The Rally of the Tall Pines (24-25 November 2006), one of North America's fastest growing rally events, is looking to put together an amazing team of Workers for this year's race!

Every Worker that registers online will be entered in a draw for great prizes! Register before October 14th and you can DOUBLE your chances of winning some cool prizes like a Kayak donated by ClearWater Design!

The Tall Pines treats our volunteers like no other rally! We need hundreds of workers to make this unique event a success. In appreciation of your help, all Workers will receive free Tall Pines merchandise, free dinner and many other exciting perks!

Rally Headquarters will be at the Dungannon Rec Centre on Hwy. 62 south. Virtually all activities including a new and improved Banquet will take place here. The official WORKER'S MEETING will be held here on Friday, Nov. 24th at 9 P.M.

Also, a great article written by Steven J. Day, our Public Relations Officer, has been posted in the Rally Stories section of our website
(http://www.tallpinesrally.com/TallPi...aspx?tabid=149) and talks about what Team Suzuki plans are for the 2007 rally season.


RETURNING WORKER REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS:
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To register as a worker and update your profile with us for this year's rally, visit the RETURNING WORKER page
(http://www.tallpinesrally.com/TallPi....aspx?tabid=44) and enter the username and password that you should have previously received from us in a private email. If you did not receive your email, your email address may have changed. You may still log in using your account details from last year in this case, or simply re-register as a new worker.


NEW WORKER REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS:
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Know of someone new who would like to also sign-up to help? If so, please forward this email and have them go to the NEW WORKER page
(http://www.tallpinesrally.com/TallPi....aspx?tabid=45) to register. Tell all of your friends that the best way to spectate the Rally of the Tall Pines is as a Worker!


REGISTRATION HELP:
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If you have any questions or difficulties registering, please email richard@tallpinesrally.com for assistance.


WORK DAY:
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The Work Day in Bancroft has also been set. If you are available to help with preliminary route work on Saturday October 21st, please indicate this when you sign up or contact Ross Wood ross@tallpinesrally.com. Workers who are also competing in the October Four Star Motorsports Rallycross Series will be entitled to a $10 rebate off your entry fee!


ACCOMMODATIONS:
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If you would like help locating accommodations, please email our Accommodations Coordinator (Trish Groom) with your request and we will do our best to help you locate a place to stay. She can be contacted at mailto:accommodation@tallpinesrally.com. Subsidized accommodations will be available again this year for workers willing to share accommodations with other workers.


Thanks for your support and we look forward to working with you at what will be the biggest and best Tall Pines in the event's 36 year history!

The Tall Pines Team

The Tall Pines is supported by: Mark's Work Wearhouse - Peterborough & Lindsay, Four Star Motorsports, Leaf Racewear, Tourism Ontario, Skid School Inc., Wayne's World Polaris, Bancroft Rentals, Tim Horton's - Bancroft, StaggeredTime Solutions, Dirtmax Canada, ClearWater Design, Inside Track Motorsport News and Andrew Harvey photography.

Francis Richard
Assistant & Sponsorship Coordinator
P:416-855-7582
Rally of the Tall Pines, Bancroft, ON November 24-25, 2006
www.tallpinesrally.com

disclaimer - I am not part of the Tall Pines exec.

I have worked at Tall Pines since 2000 and in my experience most inexperienced volunteers end up doing Marshalling at Spectator Points. So you still get a great chance to watch the stages and volunteer. It just depends on which positions you get.

I highly encourage people to volunteer. A rally like Tall Pines requires hundreds of volunteers to make happen. Without those volunteers the rally would not happen.

Nothing will help you more to understand how a rally runs then volunteering and being inquisitive.

My two cents...

I've volunteered at several events since 2001.  Usually one or two a year.  Honestly, I am not sure I ever had the opportunity to see alot of the cars.  Finally I decided to go to an event purely to spectate - that was Baie des Chaleurs last summer - Frankly - even though I never see as much working as if I had just been there too watch - I've gotten much more satisfaction from working the event then waiting to see it happen.

What all those guys said, plus, as I've said many times, from seeing others that have moved into performance rallying, those that do very well early on in performance rallying either have:
a) God given talent, and they never volunteered, or don't feel the need to etc etc; and then the normal people....
b) Have volunteered a lot at all kinds of rallies (road rallies, stage rallies) in a variety of positions ranging from spectator control (umm, spectating spectators between cars, and during, of course), TCs (Traffic Controls out in the woods), starts, finishes, all the way up to positions like official Course Cars, Stage Commander, Area Supervisor, Safety Officer, etc., and no doubt, Clerk of the Course, Organiser, and Steward!

You say you may want to do stage rallies. What I'm saying in (b) is this: when you understand how a rally "works" you know a lot as a competitor. Nothing surprises you. You move a lot more seemlessly into the driver/co-driver seat when the environment is understood.  THat means more of your concentration can be better focussed to getting your driver to go faster (or slowrer as needed) or being a better driver.  

While it's true that to win stage rallies you need to be faster than your competition out on the stages, I've seen many teams lose rallies because they simply didn't understand "how something worked" OFF the stages.

And to reinforce Norms statement: GET YOUR RADIO LICENSE. You can start picking and choosing more positions to your liking, then.  As soon as I had my 'radio ticket' I was out on deep woods stages, starts, finishes, and now driving and co-driving course cars!  And those 5/8 whip antennas are real babe magnets and make your car go faster (LOL).

"Marshalling, better than Viagra."  

If you are having a problem registering, contact me directly at ross@tallpinesrally.com and I will be pleased to assist you.

Ross Wood, Clerk of the Course