Rally! Sat Feb 27th, 2010 [POSTPONED]

[RandyC]

Please sign up below. Event is limited to 20 cars. Sorry, only 20. We need a minimum of 8 cars to make this happen. This is a non-competitive event, held for fun. There will be no speeding. In fact, you will lose points for being at the checkpoint too soon. It the weather ends up looking like it does not cooperate with us, we will take a rain check and reschedule.

Requirements.


Street legal car.
Valid SCCA membership for both driver and passenger.
Driver's license for driver.

There will be a small fee to cover SCCA insurance. $10 or less.

Suggestion. Bring a clipboard or at least a magazine to write against. Bring a pen. Bring a bottle of water. Fill the car before you arrive. Use the restroom before you arrive.

Entrants are encouraged to be at the starting spot by 9:00am. First car out at 10:00am. Cars are sent every two minutes. Approx time for the drive will be a couple hours followed by an optional lunch.

Note, you can have more than two people in one car.... but you need a passenger to navigate. Do not try this alone.

I will list names as I have them. If I only have the driver's name, please let me know the passenger's name. If I only have your user name on this forum, please let me know a real name. If you are not sure you can make it, let me know. Thanks!
Starting spot is the old La Mesa Circuit City parking lot, on Grossmont BLVD, east of Jackson. Drive will be in the east county.

1. Randy C / Andrea M *Subaru WRX*
2. Andrew L / Lisa L
3. Jeff F /
4. Warren N /
5. Dan W (rrunner68) / maybe the wife :)
6. Doug S (SVTfocus) /
7. Tina V (STIna) / Dannny Y *Evo*
8. Morgan T / Lori T
9. Carl (Chaz572) / *Integra*
10. Shaunde / Ryan
11. Mike Y / Nancy
12. Shane S (opek) /
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[nalbar]

SCCA day passes will be available on site. Because this is a trial event, they will be sold at a nominal price. Almost given away. So don't let that deter you.


nalbar

[BigBoyEvo]

Will this event be held in San Diego? Also what is the cost to enter the event?

[RandyC]

I added the answers to the first post. I am not sure, but the fee will be between zero and $10 for the car. Depends on what SCCA says.

If we want to do a trophy, then we need to cover the cost of that. Me, I can go either way on a trophy.

Drive starts in La Mesa and heads east...

[windsway]

Windsway will be out of town that day. Have a great time everyone and count us in on the next one.

[STIna]

Tina valle and Danny yu driving 03 evo.

[rrunner68]

I'm definitely in, just need a good navigator. Wife says she'll do it as a last resort, lol. She's a bit intimidated.

Dan W.

[Mtrotter]

Sign me up! Morgan (driver) and Lorri (navigator) Trotter

[chaz572]

Sounds like fun! Count me in; I'll drive the Integra. I've got a few draft picks for navigator to run this by; I'll let you know as soon as I've got one committed. Whoever it is will almost certainly need a day pass.

[SVTfocus]

SVTfocus = Doug S. Co-Driver's name to follow...

[DelSolBurrow]

IMO, the first post is missing A LOT of info. I get the event is for fun, but what exactly are we doing? just a drive from point A- B on public roads? a drive to multiple points? directions are given, not given? I don't know more info would be nice.

[RandyC]

Yep. This is what I posted last week when we were discussing this.
http://www.sdsolo.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2271


For those that don't know what a TSD Gimmick Rally is, let me give you a quick rundown. Entrants need to be licensed drivers in a street legal car. Suggest that you arrive with a full tank and empty bladder. What follows is just examples, not all rallys are run the same. There are differences.

There is a meeting point where the cars assemble, usually an empty parking lot. You are assigned a sequence number and a sheet of "instructions." You may also be given a sealed envelope with the instructions to not open it. The envelope may contain the final stop point in case you were to become hopelessly lost, but opening it and reading it means you are disqualified from winning.

Cars are released about 2 minutes apart. That tends to make it so you are not in a train following each other. And really, people will make mistakes so you don't want to blindly follow anyone. But it is nice after not seeing another entrant for some time and wondering if you are even in the right area, to spy another car and at least if you are lost, there is someone else lost too. :)

You follow the directions and they can be quite plain, such as "Take the next right at the light" or they can be tricky... "Turn left on to the street with the baseball monks"... and you will be wondering what the heck that means.... until you see FRIARS road.

The instruction sheet will also ask you questions you need to answer. Such as "how many blue mailboxes do you see?" or "what is the name of the quarry on your left?" and these are all things that are obvious and you will see along the way.

The instruction sheet will also note your starting time and your starting odometer reading.

The event creator(s) will have pre-driven the course (more than once!) and will know how many miles it is and how long it should take.

