lol sadly you would probably need a human where ever gear is .. so it doesn't get stolen.

and ya.. not sure who to give out cookies or candy to if everyone is a robot. guess we will have to have 1 bag of candy and 1 bag of batteries to hand out .. and hopefully we don't get mixed up :p



Course worker : "why did that driver just give me 2 batteries and some oil? "

The logical next step is to program and equip the robots to defend themselves from being stolen.

C'mon now, what could go wrong???

Number 5 will save rally!

Plus... built in finish line detection:

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Grassroots rally. It's what I think about.

i'm sticking to lower cost, will help rally

brisk tsd events with limited mods i.e. bolt in cages and harness

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first rule of cars: get what makes you happy, your the one paying for it!

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http://imgur.com/a/2sMie

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Rally is alive and well here in Colorado! 10 full events for 2015!
http://imgur.com/a/2sMie

rc scale ez-ups? next thing you know it's going to be rc scale tow dollies and open trailers, then box trailers, then fancy haulers with matching wraps!

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Rally is alive and well here in Colorado! 10 full events for 2015!
http://imgur.com/a/2sMie

rc scale ez-ups? next thing you know it's going to be rc scale tow dollies and open trailers, then box trailers, then fancy haulers with matching wraps!

and demanding more area for the RC semis and RC motor-homes and then saying that they own all the airways and only their RC controllers are allowed ---and other people aren't allowed any access to any radio waves and send Press Releases---for immediate release, of course, 'splaining why they need all the frequencies "Its natural that those that paid for all the frequencies should get the coverage"...And soon enough the entry fees quintuple and the majority of people spent all their B-t-coins and then they have enough room for their RC motorhomes and semis---cause everybody else has dropped out..That's one way to win a RC race.

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I'm on board, can you make me some 50s jvabs for my rc car? 50 Micro-meters of course not sure my RC car would be cool enough with only 40s

i do like some r/c time but its a bit to video game for me

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I'm on board, can you make me some 50s jvabs for my rc car? 50 Micro-meters of course not sure my RC car would be cool enough with only 40s

Yeah gotta be in wif da kewl kids...What ever you need, I can do, brah.

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i finally realized something looking at rally cars for sale in europe. Everyone over there has a massively bigger budget then us. There are hardly any rally cars for sale in the 10,000 $ range. Most are double or more than that. So when we want to see awesome rally cars on stage the good stuff is going to be where the people are willing to spend the money, plus its not hard for them to want to spend the money if rallies are actually within driving distance, but that is beside the point. There is no shrinking the USA.

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i finally realized something looking at rally cars for sale in europe. Everyone over there has a massively bigger budget then us. There are hardly any rally cars for sale in the 10,000 $ range. Most are double or more than that. So when we want to see awesome rally cars on stage the good stuff is going to be where the people are willing to spend the money, plus its not hard for them to want to spend the money if rallies are actually within driving distance, but that is beside the point. There is no shrinking the USA.

I´d guess you went to Rallycarsforsale? It is´nt the place to look... That´s where most cars are for sale in much higher prices as in "national" sites.. For example from Finland you can find plenty of cars for less than 10K..
And about budgets, as much as i know in every country there´s teams with big, and small budgets, but in national level most drivers drive with their own pockets.. If you see a national level car with plenty of stickers in Finland, the most common question for the driver is "how much did you pay for all those stickers..." =)

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i finally realized something looking at rally cars for sale in europe. Everyone over there has a massively bigger budget then us. There are hardly any rally cars for sale in the 10,000 $ range. Most are double or more than that. So when we want to see awesome rally cars on stage the good stuff is going to be where the people are willing to spend the money, plus its not hard for them to want to spend the money if rallies are actually within driving distance, but that is beside the point. There is no shrinking the USA.

To a large degree what Jari said.. Look on sites with newer homolgated cars and you'll see mostly insanely expensive cars..

look where its national cars and they're just expensive...but look at the spec and they're not bad deals....

And one thing I found is the best deals for whole cars and choice bits probably you never see....
If a car or say for me I wanted good Ford wheels like Compomotive TH or Sparco OZ for Sierra, RARE abnd stupid expensive ---because they were mint or refurbish and "pretty"......when I was last in UK, found 15-18 for GBP 30-35 each..

