Can you go rallying in a standard road car (no cage etc)?
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Debaser said:
I'd be more concerned about gravel punching holes in the floor.
Thats quite hilarious.
On a more serious note though - sideways antics will still chew up your tyres on gravel(though not as fast as some people seem to think), and I wouldn't want to try competitive rallying in a regular road car! But I have plenty of safe enough fun on public gravel roads.
Edited by GravelBen on Saturday 15th March 04:39
Synchro,
Look for a skid pan in your area. http://www.driverskills.com/shop/skid-pan-training...
Don't know if they will let you use your own car,but several rely on bald tyres blown up to 60psi and a water spray to make it slippy, so that could work if you invested in some tyres buffed to the carcase.
But Hill Climb & Sprint cars in Road Going Production classes are onky "recommended" to have a ROPS. Talk to a local club.
Look for a skid pan in your area. http://www.driverskills.com/shop/skid-pan-training...
Don't know if they will let you use your own car,but several rely on bald tyres blown up to 60psi and a water spray to make it slippy, so that could work if you invested in some tyres buffed to the carcase.
But Hill Climb & Sprint cars in Road Going Production classes are onky "recommended" to have a ROPS. Talk to a local club.
Yep - Targa rally is what you are looking for.
We run an mx5 without a cage in the Targa rallies run by Chelmsford MC and WSMC. I think there are 5 events planned for this year in the East of England.
Although it is mostly Tarmac, it is fair to say that there is a lot of loose stuff as well, both gravel and mud etc.
Can't have more fun for the money...
Bob
We run an mx5 without a cage in the Targa rallies run by Chelmsford MC and WSMC. I think there are 5 events planned for this year in the East of England.
Although it is mostly Tarmac, it is fair to say that there is a lot of loose stuff as well, both gravel and mud etc.
Can't have more fun for the money...
Bob
Synchromesh said:
I want something on a loose surface where I can skid about to my heart's content without wrecking tyres!
Skidpan - I answered you're other thread but didn't realise you were going to use ordinary tyres. I've seen marshals have punctures driving sensibly at 20mph, so a hoon is likely to wreck them quite quickly. Synchromesh said:
Debaser said:
BOBTEE said:
No. And if you did the car, especially the tyres, wouldn't work for very long. HTH 
I'd be more concerned about gravel punching holes in the floor.Galveston said:
SystemParanoia said:
You want a 12car / nav / plot and dash rally.
A proper welsh road rally usually involves a good few miles of twirling around on gravel, and you don't need much in the way of safety kit.Targa Rallies still fit best, but many of them (at least in the North of England) insist the Cars are built to Road Rally rules so it's still excluded.
Standard Tyres take a beating on Gravel, but some stand up to it better than others, Low Profile soft sidewalls are particularly vulnerable, I wrecked a pair on my own 156GTA by just being a little too exuberant at modest speed on Gravel (not competing) and we used to wreck Tyres regularly on the Whites in our Clio 172 Road Rally Car, (couldn't get decent Knobblies inside the arches)
As for punching holes in floors, I've seen that happen on Road Events too, some of the Whites are rougher than any Stage.
Easiest answer if the OP want's some genuine sideways action at a reasonable budget is to swap the Big Beemer for something a bit smaller, 318is with the standard slippy diff works well.
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