North West Rally Club

[djcb]

Hey , I havn't posted in the NW section before so first of all what up... anyway I thought I would let you know about this sweet event series that starts from Bellevue WA (at I90/148th st) the 2nd friday of each month march-oct. These are TSD rally events and I did the whole series like 2 years ago. I am thinking about getting back into it now that I have my H22 and way more mods than I had when I did it originally. for info about the events take a look at http://www.nwrally.com/ for a def of tsd rallies. This is not an offroad kind of rally (TSD is time speed distance) but you do need a driver and a navagator. Let me know if there is interest cause I am going to start hittin this again prob next month and I would love to see other cb7 repin. peace homies

[westsideaccord]

Man I miss WRC coverage on speed!

[djcb]

bump with more info on TSD rallies

In a Time-Speed-Distance Rally, the Route Instructions, in addition to information to keep a team on course, also give assigned speeds. These speeds are always legal, and often are below the posted speed limit. A TSD rally is a competition of precision driving - it is not a race!
The goal of a rally team is twofold: to stay on the prescribed course and to drive at exactly the given speed. The perfect team would be on course, on time at any given point along the route. To score teams against this goal, checkpoints are sprinkled throughout the course at unspecified locations. Each team is timed by a crew at the checkpoint (also called the control) and their time is compared against a perfect time (computed from the assigned speeds and exact distances measured before the event). Each team receives a score based on its time for that portion, or leg, of the course. For each fraction of a minute early or late, the team is given points. The team with the lowest total score for all the legs wins. However, each leg is independent: time late or early on one leg cannot be "made up" on subsequent legs. After being timed by a checkpoint crew and receiving a score, the team is assigned an out time to begin driving the next leg.