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.
