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The Experts returned to the forests around Heathcote on Saturday 23rd July with 22 crews entered. The late withdrawal of 2 experienced navigators (Geoff Floyd and Simon Brown) left 20 crews lining up to try and find all of the tricks and tracks road director Phil Nicholas had hidden in the 7 maps and 2 route instruction books.
Continue reading Competition Report: The Experts Trial Re-Visited Navigational TourThe 2022 Japsport Special Vehicles Valley Stages is a rally that is both a VRC and VCRS round. It’s the VCRS section that is a round of the HRA Rally Championship.
Continue reading Get ready for Valley Stages, September 18
The HRA has the privilege of running the first stage of the Victorian round of the RSEA Motorsport Australia, Australian Rally Championship, based in Heyfield.
Our stage will start early on Saturday morning, 27 August. The Rally continues throughout Saturday and Sunday in a 2 day format this time around, so you might like to stay down there and catch some more of the 285 km rally action.
We need is at least 11 members of the HRA to run our stage.
Continue reading HRA is first in Australian Championship Round!
The grapevine suggests that the Organisers of the Experts Trial Re-Visited may be presenting navigators with Strip Charts or Stick Maps to define the route.
Stick charts are interesting navigational tests and a nice diversion from plotting and scaling. And, they’re straightforward – once you understand the rules. This document will help:
Continue reading Stick Map Definitions
We recently tripped over these lecture notes from Roger Bonhomme’s Rally Navigation School thanks to a donation to the HRA Archive by Ron Gottschalk.
Roger’s Rally Navigation School was held over three February evenings in 1972 at Monash Uni’s Alexander Theatre – to an audience of hundreds. At a massive cost of $2.00 per head…
Continue reading Rally Navigation 101…Entries close this Friday 15 July.
This is an event that gives crews a taste of what it was like to compete in an Experts Trial. The Experts Trial dates back to 1947! Take a look at the winners list to see the names of the rally giants, drivers and navigators that have won an “Experts”. Can you add your name?
Continue reading Entries about to close for The Experts Tour
Breakfast, Tour, Coffee, Tour, Dinner and if you’re keen, breakfast again!
Starting with a Hot BBQ Breakfast in Knoxfield (at ProRally Fabrications), the HRA tourists will make their own way to Gisborne where a very simple tour will commence, including a Coffee break at Tooborac. You will visit Romsey, Lancefield, High Camp, Jim Maude’s Cairn and finish at the newly renovated Fontainbleu Dam picnic reserve in the Heathcote Forest around 4:30 pm. BYO supplies for dinner which can be cooked on the new BBQ’s at the reserve.
Continue reading Fontainbleu Dam Tour – Saturday 22 October
Join us from 12 noon for a low-key ‘Rally Show & Tell’ in an HRA member’s garage
Following the success of last year’s ‘Sunday Rally Garage’, we’re having another, this time at Gerry Bashford’s place in Tullamarine with easy access off the Tullamarine Freeway.
As well as poking around in Gerry’s garage known for its four cylinder Ford product, why not wash your rally car (or special other car) and bring it along so we can all have a look and a chat about them.
Continue reading Sunday Rally Garage #2 – Sunday 25 SeptemberYou don’t have to be an expert to be an Expert’s Official!
We desperately need more HRA members to volunteer as officials for the day time and especially the evening section.
There will be very few Controls but there will be lots of very simple Passage Controls. Such is the nature of this Experts Navigational Tour.
Please Please Please help us get this old event back on the road by offering to be on a passage control at ‘The Experts’.
Call Robert Cranston Telephone: 0414 560 688 and e-mail classicstatue@bigpond.com.au
Entries are still open, but will close on Friday 15 July. Don’t delay further.
This is an event that gives crews a taste of what it was like to compete in an Experts Trial. We cannot use the format of past Experts Trials these days, so a Navigational Tour (Assembly) using the areas traversed in the past will still appeal to crews and provide the traditional Experts challenge.
Continue reading Entries still open for The Experts Tour