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06-27-03, 08:19 PM
WHAT IS A ROAD RALLY?
It’s a way to enjoy your Vette. It’s more than a Sunday drive it’s a Sunday drive with a puzzle thrown in and a little friendly competition. More specifically it’s an event in which teams of people in cars follow a set of driving directions to get from a starting point of the Rally to the Rally finale. Along the way, the teams try to find answers to the Rally Master’s tricky questions.
The Road Rally is NOT a Race! Cars follow the printed instructions as closely as possible, observing safe, local speed limits as they look for the answers to the questions. The emphasis is on SAFETY, accuracy, observation and fun.
HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN BE ON A TEAM?
How many people can you fit in a Vette? You don’t have to use your Vette, however, it is a CCDV event the firs C stands for Corvette, but if the weather turns on us and you don’t like to get your baby wet, saddle up the Minivan. You need at least two team members, a driver and a navigator, but any number of people can be on a team. However there are some important considerations to keep in mind. To equalize things a bit you will be given only one set of questions, the more people in your car the better you all have to be with communicating and listening. The old phrase “the more the merrier” is seldom the case with this type of Road Rally. We would recommend teams of (2) as optimal and much less nerve wracking.
WHAT SHOULD WE BRING?
Besides your Corvette, a working odometer, a driver and a navigator, all you need is a pen or pencil. There are a few things you may wish to bring but are not necessary to complete the Rally. A Pennsylvania/New Jersey map, clipboard, sunglasses, cell phone. And last perhaps the name of a good marriage counselor ha! Ha!
HOW DOES THE RALLY START?
Rally vehicles are sent off one by one, at times intervals. After a group welcome and announcements/instructions from the Rally Master, each car is lined up in a row and given a number to be written on the windshield (car dealer white marker). At Rally time, the first car is invited to the starting line by the Rally Master. At that point the team in the car will be given the direction sheet and the question sheet, and any last minute information from the Rally Master. Once the car is ready to go, the Rally Master will record their starting time and give them the go signal. The next team is then invited to the starting line, given their paperwork and instructions, and sent off anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes after the team ahead of them.
WHAT ARE THE DRIVING DIRECTIONS LIKE?
Let’s take a look at some examples:
• Start Turn LEFT when safe.
• 0.7 SLOW, stay towards RIGHT.
• 0.75 Turn SHARPLY RIGHT.
• 1.9 STOP. Turn LEFT when safe.
As you can see, the directions are as clear as possible and tell you where to turn according to odometer readings. Also the directions follow road signs. For example, when the odometer reading above indicated 1.9 miles there was a STOP sign at an intersection.
AREN’T ODOMETERS ALL A LITTLE DIFFERENT?
Definitely, so here and there during the Rally we throw in an Odometer Reality Check it looks like this: 2.0 ODOMETER REALITY CHECK – mine says 2.0 just as I passed the yellow RR sign.
If your odometer reads 2.0 before/after you pass the yellow RR sign you can safely assume that you’ll have to add/subtract a bit from the odometer listings in the directions. We also include odometer resets several times along the way, so that long distances don’t magnify any differences.
TELL ME ABOUT THE QUESTIONS?
Each team, in addition to the driving instructions receives a set of questions/clues that are interwoven between the driving instructions.
For Example:
• Start LEFT when safe.
• International __________________________________
• 0.7 SLOW, stay towards right.
• 0.75 Turn SHARPLY RIGHT
• Not the Pacific but the _________________________________________
• Ice Cream Nobility__________________________________________ ___
• What time is it? What time is it? ___________________________________
• 1.9 STOP. Turn left when safe.
As you can see, there are questions or clues placed between specific odometer readings, and a line for you to write in the most appropriate answer. All answers can be clearly seen from the car, between specified odometer readings traveling at the local speed limit. In the example above somewhere between 0.75 and 1.9 miles on the odometer there are three answers to be found.
• Not the Pacific but the Atlantic Fence Company
• Ice Cream Nobility Dairy Queen
• What time is it? What time is it? Jerry’s antique Clock Repair
WHAT ABOUT TRICKY QUESTIONS?
Well it’s like this, the Rally Master works day and night to perfect the driving instructions, making them as clear and easy to follow as possible. No team should ever have trouble getting from the start to the finish without getting lost. There are no tricks in the driving instructions. Some of the questions are another story. This is where the rally master has his devious fun. Some questions are obvious, some a bit less obvious, some are humorous. Some will be billboards large as a house or maybe a sign tacked to a telephone pole 1 foot wide. Some will be businesses or maybe a description of a building you’ll get the hang of it pretty quickly. You will be able to see all the answers without having to look behind you.
