ITN’s Monte Style Road Rally “Training Wheels” Looks to be a great time…
Zeros to you Road Rally Fans…
Yesterday, I had the pleasure (and demise, see picture)
to do check out for what promises to be another great Monte Style Navigational Road Rally put on by the great folks at Into The Night Rally Club (ITN).
For those of you not familiar with the style of rallying adapted by ITN, here is a quick overview.
These rallies are map based and use a set of General Instructions for the structure of the event, a set of route cues used to guide you the right spot at the right time, and a set of maps are provided for your use.
One of the clues I stated earlier, is that it is a map based rally, and the maps provided to you are the official maps. DO NOT rely on your local Thomas Guide
This year ITN has decided to do things a little different to help encourage newcomers to the sport and easier time of learning what to do and when to do it. For instance, most rallies are timed in 100 ths of minutes vs. seconds. That essentially means turn 1 minute into a 100 pieces vs 60. Since this can be difficult to calculate real world time to cross the hose, all check points are scored at the top of the minute. So if you have a properly synchronized accurate wrist watch with a second hand, you have a devise necessary to run a monte carlo style rally. The watch a few highlighters, a car, and a navigator and you are ready to go. Be careful though, be the end of the rally, you will have had so much fun, you will be ready to go out and buy a $400 rally computer. And by the end of the year, you will want to upgrade to the rally computer with a drivers display for $700. I know I did after my 1st monte style rally in 1993.
So set aside March 28th, 2009. Get the oil changed, check the tire pressures, find a good friend or significant other, and head down to Fallbrook, CA for a great 5 hour Monte Style Navigational Road Rally. If you are not sure because you have never done one before. Don’t be, this rally is called Training Wheels for a reason! There will even be a Rally school ahead of the event to teach the newcomers (Group “B”) how to get it done and get it done right the first time.
The roads are awesome and challenging, the scenery is unbelievable, and the time to be had lets you forget the worries of today’s world for a couple of hours.
Come join us on March 28th. To find out more about this event, click on the 28th of March ont he calendar to the right. or visit the ITN web page.
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