Rally Racing

Rally racing is one of the categories of auto racing, as you already know. In case you are wondering what sets rally racing apart from other auto racing, it involves two kinds of car namely the Group A and the Group N. Group A pertains to customized but road legal production based cars while Group N refers to production cars. The mechanics of rally racing is very simple. Both cars race on either public roads (which are closed for the event) or off-road locations. The cars should be on a point-to-point format, meaning the participants along with their co-drivers come together to a set of points then leave in standard intervals from said points.

More often than not, rally racing takes place on several stages of a terrain. These areas can be scouted by the participants before the actual race so that they could come up with “pace notes”. Such notes are comprehensive descriptions of the road which are helpful for participants and their co-drivers to coordinate their pace thus making it possible for them to finish each stage as soon as possible. The team who has the lowest overall elapsed time (including the penalties) throughout the whole event brings home the trophy.

The leading rally racing series is the World Rally Championship or WRC but there are other series that are well-known too such as the Rally Argentina, Monte Carlo Rally, Rally Finland, and Rally GB. Aside from these rally racing series, there are regional championships and national championships held in a number of countries. The Paris-Dakar Rally is also a popular event in rally racing although it is more appropriate to classify it as rally raid.