ProRallyCodriver
08-22-2008, 07:45 PM
Had several people inquire about getting into the sport and codriving while I was at Rally WV last month. Am hoping to see new mid-atlantic rally teams racing in the forest soon and sharing in on the fun. So I've obtained permission to use the classroom at Summit Point Motorsports Park the weekend of the SCCA rallyX school, SCCA rallyX and Bolivian rallysprint. Sounds like a rally weekend extravaganza.
While the seminar's focus will be codriving, future or novice drivers without pacenoting experience will gain the knowledge of how to give the precise instructions to their codriver during recconassiance to be able to drive quicker and safer during the rally.
Plan to start with basics of codriving (codriver duties, equipment, staying comfy in the car, timing, scorecards, routebooks, rally odo computer, ...) needed to get a new codriver can get any driver to the rally finish.
Then, advanced codriving (tricks of the trade I've learned, movement plan, going faster).
Finally, for drivers and codrivers; stagenotes and finally pacenoting. Maybe some in-car video of good and bad notes and calls to show how its done and how not to do it yourself if I can get the audio-visual sorted.
Will provide each student photocopied printouts of the seminar for you to refer back to, an actual movement plan, checklist, some Jemba stage notes and copies of several different styles of pacenotes.
If there is interest, I may stick around Sunday for some practical pacenoting exercise (mock recee driving slowly, driver calling what he sees, codriver writing it and my input and tips on both). Or, me calling the rallyX course for you in precise fake English accent.
Cost is $75/person if 4 or less people show up, $50/person if there are more than 5 people attend. Sunday by appointment. Bring your potential teammates (driver or codriver) so you begin on the same page knowing what to expect from each other.
Link to Summit Point Motorsports Park:
http://www.summitpoint-raceway.com/
Link to DC region SCCA rallyX school:
http://wdcr-scca.org/RallyCross/tabid/88/Default.aspx
About me: Codriven ~90 rallies and won a handful, formerly trained & employed by Jemba to write stagenotes for N American rallies, gobs of pacenoting experience smuggled from Canada and home-brewed here in US.
Post or PM me if you're thinking of coming so I can ensure I kill enough trees photocopying materials. Hope to see you there and in the woods at insane speeds soon.
While the seminar's focus will be codriving, future or novice drivers without pacenoting experience will gain the knowledge of how to give the precise instructions to their codriver during recconassiance to be able to drive quicker and safer during the rally.
Plan to start with basics of codriving (codriver duties, equipment, staying comfy in the car, timing, scorecards, routebooks, rally odo computer, ...) needed to get a new codriver can get any driver to the rally finish.
Then, advanced codriving (tricks of the trade I've learned, movement plan, going faster).
Finally, for drivers and codrivers; stagenotes and finally pacenoting. Maybe some in-car video of good and bad notes and calls to show how its done and how not to do it yourself if I can get the audio-visual sorted.
Will provide each student photocopied printouts of the seminar for you to refer back to, an actual movement plan, checklist, some Jemba stage notes and copies of several different styles of pacenotes.
If there is interest, I may stick around Sunday for some practical pacenoting exercise (mock recee driving slowly, driver calling what he sees, codriver writing it and my input and tips on both). Or, me calling the rallyX course for you in precise fake English accent.
Cost is $75/person if 4 or less people show up, $50/person if there are more than 5 people attend. Sunday by appointment. Bring your potential teammates (driver or codriver) so you begin on the same page knowing what to expect from each other.
Link to Summit Point Motorsports Park:
http://www.summitpoint-raceway.com/
Link to DC region SCCA rallyX school:
http://wdcr-scca.org/RallyCross/tabid/88/Default.aspx
About me: Codriven ~90 rallies and won a handful, formerly trained & employed by Jemba to write stagenotes for N American rallies, gobs of pacenoting experience smuggled from Canada and home-brewed here in US.
Post or PM me if you're thinking of coming so I can ensure I kill enough trees photocopying materials. Hope to see you there and in the woods at insane speeds soon.