yeah, i ended up in stock, but i was a novice, but i wouldn't have gotten 3rd if i was in novice so...

but i'll run stock from now on anyways, its really a non issue, just funny

 

i have someones 2nd place for limited even though i was equiped. it looks really good on my desk even if its 2nd place

 

Well I have the 1st place trophy for Equiped and can bring it to the next event to give to the proper owner..


I need to figure out how to pre determine the times on the paper, so when we start I have some target times to shoot for.
Also how do I know if I was early or late?

Barry

 

I have your trophy so we can swap at the next meet.

- Mike

 

Ah, the math of TSD rallying. Worth of a lengthy discussion in itself, I'm sure.

My understanding (I'm no expert rallyist) is that you first apply your correction factor to each fo the mileages and speeds. Then you calculate the time for each section based on the given (adjusted) mileage and the stated (adjusted) average speed. That's it in an nutshell.

How do you know if you're on time? If your math is correct, just compare your actual time to what you calculated.

This is why the navigator is so important in TSD rallying. There's no way the driver can do all that math while driving. Any team that consistently hits checkpoints on time has a really good navigator. The driver, as good as he or she might be (and as much fun as he or she may be having), is merely doing what the navigator says to do!

 

Right Loren, That is why the rally computers are such an advantage instead of Correcting by factors to match the rallymasters numbers you plug in his numbers and Poof the computer now perfectly matches the instructions to the 1/1000 of a mile. I'll show you the alfa elite some day it actually has a "drivers display" which tells you how many hundreths of a second you are ahead or behind. (I actually did my own navagating and operated the computer on treekiller to set the cas) and if your Navie Can keep up with any mistakes the driver makes should yeild a single digit score every checkpoint. anyone serious about doing more rallys would be wise to pick up an alfa club (only $175) it puts you into limited class but allows you to correct the odometer on the fly and has a clock that counts "cents".

 

Bah! If I'm going to compete, I want to do it "old school". Much more of a challenge.

(equate this to the choice of running street tires vs. race tires in autocross... it's a very personal decision)

 

yeah, lisa and i were discussing this, but both being newbs it wasn't a smart choice for us to try and do the calculations on the fly without thinkng about them, but next time its how we plan on doing it, just figure out formulas and operations before hand

i think figuring out how the rally worked first was more important, so next time we should be more competitive

 

It is a fairly complex game to learn, no doubt.

 

Funny, if you dropped a stage, I would expect my time to decrease, not increase. And how could I get a 324 on the 2nd stage when the maximum per stage was supposedly 300?

Just what happened with this "auditing" that went on? :confused: