Quote Originally Posted by RAS007 View Post
As a side note regarding the title of your post: isn't the name of the sport "Rallying", rather than "Rally"? I have noticed this creeping in recently. The sport, as far back as I can remember, has always been called Rallying.
I got curious what’s the difference between these two words and did some googling.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rally gives the definition of rally as a noun:

“Automobile competition using public roads and ordinary traffic rules. The object is to maintain a specified average speed between checkpoints; the route is unknown to the driver and navigator until the start of the event.”

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rallying gives the definition of rallying as:

“the sport of driving in automobile rallies”

It’s also says that first known use for rallying is from 1957 compared to rally that’s from 1603 or 1651.

Maybe both rally and rallying is correct? I don’t know. I have a book from 1965 that’s called “Rallying with BP”.