>Yeah, Ontario Winter looks interesting, but for this:
>
>Timing - very straightforward - average speeds and elapsed
>times - some controls will be to the full minute; some to
>1/10th of a minute. You will be advised in advance which
>controls are timed to the tenth.
I know that this sounds like it's not too rigorous, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Every year there are sections that cannot be cleaned by even the fastest cars. How about an average of 71.8km/h on a twisty country road at 4:30 in the morning? Event the Monte Historic that I did was not this fast. Think of it as a really short London-Syndey Marathon with some sections for warmup then some that are for Roger Clark only.
>
>At Tbird we time to the second (+/- 1) at EVERY control, and
>the location of controls is kept secret until you are upon
>them.
Controls are secret at OWR too. They're often placed in tricky ways - because you have to work so hard to keep the averages, there's a tendency to run slightly ahead on the easy sections but rest assured they'll get you. Or they might wait until the end of the difficult section that you should have run ahead for! This is not a cakewalk.
>
>By the way, there's an impressive list of performance rally
>names in those results (with apologies to any others I don't
>recognize):
>
>John Bellefleur
>Andrew Miller
>Tom Bartman
>John Cassidy
>Peter Watt
>Paul Ordanis
>Andrew Comrie-Picard
>Bo Skowronnek(!)
We're there (thanks for including me!) because this is like rallying just before it went to closed stages - like the 1968 Canadian Winter, say.
>
>Someday we should recreate a national winter TSD series or
>championship.
Now you're talking..
>
>Cheers,
>
>Bill Westhead
>- just happy to finish Tbird without ditching the car
ACP
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