Date: Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Registration: Registration is at 1:00 PM, first car starts the course at 2:01 PM.
Rally fee is $10.00 per car.
Where: Registration and rally headquarters is at the Papa Rock’s Pizza in the Haymaker Village Shopping Center, near Trafford, Pennsylvania, on Route 130, a bit east of Route 48.
Description: Join the Blue Ridge Mountain Sports Car Club for the third running of the Clueless Road Rally series. Headquarters for this year’s event will be Papa Rocks Pizza in the Haymaker Village Shopping Center, near Trafford, Pennsylvania, on Route 130, a bit east of Route 48. Registration opens at 1:00 PM and the first car will begin their investigation of the crime at 2:01 PM.
For this gimmick rally, rallymaster Rick Beattie has again opened the archives of the BRMSCC’s favorite inspector, Bernard McQuaide. Contestants will follow four routes that begin and end at Papa Rocks using signs along the way to fill in the clues to this “crime” from the “Roaring Twenties” and the days of Prohibition.
Every car entered will receive a free gift certificate. And knowing the rallymaster you should know what to expect. There is no timing for this road rally. Just follow the instructions and obtain the answers to the questions from the signs.
The room at Papa Rocks for lunch and dinner is non-smoking. Enter the restaurant through the dining room door. To avoid the smoking section of the bar, follow the corridor to the back of the building and enter the room through the last door on the left.
What beginners should bring with them:
For starters - there should be two of you in the car: a driver, and a navigator (who isn't inclined to get car-sick reading while moving, or has an antidote for it).
Bring a mechanically sound car* that has a 10ths -reading odometer (a resetable trip odometer can be a help), a clipboard, a four function calculator, several working pens, a set of highlighters (for marking up the route instructions) and post-it notes.
If you can choose between a mechanical odometer that "rolls" and a digital display, the mechanical will enable you to interpolate to the 100ths. If you only have the digital tenths, then you'll have to do a lot more "guessing" in between the numbers clicking over. We have folks who have gotten good at this with practice!
While every team has their own procedure, it's useful to be able to highlight things like speed changes, and free zones (remember - there is a tutorial to get you started!) so that "on the road" it helps you remember them better. The post-its are to stick on your dashboard to remind the driver of the assigned speeds and what the active course following priorities are.
Also - having a good map of the area that includes secondary (and tertiary roads) can be very helpful if you get lost and can't regain the rally course.
*While a cell phone and a AAA membership can't hurt, a lot of the time, we'll be travelling on roads that are well off the beaten track, and you may not have much of a description of where you are! "Well - we got here by turning left after "Snodgrass", then right at T, and left by protection... "
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BRMSCC events are regularly open to all, drivers must be licensed, insured and over 18. New folks are encouraged to bring extra folks!
No pre-registration is required unless noted. Cost is generally $10.00 per car (Note increase in price for 2007), special events and co-sponsored events may have different fees.
For each BRMSCC rally, a
matching pair of
trophies (one for driver, one for navigator) will be awarded for best
overall score for the event, and one "place" trophy will be awarded for
every four cars in each class. Novice classes are separate from
experienced classes.
Go to the BRMSCC
Road Rally Tutorial .