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I also offer some ideas about how to write your notes, but remember that this is only one person's opinion of how to go about learning to do pace notes.

As you gain experience, you will form your own ideas about how to do things which need not agree with everything that I have written here...what suits one person does not always suit another.

A lot of what I will be talking about will probably not make any sense until you actually are doing a pace note rally. It is all very well to try and pass on ones experience but in the end people have to experience things for themselves.

Rallying requires tremendous dedication, without it, all you can possibly achieve is about the same as MOST EVERYONE ELSE. In other words you will not stand out in the crowd.

It not only requires mental and physical dedication it also requires financial dedication if you wish to reach the higher echelon. This of course is not necessarily the only way to go rallying. You can have a ball competing at club level as in any sport.

But if you wish to reach the giddy heights of the sport and unless you can find a very well off mentor, be prepared to put ALL your earnings and more into it. You may find that you can not afford the movies or eating out that you have become accustomed to if you really want those NEW tyres!

I do believe that the rewards justify the sacrifice.

Sometimes the only way to find out how to do things is to actually ASK people! DON'T be afraid to talk to the BIG guns. Whether it be driver or co-driver, you can learn so much by asking questions of people more experienced.

You will find that these people are quite happy to tell you anything you wish to know. Just pick your time to approach them, usually after the event is finished is the best time, by then the pressure of competition is over and everyone is more relaxed.

Rallying seems to be a difficult sport to find good information on. In fact so far I have found very few really informative books. Most books are written about the "Life and times of Blah" detailing someone's career with heaps of photos of him in action.

There are a couple of books written many years ago like the book that Phil Short wrote, excellent book, but a bit out of date now, still worth a read if you can get your hands on one though. But as far as I know it is out of print.

The internet has the potential to provide heaps of info but I still have not found anything of any substance here! So this is what I am trying to do, give some detailed information, not on the rules or what car to build, just on some of the nitty gritty of how to go about doing it!!

I hope that some of the things that I have mentioned will be a help to new people in the sport. I have tried to cover most of the things that tend to cause aggravation when you are starting out in your first pace note rally. Remember all of this depends on your required level of involvement. There are of course heaps of other things to be taken into consideration.

So have fun checking out my website and of course enjoy your rallying!