| 31 May 2005 |
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| Hello Everyone
With fewer than 70 days (yes 70!!) to our event, and the terrific announcement above, the pace and excitement is really beginning to mount. Christine Potts will be working full time at the Rally Office from June 7th. Ahead of that she is attending the Coates Rally of Queensland to work with their documentation team to pick up experience and fly the Rally SA flag. If you need information you can ring her after June 7th on 08 8212 2800. The stage management groups have begun to allocate tasks to their team members. If you have not already talked to your stage commander as yet, ring Chris and get contact details. |
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TRAINING| Training Dates |
Monday July 18th |
Thursday July 21st Sunday July 24th Tuesday July 26th Wednesday July 27th Thursday July 28th
6pm to 7.30 pm |
7.30pm to 9pm 6pm to 7.30 pm 7.30pm to 9pm 9am to 5pm 6pm to 7.30pm 6pm to 7.30pm 6pm to 7.30pm 7.30pm to 9.30pm
New Officials training |
Control Officials training New Officials training Control Officials training Forest in the City Day WICEN briefing Service Park / Regroup officials briefing Course Car briefing Emergency services briefing |
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| The 'Forest in the City' day will be held in the south parklands in the area bounded by Greenhill Road, Goodwood Road and Anzac Highway. All other training will be conducted at the Sporting Car Club at 51 King William Road, Unley. All sessions will be downstairs in the Reg Sparks Room. Please note:- 'Forest in the City' includes a special session for Spectator Marshals TOP UP TRAINING There will be a final session at the Novotel on Tuesday August 2nd, from 7.00 pm to 9.00 pm to "top up" anyone from interstate who has been unable to get to any other session. Please let Rally HQ know if you cannot attend any other session and ask for an invitation. All Officials must attend at least one training session. If you do not attend, you will not get your credentials and you will not be able to work on the rally. If you have experience working on Rally SA and you are going to do a job you have done before, then you need only to come to the "Forest in the City day". If you have not worked on Rally SA before, OR if you are doing a job you have not done before, then you will need to come to the relevant training session as well as the "Forest in the City" day. If in doubt, ask your Stage Commander. OFFICIALS BBQ As it is partly a thankyou function, all officials are requested to come to the barbecue in the south parklands on Sunday July 24th. You need to be there anyway, and can watch the control officials going through their paces, practice your role, chat with your stage commander and renew acquaintances with other officials. The barbeque will be running from 10am to 2pm and you are welcome to drop in for just a few minutes or to stay all morning. BEANIE COMPETITION Remember that there is a prize of a very nice rally jacket, worth $400.00, for the winner of our beanie competition. All you need do is send in a real untouched photograph of a Rally cap or beanie being worn in an unusual way or in an unusual place. EVENT INFORMATION Details of the competition have been finalised and approved. You will recognise much of last year's event but with major improvements. The 2005 Toyota Rally SA will again be based in the Barossa Valley. Rally HQ will be at the Barossa Novotel Resort which will be full of rally people with no other bookings taken. This year the hotel is again a sponsor. We will have the place to ourselves and competitors will be offered very attractive rates. All Rally administration will take place at the Novotel except for some work at the Mt Pleasant service park. The hotel will also organise and run the function on Sunday night. The special stages are generally as for 2004. We have one new very good Council Road stage, and have made small modifications to other stages. The stages are summarised below.
