2010 Appliance Installations Stages

[Marty]

As some of you will be aware, the club was going to organise a “Rally of Canberra” type event – 2 day; pace noted for the ACT Series. The organisers were unable to find enough roads to put together a quality two day rally. The Committee has decided to hold a one and a half day rally on the weekend that the event was meant to run.

Thanks to the generous support of Steve Nightingale, the event will be known as the “Appliance Installations Stages”. It will be a "blind rally" (I.e. a roadbook - NOT pace noted)

We will be holding a (by invitation) “Media Day” on the Sunday afternoon prior to the rally, in the hope we’ll be able to arrange more publicity for the rally and the 2010 Autotech Services ACT Regional Rally Series.

If you think this is "just another Canberra rally" - YOU'RE WRONG!!!

The organisers are trying to bring back a few elements that have been missing in recent years:

• We will be introducing a prologue for the event – to be held on the Friday night. If you are unhappy with your event seeding – show us what you’re made of, and you may be re-seeded.

• As an added incentive – there will be a “Dash for Cash” held after the Prologue. The event sponsors have stumped up cold, hard cash for the 1st outright crew; 1st 2WD, 1st P2, 1st Novice driver and 1st female driver!

• We are planning to close Coppins Crossing Road and join the Greenhills and Bluetts stages. (Still to be confirmed with Urban Services - but the extra paperwork has been submitted).

The Friday night prologue and "Dash for Cash" are not compulsory - and do not count towards a competitors overall time. They will be a great place to show your stuff to your sponsors, service crew and the public - who will have access to two spectator points, and who knows, you may win a couple of hundred bucks! (Driving lights are recommended for the Friday night - and the final stage/s Saturday).

We have set a course that is a good test of driver, co-driver and vehicle. The rally will suit the smart driver – the person who can read the road conditions and push when they can and back off and look after their car at other times. The person who drives flat out the entire time – won’t finish…

We are working to make a return to Uriarra forestry settlement as the Service park. Discussions are continuing – but the feedback is positive.

The paperwork has been sent to Urban Services; Parks, Conservation and Lands (Forestry) and CAMS.

Supplemantary Regulations are available here: BMSC Downloads -> Event Docs -> 2010 -> AIS

We look forward to seeing you there!

Marty

[imortl]

Oh I like the sound of this...


Tell me more......

[Rallyray]

Originally Posted by Marty

The person who drives flat out the entire time – won’t finish…

Wanna Bet????

Good on the organisers for some great ideas.

[fro]

Marty, you are to be congratulated, as always, for taking the initiative on such an event.

I am truly dissappointed that I'll be missing out on this event, but Naomi and I have already bought tickets to the Melbourne Formula1 GP.

I love the idea of the prologue, and the Dash for Cash.

[Kaptainballistik]

I will be entering the Rx2......

BAHAAAAAAA

We all know whats gona happen, but ill try anyhow....

[Jme]

Mostly sounds good.

Is the prologue and/or dash for cash pacenoted? Can it be? Even a single pass recce?

If it's in Bluetts (for example), it's maybe not even worth pulling the thing off the trailer if we've gotta go at them blind. I'd love to have a crack at this, but I can see the old man in my ear already telling me I'm a lunatic, if you run you've gunna take blind risks and all that can come of that is pain. He'd be right as well. With a recce it's a different scenario.

They are great ideas, and I'm excited about the rally. Just food for thought.

I'm running the ACT series this year with Matt J. An invitation to the media day would be nice.

[Mx5 nut]

Great work Marty
I remember my first rally I did ( Back in the Black )
This is the First rally for the MX5 so I look forward to the day and 1/2 event
Pleanty of time over night to fix all the things that go wrong

[Shannon]

Sounds good Marty.
We'll will be there.

[Marty]

The Supp. Regs are out.

They can be found in the usual download section of the site.

If you're unable to compete - we'd love to see you at the event as an official.

Marty

[James]

PJ & I will be there in the ute

[imortl]

Will be away on holidays with the missus so I will miss it!

Enjoy guys! Sounds like it will be a cracker!

[nickc]

Hey Marty,

sounds like this could be the event of the year, with the prologue and dash for cash...

Entry is on it's way!

I'm In!!!!!

CoxyLoxy

[Marty]

The organisers are pleased to announce that Nigel Raynard from MSP Photography will be coming down for the rally.

Nigel and his business parter, Stefan Knoeckel took a number of awesome photos at the 2009 Repco Rally Australia.

We will be assisting Nigel to find the best places to shoot the cars (with his camera of course!).

If you haven't heard of MSP, check out their website:Motorsport Photography

Marty

[DamienS]

Originally Posted by Marty

[*]As an added incentive – there will be a “Dash for Cash” held after the Prologue. The event sponsors have stumped up cold, hard cash for the 1st outright crew; 1st 2WD, 1st P2, 1st Novice driver and 1st female driver![/LIST]

After reading the regs we are thinking of switching crews to win $1000. If Kristy drives, we can win;

1st Outright $200
1st 2WD $200
1st P2 $200
1st Novice driver $200
1st Female driver $200

As far as I can tell, the money is all ours, all we have to do is beat Julie B (and the rest of the field).

........

Seriously though. Marty, it's a fantastic concept and adds some fun, even if our chances of success are minuscule to non existent.

Cheers
Damien

[Jane W]

If you have been unsure about helping or your plans for next weekend have now changed and you are available to help please get in contact with me asap as we are still about 40 officials short for the event to run.

Regards

Jane Ward
Volunteer Co-ordinator
2010 Appliance Installations
Rally
P:0457157342
E:jane.ward3@three.com.au