CHAPTER 13 RALLY Appendix 13- Special Stage Controls, Timing and Penalties
1. General 1.1. This Appendix must be read in conjunction with all applicable Appendices in this Chapter.
2. Documentation 2.1. The Road Book or Time Card must indicate:
a. The description of each Section( Road Section, Special Stage, Service Area, Regroup etc). b.
c.
d.
The time allowed to traverse the route between each Time Control and all the information necessary to enable Competitors to comply with their speed obligations.
What information the Organisers require to be recorded and the places at which these records will be made except for those manned randomly including by Judges of Fact and DSOs.
Which checks will be manned by Officials except for checks established by Judges of Fact and DSOs.
3. Controls
e. Which portions of the Route will be timed to less than one minute. f. Any‘ out of bounds’ areas to be respected. g. The position of any junction at which the Competitor is required to stop.
h. The areas where Competitors are required to observe special restrictions as to driving behaviour( i. e. Quiet Zones etc).
i. The order in which Controls and checks must be visited.
3.1. Controls will open 15 minutes before the due time of arrival of the first Vehicle and close on the direction of the Clerk of the Course considering the due time of arrival of the last competing Vehicle.
3.2. The Official Documents may specify a different opening period.
3.3. The time of arrival at or departure from a Control will be the time at which the Time Card is presented by the Competitor concerned providing all crew members and Vehicle are within the Control area.
3.4. At all Controls the Time Card is to be completed manually by a Marshal. 3.5. Control Procedures:
a. The check-in procedure begins at the moment the car enters the time Control area. b.
c.
The actual timing and entry of the time on the Time Card may only be carried out if the two crew members and the Vehicle are within the Control area. Between entering the Control area and the Control the crew is forbidden to stop for any reason or to drive at an abnormally slow speed.
The check-in time shall correspond to the exact moment at which one of the crew members hands the Time Card to the appropriate Marshal who will enter on the card the actual time at which the card was handed in and nothing else.
d. The target check-in time is the responsibility of the Crew alone who may consult the official clock. e.
f.
The Crew will incur a penalty for early arrival if the Vehicle enters the Control area before the minute preceding the target check in minute. The crew will not incur any penalty for lateness if the act of handing the card to the appropriate marshal takes place during the target check-in minute.
( Example: A Vehicle has left the previous stage finish at 11.04.40 on a section for which the target time is nine minutes. It is therefore due at the next time Control at 11.13. It arrives at the yellow
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