TERMINOLOGY

• Bulletin : The Official bulletin is an integral part of the Regulations and is intended to modify, clarify or complete them.

•  ASN: The National Sporting Authority. In India Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI) is the ASN.

•  Assistance: Service shall be defined as unrestricted work on or the physical presence of a person around a competing vehicle except where limited by the applicable Articles in the present Prescriptions.

• Bivouac: Zone situated between the Time Controls at the finish of one Leg and the start of the next, where all competitors regroup; this zone is located in the road book.

1. The bivouac zone will be determined by an imaginary circle of approximately 500 m, the centre of which will be the Rally HQ set up by the Organisers and in which the official notice board will be installed:
2. The Rally HQ will be operational after the closing of the Time Control for the finish of the Leg. The finish Time Control and the start Time Control of the next Leg may be combined.
3. The Organisers may set up bivouacs with regulated servicing. Servicing may be con-ducted within the bivouac area only in the designated area.
4.  Any team member (including crews) is allowed to drive the team’s competition vehicle outside the bivouac for technical testing only and away from the route of any Selective Section.

• Briefing: The briefing will be given by the Clerk of the Course or by the Organisers’ delegate and the participation of the drivers is compulsory. The information regarding safety and the route (amendments to the road book), dated and signed by the Clerk of the Course, will be posted on the official notice board under his responsibility.

•  Competitor: Physical or legal entity used for the physical or legal person who has entered the vehicle.

•  Competitors Information : This is information given by the Organisers and/or Race Control to the crews who, after reading it, will confirm this by signature. This note will be made available to the competitors as soon as possible.

• Crew : “Crew” means the first driver together with any co-driver(s), who will hold an FIA/ASN driver’s and entrant’s licence valid for the current year/for the Event.

•  Duration of an Event: Any Event starts with the administrative checking and/or scrutineering (including, if applicable, checks on the spare parts of the vehicle) and ends upon the expiry of one of the following time limits, whichever is the later:

1.   time limit for protests or appeals or the end of any hearing by the Stewards;
2.  end of the administrative checking and post-event scrutineering carried out in ac-cordance with the Code
3.  End of the prize-giving.

• DZ : The start of the speed control zone and, when possible, marked by a precise reference marker and a Waypoint (WPM). In case of discrepancy between the two, the Waypoint will be binding. Also see FZ

•  Estimated Time : Time estimated by the Organiser to cover a Selective Section.

•  Leg : Each part of the Event that is separated from the next by a stopping time of at least 6 hours. After a driving time of between 12 and 20 hours, a halt of at least 6 hours is compulsory. A halt of at least 18 hours is compulsory after 10 Legs of the race, unless otherwise decided by the Stewards on proposal from the Clerk of the Course.

• FIA Technical Passport: Document issued by the competitor’s ASN and authenticated by the FIA technical delegate or the Scrutineer in charge at the Event, who identifies the presented vehicle. This passport will be presented on demand of the Scrutineers.

• Free Zone (Xplore & Ndure) : is a portion in the rally where the organisers declare that there is no TC – physical or virtual. Typically these zones are around some points on the route where some refreshment facilities are available. The declaration of Free Zones is done on the “Speed Chart” given to each participant at start of each leg. Free Zones may also be declared around areas of traffic or other possible impediments. It is totally the responsibility of competitors to make sure that they exit free zone within time laid down.

• FZ : The end of a speed control zone and, when possible, marked by a precise reference marker and a Waypoint (WPM). In case of discrepancy between the two, the Waypoint will be binding. Also see DZ

•  GPS : “GPS” in all cases refers to the standard equivalent to the Global Positioning System.

•  Infringement : A competitor is in infringement if he acts in dis-regards to any provisions contained herein. A repeat instance of dis-regard will be deemed as second infringement and so on. Any infringement will result is penal actions against the competitor as proposed by these rule and may include exclusion.

•  Infringement (speed control zone) : An infringement consists of one or more instances of speeding in one and the same speed control zone, defined by a DZ and an FZ. A second infringement will come about when one or more instances of speeding have occurred inside a new speed control zone. In case of a repeated offence during the Event, the 3rd infringement (in 3 different zones) may result, for all competitors, in penalties that may go as far as exclusion, depending on the excess speed noted.

• Official itinerary : This is represented by the passage through each visible or hidden waypoint featured in the road book.

• PC (Passage control) : A zone where the time card will be stamped by the marshals and which will obligatorily be a WPM.

• Pulse signal (speed control zone) : Following the permanent functioning of the “DATA LOGGER”*, a pulse signal is recorded in the “DATA LOGGER”* at least every 100 m and the speed is recorded. This data will be used to analyse and instances of speeding through the speed zones.

