AMSAG Orange Rally 2018
Canobolas State Forest - Special Stage 1
One of the objectives of this site is to introduce and explain rallying to people who might not know anything about it. For this reason I like to include some videos of what the competitive stages look like from inside the car. The video below is the first part of Special Stage 1 in Canobolas State Forest. I must point out that I drive a 1993 Falcon wagon which is about as far from a rally car as you can get. I limit my speed and avoid sliding or flicking the car to avoid damage to the road tyres, I don't get airborne over crests and as I have nobody to read the instructions to me I have to memorise a page at a time and slow down when I'm not sure what will happen next. I'm just showing what the roads look like, not what you would see in competition.
Click here to see the route instructions.
This was recorded on the Wednesday before the event when, unlike the actual day, the weather was perfect. There are a couple of edits where I had to stop to make sure I was in the right place on the route chart (a real rally driver has someone to read the instructions and tell him where to go) and there were a couple of cautions where if you overshot a corner you would have to go to Bunnings to get a rope long enough to winch you back onto the road. Also, for some reason my usual accuracy at estimating distances was having a day off so I was being careful.
You can see my standard disclaimer about speed here.
