News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
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…]
SCCA Alabama Region made history last weekend by hosting its first known Road Rally, the Pine Mountain Trek. Not to scare anyone away after their first rally, it was sanctioned as a Trek, a lead-follow event that was not officially scored and thus not a competition. Saturday dawned chilly with[Read More…]
Rallymaster Ron Johnstonbaugh of the NE Ohio Region took rallyists on a ±160 mile route through the hills of Carroll, Columbiana, and Jefferson counties. The Vertigo Rally was a straightforward, gimmick-free TSD road rally. As part of the SCCA Great Lakes Division Rally Championship and the SCCA National Tour Championship,[Read More…]
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…]
It’s time to Save the Date!The Philadelphia Region and South Jersey Region, with Rallymasters Clyde Heckler and Jim Wakemen, are working on the routes for the October 20-22nd Weekend:• 50th Anniversary Little Appalachian National Course Rally, Exton, PA• Up the Creek National Course Rally, • Jersey Devil National Tour RallyThe last two out of Vineland, NJ When it started,[Read More…]
Continuing the series of Quarterly Zoom Get-Togethers, which started in 2021, the SCCA RoadRally Board announces that the next session will occur on Thursday, May 25, 2023, from 8:00-10:00 PM EDT. Topics featured are: All SCCA members are invited to participate. Click here to join us on May 25th!
For several more split seconds, a war commenced between the added resistance to the right side of the car, pulling us further into the softer and even more resistant snow and the steering wheel, willing the car back on the road.
As I write this article, there are still one or two more events to be held in December 2022, but I thought it would be an excellent time to review the major happenings with the Richta GPS Checkpoints system in its fourth year of availability. There were 115 events held[Read More…]
Within SCCA RoadRally programs, committees follow common paths as they begin, manage, or re-energize their programs. The RRDC is not intending to tell Regions with existing programs they must do something this way or that, yet there are standard practices many Regions follow. Therein, the RRDC hopes the RRM contributes new ideas as a Region progresses with its RoadRally program.
On October 17th, 18th, and 19th, the fourth running of the Great American Mountain Rally Revival (GAMRR), presented by the New England Vintage Road Rally LLC, took place. This would be the eighth running when you combine the four years of the original event, known as The Great American Mountain Rallye (GAMR), from the ’50s.[Read More…]