News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
Using technology to reach coast-to-coast across North America and zip across the water to their island Regions, the Sports Car Club of America will host its second quarter Zoom on Thursday, June 20th, at 8 PM Eastern. All road rally enthusiasts are welcome to attend. Here is the link! We[Read More…]
Greetings from the Richta home office in Larryville, Kansas I’d like to share with you the results of a project my son David and I recently undertook. This story starts in January 2020… I was at the SCCA National Convention, where there was more than a little discussion about the Richta GPS Checkpoints system launched in[Read More…]
Some people think that stories have a beginning, middle, and end. However, the Alcan 5000 trip has a beginning; it never really ended. It was an experience that kept giving, growing, and empowering me. So, I guess let’s start. The journey didn’t begin on day one; it started a few[Read More…]
From the Richta GPS Home Office in Kansas — March 10, 2024 Earlier this morning, I released version 1.39 of the Android Rallymaster app. This version contains a fix for a bug first reported two years ago. Identifying the root cause of the bug illustrates the care that must be[Read More…]
We’ll see where it takes them—after all, it is a road rally! Yet, establishing interest for the Rocky Mountain Division’s Colorado Region and Continental Divide Region in delving into an SCCA RoadRally program is checked off the “Let’s Start a RoadRally Program” list. With Regional Executive Robert Melanson’s interest at last year’s[Read More…]
A shortest-distance rally is an untimed RoadRally following an undefined route. The object of this rally was to visit several interesting locations by the shortest route possible. Each team received a map with eighteen waypoints and had up to 30 minutes to determine their most efficient route. They then drove[Read More…]
6-Hour “Starlite”-style modified Monte Carlo, an SCCA Cal Club Regional Course Rally, with Rallymaster Joe Akerman, run on December 9, 2023. For a bunch of us rally people out here in Southern California, this is the rally format that first got us hooked. There’s a colorful history to it all, beginning[Read More…]
Here’s the latest SCCA RoadRally Planning Calendar. Your calendar is going to be full for 2023 rally adventures!
Release 1.36 of Android Rallymaster was released in September 2023 It includes an enhancement to the Send Timeslips program. If no timeslip is present for a checkpoint the time is now reported as “No Time” instead of the GMT value of 0 for the local timezone. There is also a[Read More…]
Your smart device must have the latest Richta GPS Checkpoints app versions before each event. We encourage you to click the link below and check out the many useful videos, documentation, and presentation links on the Richta Rally webpage, as well charts from the comparison between Richta GPS Checkpoints system[Read More…]
The 36th Annual Get the Dust-Off Rallye will be held on Sunday, May 4th, 2025, sanctioned by the MG's of Baltimore and is dedicated to the memory of Richard W. Murphy. It will start and finish at Dejon Vineyards! This will be a GTA (Game, Tour, Adventure) style rallye of[Read More...]