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Targa Rally Day 3 – that’s Racing School Complete

More class room sitting-still stuff this morning, then we drove a stage in a convoy, stopping every so often to walk the road and learn.

One of the scariest, most crash-y corners

Whaddya doing Danny? Huh Danny? Danny!

My cockpit.

From what I can tell, this is a game of endurance and patience.

The former phft got it. The latter, oh no guys.

It’s pretty god-y here eh.

Thank you for a lovely lunch ladies!

Then we simulated a stage, with a timer and everything.

First helmet run for #TeamNissanTarga

At the day’s end, Michel and I unpacked and repacked our car, OCD styles.

That’s the cabin of a winning team there.

We also practiced opening our triangles like they told us to, but it really wasn’t that hard guys?!

Here’s to no one opening their triangles next week.

kk I’m off to search for a time distance speed app for my phone, TTYT

 

 

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