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Road
Rallies
- Does anyone still run them?
- They must be slow and boring.
Only a few of the questions and comments I have heard over the years mainly from people who have never tried road rallying.
I agree that road rallying does have it’s down sides, you don’t get a chance to pose in your fireproof romper suit in front of thousands of admiring spectators, don’t need a competition licence or spend vast amounts of money on a four wheel drive fire breathing monster which could easily have cost more than your house.
You can enter in anything as long as it is road legal, the
first event I entered was won by Willie and Michael Stuart driving one of the
works vans and Bob Watson and I were teamed up in an old SAAB 9000 with my dog
in the back as I had originally volunteered to marshal. At around £30 per event
including insurance ( £20.50 0n the ADMC training series ) motor sport doesn’t
come any cheaper.
Driver Ian Shiells, Co-Driver ADMC President Graham Bruce at the start of the Groper's 2007
.....cont
When you add in that you have to decipher a load of clues to find
where you are going then a fairly enthusiastic driving style is required. Our corner
of
Don’t think that life in the other seat is any easier as this is where you earn the title of navigator rather than pace note reader. You only have to work out the clues, plot the route on the map after fighting to fold it into a manageable size, tell the psycho in the other seat where to go and when to slow for severe corners (preferably before you get to them) note down route check code boards as you pass them, keep an eye on the time and deal with control marshals all while resisting the urge to regurgitate the fish supper you had just before the start (done that, not a good idea!!).
Passage Control on Longest Day Rally 2006
(Photograph courtesy of Rae Osborne) (click the image to enlarge)
These events are designed to be a very
gentle, sociable but above all enjoyable introduction to motorsport and full
instructions will be given from navigation and how to work out the clues to a
map with the complete route marked on for first timers. What else could be
better on a wet (probably or should I say hopefully as they are more fun)
Saturday night in October, why not bring the wife/partner and settle that old
argument that men really are better navigators and drivers. It’s well worth
coming just for the soup and sarnies at the end..