Well, let's not get too far afield from autocross.
A. I'm not a rally fan of any sort.
B. Those guys had the nerve to say in the rally presentation that
rallies were run at below legal speed limits ;) Josh, they did
say TSD.
C. You are right on all counts, Brian.
>Anyone else out there run the Det region Moonlight Monte last
week?
>Thoughts?
Learned years ago not to go there. :)
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Hadler <jhadler@rmi.net>
To: bluemr2@juno.com <bluemr2@juno.com>
Cc: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, March 19, 1999 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: The Cost of A-X (long)
>
>
>bluemr2@juno.com wrote:
>>
>> >Snipping the balance of an excellent post. The last Detroit
>> >Region meeting program was "getting started in ....." The re
was
>> >general agreement that the cheapest form of autosport (at
least
>> >as is available within SCCA) is Road Rally. They never
mentioned
>> >Dramamine on the list of required equipment, though.
>>
>> Hmmm, Road Rally (at least the one I went to in the
Detroit Region)
>> looks to be MORE expensive than auto-x. There's less equip.
to buy to be
>> competitve, BUT repairing the car after every event looks to
get
>> expensive fast. (Luckily, we got away from it only needing a
<$70
>> alternator belt replacement) The "old" one was about 9 months
old.
>> Plus, gotta wash the car a lot more often ;-)
>
> I think you're talking about Pro Rally. Road rally (not Pro) is
simply
>a TSD event. Travel a certain distance in a prescribed amount of
time,
>and the routes are on public roads and are intended to excercise
>navigation rather than fast drving techniques. Pro Rally
however, is a
>high speed event on closed roads. BIG difference. SCCA calls it
Pro
>rally, FIA calls it the world rallye championship, but suffice
it to
>say, there are two very different forms of rally competition.
>
>-Josh2
>
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