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Originally Posted by travisjb
love it! almost caught that guy in the first vid! must be a lot easier when you get near enough the guy in front of you that you can see where to go next... otherwise you need a really good co-pilot... never done rally myself, and never imagined I'd see it in a neighborhood like this ! they must have no attorneys there !
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Blind roads are definitely a challenge.. cars start at 30 second intervals, and there were several stages where Steve passed 3 cars..
The entire towns in Canada shut down for this event, they love it, and hang out on their porches and overpasses to watch all of the cars tear it up through the town.
As you can see, it can be kinda sketchy, with cars on the sides of roads, potholes, gravel, fences.. THE OCEAN.. haha!
The instructions called by the navigator aren't like the WRC rally stuff, they have full pace notes, and pre-run the courses so they can call out the exact turn, what speed or gear, etc. This is different, you're given a book which notes just where to turn, and sometimes a caution which is a hazard you'd HAVE to avoid.. everything else is up to you. The navigator this year was Mike Monticello, editor of Road & Track, and did a really good job, he had never done anything like this.