MP3 Road Rally

[cjstringer]

Took my car on the second road rally this year. First one was a fun event, and wasn't scored on timing or driving. This one was a time/speed event. I had never done it before, so I was just out to have fun. Problem is that I am me, and I don't like to do anything half-assed, so I wanted to win!
Anyway, about 90% of the race was on back country roads with no traffic, the other part was just transition roads to get to the back roads. The problem I had was I hate driving on gravel, and about 8 miles of the 57 mile course was gravel. :mad:
Anyway, with my speed guesstimations and our wristwatch timing calculations, we took second place in the novice class (out of 5) in our first event. All of the other drivers had done it before, and last years national champ was at the event in a fully computerized Porsche. Didn't feel bad being beat by something like that.
Only missed 2 directions over the entire course, and had 1 major error costing us over 5 minutes. Nobody told us we could buy time until the day was over, so we could have won had we known about it earlier.
No biggie though, we'll be back and ready to take them on again soon!
Anybody else tried this yet?

 

[cfbjr]

Sounds cool. But this is not a speed event right?

 

[BondoBob]

I dig TSD (time-speed-distance) rallies. My wife and I competed in one for a number of years here on Long Island. It was held for a charity and cosponsored by a radio station (WBAB). We collected sponsorship money from friends and my computer company and went rallying. One year we drove in the company van, the next year in our Plymouth Breeze and the last in the big red Durango. Last year the charity decided that a golf tourney was a better thing to do...and no more rally.

Our best was the final year where we came in 14th out of 125 cars.

 

[cjstringer]

No, it's not a speed event, but having a decent car makes it fun to try and keep a contstant speed through the corners so you don't have to stray from the CAST (Change Average Speed To) speed. It was fun taking 10mph corners at 35+ and watching the face of my navigator. He drives an early 80s Saab.