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A Solo
event is best described as a cross between a Sprint and an
Autotest: but it is neither. Solo is a contest of driving skill
on short courses that emphasise car handling and agility rather
than speed or power. There is no reversing. The event is limited
to cars that are road-legal; i.e. taxed, insured and MOT'd. They
also run on road tyres. Double Entries are allowed, but
passengers in competing cars are not. No Competition Licence is
required.
The course is set on a sealed surface with
numbered cones defining the route. Four or five courses are run
in the day, and competitors get two runs at each, with the
better time to count. The courses are about 800 to 1000 metres
and the competitive times are likely to be about 60 to 70
seconds. Timing is by handheld stopwatches. There is a ten
second penalty for touching a cone. Classes are divided by
engine capacity:- up to 1400, up to 2000, over 2000 and 4wd.
Competitors are randomly divided into
three groups. While Group A have their timed runs, Group B will
be preparing to run and Group C will be marshalling. So
competitors can put something straight back into the discipline!
Then Group B have their runs, C get ready and A marshal, etc
etc. The event idea originated in the USA where they are
sometimes called Slaloms or Autocross (but they are nothing like
our Autocross), and they can have up to a thousand competitors
on events that take a week! Nothing like that here, of course,
we limit the entry to about forty. Bristol Motor Club ran the
first ever Solo in this country in May 2002 and then the second
in May 2003. R&DMSC was the second club in the England to run a
Solo in October 2003 |
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