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.......
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