Gauging Interest: Road Rally

Shift518 Automotive
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So I got to thinking today how I have always wanted to participate in a road rally (i.e cannonball, bullrun) style.

I was also thinking, how awesome would it be to set one up annually, as Shift518 being the main host. We could plan a route, come up with the rules and regs for the race. Make it a weekend thing, where the race happens only in NYS or at least a certain radius so that it can be a weekend long event.

Of course this won’t happen if none of you guys want to do it. So I thought of making this thread to see who would be interested. Obv I am def. in.

So who else?

http://shift518.gom-host.com/showthread.php?t=8600 : To post your vote on type of rally and whos coming. Thanks!

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I’d be down 100%. I used to run TSD’s and really miss doing them. Looks like it’s time for me to buy another 944 :lol

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This could lead to huge popularity for Shift518 as well. Who knows where it could go.

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So what exactly is this, never really payed any attention to these events, is it a race? who gets their first or a time trail?

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It could be either way. You could set it up so that whoever arrives first wins, or set it up so that there are checkpoints, and the winner would be the person with the best overall time. The latter would be my pick but we can worry about the details later on. For now i just want to see who would be in.

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Its more of a time trial. You are not suppose to speed and the person who gets to the check points in the quickest route with out going over the speed limit(by going over I mean doing 100 in a 65) and at the end they tally every ones time and who ever has the lowest time wins

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But im all for the , whose got the balls to speed and get the best times way :excited

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Its suppose to bea team effort. You have a copilot who finds the quickest or shortest route from check point to check point. I mean obviously people will speed but its not about racing

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Exactly. Not to mention we wouldn’t want to draw negative attention to this site. If you want to speed go ahead, but maybe we could implement penalties for speeding or something of that nature. This would be a big project but I think it could be fun.

Who else?

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I think if you get ticketed, it should be a time penalty.
It will keep people playing a little more fair, and keep the cops from being all over you.

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True, but wouldn’t the act of being ticketed be a time penalty in itself? I know whenever I get a ticket it can take from 15-30 minutes to end. I would say that would be enough incentive to not speed.

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Also, maybe we could make everyone who wants in pay a fee. Of which the entire thing goes to a purse which will be paid our to the top three placers.

just another idea

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True, but you brought that upon yourself. :lol
Also, rubberneckers for you being pulled over = other racers losing time = not very nice to the other participants obeying the law.

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I’d be so in for this.

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I would be down, if I had a worthy vehicle.
Someone let me co-pilot! :excited

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They did this years back. It may have been apg who held it. It was a ton of fun. They called it a poker run where you made 5 stops and got a card from each stop. Who ever had the best hand at the end won prizes

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that’s a sick idea

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That’s actually a very good idea, because then there is no need for speeding at all. It’s all the luck of the draw, quite literally.
I say let’s fucking do it!

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So its like another Snowflake rally… sweet.

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I say we do a poker rally to prevent people from driving like complete dicks the whole time