2018 UK Targa/Road Rallying Thread
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Entry in for the Saltire Classic (Targa class) with my £400 Suzuki Ignis. I had a shakedown on a Hampshire 12 Car last night with my Egyptian mate navigating - his first ever rally.
We had a few teething problems with the car but we got most of the codes and finished without going OTL. Great fun!
We had a few teething problems with the car but we got most of the codes and finished without going OTL. Great fun!
thepawbroon said:
Entry in for the Saltire Classic (Targa class) with my £400 Suzuki Ignis. I had a shakedown on a Hampshire 12 Car last night with my Egyptian mate navigating - his first ever rally.
We had a few teething problems with the car but we got most of the codes and finished without going OTL. Great fun!
Well done finishing a 12 car not Otl with someone new to navigating is a good achievement. We had a few teething problems with the car but we got most of the codes and finished without going OTL. Great fun!
Thanks!
We dropped 28 mins - so he was keeping an eye on OTL and preparing a cut & run. 3 mins were later scrubbed as a disgruntled local blocked the road, and around 15 of those minutes were due to car issues. So in reality we only dropped 10 mins or so.
We're out again this Friday, a Farnborough & DMC 12 Car. Different club but the start is only 2 miles from last weeks! Mo the nav isn't available so his brother Mostafa (who's never even seen an OS Map!) is sitting in......nothing like some sibling rivalry!
We dropped 28 mins - so he was keeping an eye on OTL and preparing a cut & run. 3 mins were later scrubbed as a disgruntled local blocked the road, and around 15 of those minutes were due to car issues. So in reality we only dropped 10 mins or so.
We're out again this Friday, a Farnborough & DMC 12 Car. Different club but the start is only 2 miles from last weeks! Mo the nav isn't available so his brother Mostafa (who's never even seen an OS Map!) is sitting in......nothing like some sibling rivalry!
thepawbroon said:
Thanks!
We dropped 28 mins - so he was keeping an eye on OTL and preparing a cut & run. 3 mins were later scrubbed as a disgruntled local blocked the road, and around 15 of those minutes were due to car issues. So in reality we only dropped 10 mins or so.
We're out again this Friday, a Farnborough & DMC 12 Car. Different club but the start is only 2 miles from last weeks! Mo the nav isn't available so his brother Mostafa (who's never even seen an OS Map!) is sitting in......nothing like some sibling rivalry!
Brilliant, keep us updated with your progress. Sounds like your navi picked it up quickly should be good with his brother in for the next one. Some people just pick it up so quickly,my son who had never even seen pacenotes did a brilliant job in 2016 on Mull. We dropped 28 mins - so he was keeping an eye on OTL and preparing a cut & run. 3 mins were later scrubbed as a disgruntled local blocked the road, and around 15 of those minutes were due to car issues. So in reality we only dropped 10 mins or so.
We're out again this Friday, a Farnborough & DMC 12 Car. Different club but the start is only 2 miles from last weeks! Mo the nav isn't available so his brother Mostafa (who's never even seen an OS Map!) is sitting in......nothing like some sibling rivalry!
In the past I've done day time classic rallies (in classics) and single venue road rallies, billed as "targa rallies" in various cars. Here in the east the only targa rallies I've come across are all based on the same airfield and don't have a road section. These are fun but I miss the regularity / navigation part.
My current car is 2002 2000cc Civic Type R. Primarily used for sprints but I plan to do a few rallies. Are there classic format rallies i.e a day navigating around lanes, interspersed with tests on private land, that my car is legal for?
My current car is 2002 2000cc Civic Type R. Primarily used for sprints but I plan to do a few rallies. Are there classic format rallies i.e a day navigating around lanes, interspersed with tests on private land, that my car is legal for?
Very few rallies cover both daylight regularity and tests for modern cars. The few I know of are the Ross Traders Saltire and the Berwick classic each of which have a Targa permitas well as a historic permit. Mull Targa did too but was a one off.... or was it.
Stretching a point a bit but events like the Ryemoor Trophy and the John Robson run at night have special tests and ‘regularity’ around the lanes. Though to be fair it’s only regularity in name and is done to allow the use of timed to the second sections on a navigational permit.
Quite a few of the northern classic/Targa rallies like the Solway, Lake District, ilkley Targa etc are multi venue so you drive from test to test on a tulip road book. Not regularity though.
Stretching a point a bit but events like the Ryemoor Trophy and the John Robson run at night have special tests and ‘regularity’ around the lanes. Though to be fair it’s only regularity in name and is done to allow the use of timed to the second sections on a navigational permit.
Quite a few of the northern classic/Targa rallies like the Solway, Lake District, ilkley Targa etc are multi venue so you drive from test to test on a tulip road book. Not regularity though.
velocemitch said:
Very few rallies cover both daylight regularity and tests for modern cars. The few I know of are the Ross Traders Saltire and the Berwick classic each of which have a Targa permitas well as a historic permit. Mull Targa did too but was a one off.... or was it.
