An interesting comment on another thread was JB's "stand up of you remember when..." thing at Maine. This begs the question, how and when did organized stage rally start in North America??
According to my codriver, aka "the official old fart", it was an outgrowth of some TSD's being run in Michigan. The drivers started going faster, then waiting around the corner of the control to check in on time. The organizers saw this and began lowering the times, but the competitors kept making them. Things got faster and faster until one day someone said, "Huh, we maybe should think about reorganizing this with some closed roads, etc..." and thus stage rally was born.
But what do I know? Heck, I wasn't even born yet! So Uncle Jimmy, Kim "old fart" DeMotte, and the rest of you lifers, what's the real scoop?
Dennis Martin
[email protected]
920-432-4845
According to my codriver, aka "the official old fart", it was an outgrowth of some TSD's being run in Michigan. The drivers started going faster, then waiting around the corner of the control to check in on time. The organizers saw this and began lowering the times, but the competitors kept making them. Things got faster and faster until one day someone said, "Huh, we maybe should think about reorganizing this with some closed roads, etc..." and thus stage rally was born.
But what do I know? Heck, I wasn't even born yet! So Uncle Jimmy, Kim "old fart" DeMotte, and the rest of you lifers, what's the real scoop?
Dennis Martin
[email protected]
920-432-4845