[Ole]

Think I'll be able to use a rental for recce ?

http://www.pacificforestrally.com/photos/2004/PreRun1/pfr_1.jpg



Most of the pics I've seen make the roads look smoothe !!!

 

[Paul Westwick]

>Think I'll be able to use a rental for recce ?

You should be safe planning on using a rental. All of the setup runs have been done in stock road cars with no skid plate, usually on all-season tires. Back in 2002, when the logging company graded one stage a few days before the rally, it was a bit of a tire-slicer, but since then we have always managed to convince them to delay grading until after the rally.

If it gets very wet, the road surface can turn to baby poo, which makes a special chanllenge for 1wd rental cars on all-seasons.

 

[Ole]

Pac Forest Schedule

Thank you Paul,

Also need to verify the schedule:

Thursday Night Reg (10/13/2005)
Friday Recce (10/14/2005)
Saturday Race (10/15/2005)


....only 2004 schedule is available on website ...

 

[keno]

RE: Pac Forest Schedule

This is a VERY tentative schedule - TO BE CONFIRMED:

Thursday October 13
16:00-20:00 Registration
21:00-22:00 Recce seminar

Friday October 14
8:00-11:00 Registration
8:00-15:00 Recce (leg 1 and 2)
16:00-19:00 Parc Exposé & Scrutineering
19:30 Mandatory meeting for all seed 5 & 6 teams
20:00 Drivers' meeting and introduction of officials
20:30 Ceremonial Start (start of Leg 1)
23:00 End of Leg 1, Parc fermé

Saturday October 15
10:00 Start of second leg
18:00 End of Leg 2 and End of Rally
20:00 ? 23:00 Worker appreciation party and awards

We are aiming to provide an in-town spectator stage on Friday night and a close to town spectator stage during Saturday. Details are being negotiated and to be confirmed.

If you are planning to attend - please send your team profile to me ASAP as we're planning the layout of the spectator guides over the next weeks.

The profile template is at:
http://www.pacificforestrally.com/archives/2005/2005PFR_TeamProfileTemplate.doc

Ken
PFR - Co-organizer and Public Relations
ken (at) rallybc (dot) com

 

[Easy Rider]

RE: Pac Forest Schedule

What happened to the reece in the AM - race in the PM - on each day deal?
I was really stoked on that possibility.

 

[keno]

RE: Pac Forest Schedule

like I said - this is tentative......

 

[Morison]

RE: Pac Forest Schedule

Warren, have you asked what your co-driver thought of recce AM rally PM?

 

[Easy Rider]

RE: Pac Forest Schedule

Yes - and "we" are for it - Just thought it was a good concept.

 

[Ole]

RECCE AM - RACE PM ?

Ahhhhhhhh ....

...don't know about the rest of you, but I kinda
have to spend A BIT of time re-writing my notes
after recce ...


Recce should be one day, followed by an evening of "rest"
followed by racing the next day.
(just like Camaros, we all have opinions)

 

[warwick]

RE: RECCE AM - RACE PM ?

Ditto. My notes are nowhere near tidy enough straight from recce... At MT I needed the evening to get my notes ready for the next day. I guess with experience it might get easier.

 

[NR]

RE: RECCE AM - RACE PM ?

> I guess with experience it might get easier.

Nope ... at least not in my case.

Sorry Warwick, I guess I should clarify ... for any rally that we've pacenoted and then run as a rally for a second time, I obviously spend WAYYYYY less time working on my books than any other situation.

First time pacenoting an event is a LOT of work for me and even any time I run a Jemba/organizer-supplied-notes event, I still put in several hours getting the notes (and route book) ready.

So yes, it definitely gets easier if you run the same pacenoted rallies over and over and there aren't too many stage changes ... but every Rally America event we run, it's just as much book work for me as it always has been.

- Nathalie

 

[patr]

RE: RECCE AM - RACE PM ?

if you recce half the stages, its half the work

if the stages are repeats, then its again half the work