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1983 Rally of The Voyageurs stage times (Read 8272 times)
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1983 Rally of The Voyageurs stage times
01/01/10 at 12:21:54
Hi all
Spent some time and posted the stage times and route information from the 1983 Voyageur Rally on my website. 20 MLRC members on the entry list!
Tom
http://www.performancerallyimages.com/1983_rally_of_the_voyageurs_index.htm
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Re: 1983 Rally of The Voyageurs stage times
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01/02/10 at 11:31:23
Wow, the
shortest
stage in the whole event was 21.5km!
How do we get an event like that to come back?
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01/02/10 at 11:51:24
I would love it too; but it will never happen...
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01/02/10 at 12:06:20
Wedge1 wrote
on 01/02/10 at 11:31:23:
Wow, the
shortest
stage in the whole event was 21.5km!
How do we get an event like that to come back?
We get a rally going based out of North Bay, ON again!
Tom has shared with me copies of some of the old route books and I am going to start taking a look at some of these roads. The problem is that most of these are MNR roads and we know what kind of budget cuts MNR road maintenance has sustained.
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Re: 1983 Rally of The Voyageurs stage times
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01/02/10 at 18:44:54
I know I'm interested in starting a tsd event in the Sudbury area, with the possibility of a performance rally event... but there are several issues. Along with the classic 'poorly maintained' MNR roads, many of the nice roads around here are potentially on native land, or owned by mining companies.
And then there is the issue of convincing workers and competitors to drive all the way to Sudbury... or beyond!
But the idea is there... I'm working on it... slowly.
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01/02/10 at 20:46:27
Driving to North Bay or Sudbury from Toronto is not further then going to Maniwaki - and if you consider the roads and traffic - it's not even that much further then Bancroft, in my opinion anyways. Having events in the northern part of the province was not that uncommon back in the sixties.
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01/02/10 at 21:21:28
Nor should it be today what with hyway improvements going on from Toronto to Sudbury. They say once the 69 in finished it should shave almost 1 hour from the total travel time.
Let's get back up north where the roads are fun & many!!
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01/03/10 at 02:15:17
There is construction on all the remaining 2 lane sections of hwy 11 between North Bay and Toronto (the section is only about 30 minutes worth now). I imagine it'll be complete within 2 years.
Anyway - I'd certainly contribute if there was interest in reintroducing rally to these parts.
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01/04/10 at 21:29:57
Anthony_T wrote
on 01/03/10 at 02:15:17:
There is construction on all the remaining 2 lane sections of hwy 11 between North Bay and Toronto (the section is only about 30 minutes worth now). I imagine it'll be complete within 2 years.
Anyway - I'd certainly contribute if there was interest in reintroducing rally to these parts.
The ON Gov't have committed to finishing Hwy 11 four laning to North Bay by 2012.
Doug, I think you will find as you move east away from Sudbury there are fewer issues with mines and Native Land claims. There are some great roads around Field and along Hwy 64 from Sturgeon Falls to Marten River.
DC
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Re: 1983 Rally of The Voyageurs stage times
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01/05/10 at 17:03:11
TomH wrote
on 01/01/10 at 12:21:54:
Hi all
Spent some time and posted the stage times and route information from the 1983 Voyageur Rally on my website. 20 MLRC members on the entry list!
Tom
http://www.performancerallyimages.com/1983_rally_of_the_voyageurs_index.htm
Man! Does that bring back memories
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01/05/10 at 17:35:46
Getting an event like the old Voy will take a dedicated group of people who live in the area. My understanding was the old Voy used people mainly from KWRC area along with some TAC.
Just getting up to do any rally chore took a lot of travel hours.
I am guessing six each way??
While there would be many people in the South willing to help the largest portion would need to be Guys from the North
You don't need to form a club etc [that would be nice however] but present a sensible well thought out plan to RSO and possible club of record for the Rally
This is a personal opinion and not that as a member of RSO Board
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01/06/10 at 21:14:20
I can only imagine what the workload, expense and the number of workers would be like doing the route for the Voyageurs using todays safety standards. In 1982 for the Muskoka Rally and 83 for the Voyageurs; we were lucky to have good number of workers from the North Bay rally club. Then there was Dave Carlin who many of you probably don’t know but spent hundreds of hours working on the event and when I needed something done in North Bay, it was looked after properly by Dave. Trips up to North Bay from Kitchener weren’t really a big deal with fuel at about 30 cents a litre.
The northern stages around Temagami were very remote in 1983 and there was very rarely any local traffic other than logging operations and the odd trio of naked women running in the bush. Today, the road is a major logging artery and has been the scene of several protests ( people chaining themselves to trees ) over the years. A 2 pass recce
for the route we used would probably take more than two full days. A 200 km stage event today normally takes a day to write notes ( 100 km of stage roads with each stage run twice ) The Voyageurs had 235 km of stages with none of the stages repeated in the same direction.
When I did the results on my website it was after looking at some very close battles that were going on during the rally and thought it would look much better using todays results format. I would like to do the same to some of the other earlier Voyageurs or other events from the 83 championship, so if anyone has results they could send me, please do. Soon to come, map of Day 2 of the 1975 Criterium Rally ( first year being observed for WRC )
Wait till you see the length of those stages!!
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Re: 1983 Rally of The Voyageurs stage times
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01/07/10 at 16:14:51
Tom, to be perfectly honest I am looking at the idea of a TSD up this way. The thought of a full-blown performance rally is "OUT THERE" as you have noted.
Most people think Bancroft is a long drive.
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Jeannie VE3JNE
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01/08/10 at 10:15:32
Maybe times are changing, Dave. We got a very gratifying 24 entries for the 2009 Lanark Highlands Forest Rally, which is definitely out of the way for competitors in the TO area.
Jeannie
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Re: 1983 Rally of The Voyageurs stage times
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01/08/10 at 10:47:09
I definitely do not think a 6 or 8hr drive is out of the question for rally people, if it is built, people will come!
Now, the task of organizing the event is an entirely different story!
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