Place : This new Corsica Raid Aventure will take place in Corsica of course and on a new race itinerary kept secret and only revealed in the week before the race.
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

Rope Sections Mountain Trail Orienteering Discovery Sections Corsica Raid Environment

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
A team is composed of three racers. Each team must have a vehicle .Each team 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 three racers, but during the race section, only two racers would be on the ground. At each assistance point, and only there, you will be able to turn without any penalty.
Assistance :The racer who is not in race is the assistant, 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.

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 !

Race Course and Progression :
The race course is completely redesigned each year. It is kept secret and is only revealed the week 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 ranking of Corsica Raid Aventure 2011 is made in time, the chronometer starts at the departure of each section or of every group of sections stops in the semae way in the arrivals.

The ranking takes into account :

* bonuses given during every section of Corsica Raid Environnement (20 questions, 1 mn by good answer)

* possible technical neutralizations given by the technical staff of the organization, in order for example to guarantee the security and the fluidity of the passing through.

* possible penalties or advantage that may be granted

* possible specificities précised in the road-book.

* the submarine sections, the ropes sections, the canyoning sections, are not timed. They can give rise to a compulsory maximal time .The overtaking of which is sanctioned by one hour of penalty.

The not participation in a section : the application is twice the projected time of the last ones on the section, that this non-participation is imposed by a closing time or decided by the team. The reference time is the one of the last team member going through the finish line. Only complete teams at the finish line can be ranked.