The good prices on cars and parts go to friends and acquaintances that you know or in the local club or district... and never get advertised....

Another thing has its roots in "cultcha".....and history...
Wages are after taxes on average---that is for everybody---higher.
Here there are vast huge differences in wages with some actual wages being 10-20 times higher--not investment returns, so called 'un-earned income" like speculators and profiteers live on (Like Romney in last Presidential election--tax returns showed "icome " of whatever 6.4 million and 100% was "un-earned" just dividends and paper manipulation so taxed at a mere 14%)


MOST of civilised Europe "most" get a pretty decent wage--or they don't work at all.

Second, doesn't seem that more than 50% of all the drivers in the civilised parts "need' to have a newish turbo awd car...
Here, the majority do and the majority of noobs pick this up and most say that is the "Higher" class they want to be in...

So they spend LOTS of money on intitial road car and then---since this is a consumer capitalist economy---pay other people for do things and then buy lots of parts for basically slightly hopped up turbo Subies---with stock box and diff ratios and maybe a little bigger turbo---and paint, and lots of new $280 each wheels..

A warmed over newer road car in other word. Mainly bought, not built

I posted a couple or 3 years ago a list of every car ientered in Finland in the previous year..hundreds of cars and a total of maybe 5 Subarus, 30-32 Misterbitchis. That's it.
A minor number.

Another thing is that in most of Europe you'r never see utter and complete bullshit like this:

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How A $500 Craigslist Car Beat $400K Rally Racers
jalopnik.com/.../how-a-500-craigslist-car-beat-400k-rally-racers
Jalopnik
Mar 22, 2010 - If you want to run with the big dogs, you can't just build a car in your mom's garage ... racing freak, entered the Mexico round of the World Rally Championship in a 1991 ... Amazingly, they finished third in their class. ..... Next time you parachute in and blow the FIA's world up, give the Jalopnik Nation a shout.

Transparent lies and bullshit--what I call "hype" but the hypsters call "promotion"

They just build cars mostly 2wd and do the best job--and parts they can to make 'em rally cars..

Not barely warmed over road cars with lots of stickers.

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not having to explain what rally is to friends and coworkers will save rally:

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not having to explain what rally is to friends and coworkers will save rally:

Good
God.

wot


da


fuq

Introduction to Rallyracing.

I thought only flat-bill fried brain American vidiots said "rallyracing"
Indeed, generally its a near certain marker word that the speaker is an air-head.

Nothing will save rally if we change even the name in a stupid and misguided attempt to reach and impress the useless moron type fan---

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/15/2014 09:28AM by john vanlandingham.

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Good

Yup, not a bad video at all.

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john vanlandingham
God.

Ummm... did we catch you in the middle of something?

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john vanlandingham
wot

Fersher... lots of wide open throttle in the vid...

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john vanlandingham
da

Glad to see it left you speachless... (although I had always thought of it as more of a 'duhhhhh')

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fuq

(for those who don't recognise it, this is the universally recognised request to fragment user quote... hence the word by word parsing above.)

Introduction to Rallyracing.

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john vanlandingham
I thought only flat-bill fried brain American vidiots said "rallyracing"

Then you should really get out more. While I do prefer Rally, I'd say that probably 30% or more of the people ACTIVE IN THE SPORT say Rally Race, or Rally Racing.

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Indeed, generally its a near certain marker word that the speaker is an air-head.

I agree completely... But only if by 'air head' you mean someone who has only recently found the sport and who is just learning about what really is a niche activity. (Taking that 'air head' refers to the light headed euphoria that comes with realising just how much fun rally can be.)

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Nothing will save rally if we change even the name in a stupid and misguided attempt to reach and impress the useless moron type fan---

Meh. It's just a name.
Soccer in the US and Canada isn't substantially different that football elsewhere.
Couch, sofa, chesterfield... tous la même chose

The beauty of Rally Racing is that it takes care of the type of rally we're talking about... IE: TSD, Gimmick, or 'racing.'

If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing its pretty clear that what we do in stage events is, by definition, rally racing. (Where TSD is about accuracy and Gimmick is about route finding)

I think we all want more people to 'find' our sport and have enough interest to come out and volunteer, and maybe get more involved some day. If calling the sport Rally Racing does that... what's the harm?

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