Passage control (PC)
A control that only confirms passage – usually by a stamp on the time card. It proves the prescribed route was followed. Also called a passage control or stamp control.
The passage control (German Durchfahrtskontrolle, DK) is a control point at which proper passage is confirmed. It is usually marked by a red stamp board and often announced in advance by a yellow board. The time card is presented and stamped or signed by the official; there are sometimes secret passage controls as well.
With it the organiser checks whether the crew actually drove the route prescribed in the roadbook. As a rule no precise target time has to be kept here – that is what distinguishes the passage control from the time control. Missing one, or approaching it from the wrong direction, is penalised with penalty points.
German uses several names for the same thing: Durchfahrtskontrolle (DK), Stempelkontrolle (SK, emphasising the stamp as proof), Passierkontrolle and Durchgangskontrolle. Depending on the organiser and the regulations they are used largely synonymously. Internationally the term is passage control (PC).
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Prescribed time
Time set by the organiser within which a section or task must be completed – closely related to the target time (Sollzeit).
Time card
Control card issued by the organiser on which arrival and passage times are recorded or stamped at the controls.
Matching numbers
Collector term for a vehicle whose major components (engine, gearbox, axle, frame) still carry the original numbers that match one another and the factory records – an indicator of originality, not of identity.