•  Route : This is defined by the official road book of the Event, confirmed by the crew of the opening car (if applicable). The route is divided into Legs consisting of one or more timed Selective Sections linked by Road Sections. The maximum length of the Selective Sections per Leg is set at 800 km.

•  Manufacturer: A Manufacturer is one who manufactures vehicles which bear that manufacturer’s name, and are on sale to the public. Special editions of such vehicles are made for competitions purposes and are in compliance with the FIA Appendix J. Manufacturers may enter cars bearing their name for competition purposes directly under their own management or contracted to an associated company.

•  Neutralisation Period : This is the time during which the crews are stopped by Race Control (Parc Fermé conditions). This is also referred to as Dead Time.

•  Sporting penalty: A sporting penalty means a penalty imposed for Speeding, missing a PC, unsporting conduct, or other violation committed on a Selective Section.

• Regrouping (Parc Fermé conditions) :

1.  A halt scheduled by the Organisers to enable the theoretical times to be observed on the one hand and, on the other, to regroup the crews still in the Event. The regroup-ing time may vary according to the crews.
2.  The new start will be given according to the order of arrival of competitors at the entrance of the regrouping Time Control. The first ten crews that arrive will start at 2-minute intervals.

•  Road Book : Each crew shall receive a road book in conformity with the FIA format, size A5, comprising a maximum of 5 horizontal lines of distances, drawings and information, containing characteristic notes and/or maps indicating the route and/or the compulsory GPS passage coordinates, which they will observe on pain of penalties which may go as far as exclusion.

• Road Section : Section of itinerary with a target time between two successive Time Controls.

• Selective Section : Speed test in real time. Selective Sections may be run over a course exclusively reserved for the competitors in the Event. This provision will be indicated in the Regulations. Starts of Selective Sections are preceded by or twinned with a Time Control, and followed by a Time Control after the finish.

• Super Special Stage

1. The organisation of a Super Special Stage (SSS1) is an integral part of Leg 1 . All par-ticipants are scheduled for inclusion in the Event, Only one Super Special Stage will be organised, which will determine the starting orders for the next Leg. It will be run in the form of a Selective Section, with a minimum length of 2 km and a maximum length of 10 km. The reconnaissance of the Super Special Stage is permitted for a period of 30 mins is set aside for & by walking the track.
2.  It shall count for the classification of the Event as well as any road penalties relating thereto. These penalties will be taken into account for the general classification of that Leg and applied the same day.

• Team Manager : Person duly authorised in writing to represent a team entered in an Event, with a competitor’s licence issued in the name of this team.

• Target time :

1. Each Road Section will be covered within a target time, which the competitors will respect.
2.  Any crew exceeding this target time on the Road Section will incur a penalty given to the minute.

• Time Card: Document intended for the stamps, in chronological order, of the different control points scheduled on the itinerary.

• Maximum time allowed : Time greater than the target time allocated for each Road Section, or maximum time given to each Selective Section. Any crew exceeding this time, without any tolerance, will receive a penalty ranging from the fixed penalty to exclusion. At that moment the control is said to be closed for the competitor concerned. The maximum time allowed may be changed by the Clerk of the Course at the Stewards’ discretion.

• Missing TC : (Xplore & Ndure) : If you do miss a TC, and you will only know at end of the leg. You should continue along the route as per your best ability following the road book and stopping at all TC’s that you can find. TC’s are located on the road with clear signage with marhsal on duty waiting to complete time entry but they do not have duty to stop you or attract your attention. You may miss the TC because you were too early or late or you were distracted and did not see the TC. Normally missing a TC renders you ineligible to continue. However we are nice guys and want you to continue 😉 However missing a TC also means that we can not compute result of any stage which started or ended with that TC.

  So in case you miss a TC in completing a leg the following penalties (we are not that nice after all) will be added:
  • For every TC missed 10 minutes would be added as Administrative Penalty
  • A scratch time will be awarded for each stage effected by missing that TC.
  It does not matter if the missed TC was pTC or vTC.
  

•   Real time : This is the time actually taken to cover the route of a Selective Section.

• Waypoint : A point the coordinates of which are given to the competitors by the road book and can be memorised in the “GPS”*. A Waypoint is a geographical point defined by coordinates of longitude and latitude. There are several types of Waypoints, However, for the Desert Storm 2012 only Visible Waypoints (WPM) would be used. Each Waypoint is a compulsory passage point
• T C Location (Xplore & Ndure): In a TSD rally this is the critical secret. You do not know here the TC’s are located. They may or may not be located on the “Road Book” marker points. Only thing you know is that they are located on the route and the organisers know where they are and the distance of each from start of the leg.