「Giro、、」回想記�ぁ�Day１ 1/100秒の戦い５７位
- AMAZONとクラシックイベント
- by suna
- 2009/06/04 木 11:19
225Km、８箇所のチェックポイントを戦った「Giro、、」のDay１は、5月30日（土）午後4時過ぎに浅間プリンスホテルにフィニッシュしました。終日雨に祟られ、菅平などの標高の高い区間は、濃い霧の中の走行を強いられる、なかなか厳しい一日でした。Day1開始早々の「線踏み」CPで要領が掴めず、78位に後退して戦い始めた「・122」AMAZONと我々でしたが、その後、６箇所のCPでも、苦戦は続き、ほとんどのCPで5秒から7秒の誤差減点でした。ただ、努力、、、というか、学習能力、、、というか、菅平への大笹街道に設置された第５CP（区間基準時間1時間42分59秒66）では、何と「0秒23」誤差でのチェックインを達成。一気に13位に浮上、、、、。自信は付けたのですが、その後、再び悪戦苦闘となり、57位でDay１を終えることとなりました。つまり、0秒以内の誤差で戦い続ければ、上位入賞も視野に入るのですが、各CPで5秒以上の誤差となると、もう、何ともならない、超シビアな戦いを強いられる、、、というのがクラシックカーラリーなのです。0秒以内、、、と簡単には言うものの、０秒、、、って、「あっ」という瞬間です。それも、フロントタイヤの中心が、チェックラインを通過した瞬間に「精密計時システム」で100分の1秒まで計時されるのですから、超緻密な「ライン踏み」が勝負を分けると言っても過言ではありません。従って、「・122」AMAZONの助手席には、1m単位のツイントリップ機能と100分の1秒までカウイントするストップウオッチと時計機能を備えたデジタル計器「MAP SHOT�供廚鯣�え、さらに、秒表示のデジタル電波時計、秒単位でカウントダウン可能な「キッチンタイマー」を2個、、、、という装備を施しました。コ・ドライバーのS大先輩は、ミスコースしないようにコースの「コマ図」を読み、トリップメーターと時計とストップウォッチとをチェックしながらの走行ですから大変です。
Day 1 of Giro held between 225km and 8 checkpoints came to an end on May 30th 5pm at Asama Prince Hotel. The whole day had been wet and in the high sections like Sugadaira, there was heavy fog. We started off at 78th place and the continued to struggle at most of the CPs with a 5 to 7 sec delay at all the 6 following CPs. However, we were not utterly hopeless and made it across CP5 at Sugadaira with a differnce of 0.23 and suddenly found ourselves in 13th place. But this was momentary and when the day ended, we found ourselves in position 57. If you can make it in within the second, you can make it to a good position, but if you are more than 5 sec out, you don't get anywhere. Thats how tight this rally is. This is all measured thru a very precise timing machine so you can say, the whole rally is about "crossing the line" to the micro second. In order to be able to make any good out of this rally, we were equipped with twin trips, 2 countdown stopwatch that can measure up to the 100th of a second and the Map Shot 2 which had a timer that counted second. My co driver had to keep his eyes on the map at the same time he had to handle all of this, so you can imagine how difficult it is.
Day 1 of Giro held between 225km and 8 checkpoints came to an end on May 30th 5pm at Asama Prince Hotel. The whole day had been wet and in the high sections like Sugadaira, there was heavy fog. We started off at 78th place and the continued to struggle at most of the CPs with a 5 to 7 sec delay at all the 6 following CPs. However, we were not utterly hopeless and made it across CP5 at Sugadaira with a differnce of 0.23 and suddenly found ourselves in 13th place. But this was momentary and when the day ended, we found ourselves in position 57. If you can make it in within the second, you can make it to a good position, but if you are more than 5 sec out, you don't get anywhere. Thats how tight this rally is. This is all measured thru a very precise timing machine so you can say, the whole rally is about "crossing the line" to the micro second. In order to be able to make any good out of this rally, we were equipped with twin trips, 2 countdown stopwatch that can measure up to the 100th of a second and the Map Shot 2 which had a timer that counted second. My co driver had to keep his eyes on the map at the same time he had to handle all of this, so you can imagine how difficult it is.
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