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Message started by Chris Cutr on 05/27/13 at 11:12:30

Title: Getting started in rally racing
Post by Chris Cutr on 05/27/13 at 11:12:30

Can someone point me in the right direction on getting started in rally racing. Like the black bear race and tall pines. What is required for car? Driver? And co-driver? And where to find rules on it.

Title: Re: Getting started in rally racing
Post by GuyB on 05/27/13 at 14:40:52

Hey

First thing you can do is keep asking questions here. Maybe a bit more specific to the cause.

The next thing you should do is go work at the Black Bear rally. All of the volunteers and organizers are people who love rally and most of them have done it in the past. So when you are there, you can ask some questions. You'll figure out how some teams started. You can see how some of the current teams are set up and what it might take to make this crazy dream happen.

I just bought some co-driver equipment after years of volunteering! I'm ready to get started! :D

Guy

Title: Re: Getting started in rally racing
Post by Dave Cotie on 05/27/13 at 18:27:02

Come out to Black Bear and volunteer. You get to understand it better that way.

What Guy said, plus start off in road rally and/or rally-x and work your way up. Ask the OPRC Championship team (Huber/Vanos) how that worked!

Here are the regs:

http://www.carsrally.ca/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=35&Itemid=70&lang=en

Title: Re: Getting started in rally racing
Post by KDeV on 05/27/13 at 22:43:52

To add to what Dave said, any of the Ontario rallies are always looking for volunteers. Black Bear, Galway Cavendish, Tall Pines are still left this year. Depending where you are, there's rallies in Quebec, New York,Michigan and lots of other near border states that often can use workers as well. You get exposure to rally, can watch from areas joe public can't, learn how the rally is run, the timing system (key for aspiring drivers and co-drivers) and interact with the competitors and see what's goin on with their cars/teams.

As well, MLRC puts on a rallycross series (not the same as the x-games stuff) in Bancroft 5 times a year. The next event is June 23. Website is: http://www.mlrc.ca/rallycross/, as well they have a facebook page https://www.facebook.com/mlrcrallycross.

Keep asking questions, many of us have been or still are in the same boat as you