why GPS?

for a few reasons:

First reason- in some positions of the Roadbooks you will have azimuths. That means that we give you an angle relative to the north (azimuth) and a distance on that direction so you can find the next position.
The distance is aerial (line of sight) calculated between the start point (the place you are) and the end point (the place you're looking for). This was done with the GPS and is very precise.
You will have to know how to operate your GPS in order to create a new waypoint based on the distance + angle we give you and then to go to that point. The route between the 2 points is not always direct so most of the time the distance on the ground (the one from the Trip meter) is longer.
If you use a compass you don't have enough precision on the angle reading and you cannot estimate the correct distance (line of sight).

Second reason- it's for your safety. In case you are lost or the car is broken, the only way to describe your position is by the GPS position.

Tracks length

The Open Class:
Sunday 56 km
Monday 100 km
Tuesday 97 km
Thursday 114 km
Friday 55 km
Total approx. 422 km plus some special stages on Wednesday.

The Extreme Class:
Sunday 55 km
Monday 120 km (+ maybe another 40 depending on the weather and how fast you are..)
Tuesday 90 km
Thursday 110 km (+ more)
Friday 80km

Fuel, trailers & camps

The fuel price is the same as in the rest of Europe. There are fuel station near the camp sites (max.20km away).
If you are coming with street cars or trucks or trailers you can leave them in a special guarded place in Deva.
The main camp is accessible with any type of car. But the space we have for camping (at least for the moment, because we're looking for solutions) is not that big, so we would like to ask you to leave the unnecessary cars in Deva.

The rules

We are back with the fresh TAT 2008 rules that you can find here
If you have any questions regarding these rules, please comment here, on the blog. That way you'll be able, once in Deva, to concentrate more on the competition itself rather than on the bureaucratic stuff ;)
Enjoy!

Italians still looking for a team car

Our friends from Italy are still looking for a team car.
In order to help them, we are accepting one more registration for the extreme class.
So if you know somebody interested please put them in contact.

nast@email.it

COUNTRY: .........Italia

PILOT: ...............Paolo Iadicicco

COPILOT: ..........Francesco Petrucci

CLASS: ..............extreme

CAR: ..................Jeep TJ 4.0

YEAR: ...............1997

TIRE: ................12,50/80-18

AXLE: ...............Nissan GR with ARB locker front and rear

WINCH: ............front 10.000 idraulic superwinch

rear 9.500 electric superwinch

BODY: ..............total lighten

EXPERIENCE: ..Trofeo4x4italia, Jamboree, and so on

Teaser

Maybe you know the teaser we did 2 years ago: it's on the right side of this page in the video section. It's from the first hours of TAT2005 and he's my team mate... and that's the year we won!

So in case it's happening to you, don't be afraid, it could be lucky.
....because you will pass the same spot on Sunday :-)))))

TAT winners

Who wants to win the TAT again?

Bernhard Hofstater, Niki Schonborn from Austria (Team 18) : winners of TAT2007 and second place in 2005 and 2004
Team 20: Boros Csaba, Boros Melinda from Hungary, winners of TAT2007
and of course team 04 Carles Barange, Jesus Diaz from Catalunya, winners of TAT2006

Until now nobody suceeded to win the TAT 2 times.
And I admit I secretly hope it will be me :-)

Congratulations!

Harald and Gerald returned from Croatia Trophy with the second place.
So whatch out for team 16!
And let's not forget we have also the third place from 2007 among us.

Team 02

The Camps

This year there will be 3 camps named Central Camp, North Camp and South Camp.
The Central Camp will have all the facilities (showers and hot meals) and it's the place where the organization and the assistance teams will stay for the whole period.
The competitors will stay there on the nights of Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Monday and Thursday will be spent on the North and the South Camp. Those 2 remote camps are only for the competitors. They are located in more wild and remote places and the conditions will be more "spartan". We will provide the food and the fire places but you will take care of the cooking. There will be no showers but you can wash in the rivers nearby. Eco toilet in the forest.
One thing that is important to know is that Monday the Extreme will go South and the Open will go North. They will meet again Tuesday in the Main Camp. And Wednesday the Extreme will go to the North Camp and the Open to the South.
That means that the Open and Extreme competitors will be together only in the Central Camp.