Official TALCAR RULES
based on Massachusetts Rallye Council rallye regulations
rule 1
A Possible Rallye Road is a paved, public, through road. No other roads are considered to exist. However, a road may become unpaved without mention in the rallye instructions where there exists no opportunity to continue on paved, and a Rallyeist may enter an unpaved road when specifically told to do so by an instruction using the term unpaved or dirt.
rule 2
Numbered Route Instructions (NRI) will be executed in numerical order at the first opportunity, and each will be executed fully before going on to the next NRI, unless overlap is specifically permitted within the instruction. If an NRI is accompanied by a mileage, it must be executed at that mileage. Separate parts of the same NRI are to be executed in the same order in which they are given.
rule 3
Lettered Route Instructions (LRI, sometimes called "notes") will be executed at every opportunity from their appearance or other activation until deactivated. The execution of an LRI may overlap NRIs, other LRIs and subsequent executions of the same LRI. LRI take precedence over NRI. If an LRI is accompanied by a mileage, it must be executed at that mileage.
rule 4
In the absence of an instruction, go as straight as possible, determined as you enter the intersection. When directed to stay on a named, numbered or lettered route by use of the term stay on in a route instruction, stay with that road until a subsequent course following instruction causes you to leave it. If an unmarked intersection is encountered or the route designation ends, continue on course as if you had been instructed to stay on. If the named, numbered or lettered route is re-encountered prior to executing the next course following instruction, stay on the road as described in this paragraph.
rule 5
Rallies are run on a leg-to-leg basis. Time gained or lost on one leg therefore cannot be made up on the next leg.
rule 6
The minimum distance between consecutive actions in a single NRI is one inch. The minimum distance between the point of completion of one NRI and the first action point of the next NRI is one inch. Navigational aids for NRI may not occur within this minimum. However, speed changes and the beginning of gains and pauses may be executed simultaneously with other parts of the same NRI. The maximum distance between points of action required by parts of an NRI, or between points of action of consecutive NRI, is three miles.
rule 7
A portion of an NRI or LRI appearing in quotation marks refers to written material encountered along the route. Spelling is precise, but ignore punctuation and capitalization. Quotations are not identified as being full or partial, but only prominent portions of signs will be quoted unless the portion of the sign used can be read in full under Rallye conditions. Portions of words or number groups are not quoted; that is, individual words are always quoted fully, and in the order in which they appear. Material is not omitted from the middle of quotes. Quotations in route instructions will never refer to written material on vehicles or on marker stones in cemeteries, utility pole numbers, house numbers, and written material on or attached to mail boxes. You will not have to look backward to read any sign, but you may have to look anywhere else.
rule 8
Checkpoint Avoidance: If a rallye vehicle attempts to delay their arrival to a checkpoint by stopping within sight of the committee members, the committee members will clock in the vehicle upon recognition.