Sunday October 20th 2024
Please register by e-mailing [email protected] by Thursday October 17th if possible
What is a Car Rally?
- A Navigation and Timing driving event over a specified route
- Can be a serious “TSD” time speed distance with route instructions that are challenging (this one is easy to follow)
- Can be a navigation only route
- Can in professional competition be on “closed roads” (not here we are on public roads at the speed limit)
- Can include requirement to see things on route (photo or ?)
- This event is an easy navigation and timing route with questions and answers needed on the route.
What do you need
- An automobile
- Driver and Navigator in the same car (2 people per car)
- Clipboard or folder for the navigator
- Pen or Pencil for the navigator
- A watch for the time of day
- Drive at the designated speeds (allowance for stop signs is built in by the rally organizer)
- Stay on the route (this one is not difficult)
Where do we start from
994227 Mono-Adjala Townline, Orangeville ON L9W 2Z2
- Hockley Valley General Store
- Arrive 9:00 and 9:30 am
- Coffee & baked goods available at the store
- Driver’s meeting 9:50 am in the north side of the store parking lot
- 1st Car away 10:00 am sharp
Where we will end
- Orangeville Ontario in a restaurant
- About 1:00 pm
- Hand in Rally instructions
- Enjoy Lunch while the rally organizer scores the rally
The route
- Primarily through Caledon
- Instructions given15 seconds before your car leaves
- Each car leaves at a 1-minute interval from the start
- Have fun and stay calm
Typical rally instructions
- CAS… commence an average speed
- R… right turn
- L at TL…left at traffic light
- AR…acute right ( a turn of more than 90 degrees)
- BL…bear left (less than 90 degrees)
- SSO…stop straight on
- SS…stop sign
- Mileages…62.39
- A “tulip diagram”
proceed from the dot to the arrow
- And example instruction… instruction # 45, proceed at 45 kph, follow the road from the dot to the arrowhead, you will be passing the 3rd line, at about kilometer 23.79 on the route
Stan East
Saab Club Director