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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
The Northwest Rally Council runs weekly Friday night TSD "rally" events up here in the summer. Just not the same thing. One or two is about anyone needs to get really bored with it.
We do have a number of rallys in the Olympics, and Cascades as well. As far as I know, no tarmac stages. We have no full-up tarmac rallies. The cars are far different than off-road rally cars, to the point where one could consider taking a street driven, fairly nice 911 on a tarmac rally. No way in hell in an off-road rally.
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We do have some tarmac stages Jeff but no full on tarmac stage rallies.
If you were going to have actual timed racing stages, whether on gravel or tarmac, any sanctioning body worthy of the title not to mention any insurer willing to cover your event, is going to require your cars to be properly safety prepared with welded in race cages and your drivers to be licensed with some proof of experience (beyond a folder full of speeding tickets).
To be competitive, you are going to want to modify what's under the hood for more power. At that point, the only things separating you from a gravel rally car are suspension set up and tires.
TSDs aren't everyone's cup of tea. Personally, I liked them as a way to discover new and interesting roads, though I preferred the Saturday 'Monte Carlo' style events to the Friday Nighters. The most fun I ever had TSD'ing was 'Night On Bald Mountain' - night time TSD on gravel.