There can be multiple check points or a single end check point. At the checkpoint(s), your time is checked. At the end checkpoint, your miles are noted down.

Note that the time is based on you following the speedlimit, so speeding is discouraged on public roads.

You get a point for each correct answer. You subtract points for each mile being off the perfect lap. You subtract points for minutes you are too late or too early. More competitive rallies count down to the second and there is a class for cars with computers. Probably would not be a bad idea to have a GPS n the car. I know in my first rally, I could not drive the speed limit so I eventually gave up trying to win. And I wonder about a rally that had all the elements except for the time part. But I can see the time part being in there for liability reasons. Hmmm....

Most rallies area about 2 hours in time and end at a final checkpoint that is a restaurant to eat at. There winners are determined and people can talk about who did what and laugh or bitch about the clues, etc.

Normally groups only charge something like $10 to cover the trophies.

These are fun and I was thinking of maybe putting one together, but it is also a lot of work to organize (kinda like an autocross) and it would work better if a small group of us decided we wanted to do this through SCCA (CalClub has an active group doing this) and then we can share the work.

The event creator has to go out and map the planned course. Determine the clues and questions. Drive it again at speed to determine miles and time. Someone has to organize the start and then someone has to be there at the finish to wait for everyone.

Events should be limited to maybe 20 cars. More than that and it takes too long for the start and finish. At 20 cars that is a 40 minute interval so.

[RandyC]

In my defense, you should see the instructions for the one I went on.

http://www.sandiegobritishcarday.org/



Sunday, January 24, 2010

Leaving from the former Circuit City store parking lot
8810 Grossmont Blvd in La Mesa

Registration Open: 9:00 AM
First Car Out: 10:00 AM



Stay tuned for further details...


That was ALL. There were no further details. :)

[DelSolBurrow]

thanks Randy!

[07STiGiRL]

shaunde and ryan in car to be determinded

[rrunner68]

A friend of mine just joined SCCA last night wants to go as well. Name is Mike Y, co pilot is Nancy

[nalbar]

Yikes!

I better find either a driver or navigator soon.


nalbar

[opek]

I should be able to scrounge up a navigator.

Shane S./ *miata*

[RandyC]

Cool.

That is 12 cars, so a good number.

Stay tuned to this thread as we watch the weather. If it starts to look like Saturday has a good chance or rain, we will simply postpone this until a later date. I want to give everyone as much notice as I can, so I will try to make a decision in the next couple days.

If the weather is sunny, then it should be an awesome drive as the backcountry is all green right now.

[RandyC]

From the first thread, as posted

Avoid the rain, for sure. Of course I stand ready to be pummeled if Feb 27 turns out to be a glorious, sunny, warm day.

Jeff

Well, I think you are more right than wrong. Oh well. Forecast is a new storm is coming in and rain on Saturday.

There is enough work in setting these up, to have a good chance of rain makes it not worth it for now. So let's postpone this and select a dryer date when we do not have an event scheduled. This is about the latest I want to wait to make a decision as work still would have to be done to pre-drive the course, work out some things. And I want people to know as soon as possible to make their plans.

Sorry, but it will be better with a known dry date.

[jeffreyf]

Concur,

Thanks Randy. It will be fun whenever we do it. :banana:

Jeff

[STIna]

Thank you for the update. We will keep checking to see when the new date is.

re: Warren's last comment...

I can't believe that you would have trouble finding someone to hang out in the car that long with you. I have a deaf friend that would be interested. Just kidding...

[Steve35]

re: Warren's last comment...

I can't believe that you would have trouble finding someone to hang out in the car that long with you. I have a deaf friend that would be interested. Just kidding...

:clap: too funny!

[73STS]

Thank you for the update. We will keep checking to see when the new date is.

re: Warren's last comment...

I can't believe that you would have trouble finding someone to hang out in the car that long with you. I have a deaf friend that would be interested. Just kidding...

Is your friend sight impaired also?

[nalbar]

Oh ya,

everyone go ahead and pick on me because I don't have any friends. Go ahead and make fun of the unpopular guy.

::sniff::


:(



nalbar

[rrunner68]

Warren, I'll drive for you anytime.

[07STiGiRL]

Any updates on this? Any new dates being considered?

[Andrew]

National events -- and the rain, hopefully -- are done. Time to revive this thread.

[RandyC]

In looking at a calendar, there are events many weekends and also the Wendover event coming up. The first clear weekend I think is June 19-20.

Thoughts?

[Andrew]

That's Father's Day weekend.

And I can't make it (totally unrelated to it being Father's Day, BTW).

[1970 Cobra]

Just joined and saw that a rally was planned but rained out. Any infomation on the next planned event? Thanks