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Maurice
teaching us the ropes
Gus Sandeman & Mark Brambles in Lancia
Fulvia
Ian Close & Jim Blackhall in MGB
Swapping stories over high tea
| | |  | Angus
Classic Training Day - 27 February 2011
Photos - Maurice Millar, Jim Paterson
 Maurice
Millar had put together a very comprehensive presentation on "how to go
rallying" for the 24 "students" who turned out at the Aboukir Hotel in
Carnoustie on Sunday 27th February . Some "seasoned salts"
were among the crowd, but had turned out to drive their novice
navigators round the course, and no doubt offer some help them
decipher the clues on the way.
A wealth of
background material
on navigational rallying had been Joe
Norman & Doug Ashworth in Mini, Chris Donachie and
provided before the
event, including
Allan
Aitken in Triumph TR4
an insight into the black
art of Regularities. Women should allegedly
be better at navigational rallying as the need to multi task is a great
attribute. Remembering what order to do things in, whilst watching
distance and keeping track of time and relating that to speed tables
needs a cool and steady head, regardless of gender. Personally I'll
stick to driving!
 Graham
Cox waved the cars off on a 57 mile test route around the minor
roads of Angus, allowing the students to practice their new
found skills in a non competitive environment.
I popped
along to help as
closing car, and it was great to see so many people there enjoying
themselves. I had a marked map Mike
& Linda Brook in Healey 100, Dave Heirs & Gordon Meek
to
help me collect the signs etc and
in MG
Midget
I
missed a cunningly hidden turn that
Maurice had put in, so it was good that all those novices managed
round, without losing their cool, I am
told!
A
traditional Scottish high tea at the finish enabled a transfer of
information and experiences among the crews. Hopefully we will see some
of the new crews out on rallies across Scotland, be it historic,
navigational or otherwise.
 £306.51
was
raised at
the event for Macmillan Nurses, to help in their fight against
Cancer.
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