Rally NZ 1978...
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Rally NZ 1978...
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Many thanks kiwi rally fan for your help
Not sure how much interest there is on this Forum but I have made a very small start on a long term project to make the Tynemouth Computer Services archive of rally results going back to 1974 available on the web. The results are mainly British events from Club level to International status. Do not expect this to happen instantly. My outline plan at the moment is to do what I can for 1984 and then work backwards. These early results will be scans of the original results saved in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The quality is not great but I think is just about usable. The reason for working back from 1984 is that there is some hope we can retrieve digital data for events from the mid 1980s onwards but earlier than that will be difficult and pre 1980 impossible. The 1984 data which is available currently is at Tynemouth Computer Services - Rally Results from 1984 I am adding one or two events per day at the moment. There is a discussion thread over at BritishRally see British Rally Our results from 1995 to 2004 have been available for some time at David James's archive British Special Stage Rally Championships and 2004 to the present is available at Tynemouth Computer Services - Results Archive
That looks useful information. While you are doing it can I suggest adding the source of the results - ie their provenance. It will help in tracking down any anomalies (after all, even even Sheldon's famous 'black books' of racing results contain errors). I tried a couple and they appeared to be produced by the organising clubs. Is that the case for all of them?
Err... I think Martin produced them for the organising clubs.
The bit at the bottom of the pages that reads "Results by Tynemouth Computer Services" is a bit of a hint. These are copies of the official event results; in some cases we were working directly for the organising clubs but in most cases we were working for one of the championships. In 1984 we had contracts with Castrol/Autosport, BTRDA, Rallysport and the Ford Escort Turbo championship if I remember correctly.Quote:
Originally Posted by D-Type
That's great! Prime source material with no chance of errors and 're-interpretations' creeping in.
I wish I shared your belief that prime source material will have 'no chance of errors'. I have been doing results for too long to believe that what we publish is perfect. It is the best we can do with the information available but there always little things that slip through eg the organisers forget to tell us about a late change of car or class or one of the crew members. In 1984 we would have been retyping the entry list information supplied by the organisers and typing mistakes occured and the crew don't point them out. These days we have on-line entry systems and we import information but this means less scrutiny of the raw data and still little things slip through. We do the best we can with the information we have but in the real world there will always be little things wrong for the historians to pick over.Quote:
Originally Posted by D-Type
Hello,
I search since a long time, full results of swedish rally 1982 1983 1984 1985 if someone can help me.
Best regards
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Fair point. I suppose I meant "without the chance of further errors and 're-interpretations' creeping in" which can occur with secondary sources.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Liddle