2012

The Yucatan a week away and my next project is the March Muddy Waters. Still it's not to soon to plan the Chip. Current thinking is it will be part of an LOL regional rally weekend on May 19-20. The other event of the weekend will be by Mike Thompson of La Crosse. Start point is unknown at this time but the event will end in the Nelson/Wabasha area. Put this on your schedule.

Update

We are currently busy working on the Yucatan Safari National Tour Rally but after that is done we will turn out attention to the 2012 Chip. I'm leaning toward a National Course rally of some sort, probably similar to the Chippewa Blues regional we put on in 2010. Keep looking here for more info and feel fee to comment.

New Interface

Blogger has some new interface choices that I will be playing around with. In the mean time, take a look at another kind of Google site I'm trying for the Yucatan Safari Rally. If you like gravel rallies and Winter rallies you don't want to miss the Yucatan.

https://sites.google.com/site/mnwisroadrally/yucatan-safari-road-rally

2012

With the results posted it's time to start thinking about the 2012 event. What should it be?
National
Regional
Alfa Club
Some traps
Tour
All paved
Lots of gravel
Plotted on a Map

What month should it be in? June has a lot of conflicts, for one I will be in Canada on the potential June date.

Thoughts? Comment below

Results

Results are here

Results?

I would like to see them as well, I will see if we can do something about that today!

It's Time

It's rally time, see you at Dunn Brothers in Hudson

What is a rally?

A rally is a motor sport event in which a driver/navigator team attempt to drive a specified route, while also attempting to maintain various average speeds given them by the rally organizers. Rallys are run over public roads. This rally will use only paved roads. They are generally weather independent being held as scheduled regardless of wind, rain or snow conditions. Only the severest of conditions which would close roads would postpone a rally. The cars leave a starting point individually at a precise time, and are directed to follow a route to the finish.

Any type of motor vehicle may be used. Rallying can be fun in anything from a sports car to a four wheel drive pickup truck.

Cooperation between the driver and navigator is key to a successful rally. The driver must maintain the average speeds specified, while the navigator reads and interprets the route instructions and gives directions to the driver. Both must be alert to find the proper route. 

“Checkpoints” are set up along the route, manned by one or more of the rally organizers. They note and mark down the exact time when each car passes a checkpoint. In most cases checkpoint locations are not known in advance by the participants and may be just over a hill or around a curve, so that time cannot be made up or lost after the checkpoint is sighted by the crew.

The score each car receives at each checkpoint is based upon how close it comes to the perfect arrival time which will be given. The winner of the rally is the car with the least penalty points.

There are frequent breaks so you can get out and stretch every hour or so.

Dashboard Apps

Yesterday was the final check of my upcoming rally. As I neared the start point I released we had forgot to bring equipment. No problem, I had my iPhone so I used the Car Dashboard app (free). GPS mileage was right on all day. Also provided a clock and speedometer as well as compass and elevation. My GPS does most of this but having this app allows me to use my GPS in "where am I " mode so it's easier to record lat/long. I use lat/long to give people pickup points and to give to workers to make it easy to locate their next control.

Final Check

Heading out to do the final check this morning. Mostly recording lat/long of controls and painting in lines. Looks like a nice day.

Dashboard

Another nice iPhone app for road rally, Dashboard has a tenths reading GPS odometer as well as a clock that starts when you restart. Also has a speedometer although it lags when you slow down.
On the Chip we rounded the calcs to the nearest .10 minute (6 seconds) so it's easy for people who have seconds reading clocks to convert tenth of a minute from decimal to seconds. The Dashboard app (free) is all one would need to run the event provided you have a time of day clock.

CentWatch

For those of you that don't have a special rally equipment but do have an iPad/iPod/iTouch I suggest downloading the CentWatch app and Emerald Time app. Use Emerald Time to determine how far of your iOS device is then adjust CentWatch accordingly. CentWatch provides a hundreth reading clock and stopwatch with split. If you start your stopwatch at the CZT then you can easily compare you time to the jogularity time to determine how far off you are or to enter the control on time.

If you don't have an auxiliary odo but have a Garmin, you can use that for mileage. Using a similar system on a recent rally we were able to get only 4 points in 11 controls.

From the flyer

Stella Del Nord chapter of the Alfa Romeo Owners Club presents an easy all-paved Jogularity (no calculations) road rally using the excellent sports car roads of Western Wisconsin. 

The easy to follow instructions and timing at its most straightforward make this an excellent choice for those new to rallying while the roads are guaranteed to keep the most experienced rallyists entertained. Run it as a timed event or just ignore the timing and drive it as one of the best tours that you’ve driven.  We guarantee that you’ll see roads that you never dreamed existed in the Upper Midwest.

Announcement

Start is at the Dunn Brothers in Hudson, WI.
Registration 9:30 AM to 10:45 AM
Car Zero out at 11 PM
Endpoint is Molly's On Main in Plum City. WI
The course is about 130 miles. All roads are paved.

The site will be going through substantial changes as we start posting this years information