Resources
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This page contains links to a variety of additional information on car rallyes.
Getting Started
- What's a 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)
- 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)
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)
Other Rallye Sites
- Bay Area Miata Association (BAMA)
- Bay Area RX-7 Club (BARX7)
- Porsche Club of America (PCA)
- 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)
- 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 (PowerPoint)
- What is a rallye? (PDF, 112kB)
- Maps to Start Location:
- Larry's Autoworks logo (228x82 GIF, 3KB)
- Checkpoint (103x132 GIF, 2KB)
- TRC Logo:
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.