Trichy car rally to impart skills in disciplined driving

Aura, a Trichy-based women's forum is conducting a car rally on August 5, in an effort to impart disciplined driving and navigational skills to motorists. The uniqueness of this 75-km route rally is the participants would to have drive through muddy roads, navigate dirty sectors and steer clear of a road full of animals.
The rally will have the usual TSD (time, distance and speed) model and each car will have a driver, a navigator and a passenger. Interestingly, the participants get penalty points for either being early or being late to a particular time control point and the penalty is more for being early than being late.

There will be two categories: an all-women "Eve on Wheels," and the "Fun Wagon" that will have at least one woman as a driver or the navigator. Styled as Fastrak'12, the rally will have three groups: expert, regular and novice. A participant, who might have been part of a winning team (trophy winner) in any previous rally, will be graded as an expert. A mere participation in any car rally before would qualify a participant to be a regular and a participant who had not taken part in any rally will be considered a novice.
The organisers will give participants a speed chart indicating the average speed at which participants should travel and the speed limit would vary from distance to distance.
All participants would be given a tulip chart giving the distance and direction and one has to meticulously follow that. Meanwhile, integrating time, speed, and distance, one has to achieve his goal. Rajeshwari Ramakrishnan, one of the organisers of Aura, said the rally, now in its third year, expected a participation of about 75 cars. An entry fee of Rs 500 in addition to fulfilling other norms will be collected. All the participants along with their cars and required documents should be present at the National College, Cantonment, Trichy by 2pm on August 4 and the car joining the rally should have at least two seat belts and essentially an odometer in working condition that could be zeroed.
Rajeshwari said attractive prizes would be given in both categories and each category would entail three prizes each. "A total of Rs one lakh is reserved for prize amount, but what is more important is the fun of participation," she added. The rally will be conducted by the Madras Motor Sports Club.