MotorPunk October 2013 | Page 64
| Motorsport for the poor | Trialling
in the motoring press. A printed route book
is used primarily to get the crews from one
observed section to the next and to keep the
event flowing more-or-less to schedule. The
rules are quite simple: an observed section
is either “cleaned” or “failed” as teams have
to tackle a tricky mix of steep muddy farm
tracks, rutted forestry roads and rock-strewn
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