The two spectator stages (Forties and Ridgetops) will be run three times on Saturday, then again for two passes on Sunday. This will give the spectators almost continuous action helped by the intervals between cars. The first twenty competitors will again run at two minute intervals with the remainder of the field at one minute intervals. The final run, Thunder Gully, will be a re-arranged and shortened combination of the Forties and Ridgetops stages, with a different start from last year. In order to build excitement and remove any sense of anticlimax at the podium presentation, the leading 10 cars will be held at the final regroup in Mt Pleasant and then run through the Thunder Gully Stage in reverse order at the end of the field. The intention is to have the winner as the last car on the stage then straight onto the podium and into the presentation, which will be entirely held on the podium. The party at the Novotel will be just that - a party, not a presentation - with finger food etc. Anyone who wants to come along please let Chris know. Cost is $35.00 per ticket South Australian Rally Championship entrants, Subaru cup entrants and Classics will all run on both days. Again, Forestry SA has been doing a lot of extra work for us. There have been a number of road upgrades in the area and there is an extra spectator point at the bottom of the "mineshaft". The Corporates now double in size, get some new roads right beside them to increase the action. Rally South Australia has always been the best ARC round for spectators and we intend to stay well ahead of the other events. Teams will be testing at four locations in the Mount Crawford Forest Area on the Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday prior to the event. Thursday and Friday will be used for reconnaissance and on Friday the leading teams will shakedown on the media stage. Shakedown will still be on a short but superb section of forestry track near to Forties and the spectator area. Scrutineering will be in Tanunda on Thursday and Friday, but limited to a spot check only, as regional scrutineering has been approved. There will be a promotional start/street party in Tanunda on Friday night, starting at 6.00pm. The Re-start will be from the Mt Pleasant Showground on Saturday morning. Cars will not be kept in a parc ferme on Friday night. The central service park is at Mount Pleasant as is the parc ferme on Saturday night. Facilities for media, Network Ten and results will be also be at Mount Pleasant so we expect there to be a festive atmosphere. The catering was sensational last year, and no doubt will be again. If you are in the area, please patronise them, and make it all worthwhile. After the Thunder Gully Stage on Sunday, selected cars will be escorted in convoy from the forest to the Williamstown Ampol Garage for post event scrutiny. Again, if you are in the area, please use these guys - they are assisting us substantially! E-MAIL ADDRESSES If you have an e-mail address which we do not have on file, please let us know so that we can keep you informed. Make sure that you empty your mail box regularly otherwise it will become clogged with junk mail and really important things like Rally SA information will not get to you. WEB SITE Keep visiting www.toyotarallysa.com.au It is updated daily and there are really neat links like the temperature in the Mt Crawford forest. MERCHANDISE Graphpak are the event's official mechandisers once again, and has a great new range of Gear. This year, we even have umbrellas and polar fleece gloves!! We have secured a big 20% discount for officials. You can purchase from them at their factory, where your name is listed. ID will have to be shown. They will also be at the ceremonial start at Tanunda, where you are all welcome Graphpak Australia 28 Fifth Street Bowden SA 5007 t. (08) 8340 2755 f. (08)8340 2890 Keep an eye on www.graphpak.com.au where the range will be posted in a week or two Show your pride and wear the logos CREDENTIALS Again this year, credentials will be handed out at the stage or area where you assemble for your first lot of duties. Your free ticket to the Mount Crawford Spectator Area will be issued at various trainings. Each ticket will admit one Adult on Saturday and Sunday. Your credential will admit you free. These tickets normally sell for $25.00 each and are given to you to use how you wish - you can give them to a friend, or introduce someone new to Rallying. RALLY OFFICE The Rally Office is located at Saratoga Distribution, 272 - 274 Gilbert Street, ADELAIDE SA 5000. Telephone 08 8212 2800, fax 08 8212 7900 or e-mail chris@rallyofsa.com.au The Rally Office will relocate to the Novotel Barossa Hotel on Tuesday August 2nd, for the duration of the rally RALLY HQ general number is 8524 5210 General Enquiries during the event: 8212 2800 Emergencies during the event 8410 8100- do not use this number unless there is a genuine emergencyDuring the event (or anytime really!), you can report any issue or event to me in Rally Control on 0418 834 311 Last