Unfortunately the regulations imposed on road rallies today mean that the average speeds have to be policed effectively or the events won't run.  The Tour of Cheshire was preplot but it was difficult to plot and with lots of average speed changes and lots of extra time to be added in every time we crossed an A road, so once you got it all plotted the headache just carried on with the complicated timing.

The next one is the Ilkley Jubilee on 11th April, this one is regularity all day, but most of it is plot and bash, so that is stressful because until you leave a control you don't know where you are going, but the timing and speed changes are less complicated so it balances out really.  The only bits that are against the clock now are the special tests which are all on private land, but even they have to have a maximum average speed of 30mph, so are often tight and sometimes with code boards and chicanes to slow you down.

Old fashioned night events with selectives are definitely a thing of the past, but organisers had introduced regularitie sections but with no penalty for arriving at a control early to get round it, but now those have been banned as well.  As a result of these changes night events now have very complicated navigation and even hide code boards to make them more difficult to find so that you lose time and then you can go flat out to catch up!  A lot of traditional night events now include timed to the second sections on private land, especially in Wales where the police are very active.

Davidr