We'd love to see some Mitsus out at the local rallies! Open roads, street cars/daily drivers are best, no helmets, no roll cages, etc.

Enjoy some great roads and scenery northwest of Toronto!

 

is this just a cruise? or? rules?? will there be other normal traffic on the road?

 

Good Questions!

It's not done as a cruise, there is a competition to it: Your performance is measured at staying on route at the prescribed speeds. Randomly distributed checkpoints along the way record your time to arrive which determines your score. Go too fast, you're penalized, go too slow, you're penalized.

Navigational or Road rally is done on roads that are open to the public, but the organizer takes you to more remote areas where you don't tend to see a lot of other cars. This rally will be in the St. Jacobs area, but there are others in different regions. So you might see a few horse drawn carriages!

This sport is ideally done by a driver and a navigator. Minimum equipment is a pencil, a watch that shows seconds, and a car/truck/van. Helpful things to have with you are a simple calculator (cellphone?) and a GPS, but neither are necessary.

The organizer gives you the route 5 minutes before you're supposed to leave, and the instructions for following it are in different styles, and sometimes a bit cryptic. I've attached the instructions from the last KWRC rally to this message as a PDF (that my navigator has marked up in pencil) to show you the typical note styles. Here is a tutorial on the basic instructions that you will see on the left side of this page under "Basic". Ignore the advanced stuff!

That tutorial is for "Novice" class notes. If you think those are too difficult, the organizer is planning to do some very basic style routebooks with simple "go here, turn left" style instruction for a "Beginner" class. The ruleset is here, but quite frankly, there's folks who have done this for years without reading the rules. It's pretty simple, really.

Here's a write-up and results from the most recent rally. It was a 4.5 hour rally, so this is quite abbreviated as you may imagine. Contrary to the photos on that page, we do get vehicles other than Subarus... just the Subaru folk tend to use their cellphone cameras more often. :-) We had Fords, Kia, Honda, Toyota, Dodge, VW's and Hyundai in the last field of 20 cars. But oddly, yeah, no Mitsus for a while...

Here's a photo album from a 2011 event. Here's a photo album from a 2010 event.

 

can we do this without a navigator?

 

It has been done by experienced rallyists who know the note styles, but you're better off finding a buddy. You'll enjoy the experience more.

 

If the roads are on gps..who needs a spotter. Wouldn't want them pooping their pants cuz I'm doing 150mph thru the woods

Is crazy Leo involved in this?

 

Crazy Leo started out with Nav Rally... we both did the same first event years ago. But we don't expect him to attend this one. This is not a performance rally... and I don't think even Leo gets up to 150mph on gravel too often.

To be clear guys, you shouldn't have to exceed speed limits to do this rally. Unsigned roads in Ontario outside city limits are 80km/h. If they're twisty, they're still a lot of fun at 70km/h, and even more fun if we get some frost or snow.

 

I live in Milton..we have some of the best twisties around. And most say 30

Hope for a good turn out if I'm around I'll come out

 

That's why we have to drive a little bit further for some rallies. North Halton still has some decent options.

Best roads are still around Bancroft, or further north near Flesherton / Collingwood. But the short drive to Waterloo is an easier transit.

 

If you're from milton Widoww have you taken a spin down 15th sideroad between campbellville and georgetown? Also there are some sick twisties up near Terra Cotta

 

Sounds interesting, I'm in

 

This sounds great, I'm going to try to make it down

 

Great to hear! If you guys have any questions, I'm happy to help.


Ottawa Area Rally, Nov 03

Peterborough Area Rally, Nov 17

 

Interested...It could be a first chance to evaluate new snow tires on a new car (first Evo for me)...

Thanks for posting.

 

Or maybe the Abarth if I can yank it out of my wife's hands for a bit