh (born January 29, 1962), also known as the Flying Sikh, is a Malaysian professional race driver in rallying, and was the first Asian driver to win the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Production Car World Championship for Drivers, doing so on his first try. He has been rallying professionally since 1985. He has won the 2001 Asia Pacific Rally Championship for Drivers, the 2002 FIA Production Car World Championship for Drivers, as well as the 2002 and 2004 FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship for Drivers. He has raced for the Petronas EON Racing Team and Team Proton Pert Malaysia using Proton 4WD rally cars. His co-drivers have been (in chronological order) Ron Teoh, Allen Oh and John Bennie. Karamjit is currently racing a Proton Satria Neo Super 2000 in the Asia Pacific Rally Championships for the Proton R3 Malaysia Rally Team.[1]
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The Old Faithfull
Proton Putra...1997
won the 1.8 class (P11) 2 years in row
converted Mitsubishi evo3
full time 4wd
full LSD front rear and active centre diff.
2 Sparco evo FIA seats.
Sparco 2 spoke steering.
Peltor Intercom.
Terratrip and cordolba trip meter.(co-driver side)
haltech managment system with anti-lag
drummond upgraded shocks with cooling canister
Grp N Spec
Rollcage by WRC motorsports (Brian Palmer)
chassis build by WRC motorsports.
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