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Road Rally News
There’s An App for That! Rabbit Stages Editor and Richta Working Together?
Rabbit Stages Editor as timing support for a Richta-scored National Tour Rally: Great Potential deserving of future development. We used Rabbit Rally’s Stages Editor feature at Roads Scamper on Sunday, June 4th, by the SCCA Milwaukee Region. This app, running on my Samsung tablet via an external Rabbit Glo GPS, kept track of[Read More…]
There’s an App for That! Rabbit Rally Quick Reference Guides Debut
My dad and I enjoy Rabbit Rally’s auto-scrolling roadbook and integrated GPS gauges, allowing us to be more competitive with any of our cars spanning the past 60 years, regardless of their various quirks, oddities, or tire sizes. This photo is from the 2021 Sparta Trail National Rally, in which we[Read More…]
Jacob’s Ladder, Tasmania
Dangerousroads.org describes Jacob’s Ladder this way, “Set high in the Ben Lomond Ranges, in the northeastern part of the country, the road to the summit is totally unpaved and runs through dramatic dolerite cliffs. It’s called Ben Lomond Road. Starting at Upper Blessington, on C401 road, the ascent is 17.7 km[Read More…]
MD: Sharing the “Good News” of Our Sport
My Dad was the spy in our family, yet I enjoy genealogy – delving into finding the answers, now using modern technology. RReNews contacted seventeen Rallymasters to bring you news of their events these past four weeks. In this edition, you’ll read the wonderful rally wrap-ups from eight requests (we hope others[Read More…]
Richta GPS Checkpoints “Best Practices” presented at SCCA Quarterly Zoom
I have found that the majority of questions and problem reports I receive about the Richta GPS Checkpoints timing and scoring systems are duplicates or have been experienced earlier by another rally organizer. In many cases, the problems experienced may have been avoided by following the guidance I’ve discussed in[Read More…]
SCCA RoadRally Board Minutes 2023
Secretary Jeanne English from the SCCA RoadRally Board – Jan-Sep 2023 Minutes The January-December RRB Minutes for 2022 may be found here. We are having a temporary glitch with this plug-in. Click the blue Download button below for the May 11th and June 8th, 2023, RRB Minutes. We are working[Read More…]
Smuncher’s Attic – Heart of Dixie Philosophy
From RReNews — The Heart of Dixie Rally Philosphy, provided by Bruce Gezon from his Smuncher’s Attic rally collection, leads off with this statement, “In the Spring of 1970, several adventuresome members of the Tennessee Valley Region cast the variable main road rule upon the rally community in a Heart of[Read More…]
Friday Night Run of the Month
From the Armchair Rally Archives of Gary Starr I have always enjoyed teaching those new to our sport the Road Rally concepts for Course and Tour rallies. Perhaps you have seen my Tips for TSD Rallyists in RReNews? I hope to do the same teaching with these Armchair Rallies in prior editions[Read More…]
NJ: Rachel’s Road Rally for Kindness
Over the years, I have been lucky enough to receive positive press in my choice of hobbies. My involvement in rallying over the past 50 years as an organizer and competitor has gotten my name and contact information out to a wide range of organizations. About three months ago, an[Read More…]