Stretching a point a bit but events like the Ryemoor Trophy and the John Robson run at night have special tests and ‘regularity’ around the lanes. Though to be fair it’s only regularity in name and is done to allow the use of timed to the second sections on a navigational permit.
Quite a few of the northern classic/Targa rallies like the Solway, Lake District, ilkley Targa etc are multi venue so you drive from test to test on a tulip road book. Not regularity though.
ThanksStretching a point a bit but events like the Ryemoor Trophy and the John Robson run at night have special tests and ‘regularity’ around the lanes. Though to be fair it’s only regularity in name and is done to allow the use of timed to the second sections on a navigational permit.
Quite a few of the northern classic/Targa rallies like the Solway, Lake District, ilkley Targa etc are multi venue so you drive from test to test on a tulip road book. Not regularity though.
Farnborough and District Motor Club are running a Targa rally on18th March at Bramley Military Training Area, Hampshire.
http://fdmc.org.uk/targa18
http://fdmc.org.uk/targa18
thepawbroon said:
We're out again this Friday, a Farnborough & DMC 12 Car. Different club but the start is only 2 miles from last weeks!
You missed a good run round last night, was quite tricky conditions in places. I was out with a 1st time driver in a Kia Sorento. A more comfy ride but a bit of a handful places.
Finished a few of minutes inside OTL, and was happy with the result.
Dolphin are running one next Friday if you are available.
I was there!
I was your TC1 marshal and closing car navigator. That was good fun, as JT the driver knew most of the roads. A tricky rally, the roads are hard enough without the layer of mud and occasional icy patch. Well done on getting round within OTL.
I need to get the car fixed before another event, I have an entry in for the Rapscallion in a few weeks.
Cheers,
Duncan
I was your TC1 marshal and closing car navigator. That was good fun, as JT the driver knew most of the roads. A tricky rally, the roads are hard enough without the layer of mud and occasional icy patch. Well done on getting round within OTL.
I need to get the car fixed before another event, I have an entry in for the Rapscallion in a few weeks.
Cheers,
Duncan
My season kicked off this week, 12 Car one Wednesday in the ‘new’ Porsche 356, ideal shake down before the HRCR season. Went OK apart from me having a different view of the wording in the instructions on the last section!.
Last night was the Ryemoor Trophy with my Brother in the Clio 172. Brilliant event, 12 miles of special tests around the Airfield at Driffield then out on to some classic lanes in the Yorkshire Wolds and Moors for not far short of 200 miles. Temperatures well below zero and frozen snow and ice making driving treacherous to say the least. A number of the top guys packed it in having had some big moments, obviously feeling discretion is the better part of valour!. We just kept plugging away as best we could. A good Tyre Choice (Maxsport Alaska’s) meaning we occasionally had some grip!. Wound up 11th overall and third in class, which given we had missed two route checks (failed to spot them as we drove past as far as I can work out) I was pretty happy with.
Last night was the Ryemoor Trophy with my Brother in the Clio 172. Brilliant event, 12 miles of special tests around the Airfield at Driffield then out on to some classic lanes in the Yorkshire Wolds and Moors for not far short of 200 miles. Temperatures well below zero and frozen snow and ice making driving treacherous to say the least. A number of the top guys packed it in having had some big moments, obviously feeling discretion is the better part of valour!. We just kept plugging away as best we could. A good Tyre Choice (Maxsport Alaska’s) meaning we occasionally had some grip!. Wound up 11th overall and third in class, which given we had missed two route checks (failed to spot them as we drove past as far as I can work out) I was pretty happy with.
thepawbroon said:
I was there!
I was your TC1 marshal and closing car navigator. That was good fun, as JT the driver knew most of the roads. A tricky rally, the roads are hard enough without the layer of mud and occasional icy patch. Well done on getting round within OTL.
I need to get the car fixed before another event, I have an entry in for the Rapscallion in a few weeks.
Cheers,
Duncan
Sorry, did twig it was you. I was your TC1 marshal and closing car navigator. That was good fun, as JT the driver knew most of the roads. A tricky rally, the roads are hard enough without the layer of mud and occasional icy patch. Well done on getting round within OTL.
I need to get the car fixed before another event, I have an entry in for the Rapscallion in a few weeks.
Cheers,
Duncan
Will have to see if we can get out for the Rapscallion, have entered the Targa which should be fun.
PaulV said:
thepawbroon said:
I was there!
I was your TC1 marshal and closing car navigator. That was good fun, as JT the driver knew most of the roads. A tricky rally, the roads are hard enough without the layer of mud and occasional icy patch. Well done on getting round within OTL.
I need to get the car fixed before another event, I have an entry in for the Rapscallion in a few weeks.
Cheers,
Duncan
Sorry, did twig it was you. I was your TC1 marshal and closing car navigator. That was good fun, as JT the driver knew most of the roads. A tricky rally, the roads are hard enough without the layer of mud and occasional icy patch. Well done on getting round within OTL.
I need to get the car fixed before another event, I have an entry in for the Rapscallion in a few weeks.
Cheers,
Duncan
Will have to see if we can get out for the Rapscallion, have entered the Targa which should be fun.
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