{"id":67,"date":"2016-09-06T20:33:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T08:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/?p=67"},"modified":"2016-09-06T20:33:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T08:33:02","slug":"gravel-double-header-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/2016\/09\/gravel-double-header-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravel Double Header weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haven’t done a lot more on the Lego Porsche build as I’ve been busy preparing for a gravel race weekend.\u00a0 Two separate events over the two days and a whole lot of commuting.<\/p>\n

First up on Saturday is the Mokamoka Road rallysprint up in Hawkes Bay run by the Hawkes Bay Car Club<\/a>.\u00a0 So we will be cruising up to Napier on Friday for the night before heading to the venue which is about an hour north of Napier on Saturday morning.\u00a0 Via BP.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because Subaru.<\/p>\n

\"Mokamoka<\/p>\n

Once that’s completed we’ll be heading home again, hopefully not too late as on Sunday morning we need to be up and heading over to the Wairarapa to do the Puketiro Road gravel sprint put on by the Wairarapa Car Club<\/a>.\u00a0 That one is just over an hour from home.<\/p>\n

\"GladstoneRd\"<\/p>\n

The observant readers (that’s all of you right?) will have noticed a couple of things.\u00a0 Firstly, the use of “we” and secondly that I described the events differently, one being a rallysprint and the other being a gravel sprint.<\/p>\n

A future post will introduce the team in more detail but for now, there’s me who pretends to be able to drive.\u00a0 Sarah is my co-driver.\u00a0 She’s responsible for calling the pace notes that we’ve made up for quite a few events.\u00a0 That’s a blog topic all of its own too.
\nThe third member is the car.\u00a0 A Subaru WRX fitted out for racing.\u00a0 That’ll be the subject of many upcoming posts.<\/p>\n

As for the event types, they are fairly similar to the observer.\u00a0 Take a closed section of road, gravel in these two cases, race one at a time along it, fastest time after a number of runs, usually 3, is declared the winner.
\nThe difference is in the specific regulations but the main one that is most obvious is that a Rallysprint is run to Rally regulations and as such requires a co-driver.\u00a0 It’s essentially a one stage rally event.\u00a0 A gravel (or tarmac) sprint is just you vs the clock, no co-driver or passenger required but you can still take one if you want to (and the car meets certain requirements).<\/p>\n

This week is mainly getting things ready and packed for two days of racing and an overnight in Napier.\u00a0 The car will get a check over to make sure everything is good to go, then packed up with as many gravel wheels as I can fit in it, tools, jack and race gear.\u00a0 Camera and datalogger batteries will get charged up and packed.\u00a0 That reminds me, should really sort out some food for lunches etc.<\/p>\n

That’s all for this update.\u00a0 Feel free to leave comments and questions if there’s something you want to know about the topics I’m blogging about.\u00a0 I’ve got some ideas for upcoming topics but happy to look at requests also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Haven’t done a lot more on the Lego Porsche build as I’ve been busy preparing for a gravel race weekend.\u00a0 Two separate events over the two days and a whole lot of commuting. First up on Saturday is the Mokamoka Road rallysprint up in Hawkes Bay run by the Hawkes Bay Car Club.\u00a0 So we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[11,10,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-67","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-race-car","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-gravel-racing","9":"tag-motorsport","10":"tag-road-trip","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7RrqC-15","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motordrivephotography.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}