WHAT ARE STOPS?
Stops are points along the Rally Route where you are instructed to park the car and get out for a short time. Usually 5 to 15 minutes. You may be asked to do something at a stop get something, take note of something who knows. Stops will also be located somewhere close to a restroom and a place to purchase refreshments if needed.
PICTURES?
Just to make it a little more interesting each car is given a sheet with some photos on it at the start of the Rally. You may be asked to place them in the order in which the scenes appear along the route, you may be asked in what town each photo was taken.
WHO WINS?
The team with the best combination of accurate time and correctly answered questions Wins!
Accurate time what does that mean? The Rally Master will run the course 3 times, accurately not making any mistakes and time each run, then calculate an average and use that as the course time. Knowing this you can see how it would be a mistake to backtrack to answer a missing clue.
For every minute greater than the accurate completion time you lose a point for every minute less than the accurate completion time you lose 10 points. Please take note of the point difference if you finish too soon which means you traveled faster than the posted speed limit it will be very unlikely for you to win.
For example let’s says the course takes 3 hours and 30 minutes you finish it in 3 hours and 40 minutes which is 10 minutes longer than you should have, 10 points will be deducted from your total score. However if you finish in 3 hours and 20 minutes which is 10 minutes sooner than you should have 100 (one hundred) points will be deducted. If in the unlikely event that throughout the course you got all the green lights, all the Buick LeSabres in front of you pulled over and all the Tractor trailer trucks disappeared and you did not speed, slow down a bit in the last leg and consider yourself the luckiest SOB in the world.
Correctly answered questions This is easy you receive one point for every correct answer.
In case of the unlikely event of a tie there will be a quiz given to those tied. The quiz will be made up of things seen along the Rally Route.
Example: out of 75 questions you answered 50 correctly and you were 5 minutes late.
50 answered correctly
-5 minutes late
45 your score
A perfect score would be 75. All questions answered correctly with no points deducted due to inaccurate time.
Donald Terranova
dpterranova@yahoo.com
It’s a way to enjoy your Vette. It’s more than a Sunday drive it’s a Sunday drive with a puzzle thrown in and a little friendly competition. More specifically it’s an event in which teams of people in cars follow a set of driving directions to get from a starting point of the Rally to the Rally finale. Along the way, the teams try to find answers to the Rally Master’s tricky questions.
The Road Rally is NOT a Race! Cars follow the printed instructions as closely as possible, observing safe, local speed limits as they look for the answers to the questions. The emphasis is on SAFETY, accuracy, observation and fun.
HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN BE ON A TEAM?
How many people can you fit in a Vette? You don’t have to use your Vette, however, it is a CCDV event the firs C stands for Corvette, but if the weather turns on us and you don’t like to get your baby wet, saddle up the Minivan. You need at least two team members, a driver and a navigator, but any number of people can be on a team. However there are some important considerations to keep in mind. To equalize things a bit you will be given only one set of questions, the more people in your car the better you all have to be with communicating and listening. The old phrase “the more the merrier” is seldom the case with this type of Road Rally. We would recommend teams of (2) as optimal and much less nerve wracking.
WHAT SHOULD WE BRING?
Besides your Corvette, a working odometer, a driver and a navigator, all you need is a pen or pencil. There are a few things you may wish to bring but are not necessary to complete the Rally. A Pennsylvania/New Jersey map, clipboard, sunglasses, cell phone. And last perhaps the name of a good marriage counselor ha! Ha!
HOW DOES THE RALLY START?
Rally vehicles are sent off one by one, at times intervals. After a group welcome and announcements/instructions from the Rally Master, each car is lined up in a row and given a number to be written on the windshield (car dealer white marker). At Rally time, the first car is invited to the starting line by the Rally Master. At that point the team in the car will be given the direction sheet and the question sheet, and any last minute information from the Rally Master. Once the car is ready to go, the Rally Master will record their starting time and give them the go signal. The next team is then invited to the starting line, given their paperwork and instructions, and sent off anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes after the team ahead of them.
WHAT ARE THE DRIVING DIRECTIONS LIKE?
Let’s take a look at some examples:
• Start Turn LEFT when safe.
