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What does the co-driver say during the time attack, and what does...
What does the co-driver say during the time attack, and what does it mean?
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I'm guessing you're referring to the reading of the pace notes.
What the co-driver is reading out is a description of the road ahead.
It's strung together - one obstacle after another, and flows along as they progress.
Corners are often given a number dependant on their severity - a 7 corner is a long, open sweeping corner that can be taken at full speed.
A 3 corner is probably a sharp elbow, while a 2 or a 1 is reserved for u-turns or hairpins.
Other obstacles are described - rocks or obstructions near the edge of the road, water, jumps, grids etc.
An example of pace note chatter:
"One hundred, seven left tightens then fifty jump, then two hundred 3 right - rocks, don't cut, into hairpin left, fifty jump then fifty water into 4 right - fence, don't cut..."
What does all that mean?
One hundred metres to a sweeping left hand turn that tightens, then fifty metres to a jump, then two hundred metres to a sharp right turn.
The turn has rocks near the inside edge that you will hit if you cut the corner.
That corner leads straight into a sharp hairpin left turn.
Fifty metres from that is a jump.
Another fifty metres along there is a water obstacle, and from there the road turns immediately into a fairly sharp right hander with a fence close to the inside edge which you will hit if you cut the corner...
Hope this helps.
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Regarding the "1", "2"...
To "7", that the navigator tells the driver in rally racing, is that those numbers also seem to correspond to the angles that the hands of a clock makes during those specified numbers.
Hence, "1" (or "1:00"), is a very tight hairpin turn;
"3" is a 90-degree elbow, and so forth.
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