Navigational Rallying

Navigation rallies take place on public roads in more or less standard cars, usually in the hours of darkness. Navigational rallies are often referred to as "road rallies", but strictly speaking there are some differences in the rules, and true road rallies are extinct in Scotland, though still flourishing in Wales.

Navigation rallies are legally restricted to an average speed of 30 mph. The object is to follow the correct route while maintaining this average speed, no faster, no slower. The "30 average" may not sound very fast, but that includes the time spent stationary working out the route on the map; maintaining the required average speed in practice requires some enthusiastic driving.

Being the fastest on the road is not the way to win a road rally. The score is kept in terms of penalty points; you get a small penalty for being late at a time control (checkpoint), and larger penalties for being early, for missing out part of the route, for arriving at a checkpoint in the wrong direction, or for missing a checkpoint entirely.

The winners are the crew who follow the correct route, and arrive at each control on time; the navigation is at least as important as the driving.

Navigational Rallying 2021

Scottish Navigational Rally Championship 2021

It now looks as if we are now going to be able to organise navigational rallies again, although they will appear somewhat different to what they have been in the past. So, we now have a Championship Registration No: 3/2021 for a championship so let's have a depleted championship for 2021.

It should be possible to run the Championship with 4, or maybe 5, events. The first of which should be the Highland Car Club's Autumn Rally on 21st August, so keep an eye out for Supplementary Regulations for the event.

Please remember that to enter any events this year you will require at least a RS Clubman licence, which is available ee of charge from MotorSport UK.

Further information available from Championship Co-ordinator, Dave MacKintosh, email: dave@newtonhillhr.co.uk or phone: 01224 784780.’