An explanation would be good, it lets the membership understand the challenges involved in getting it all to dovetail together.
OK - it goes something like this:
1) Assume all dates & venues remain the same as last year.
2) Check that none of the comps clash with forest rallies, tarmac rallies, or big events elsewhere as we share a lot of the marshals & officials, and we can't run a comp without those people.
3) Make sure that the CCVs have one, preferable two, weekends between them and any comps, as people that use the same motor for both (the "SLROC Championship" is the points from Comps & CCVs combined)... and it takes time to fettle a car after a comp
4) Have the discussion about separating Tyros & CCVs or not (again)
5) Fit the RTVs, driving days, Mudmaster, and Green Road Runs into what's left. July is generally kept free as that's when most people are away on holiday
6) Shoogle the whole thing to align with, or avoid, specific days (... such as a car-show at Knockhill)
Dates clashesThe rallies (and anyone else using Forestry Commission land) need to book their dates in June the year before. Those dates are then reviewed by the MSA & the Forestry Liaison Officers, then discussed at the Regional Association meeting about November time.... so SLROC won't know what rallies are on what dates until that SACC meeting.
SACC does not have a "Dates discussion" meeting, so it is up to the organisers of the various events that need Rescue/Recovery/Doctors/Lots-of-marshals to talk to each other to ensure their are no clashes.
I knew the dates the 2011 Scottish Comps & both Hill Rallies would [
hopefully] be, back in June - but I could not confirm them until November - and the Intercontinental Rally Challenge [IRC] has pushed the October comp back a week..... but we had left a space in the calendar to cope with that.
(and I've got to phone someone today about what sound horribly like a dates clash with the Perthshire Hill Rally for 2011
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