03/03/2009
RACC's cost cutting proposals accepted in the World Championship

The determined involvement of the RACC in the FIA World Rally Championship does not end with the organization of one of the best events on the calendar and the determined work of its excellent human force, but continues with the submission of continuous proposals with the main aim of improving the sports and achieving the cost cutting all stakeholders of the WRC are interested in.

The latest proposal of the RACC, accepted with immediate effect for all events willing to apply it, is the preparation of the timecards for participants. So far, every organiser had to create a complex and thick book, including one page per sector and with several copies available for each, which every team had to get stamped as they were passing the control points.

Through its Sports Director, Aman Barfull, the RACC submitted a project some time ago, that clearly simplified the structure of the document, turning it into a much simpler tool, eliminating the self-copying pages, the expensive spiral binding and the need to print one by one with the number of each participant.

Aman Barfull: “The total cost of the time book compared with the time card we have proposed is 50 to 1, matchless when talking about cutting costs. With the computer-assisted control posts we have now, it is not necessary to have a copy of the passage page for each participant at every control point. Modernisation involves also having a useful document, simple and very easy to fill-out and handle”.

The WRC Commission approved this new document with immediate effect for all events of the World and European Championships. Since the season has already started, Rally Portugal will be the first event to put the idea of the Spanish organization into practise, an initiative that has been very well received among organizers.

The RACC, with the Spanish Rally always in mind, is constantly innovating. In 2008 the RallyRACC introduced the so-called virtual notice board, which means nothing else but uploading all documents of interest for the participants to the rally website (www.rallyracc.com) immediately after publication. A service that complements in a much faster way the function of the classic notice board that is usually available for participants at the permanent secretariat.

Likewise, the RACC proposed back in approx. 2000 a timing system that was the embryo of the current timing system provided compulsorily by ISC to all WRC events and that the RACC still uses during its world championship event, so that it is virtually impossible to have a mistake or laps in the system.