[Matra et Alpine]

Originally Posted by mustang123

thanks Peter i can see where i have gone wrong now, but you must admit that if it wasnt for those 2 small mistakes it would of been quite good, i am getting better and faster as i go along os soon i will be rite up there
oh well looking forward to attempting stage 6 when you get chance to put it up.

Yep, Mustang, quite good, you DID get to the TCs which are MOST important. But any error will lose you route markers and time/points.

The only thing is that drivers aren't patient and understanding guys.

It's OK for them to stick it sideways into a ditch and lose a couple of minutes, but for a nav to make an error is unacceptable to them. They usuaully come with ego's the size of a planet

So any points/time dropped will be the NAVS FAULT. Loss of a group or outright win will be down to those 10 seconds lost in a time card error, or a mis-direction. It's NEVER about his/her lack of driving skill

That's life and as a nav you have to accept it.
It's one of the reasons I alwayts recommend anyone wanting to ultimately drive in rallying ( at any level ) to do navigation/co-driving as young as possible. You then can appreciate the efforts of the nav later on and will realise it's a team effort !! My navs always new I'd been in their seat, so if I ever did "lose the rag" with them, they'd always point it out to me.

Will get Stage 6 up later this morning

BTW, the same can be true for driver switching seats back ( as I'm currently doing in post-historics ). You can appreciate why a driver is maybe NOT taking the corner as quickly as you THINK it could be ( esp if using your OWN pace notes! ). But we've egos too, so I also upset my driver by screaming at him to get a move on and to "push on" if he is backing off coming to a corner I've called as 'flat'