- AA abbrev. Automobile Association - a bunch of Very Nice Men as long as they don't know you're on a rally
- all-nighter n. A full length rally, often followed by breakfast
- alloy n. material used to triple the price of car parts
- AR abbrev. All Roads - code meaning ``difficult clue''
- autotest n. an organised event designed to test use of the handbrake
- black ice n. See moment, stack
- Blue Book n. a baroque comedic work in the style of Lear poetry published by MSA
- Bowring n. purveryors of insurance
- box n. a connoisseur's ninety
- bridge n. road-reading instruction warning of potential yump or ninety. See moment
- bump stop n. small rubber object designed to protect MacPherson strut valves and fuel lines
- catch v.t. to survive a moment, as in `I caught the first three'
- cattle grid n. See moment
- caution n. a particularly fine yump the rally organisers have taken pains to point out
- closing car n. sweeps up afterwards
- clue n. navigational rally route instruction, as in ``I haven't got a clue what this means''
- code board n. small temporary road sign hidden in a hedge immediately before a ninety
- compass n. sign of a desperate navigator
- Cozzie n. rally prepared Ford Escort or Sierra RS Cosworth. Opposite of scrapper in every sense
- crest n. the top of a hill
- CRO abbrev. Coloured Roads Only - code meaning ``nice clue''
- ditch v.t. to parallel park a car unexpectedly during a rally
- driver n. incompetent person holding steering wheel
- doughnut n. novel means of ploughing grass with a rear wheel drive car
- eighty n. proprietary sobriety cure often sold in pints
- ETL abbrev. Electricity Transmission Line - large metallic twentieth century sculpture erected by Southern Electric to make rally clues harder
- excuse n. means to explain poor result in rally, or ditching or similar manouevres
- Expert n. a class in navigational rallies for people who know what they're doing. See Schraider and Davies
- fade v.i. what brakes do when they overheat. See moment
- farmer n. 1. Nice man with tractor pulling your car out of the ditch 2. Angry owner of the fence you just totalled
- farmyard n. cobbled area not on the rally route, often strewn with mud and cow dung. See moment
- flat n. stage rally instruction, meaning ``Keep your right foot flat on the floor''
- ``Follow that car!'' n. traditional instruction to driver except when car in front navigated by `PRAR' Rennie!
- ford n. mid-rally car wash
- fork n. Y-shaped junction, as in the instruction ``Fork Right Off''
- four wheel drift n. simultaneous understeer and oversteer
- game pie n. dish made from a variety of wild animals, often enjoyed by the crew of the closing car
- grip n. See Yokohama
- hairpin n. Corner much tighter than a ninety
- handbrake 1. n. Direction changing lever found between the front seats, but not on Citroen, Saab or Alfa Romeo cars 2. v.t. To make use of the handbrake
- hang on n. instruction to navigator
- harness n. go-faster seat belt
- hedge n. Follows hairpin, handbrake, hang-on
- herringbone n. form of rally clue which works on the organisers' kitchen table but not in your car
- hooking n. making use of the ditch to assist cornering.
- icing n. what happens to carburettors in cold weather. See excuse
- IGR abbrev. Ignore Gated Roads - code for ``b****** hard clue''
- insurance n. overpriced piece of paper
- jugs n. Weber DCOE or similar carburettors fitted to cars which club members can't afford (or can't afford to run)
- K-right n. road reading instruction used by poncey navigators, meaning corner of between 30 and 60 degrees, depending on the navigator's handwriting
- Landranger n. map depicting opportunities for a rally
- lay-by n. place to hide a code board (Ref: NightWatchman Rally)
- left n. often confused with right. See Tim Warburton
- lift v.i. a driving technique for
- loop n. bigger place to hide a code board
- lose v.t. 1. opposite of catch. See moment, excuse 2. What club crews in Fiestas do to Cozzies (maybe a fantasy !).
- lost n. state of Peugeot 405's on rallies.
- lump hammer n. precision adjusting tool
- marshal n. cold masochist
- masochist n. someone lacking a sense of self preservation. See marshal, navigator
- Mintex n. a means to prevent fade
- minute n. over-optimistic time by which you try to reach the next time control
- moment n. an incident during which the driver has even less control of the car than usual. The name derives from the duration of the incident in the navigator's reference frame; in the driver's reference frame it lasts several minutes. See ``The Principle of Relativity'' by A. Einstein.