• 0.7 SLOW, stay towards RIGHT.
• 0.75 Turn SHARPLY RIGHT.
• 1.9 STOP. Turn LEFT when safe.
As you can see, the directions are as clear as possible and tell you where to turn according to odometer readings. Also the directions follow road signs. For example, when the odometer reading above indicated 1.9 miles there was a STOP sign at an intersection.
AREN’T ODOMETERS ALL A LITTLE DIFFERENT?
Definitely, so here and there during the Rally we throw in an Odometer Reality Check it looks like this: 2.0 ODOMETER REALITY CHECK – mine says 2.0 just as I passed the yellow RR sign.
If your odometer reads 2.0 before/after you pass the yellow RR sign you can safely assume that you’ll have to add/subtract a bit from the odometer listings in the directions. We also include odometer resets several times along the way, so that long distances don’t magnify any differences.
TELL ME ABOUT THE QUESTIONS?
Each team, in addition to the driving instructions receives a set of questions/clues that are interwoven between the driving instructions.
For Example:
• Start LEFT when safe.
• International __________________________________
• 0.7 SLOW, stay towards right.
• 0.75 Turn SHARPLY RIGHT
• Not the Pacific but the _________________________________________
• Ice Cream Nobility__________________________________________ ___
• What time is it? What time is it? ___________________________________
• 1.9 STOP. Turn left when safe.
As you can see, there are questions or clues placed between specific odometer readings, and a line for you to write in the most appropriate answer. All answers can be clearly seen from the car, between specified odometer readings traveling at the local speed limit. In the example above somewhere between 0.75 and 1.9 miles on the odometer there are three answers to be found.
• Not the Pacific but the Atlantic Fence Company
• Ice Cream Nobility Dairy Queen
• What time is it? What time is it? Jerry’s antique Clock Repair
WHAT ABOUT TRICKY QUESTIONS?
Well it’s like this, the Rally Master works day and night to perfect the driving instructions, making them as clear and easy to follow as possible. No team should ever have trouble getting from the start to the finish without getting lost. There are no tricks in the driving instructions. Some of the questions are another story. This is where the rally master has his devious fun. Some questions are obvious, some a bit less obvious, some are humorous. Some will be billboards large as a house or maybe a sign tacked to a telephone pole 1 foot wide. Some will be businesses or maybe a description of a building you’ll get the hang of it pretty quickly. You will be able to see all the answers without having to look behind you.
WHAT ARE STOPS?
Stops are points along the Rally Route where you are instructed to park the car and get out for a short time. Usually 5 to 15 minutes. You may be asked to do something at a stop get something, take note of something who knows. Stops will also be located somewhere close to a restroom and a place to purchase refreshments if needed.
PICTURES?
Just to make it a little more interesting each car is given a sheet with some photos on it at the start of the Rally. You may be asked to place them in the order in which the scenes appear along the route, you may be asked in what town each photo was taken.
WHO WINS?
The team with the best combination of accurate time and correctly answered questions Wins!
Accurate time what does that mean? The Rally Master will run the course 3 times, accurately not making any mistakes and time each run, then calculate an average and use that as the course time. Knowing this you can see how it would be a mistake to backtrack to answer a missing clue.
For every minute greater than the accurate completion time you lose a point for every minute less than the accurate completion time you lose 10 points. Please take note of the point difference if you finish too soon which means you traveled faster than the posted speed limit it will be very unlikely for you to win.
For example let’s says the course takes 3 hours and 30 minutes you finish it in 3 hours and 40 minutes which is 10 minutes longer than you should have, 10 points will be deducted from your total score. However if you finish in 3 hours and 20 minutes which is 10 minutes sooner than you should have 100 (one hundred) points will be deducted. If in the unlikely event that throughout the course you got all the green lights, all the Buick LeSabres in front of you pulled over and all the Tractor trailer trucks disappeared and you did not speed, slow down a bit in the last leg and consider yourself the luckiest SOB in the world.
Correctly answered questions This is easy you receive one point for every correct answer.
In case of the unlikely event of a tie there will be a quiz given to those tied. The quiz will be made up of things seen along the Rally Route.
Example: out of 75 questions you answered 50 correctly and you were 5 minutes late.
50 answered correctly
-5 minutes late
45 your score
A perfect score would be 75. All questions answered correctly with no points deducted due to inaccurate time.
Donald Terranova
dpterranova@yahoo.com