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: This new Corsica
Raid Aventure will take place in Corsica of course and on
a new race itinerary kept secret and only revealed on Saturday,
the first race day.
Corsica is the paradise of adventure race : this mountain
on the sea permit to discover everything : sea, desert, river,
mountains and snow !!!
Some information about the race profile will be given to you
so that you can optimise your race.
Race Principles: 
Race Principles :
• Saturday : Welcome, Road books
handed over, Briefing, Checkings.
• Saturday to Wednesday : 4 ½ days of adventure
race in Corsica Island
• Wednesday : Corsica Raid Aventure 2010’s official
arrival
Disciplines :
Canyoning – Aquatic ride
Coastering
Mountain Biking
Trail
Night Sections
Sea Kayaking
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Rope Sections
Mountain Trail
Orienteering
Discovery Sections
Corsica Raid Environment |
Two versions on Corsica
Raid Aventure 2010 : Aventure // Challenger
At first, all the teams leave on Corsica Raid Aventure, but
we shall set up two rankings since teams do not realize the
completeness of the race.
These teams will pass directly in ranking Corsica Raid Challenger
If a team decides by itself not to make a section of the race
or if a team was blocked by the hourly window of the previous
control point, the team falls over in version Challenger …
Corsica Raid Environnement
Sections
As a rough guide, here is how one of
the Corsica Raid Environment Section could take place :
In sea, in a defined zone, competitors, equipped with mask,
snorkel and fins, will have to identify, at time given (less
than one hour), submarine sorts (fauna and flora) thanks to
the indications supplied in the road-book.
At the end of the ground test, teams will have to answer the
questions of the organizers to recognize the sorts.
Every sort correctly identified will be valued at time.

Team Composition
As Team Composition : A team is composed
of two racers and a racer assistant or a non-racer assistant.
Each team must have a vehicle.Each team which will come with
a racer assistant will be allowed to rotate at each assistant
point where the changes will be possible (approximately 2
- 3 a day). Every team can also welcome one or more team reporter
who will insure the team a media coverage and exclusives images
of its participation in the raid.
Racers
: A team is composed of two racers and it’s possible
to add a third racer. But during the race section, only two
raiders would be on the ground. Teams made of 3 racers can
take turns in the race with the wild card system. At each
assistance point, and only there, you will be able to turn
without any penalty. For teams composed of only 2 racers,
nothing changes. They do the entire race together without
any difference with teams of 3 racers.
Assistance : A Wild Card assistant
or a non-racer assistant by team, with a car. Commonly, it's
the competitors who grab all the attention, however the assistance
or support crew plays a key role in the team's success. It's
the support team that looks after the smooth running of everything
such as: preparation of equipment, meals, snacks, and getting
everything from one point to another. It’s also present
at all assistance points spotted over the course. At camp,
it's the support team that keeps it all together.
Team Reporter : Any teams wishing
to have a media interest would be well advised to rustle up
or to have several team reporters following them on the race.
A team reporter can be a journalist of your daily paper or
one or several magazines, a reporter and cameraman of a tv
channel local or national, the correspondent of a radio or
an internet media …
Accompagnants: the teams wishing
to be accompanied with supplementary persons will have to
release registration fees for every accompanying at the level
of 100 € a person. Accompagnants has no right to participate
in the assistance of the team.
The
race step by step :
The next Corsica Raid Aventure starts on with the welcome,
the road-books distribution and the first part of briefing.
You will have to get you totally into the spirit of a true
Corsica Racer.
In the afternoon,
second part of the briefing and it's time for the pre-race
technical, equipment and administrative checking, where competitors
go along the chain to receive the ever indispensable road
book - without which they can't start the race. To get the
road book everything must be in perfect order.
The serious stuff
will start with the start of the Corsica Raid Aventure…So
the first departure is given at night...
From Sunday morning,
the raid consists of a daily departure with sections’
chains (see Course and Progress) allying adventure sections
and some discovery sections. Several assistance points, and
the opening schedules of every section, allow to have recovery
and restoration phases.
On Wednesday, all racers should arrive in the afternoon. Then,
it’s time for the awaited moment of prize giving !
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Race Course and Progression
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The race course is
completely redesigned each year. It is kept secret and is
only revealed the day before the start when we give out the
road-books.
The Corsica Raid Aventure
is a sequence of race sections of variable length and difficulty
: the shortest sections lasted only a little hour while the
longest can take a dozen hours. Naturally, it depends on the
type of activity and on the ground profile.
Each day, there are
several assistance points, at least one at each new section.
All sections comprise control points (CP) and marker points
(CB) as indicated in the road-books. It is mandatory to go
through those points with the whole team at once, in the order
of the road-book. Some CPs can also be assistance points (CA).
Throughout the entire race, racers of a same team must stay
together. They must be within voice range of each other at
all times.
You won't always be
going on well-marked, well-worn trails during the Corsica
Raid Aventure. The famous Corsican 'maquis' (bush) has been
known to swallow-up more than one well placed team creating
big gaps in the ranking! To reach a control point there are
often a number of possible ways to get there. It's up to each
team to choose considering its physical abilities and on the
orienteering talents of the navigator.
Each and every team must be able to count on an experienced
navigator, capable of reading maps and who will decide the
right routes to take, taking into account the precious information
given in the road book and this with the only help of a compass
and an altimeter.
Timing Windows :
There is a
control (CP) as well as an assistance (CA) point at the start
and at the finish of each race section : a start CP and a
finish CP. Some CP have an opening time. Between 2 CP, several
marker control points (CB) that are mandatory.
Some CP as well as
some CB have a closing time. Those closing times are indicated
on the road-book or directly given on the ground by the organisations,
when it’s needed.
A neutralised team must be picked up by its assistance, and
after a road transfer, will enter the race again a little
further.
This time window system is set up to let the less trained
teams a chance to fully enjoy the Corsica Raid, being able
to do the most amazing and exciting race sections rather than
losing their motivation on some race sections where they would
have lost too much time.

Logistic :
Several daily assistance points allow
racers :
- To recover and to rest before the next section.
- To take a snatch on the assistance points (CA)
- To take the equipment and the provisioning necessary for
the following section.
For the evening bivouac, the organization
sets up a campsite, or stadium in village, or a natural bivouac
without infrastructures …
Ranking :
The classification of Corsica Raid Aventure 2010 is made in
points according to the order of arrival of the teams or their
stopwatch.
Every section will benefit from a
coefficient of level-headedness appropriate for the difficulty
of the section.
Classification takes into account possible penalties and\or
bonuses which could be attributed.
The classification on every section is taken on the arrival
of the last team member crossing the finishing line.
Only the complete teams in the arrival
can be classified. There is a classification Corsica Raid
Aventure and a classification Corsica Raid Challenger, for
the teams which would not make the completeness of the race.
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