Resources

This page contains links to a variety of additional information on car rallyes.

Getting Started

• What's a Rallye?
• Welcome to Your First Gimmick Car Rallye
• Overview of Rallye Types (PDF, 37.2kB), a printable single-page summary
• Glossary

Gimmick Rallye Resources

• CM Gimmick Rallye Guide (PDF, 912kB)
  The CM Gimmick Rallye Guide is formated to be printed double sided on 8.5"x11" paper and folded into a booklet. Print settings: front to back, landscape, and flip on short edge.
• Comments for Gimmick Guide Revision is a page on which we can keep track of ideas for updating the above guide.

• The World of the Gimmick (PDF, 587kB)

• A short CM school rally
  • Scoresheet
  • General Instructions (GIs)
  • Route Instructions (RIs) and Map
  • Supp/SI Page
  • Critique

• Winter Solstice: a sample CM rallye (PDF, 26.0kB)
• Turkeys in Wonderland, a sample Q–A rallye (PDF, 35.8kB)
• Guide to A–B Gimmick Rallyes (original PDF version, 208kB)
• Equipment for Gimmick Rallyes
• Rallye tips
  • Course Following (PDF, 35kB)
  • Keep a Run Sheet (PDF, 39kB)
  • Onto Gimmicks (PDF, 43kB)
  • Parallel Signs (PDF, 123kB)
  • Hanging Supps (PDF, 63kB)
  • First RI (PDF, 43kB)
  • Scoring Patterns (PDF, 50kB)
  • Sign Locations (PDF, 234kB)
  • Be a Rallyemaster (PDF, 53kB)

• Sample Run Sheet for recording CMs (PDF, 7kB)

Articles About Gimmick Rallyes

• California Dreamin’ November Road Rallying In A Convertible
• 13-Year-Old Navigator Key To Latest Road Rallye Win
• The El Dorado Touring Club Road Rallye
• Longest Distance Between Two Points? Road Rallye!

Timed Rallye Resources

• How to do seat-of-pants T&D navigation
• How to solve math problems on trap T&Ds
• Three steps to running a Monte Carlo rallye
• Four steps to running a Pan Carlo rallye
• Timed rallye tables
• Time and Distance Rallye General Instructions (PDF, 61.5kB)

• Equipment for Timed Rallyes
  • Rallye Equipment Suppliers
  • Squirrel Technologies Software
  • Rallye Equipment Manuals
  • Halda Information
  • Guide to Equipment for Timed Rallyes
  • Glossary of Equipment for Timed Rallyes (PDF, 12.0kB)

• Review of The Road Rally Handbook
• The Almost Complete T&D Rallying Bookshelf (PDF, 14.3kB)

Other Rallye Sites

• Bay Area Miata Association (BAMA)
• Bay Area RX-7 Club (BARX7)
• Porsche Club of America (PCA)
  • PCA - Loma Prieta Region
  • PCA - Golden Gate Region
  • PCA - Zone 7
  • PCA - Diablo Region
  • PCA - Sacramento Valley Region
  • PCA - Yosemite Region
  • PCA - San Diego Region
• Golden Gate Lotus Club
• Santa Clara Corvettes
• Empire Sports Car Club
• TSD Road Rallye
• Into-The-Night (ITN) Rallye Team
• Sports Car Club of America (SCCA)
  • SCCA - San Francisco Region
  • SCCA - Cal Club Region Flyer
• Pacific Northwest Rallye Information
• Jaguar Clubs of North America
• Crazy Hunt (San Diego)
• Wheels Rallye Team (Chicago and online rallyes)
• Brand-X Rallye Team (Chicago)
• Car Clubs of the World
• Rallye Central (lots of rallye information)
• Worldwide Find-A-rallye
• US Rally Database

The Rallye Club (TRC)

• TRC's Multimedia Archive
• TRC History
  • TRC's Starlite Scrapbook
  • History and Evolution of the Coursemarker Gimmick Rallye original PDF version, 91kB)
  • Coursemarker Gimmick Rallyes: A Blast from the Past original PDF version, 94kB)
  • The Sports Car Rally Handbook: Gimmick Rallies
  • Sports Car Rallies, Trials, and Gymkhanas: Gimmick Rallies
  • A Guide to Rallying: Gimmick Rallies
  • Rally Notes: Variations on the Theme
  • The Art of the Gimmick Rally

• TRC Bylaws, updated November 2006 (PDF, 64kB)

• The text for the TRC Gimmick Rallye Evaluation Cards for development.

Rallyemaster Resources

The following are intended to aid rallyemasters in preparation for their events.

To Help Write Rallyes

• Sample General Instructions (A-B)
• Sample General Instructions (CM)
• Sample General Instructions (Q-A)
• Maps showing neighborhood names. (We mark our internal rallye calendar with neighborhoods to avoid rallyes close in time and in space.)

To Prepare for Finish

• Award and Par Plaque Process (PDF, 36kB)
• Scoring Program (PDF, 52kB)

To Prepare a Flyer

• Flyer template (MS PowerPoint, 324kB)
• What is a rallye? (PDF, 112kB)
• Maps to Start Location:
  • Map 1 (1105x970 JPEG, 470kB)
  • Map 2 (505x465 GIF, 9KB)
  • Map 3 (532x300 JPEG, 19kB)
• Larry's Autoworks logo (228x82 GIF, 3kB)
• Checkpoint (103x132 GIF, 2kB)
• TRC Logo:
  • Logo 1 (449x576 GIF, 6kB)
  • Logo 2 (1012x1298 GIF, 45kB)
  • Logo 3 (115x215 GIF, 4kB)
  • Logo 4 (385x426 GIF, 14kB)
  • Logo 5 (385x426 PNG, 25kB)

Rallye Publicity Resources

• Dean Stanton has TRC business cards with information about TRC's gimmick rallyes, and the URL of our web site.

• Darin McGrew maintains calendars of TRC's upcoming rallyes in a public Gmail calendar (subscribe or view), and in a Facebook group.

• Gimmick Rallye Slogans might be useful for a flyer or publicity item (mug, T-shirt). Add your ideas to the list!

• List of places to Advertise upcoming rallyes.

Other Resources

• California Vehicle Code
• California Driver Handbook
• Map showing restaurants near Larry's AutoWorks