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19th October 2018, 20:19 #1
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Regularity/Challenge/Road Rally
It goes under different names, and have regulations that are a bit different, but regularity is what is common.
How popular is regularity rally in different countries in Europe?
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20th October 2018, 15:43 #2
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20th October 2018, 20:51 #3
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This gives a pretty good idea of what it's about Jarek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regularity_rally
Not something I follow but it certainly exists in the UK and seems relatively well supported by competitors in Wales and Northern Ireland, with entry lists of around 80 crews not too uncommon in Wales in particular. There's a calendar of events here: http://www.britishroadrallying.com/roadnavigational/
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21st October 2018, 21:01 #4
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22nd October 2018, 07:02 #5
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23rd October 2018, 02:51 #6
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Thanks for opening my eyes to this! I've been reading up on it and it really seems like it was awesome, if rather inconceivable that it was allowed to go on for as long as it did! I'd heard of it but had never really known anything about it until now. It really does seem like it was essentially a flat out British tarmac rally championship, but held predominantly in darkness on open roads. Funny to think now about all the fuss they've made about the recent 'firsts' in mainland GB tarmac rallying... I'd love to get a book called 'Night Moves' about the Championship's history but it seems to be extremely rare and subsequently very expensive.
Funnily enough I was only thinking recently about how good a night rally on some of the Welsh mountain single track roads would be, like between Abergwesyn and Tregaron. Now I've found out it's already been done! Someone really needs to make proper use of the new road legislation and bring back these proper rallies!
Funny to see a young Gwyndaf Evans involved:
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23rd October 2018, 23:36 #7
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In Spain is quite popular but is only allowed to do with historic cars, some regions are clearly more active in this than others, in my region this year we had an event with 145 entries
Also since 7-8 years it exists the Regularity Sport, that runs the same events as the historic national championship and also exist in many other regional events running behind the sporting normal event, so with closed roads and average speeds from 50 to 80 Km/h and you need helmet, rollbar, etc.
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25th October 2018, 14:17 #8
I’ll tell you all about it sometime when we’re filling time between stage runs. Important to note that the top MN events still had the following common features:
The route was determined only by map references on a 1:50000 OS map
Additional information (pre-marked maps / pace notes) were prohibited.
The route was only given out 2hrs before the start time, meaning the navigator had to draw in the route to get between the control locations and obey the control approach and depart directions.
The timing of the majority of each event was to the minute apart from Selective sections which were timed to the second. Every event had between 5-15 selectives to ensure the results were seperatable.
Any attempts at recce were punished by DQ
Quite often the route took in non tarmac which could include farm tracks, unmetalled moorland roads, private forestry - any thing appearing as a white on the map authorised for vehicle access.
All cars had to pass MOT standard scruiteneering.
As the events ran from 11pm(earliest) to 7am (latest) it was rare to come across other road users but early farm activity in summer was a real concern for the late numbers (pea wagons in Yorkshire!!!)
On one event I covered for MN (1978) the first 20 odd cars in the rally were speed gunned and stopped - so not all Constabularies turned a blind eye.
....and (you didn’t hear it from me) there are still some ‘interesting’ events, if you know where to lookKris Meeke got fired -PSG so terrified they quit!
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25th October 2018, 15:02 #9
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25th October 2018, 15:55 #10
The best range of cars of events I took part in (1979) included Opel Kadettes GT/E(dealer teams) RS1800s, 2.3 Chevettes, Renault 5 turbos and Fiat 131
Kris Meeke got fired -PSG so terrified they quit!
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