With the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Chesapeake Region Board has determined the normal Chesapeake Challenge activities cannot occur this year. The CC51 Committee has worked hard to think outside of the box in order to deliver some limited/no-contact events. In this spirit, the Tour & Rally Committee has developed a no-contact Gimmick Rally event. The objective is to have fun, with safety for participants. Members will be scored, as we’ve done in the past, and will get a chance to earn awards and trophies!
CC51 EVENT #2 – NO CONTACT GIMMICK RALLY
DATE: Saturday, October 31st, 2020
- If necessary, rain dates are Sunday, November 1st, or Saturday, November 7th
TIME: We will stage the cars based on arrival time
- ARRIVAL TIME: 12:00 PM (NOON)
- DRIVER’S MEETING: 12:30 PM
- FIRST CAR OFF: 1 PM
ASSEMBLY & STAGING: KECCO’S WOODFIRE KITCHEN
114 Westminster Pike, Reisterstown, MD 21136
FINISH: HUNT VALLEY TOWNE CENTER
118 Shawan Rd, Cockeysville, MD
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The below requirements must be met each participant on the day of the event. Organizers will not have additional materials available on site for participants who neglect to bring any of the items below. Not meeting or having any of the below safety/participation/materials requirements can result in disqualification.
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS:
- Rally masters, rally marshals and participants will wear masks.
- Sanitizers will be available
- A face mask must be worn by every participant when outside his or her car
- Even when inside their cars, participants must wear face masks when talking to a rally master or rally marshal through their open windows.
- Participants will drive to the staging area, check in and sign waivers.
- Each car MUST have a driver AND a co-driver/navigator.
PARTICIPATION:
- When instructed by a rally master or marshal, participants will queue their cars.
- Printed route instructions will be handed out at the starting gate by gloved marshal.
- Rally master will send rally questionnaire as text message to each navigator at gate.
- Cars will be launched one at a time, two minutes apart.
- Drivers and navigators will work together to follow a designated route, answer questions, and complete gimmicks.
- Navigators will send completed questionnaires as text messages to a rally master.
- Participants’ cars will cross the finish line one at a time and at different times.
- A rally master will record each car’s arrival time and odometer/trip meter reading.
- The rally masters and marshals will score the submitted questionnaires. Once scores are tabulated, the top 10 finishers will be identified.
COMPETITION REQUIRED MATERIALS: (PARTICIPANTS MUST PROVIDE)
- Copy of General Instructions received via e-mail and printed the night before.
- Clock or wristwatch, to be calibrated during drivers’ meeting
- Smartphone
- Stopwatch (in smartphone or standalone device)
- Pens
- Paper
- Clipboard or equivalent
- Car’s number (to be provided) must be displayed on bottom-center of windshield.
- Cellular data plan for smartphone not required but highly recommended.
AWARDS: As usual, trophies or plaques will be awarded to the top three drivers and top three co-drivers/navigators. They might be presented during a virtual ceremony and mailed to the awardees, or presented in person at the After Holiday Party.
REGISTRATION: OPEN NOW – CLOSES OCTOBER 29
- Click here to register
- Or log in to www.MotorSportReg.com and look for PCA CHS GIMMICK RALLY.
- If you don’t see it on the registration website, we’ll contact you separately.
- While we are striving make this a safe event, your Participation and Registration for the event recognizes the hazards of COVID-19, and you assume the risk of illness or death arising from a COVID-19 infection at the event.
QUESTIONS: Email questions to:
- GIMMICK RALLY QUESTIONS – Aniano Arao and Randy Moss at rally@pcachs.org
- CC51 QUESTIONS – Minta Miller at chesapeakechallenge@pcachs.org
