Virtusa Motor Rally 2006 roars into action

MOTOR RALLY: The city of Colombo roared to life as 150 Virtusans set out to follow an intricate route laid out by the Virtusa Club for Virtusa's fourth annual Motor Rally held on November 10.

After two months of preparation and careful planning, the rally kicked off at Virtusa's Trans Asia office car park at 9 a.m. on Saturday, October 28, 2006. 36 teams took up the challenge to conquer the track.

The teams had to find answers to 27 questions for which clues and instructions were indicated along the way at four check points.

At Check Point 1, which was the Arpico Supermarket in Hyde Park Corner, participants were requested to solve a couple of math problems, buy a tube of Fairness cream and empty the content of the tube on a fellow team member.

At Check Point 2, participants were tied to each other and sent to the children's park in Rajagiriya to count letters, crawl through a tunnel and admire elephants.

A track event was in store for participants at Check Points 3 where they had to manoeuvre their vehicle through three obstacles kept at close range and thereafter push the vehicle along a roundabout to a given time.

The final check point got the participants in a sweat as they paddled a swan shaped boat across a lake and back within the shortest possible time.

In between check points, rally members had to answer numerous questions which involved counting pots, lions and even toes and teeth in various locations, to searching mannequins to find hidden tokens.

They had to feed curd to their team members and drive through various areas collecting numbers, recipes and names amongst other clues.