Guide to JCNA Club Rallying & Program Rules     Introduction to Jaguar Rallying

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Index Introduction (TSD) Rally Instructions and Terms Route Instructions Avg. Speed and Calc. Odometer and Tires Rally Equipment Timing Your First Rally Rules and Techniques Variations to the Rally JCNA Rally Rules Rallymaster Guide Appendix A Appendix B

RALLYING is a safe, enjoyable but exacting motor sport that fully puts to the test your Jaguar's reliability and responsiveness, a driver's ability and a navigator's accuracy in interpreting specific route instructions. A RALLY is a competition in which cars individually leave a starting point at a carefully recorded time, and are instructed to accurately follow a designated route while maintaining specific various rates of speed along this route until they reach the finish where all participants "rally."

Any JCNA club member can enjoy rallying at any level of proficiency or seriousness of intent. A driver/navigator team may run a rally competitively or treat it as a pleasant day's scenic motoring ending with the cameraderie of their fellow club members at the finish.

Above all a club rally is not a race, and participants are still subject to local speed limits and traffic laws. Please erase all pre-conceived images, both real and fictitious, of "Cannonball Runs", "Monte Carlo" or "Paris to Dakar" type rallies. All of these are actually RACES over either prescribed courses or from a starting point to checkpoints or a finishing point. These events are restricted to participation by licensed race drivers. To emulate that type of "rally" in a club event would tend to promote unsafe and illegal rates of speed that no responsible JCNA club would subject its membership and reputation to.

Many JCNA clubs have been putting on Time-Speed-Distance ( "TSD" ) rallies since the 1950s for the enjoyment of their members and friends. Some of these have been for short distances and some have been long. Some are tough while others are easy. Almost all have been Saturday or Sunday events over scenic and uncrowded routes of from 70 to 125 mi in length that could be negotiated within 2 to 3 hours. Quite often clubs will have the rally end at a restaurant where their monthly club meeting can be combined with the rally awards presentation for maximum attendance.

Just before the Start, each team is given a set of General nstructions and a set of Route Instructions that are to be adhered to and exactly followed. Each rally car containing a driver and navigator team is expected to be on course and on time all the way along the rally route. To ensure this, they will be observed and timed at various unexpected and possibly hidden Checkpoints along the route. The winners, of course, are those cars and teams who have most exactly negotiated the route with the least amount of timing error at checkpoints and at the finish. To be a rally winner requires both driving and navigational skills, BUT IT IS NOT SO COMPLICATED THAT EVERYONE, WIN OR LOSE, CAN NOT FAIL TO HAVE A GREAT DAY.

The following Guide to JCNA Club Rallying is intended to provide members and clubs with THE BASICS of how to pleasantly participate in, and win rallies, and how to plan and conduct rallies for your clubmembers that will qualify it and them for North American Rally Championship points and recognition. .We gratefully acknowledge the contribution made to this project by the following: Jaguar Owners Club of Los Angeles, Mark Mayuga, Bill Streitenberger, Conference of Long Island Sports Car Clubs.

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