The Panglossian Rally 2012

Route Card 9 (19 Exclusive Rally Matters)

Route Card 9 (19 Exclusive Rally Matters)
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Plotting Boundaries: (E 609000, N 340000) to (E 622000, N 330680)
This is a Redo Route Card.
There are 34 PCs on route.

Note: The solution was changed at 12:00 on May 25. If your previous route was marked OK, leave it. New attempts will require the corrected (shorter) route.

TC1 @ 1457 3920

Proceed via the following points only and take the shortest route between successive points. Note that to make this route work, you will have to use some whites that AutoP(i)lot does not recognise, so you will have to switch to manual marking to do this. All you need do is mark the start and end of the white road you wish to use.

1 Carlos Sainz wins his first WRC rally stage
2 Colin McRae born
3 First season for the World Rally Championship for Drivers
4 Vic Elford wins first ever Rallycross event
5 XK120 launched
6 HOM won 18 WRC events, when was he born?
7 cc of a 1964 Monte Mini + 318
8 Engine size of Sunbeam Rapier Series IIIA
9 Monte Carlo Rally ends in a tie
10 Subtract Roger Clark's age when he sadly passed away from the year that a pair of Finns won the British Rally Championship in a Maxi
11 The Mazda Familia was marketed in Europe as something else - you've got 4 of them!
13 He won the 1965 RAC Rally - when was he born?
14 Fiat 520 wins an international rally
12 Amilcar wins Monte
15 This rally is named after a flower - when was it first run?
16 A canal stops RAC Rally running in this year
17 Last year Mille Miglia is run
18 Four hundred years after Mark Higgins becomes British Rally Champion for the first time
19 Rolling circumference in mm of a Pirelli 205/65 R15 TL gravel rally tyre

TC2 at last instruction.

There are 34 PCs on route.

Route Card Commentary
The clue was in the title. Not only were there 19 questions, but you had to exclude the digits "19" from the answer. Most were just "years" starting with 19, but 3 were not, and required you to strip out the digits 1 and 9 from the answer.

The answers were: 1 = 1987, 2 = 1968, 3 = 1979, 4 = 1967, 5 = 1948, 6 = 1942, 7 = 1938, 8 = 1592 (strip out the 1 and 9 to leave 52), 9 = 1939, 10 = 1941, 11 = 1292 (strip out the 1 and 9 to leave 22), 12 = 1927, 13 = 1938, 14 = 1928, 15 = 1949, 16 = 1957, 17 = 1957, 18 = 1597 (strip out the 1 and 9 to leave 57), 19 = 1951).

Unfortunately, when originally published, the question for Q1 was stated incorrectly as it was missing a word on the end ... should have been "Carlos Sainz wins his first WRC rally stage". At the time, we were considering displaying the question as "Carlos Sainz wins his first WRC rally ..." ie using "dots". In the end, this latter option was considered a bit obtuse, but sadly the question was not corrected. Apologies to you all for spoiling what was essentially an interesting Route Card.

As if this wasn't enough, the left-hand boundary of the map was the specified incorrectly.

It was intended to exclude the left hand quarter of Easting Squares "09" to prevent use of the yellow junction to the W of Edgefield. These resulted in the Route Card becoming a "ReDo" which meant that most of you cleaned it in the end!