year, we had an incident of a fence down that resulted in the death of a child's pet horse. If the official who witnessed the fence going down had just rung me, or any of our senior team, then this may not have happened. If you need to report something, PLEASE DO!! On the other side of the coin, an official in Mawsons Row was near the accident where one of the classics hit a stobie pole, and she was able to ring me, and carry her mobile to the co-driver (uphill through wet grass!) so that I could speak direct with the competitor, try and calm her, and re-assure her that help was on its way - the FIV had already been despatched RESPONSIBILITIES OF AN OFFICIAL ( expanded section in the Officials Reference Manual, to be distributed at the various trainings, and soon to be available on the web site) We are extremely grateful for your assistance, and know you will be professional in your behaviour. Please remember that you are the public face of the rally for everyone involved - the spectators, the SA Government, the Sponsors and the SA Motor Sport Board. Be firm and confident, yet unfailingly pleasant in the execution of your duties, and treat people in the manner you would like to be treated. There is a longer section on your responsibilities in the Officials reference manual, which will be distributed at various trainings, and soon be available on the web site Remember too, that you need to be careful about being on course at appointed times, as the event MUST RUN ON TIME - there is no provision for lateness on your part STARTING ORDER This is arrived at by applying a CAMS formula to recent stage times in the two groups - ARC and the SARC event The DPI (driver performance index) is calculated by aggregating the stage times from the best two of the last three ARC or State rounds Using that formula, we find who will be first on the road, and so on SPECIAL STAGE STATUS It is important that you all know what the stage status colours mean. Here is a handy ready reference: Special Stages are classified in accordance with the following: Amber Blue Green Yellow Red Black UNDER 18 DECLARATION FORMS Please note that it is a CAMS requirement that these forms be lodged before we can issue credentials - so get them in to Chris NOW, thank you CHANGE of CONTACT DETAILS If any of your details change, please let the Rally office and your Stage commander know. If we don't hear from you, we assume that the details we have are correct, and so you could miss important notices and communication INTERVALS BETWEEN CARS This year, once again the first twenty cars will be sent off at two minute intervals, with the rest of the field at one minute (With regard the 2 minute intervals, please note that cars with 2 minutes will have an obvious sticker on the windscreen and if they fall out of order then they still get their 2 minutes). This serves at least a couple of important functions, and follows the rules of the world championship. The road closure windows are shorter, and so more acceptable to the community, and 1 minute intervals allow better safety, and a much more positive rally spectator experience, as constant action is made more feasible at the spectator point. It is essential to the health of the championship that spectators continue to want to attend, and continuous action is one way to achieve that WICEN/SKYNET We will continue with our excellent WICEN radio net, as an indispensable primary part of safety and tracking. Once again, I wish to express our gratitude to the members of WICEN. It is just great to work with you all again, and be so big a part of our safety and reporting arrangements. A big thank you to you all! For the third time in SA, we are using SKYNET to refine and upgrade our collection of data. SkyNet is a data collection system. It sends information such as start times, SOS and finish times from nodes in the field, via a plane circling overhead, to the results computers in Rally Control. For the second time, we are also employing the WRC style starting clocks. They have a proven track record, having been used extensively at the World Rally Championship, and at ARC level in Australia. ROLE OF COMPETITOR RELATIONS OFFICER Do You Know What A CRO is?? If not, here you go…………. CRO QUALIFICATIONS Must have: In order to be seen as impartial and unbiased, a prospective CRO is not a member of the event organisation. IDENTIFICATION The Competitors' Relations Officer must be easily identified by the officials and to this end they wear a very conspicuous jacket (orange with reflective strips) PRESENCE DURING A COMPETITION Attendance at: FUNCTION: Well, that's about it - and we are just about ready to run! I hope that you all have fun and safely enjoy the experience over the weekend and once again, our thanks to you all for giving us your time. See you at the various training sessions Cheers Ivar Ivar Stanelis Rally SA 272-274 Gilbert Street Adelaide SA 5000 Phone: 08 8212 2800 Fax: 08 8212 7900 Email: ivar@toyotarallysa.com.au |
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