- National B n. hooligan's certificate
- navigator n. incompetent person clutching a map board
- ninety n. a corner the shape of a right-angle. See moment
- Non-Expert n. exactly
- not as map/NAM adj. a type of corner the OS cartographer has chosen to depict with particular artistic license. See moment
- Novice n. class of rally competitor provided with easy clues to give the Non-Experts someone to follow.
- off n. unplanned departure from the road. See ditch
- oncoming n. traffic flow of inconsiderate local residents and Ford Fiesta's driving the opposite way to rally route
- one-eight-six n. sheet number 186 ``Aldershot and Guildford area'' from the OS Landranger series of maps. The scene of many offs, ditchings, moments ...
- One-Thirties n.pl. extremely delicate pieces of wire encased in a glass bulb, which glow brightly for up to ten minutes
- opening car n. See rally
- OTL abbrev. Too D*** Late
- OS abbrev. Ordnance Survey - government agency which produces the Landranger series of maps
- oversteer n. a state in which the car tries to ditch itself on the inside of a corner
- pace car n. large vehicle, usually white, sporting extremely tacky go-faster stripes, multifarious flashing lights and driven by dour faced gentlemen in navy blue suits
- panic n. standard navigational technique
- panic envelope n. sealed paper container, to be opened only by wimps
- passage control n. NOT the Y reg. Sierra with the steamy windows
- pendulum n. poser's cornering technique
- pirouette n. ``handling'' characteristic of rear-engined vehicles. See moment
- porta-power n. hydraulically operated precision adjusting tool for large jobs
- poti n. navigator's essential equipment for fast sections
- PR problem n. Anal-retentive resident of a remote village
- quiet zone n. place where you drive calmly if a driving standards observer is present
- MSA abbrev. The Motor Sports Association Ltd. - a bunch of money-grabbing legal humourists (allegedly !)
- rabbit n. See game pie
- rally car n. See scrapper
- rally route n. a series of roads marked with dead rabbits
- red line n. point on the tachometer below which the needle should not be allowed to drop
- red mist n. a measn to make the car go faster. See ditch
- right n. often confused with left. See Tim Warburton
- road rally n. A peaceful drive in the countryside.
- road reading n. prediciting the road ahead from assorted squiggles on the map, something the navigator often stops doing at inconvenient times. See moment
- rocket fuel n. a half and half mixture of four star and super unleaded petrol
- ro(a)mer n. a bit of plastic kicking around the floor of the car
- Schraider and Davies n. navigational rally mantra. See deity
- scrapper n. a motor car in a similar condition to those found in ``automotive recycling'' yards; a typical motor club vehicle
- sheep n. game pie target for a larger car
- single track n. a type of road not wide enough for a car and a tractor to pass side by side. See moment, oncoming
- skid marks n. a series of streaks which can be used to judge the quality of a moment, if the driver can be persuaded to part with his or her underwear.
- squirrel n. See game pie
- stack v.t. to perpendicularly park unexpectedly during a rally
- straight line v.t. to take the ``racing line'' through a roundabout
- sturgeon n. a species of fish prized for its stomach calming properties
- sulk v.i. See navigator
- tantrum n. See driver
- tightens adj. navigator's euphamism. See moment
- time control/TC n. place where the navigator haggles with a marshal for a minute
- toe down adj. proper driving style
- twelve car n. small, intimate rally for close friends
- U-ey n. a tactical manouevre used in situations of navigational uncertainty
- understeer n. a state in which the car tries to ditch itself on the outside of a corner
- video camera n. jinx
- white n. proper, unsurfaced rally road
- WD abbrev. Wrong Direction - the act of arriving at a time control going the other way, which incurs a penalty.
- wimps n. people who suffer from common sense while driving a car
- work v.i. something clues occasionally do
- yellow n. tarmac rally road
- Yokohama n. a Japanese company which manufactures ingenious transfers used to apply rubber to tarmac
- yump 1. n. a crest on a road specially designed to separate the car's wheels from the ground 2. v.t. to drive a car spiritedly across a yump
- Z-bends n. pl. a series of consecutive moments
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