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ASO
The Amaury Sport Organization (ASO) is part of the French media group Editions Philippe Amaury, which organizes several world-class sporting events. The most famous events include the Tour de France, the Vuelta a España and the Dakar Rally.
1903 The Tour de France was launched by the French newspaper L’Auto. However, after World War II, it was closed due to ties to Nazi Germany, and a new L’Equipe newspaper began taking over the run. Later, this race was taken over by a part of the media group ASO. It also hosts the Paris Marathon and the annual yacht regattas in France.
Assistance
Assistance – technical support to mechanics and their equipment. The assistance trucks move from one bivouac to another every day, set up there, pick up their athletes and make repairs, and travel to another bivouac the next day. The movement takes place on public roads, not on a race track. However, the organizers also monitor the Assistance crew to make sure they do not exceed the speed limit.
But some wealthier teams are finding ways to keep their mechanics out even during the sprint section. According to the Dakar rules, participants are allowed to attend, so teams with a stronger budget register their mechanics as participants in the truck class, and the latter do not try to fight for the result, but carry spare parts and they repair a car of the stopped team if necessary.
Bivouac
OR bivouac or a participant camp, which is set up every day in a different place on the rally route. It is a closed area intended only for athletes and accredited persons, where all the infrastructure of the temporary camp is equipped: dining room, showers, bathrooms, medical point, official competition boards. It is estimated that the bivouac has a capacity of about 4,000 people a day.
Instructions
“Briefing” is also called a meeting of participants. This is the official procedure of the event, which takes place the day before the start of the next day. During it, the organizers present the details of the future speed section, announce route corrections or changes in the start time. The information is available to participants in three languages: French, English and Spanish.
Control point (CP)
Checkpoint: the checkpoints that Dakar participants must reach in each speed section. Each point marked as “Checkpoint” is mandatory, because here the partner presents the referee with a card on which he must receive a mark.
ctis
CTIS stands for Central Tire Pressure System. This system is used to change tire pressure while the vehicle is in motion. These CTIS systems are installed on the Dakar Rally buggies, but they are prohibited in the car class, so to change the tire pressure, participants in this class must get out of the car every time.
Termination-Termination
Fešfešas is sand powder similar to flour. Such dust means that visibility through the “cloud” caused by racing cars is almost nil. Another property of “fešfešo” is viscosity. Being trapped in such a place is very difficult to escape without help. The participants encountered “feshfeš” very often when Dakar was in South America.
GPS
GPS (Global Positioning System) is a system well known to many that allows them to determine their exact location with the help of satellites. Participants of all classes install GPS equipment provided by the organizers on their equipment. With their help, organizers can follow participants, record violations in speed limit areas, view parking time while providing assistance to another participant.
Link
This term refers to the part of the rally route where there is no competition for the result. It is a journey from the bivouac to the start of the next speed section and after reaching the next bivouac. On the transit route, the participants follow the traffic rules and must reach the planned goal within the established time limit. Usually the time rate is set quite high, so participants don’t have to rush. They can move at safe speeds during crossings.
Loop stage
It is a circular section of speed that begins and ends in the same bivouac. Such a section means more rest for the mechanics, because they don’t need to go to another bivouac and dismantle and assemble the technical base of the team.
Marathon stage
A marathon speed section is a stage that lasts two days in a row. During this stage, mechanics are prohibited from tampering with the equipment. Mechanics and riders are housed in different bivouacs. The goal of such a marathon is to bridge the gap between wealthy and private teams, as well as individual rally participants. Either way, brokers can still help each other, giving big budgets or factory teams an edge. To solve this problem, the rally organizers in 2005 introduced the Supermarathon stage, in which the car park began to close as soon as the runners reached the bivouac.
Neutral zone
The neutralization zone is the road section between the individual parts of the speed section. Neutralization zones are required in cases where a speed section must be divided into several different sections. In neutralization zones, the time taken by race cars does not count towards the total time it takes to cross the speed section, however, staying here is not allowed, because the time rate is specified. Also, brokers cannot get technical assistance here.
Park-Farm
“Parc-Ferme” means a closed racing equipment storage area established by the rally organizers. Neither racers nor mechanics can touch the vehicles on this site. Here you can also perform random checks to determine if the technique of any of the competitors violates the rules.
Penalties
This term means fines. Participants can receive them for various violations of the competition procedure: delays at time control points, unauthorized assistance from the country, unauthorized repairs or equipment breach, speeding in certain areas and the like. Penalties can be converted into additional minutes or hours to the participant’s score. They can also be imposed in monetary terms and the most severe sanction is disqualification.
Road book
The road book is presented to each rally participant on the eve of the speed section during the participants’ meeting or in the morning before the start. It contains all the information of the route of the day of the competition together with a primitive diagram of the waiting road. Competitors must strictly follow the route in the road book.
H.H
SS is an abbreviation of the English phrase “Special Stage”, and in Lithuanian, just the GR speed section. Runners must overcome each speed section as quickly as possible. At the end of the rally, the time spent in each speed section is added together with the fines, so that the winners are those who have driven the fastest and have lost the least time.
Waypoint (WP)
The waypoints are organized so that the rally participants follow the route indicated to them. As the race car approaches the waypoint, the GPS monitor begins to display the direction and distance to the exact location of the waypoint.
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