2008   

           NEW YORK REGION SPORTS CAR CLUB OF AMERICA

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Specialties:F&C, T&S, F/R, Registration, Pit & Paddock, Grid, Sound Control, Scrutineering

Divisions:Racing, Rally, Solo, Concours,Vintage

Directory:Regional Executive, Assistant Regional Executive, Board of Directors, Chiefs of Specialties, Membership, Divisional Director

NEWS:Everything you need to know about our region and our membership.

It's the Precision. The ability to traverse miles of mountain trail, desert sand and gullies, or forest logging roads at speeds often in the high double digit area, sometimes approaching triples, on dirt, snow, ice, loose gravel, mud, and water hazards deep enough to lose small  ships. Never mind the sturdy Oak, Pine, Ash, and Poplar blurring by on either side only 10 feet apart or the sheer drop off to the valley floor 1500 feet below. You don't have time to be afraid. Your job is to read   ahead in the route instructions, your head straining to keep upright, your eyes fighting the vibration to focus on the timing computer readout, doing time-speed- distance calculations to the next checkpoint, warning of bends in the road, sharp turns, and surface changes, shouting that information into the intercom microphone over the uncontrolled roar of the engine, to the driver that you trust to thread the needle, hit the apex, catch the slide, avoid the big trip, who trusts you to be precise. It's the Precision.

That's what performance rally is to the Navigator.

The cars are fully prepared with complete roll cages and re-inforced bodies. Driver and navigator are held securely and safely in special competition seats with full seat belts and safety harnesses. They wear fire proof  racing suits and safety helmets and the cars have on board fire extinguishing systems. The suspensions are reinforced and modified to get the maximum amount of horsepower down to the road without allowing the road to pound it into trash. And the engines are tuned to maximum power with all sorts of goodies from tuned headers to turbochargers. These puppies squirt and do it in places that we would normally detour around. They do it Summer, Spring, Fall, and Winter. Day or night, sometimes day and night.

Sound a little too extreme for you at this early stage? Try a TSD road rally. These are usually much less demanding and have a limited number of loose surfaces and you don't need a car prepared to take on Godzilla. Most TSD's take place on public roads well within the local speed limits.

So if it's not speed, how do you win? Precision. Follow the route instructions, hit the checkpoints, don't go over on time, don't get a penalty for missing a checkpoint.. Take in the beautiful scenery.

How do you get the advantage over the 50 other teams trying to be the best? Well, you can always go to rally school. There you can learn the ins and outs of rally technique, car control, route instruction, and what to do when you get totally lost. There are lot's of ways to get started in rallying. Be a check point operator, do tech inspection, be a rallymaster.

Ask about rallying in the request info box below and let one of our experienced ralliest tell you all about it.