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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 :
• Welcome, Road books handed over,
Briefing, Checkings.
• Corsica Raid Aventure 2009’s official starting,
saturday in the afternoon.
• 4 ½ days of adventure race in Corsica Island
• Corsica Raid Aventure 2009’s official arrival
, on Wednesday in the afternoon.
Disciplines :
Canyoning – Aquatic ride
Coastering
Mountain Biking
Trail
Night Sections
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Rope Sections
Mountain Trail
Orienteering
Discovery Sections
Corsica Raid Environment |
Two versions on Corsica
Raid Aventure 2009 : Expert // Challenger
Expert Version:
All the activities of adventure
race are planned, nights sometimes long, more difficult
sections of running, the Adventure with a peel of extreme.
This is what hardened racers could find in this perennially
fashionable version of Corsica Raid Aventure … “Beautiful,
extreme, unforgettable” |
Version
Challenger :The spirit is the same
that in the Expert version but adventure racers have shorter
race sections and they benefit from more time of recovery.
The competitors of the Challenger version take advantage
of the atmosphere and the magic of a big adventure event
but in a very adapted way… |
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
and snorkel (supplied by the organization), 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.
Accordingly, he or she will experience the race like you,
from the inside, and can then communicate about it with a
more realistic emphasis to your sponsors and partners. The
race organisation sets up for all media a Press PC, including
all of its logistics and communication means(fax, telephone,
internet), free of use for daily contact with their editor.
The
race step by step :
The next Corsica Raid Aventure starts on spring 2009 with
the welcome, the road-books distribution and the briefing.
After coffee, you will have to get you totally into the spirit
of a true Corsica Racer.
In the afternoon, 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 at the
end of the afternoon with the start of the 14° Corsica
Raid Aventure…So the first departure is given at the
end of the afternoon.
From the daily departure (at the beginning
of morning as from Sunday), the race consists of 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.
This year, Corsica Raid Aventure will
be still consisted of a sections’ chain which permit
to offer to all the participants in the First Europe Adventure
Raid a real week of Adventure...
On Wednesday, all racers should arrive
in the afternoon. Then, it’s time for the awaited moment
of prize giving and evening partying!
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.
For the non raced section, time will be calculated. This calculated
time is the slowest forecasted race timings on the non raced
section with a mark up of 30%.
This time window system is set up to let the less trained
teams a chance to fully enjoy the Corsica Raid Aventure, 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.
Logistics
and provisionings :
Several daily assistance points allow
racers :
- To recover and to rest before the
next section.
- To take a snatch on the CA which are voluntarily situated
in the heart of villages to benefit from conveniences: restaurants,
bars, supermarkets or grocer's shops.
- To take the equipment and the provisioning necessary for
the following section.
For the evening bivouac, it is not
the same for raiders and assistance
- The assistant will be well install
in a campsite(camping).
- Raiders, start again for a night-section which can:
* End in the campsite or near to it (recovery by the assistant).
In this case, raiders will take advantage of the campsite
until the departure of the next day.
* Arrive on a bivouac CP in the middle of nowhere where racers
will have to be autonomous (light tent, lyophilized provisioning
and others).
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