Target-time test
A scored task in which a section must be driven in an exactly prescribed target time; the deviation is scored (abbr. SZP). Identical to the Zeitprüfung (ZP). Unlike the GLP, the single target time counts, not a constant average.
The target-time test (German Sollzeitprüfung, SZP) is a scored task in which a set section must be covered in exactly the prescribed target time (Sollzeit) – no faster and no slower. The difference between the time actually taken and the target time is scored, usually to hundredths of a second. It is closely related to the regularity test: whereas the GLP is about keeping an average speed as evenly as possible, the SZP is about hitting the target time precisely.
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Average Speed Trial
A scored test in which a section must be driven at a prescribed, as-constant-as-possible average speed. Regularity is scored – not hitting a single target time as in the Zeit-/Sollzeitprüfung.
Time Trial (TT)
A scored section where a single prescribed target time must be hit as exactly as possible (abbr. ZP); identical to the Sollzeitprüfung (SZP). Unlike the GLP, the target time counts, not a constant average.
Regularity rally
An event where the aim is to drive as evenly as possible. Deviations from the set target time and the required average speed are scored, usually via at least one secret time control.