Club Triumph

Amazingly, we are over subscribed for the event now (by one car...)

If you think you can't make it now, please let me know so I can inform the Reserve Team.

Reserve Teams
Res 1 - Connie Eardley and Rowan Floyd - Abarth 500 Tourismo - No Area

Hi Jon I've sent you an email.

Checked and replied Richard.

I'm wondering if this will be the first wet scatter event? We had some rain last year, but not on the scale we've had recently!!

In either case, the event will still run, there is no need to use anything other than sealed surface roads etc, and the area we're using for the event is not known for wide spread drainage issues. Just bring a coat I guess!

Ha! A First for something today !

Jon and crew - THANK YOU
An excellent event from start to finish

Super event yesterday, many thanks Jon, Alex and the rest of the organising team.  This was our first Warks Scatter and although we didn't do that well in the results, I enjoyed the whole day very much indeed.  The roads in that part of the country are excellent, the "routes" were well planned to make the most of them, facilities and catering were spot on, and the organising of the whole event was very slick.  You must have gone to a lot of effort to make it so and it was much appreciated.

We found the afternoon section quite a bit harder than the first but maybe our brains were a bit slower by then.  It'll be interesting to see the results and question answers to see where we went wrong.

Many thanks again,
Mike Banks

Jon, Alex, Ben, Hefty, Rachel, James, Andy.  Sorry if I've missed anyone, but thank you, all of you, for another brilliant rally.  Good to visit somewhere else and the roads were great, you even managed to arrange good weather!

Thank you
Richard

P.S. Maybe I imagined it, but I thought I saw Tim Bancroft in his GT6 in the afternoon, anybody else see him - or am I losing the plot?  

Huge thanks to all the organisers, and to everyone who lent me tools, advice, or even spare bits. We enjoyed it, and were quite happy with middle-of-table given that the car was being repaired when everyone else was already on the road for the first session.

Quoted from richard w

P.S. Maybe I imagined it, but I thought I saw Tim Bancroft in his GT6 in the afternoon, anybody else see him - or am I losing the plot?  

There was a BL show on at Gaydon

Thank you everyone for the feedback - 'constructive feedback' helps improve an event, but 'positive feedback' means we're more likely to do another one!

Mike, you're not alone, the afternoon session is a lot harder than the morning session, but mainly due to the time constraints - I do this deliberately though. If teams have any sense, they will know that in two hours they will not get to as many places as they would in three hours, and modify their expectations.

I'll put full scores up soon, but the highest and lowest scores for the morning are;
49 (Alex and Andy in the Mini, but they did breakdown for an hour), and the highest was 170, which was Simon and Sarah in their MX5.

Afternoon

25 (Nick and Claire in the MX5), and the highest was 190, which was Jono and Graham in the Clio. (These scores include the picture bonus round)

The bonus round proved not to be as effective as I thought, although one test I did was to have the two questions very close together at Charlecote, and one of the bonus round photos there. All the teams apart from one got that picture round, a few teams got two questions, but Andy Martin was the only one to get three of them.

Other things I am thinking for any future events is start line control - the regulations stated that baulking is not allowed, and you're not allowed to block other cars in, but there was no penalty attached to that. Unless I am mistaken, the Blue Book says that cars must not have a starting order, or staggered start and finish times, which makes it complicated. I did think about having a 'clear' area and the start line further down the car park, but then at 10am, I'd just end up with 24 cars racing down the car park towards the startline, with the risk of obvious consequences.

Could I get any feedback from you all about the level of the questions (obviously some are more cryptic etc), but feedback on that side would help too.

Of the questions we tackled most seemed fairly straightforward, some required a bit more thought, a couple were a lot more tricky and 2 or 3 we couldn't find the answers to at all!  On the whole - for me - that seems about right, I wouldn't want it to be too easy, but a few easier ones are nice.

Echo most if not all of the comments above, very well done to the whole of the team for organising a first class event.   The cakes were, mmmmn well "the icing on the cake"!

Re start line congestion, not sure how your timekeeping worked out - but I got the impression that regardless of time you started each section, everyone was obliged to finish it at the same time. This disadvantaged those who started nearer the back of the queue - with 24 cars, potentially the last out the gate 24 mins later than the first.  

Possible way around this may be to give everyone a set time (ie. 3hrs) from the start time to arrive at the time control without penalty, rather than bring everyone back for one set time?

Great day, thanks and really pleased how well the little Spit went!

Thanks Richard, sounds like we got the questions about on the mark, as that's what I was hoping. There is usually one that is nearly impossible...

Thanks Mike, hope you enjoyed the Vitesse cake too - Niamh's baking is excellent, and her and AJ made a good team. A lot cheaper than buying ready made cakes from Costco etc. I was very happy with it, particularly as she volunteered to provide the cake, we didn't even have to ask.

I will re-read the Blue Book before the next event to see if my understanding of the rules has changed at all. I'd like to make it fair, but I still have to fit within the rules.

Here are the results for the AM. I need to recheck the mileages on the PM section when I get home this evening. They won't affect the standings, but I want to correct them before publishing (on the scores calculator one team did 830miles or so)

Thanks Jon.  Can you also publish the questions and the corrrect answers please?  On our table at the finish there were at least 3 "correct" answers to one particular location/question and I'd love to know who was right!

Hi Mike,

I will have to check through the paperwork, as some questions were not attempted by any teams - this being the case I will blank these out from the sheet so I can use again on future events.

Can you remember which question it was, I can quickly look it up now?

Rally AM answers (all questions attempted by at least one team) - The top 6 teams (and oddly, the bottom scoring team too) all got question 8 right. This is the most obvious pattern in the scoring, and there wasn't a single question in the morning that every team attempted and got right.

The answers for the afternoon were a lot more scattergun for most teams - indeed, there is hardly a pattern at all, possibly indicative of teams panicking about getting round enough questions etc. Three questions not attempted, or got right by any team, so these have been 'blanked out' - you'll get another shot at them at the next rally probably, with a higher points score. Only pattern for the afternoon is that the top 8 teams all got question 1 correct. After that, no real pattern to scores.

Annoyingly, when Iris and I visited PM15, we couldn't see the right answer but there WAS a sign offering sweetcorn. I said "asparagus is what you get spears of" but she insisted (correctly, in fact, according to Wikipedia) that corn also comes in spears.

Thanks Jon.  It was Q1 in the PM session.  There was a Neighbourhood Watch sign (the one with eyes in "binoculars") right opposite the primary school, with a notice underneath saying something like "We are watching you!" That's why we put Primary School  

Question AM10 - We stood outside the farm for ages looking at the plough, but couldn't think why it could be linked in any way to Club Triumph. Maybe we were thinking too literally?