The Backwards Section
Rallies generally finish at the same location from which they started. As a result, sometimes the Rally Master will ask you to retrace your route by running a section backwards. Alterantively, the section may be presented in the normal manner but you will be told to go from End of Section to Start of Section. There are three steps to deciphering these sections.
1. Calculate the distance from where you will start the section by subtracting the distance given from the total section distance. If the section length is 16.41 and the distance given is 14.80, you will arrive at this intersection when you have travelled (16.41-14.80) 1.61 Km. If you use an auxilary odometer, you could also set it to a negative read out starting from the total distance. However, this means that your average speed indicator is not correct. It is also more difficult to calculate time and input speed changes.
2. All lefts become rights and vice versa. The exception to this rule is that jogs stay the same. Tee intersections and stop signs are no longer specified.
3. Speeds are also run in reverse. Think of the original speed change instructions as "end average speed".
The example below shows the original section which is to be run backwards
and the translation of how you will actually call it, reading from the
bottom up.
| Original Section | How you will give it to the driver | |||||
| 0.00 | Tee R | CAS 56.0 | 16.41 | L EOS | ||
| 3.10 | TS L | 13.31 | TS R | |||
| 3.75 | TS Tee R | 12.66 | TS L | |||
| 5.78 | Stop L | 10.63 | R | |||
| 6.27 | R | CAS 53.0 | 10.14 | L | CAS 56.0 | |
| 6.95 | Stop Tee R | 9.46 | L | |||
| 7.70 | R | CAS 61.9 | 8.71 | L | CAS 53.0 | |
| 8.13 | SA | 8.28 | SA | |||
| 9.10 | CAS 45.0 | 7.31 | CAS 61.9 | |||
| 10.00 | Bridge | 6.41 | Bridge | |||
| 10.15 | Stop R | CAS 72.0 | 6.26 | L | CAS 45.0 | |
| 12.23 | Jog L | 4.18 | Jog L | |||
| 14.80 | L | 1.61 | R | |||
| 16.41 | Stop R EOS | 0.00 | L | CAS 72.0 | ||
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Last Updated: 2002-01-15
Copyright © 2001 Gail L. Walker, reproduction forbidden without written authorization.