The London Rally Marked Map

A speciality of historic rallying, often used on night sections, is the London Rally Section, named after the famous rally that was most associated with this method of route presentation in the 1950/60s.

Prior to starting the night section you will receive a colour photocopy from an OS map (sometimes from a "period" 1 inch to the mile edition), with numerous labelled points which you can transfer to your own map if you wish. A variation of this method gives you the points as a list of map references which you'll have to plot on your map. On starting the section you receive a schedule indicating which points are time controls, passage controls, give-way junctions or via points, with the approach and departure direction information allowing you then to plot the correct route.

Here is a section of a marked map that was given out on the 1993 Targa Rusticana. If you think it looks a little strange - it's from the OS 1" sheet 141, 1952 edition. Although the points are numbered, this was not the order in which the points were visited.