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Targa Rally Day 4 – This is the Rally Racing Line

Right down the middle, on the yellow.

It’s different from a track, where you try get a couple wheels over the apex (which I recently discovered a knack for, when Pfaff invited me to track their Porsches [video])

And no wheels off the road, EVER.
Or in rally speak, “Do not cut”.  Big points off.

Not just because it drags gravel onto the road, making it slippery for the following competitor, but because a pothole can make things go west real fast.

 

Even a small pothole like this.

 

 

Targa Rally Day 3 – Found my Formula

Confirmed: this game is ALL about navigational math.

You have XX minutes to travel XX km, at a speed of XX km/h, and a penalty is given for coming in sooner OR later than the alloted time.

D=distance S=speed T=time

D=S x T
T=D/S
S= D/T

And know how I keep saying I hope we learn more about it? Found out why we don’t.

My teacher Robert told me, “that’s like giving you a lesson on the transmission, or how your engine works”… as in… you should know this coming in, and that’s what separates competitors.

Here’s the formula:

(photo from BBC.uk)

We also learned that past winners have performed all this math using only an egg timer, and figure it can’t be that hard then.

 

 

Targa Rally Day 3 – It All Comes Down to This

The timer.

It’s a known that racing is a dirty sport, full of shadiness. This’d be a good way to do that.

If I was a cheating puke, I’d attack this device, control it remotely to output exactly as I wished. Or cause it to malfunction, or use your imagination.

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Prediction – this type of cheating is coming to racing, they’re just not there yet (as evidenced at last summer’s Indy, where I found some terribly-named WiFi networks.)

Blog tag = Predictions

 

 

Targa Rally Day 2 – OMG my Hero Cards are Here

First, I did not make up that name, that’s what they’re called, eye roll I know.

kk look, front:

Back.

Got them at dinner tonight. I just stared and stared, seeing my face on this is weird and neat and omg, all together now.

Everyday next week after we race, we go to a car show, stand beside our cars, and these are to hand out.