TX: Sweetheart Ride Road Rally

The Texas Region of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) invites you to join us for Jerry White’s annual Valentine’s Day-themed Sweetheart Ride Road Rally. It will be about a 90-mile drive on some of the scenic hard surfaced country roads in Johnson and Ellis Counties. All are welcome and no prior rally experience is necessary.

The challenge is to see how many correct puzzle solutions (many with a sweetheart theme) you can find based on signs and objects along the rally route. Puzzles can have from zero (0) to four (4) correct solutions. Think of it as a visual scavenger hunt. Google Forms will be used to display the route instructions and puzzles and to collect and score you and your sweetheart’s/navigator’s solutions. To use a Google Form you will need a browser on a smartphone, tablet or laptop computer that can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi or cellular data. In addition, you will need a separate smartphone to run the Richta GPS Competitor app. It will use GPS signals to monitor your time and course and to tell you when to stop working on a puzzle and/or when to prepare to do the next route instruction. 

You should also participate in the February 11^th Zoom Rally School (or watch the recording of it) and visit roadrally.page to help prepare for the rally. 

• Awards: First Timers, Novices (every person in the vehicle has won 2 or less rally trophies), and General Class. Optional Master Class – no trophies awarded.
• Start at: Fat Daddy’s Sports & Spirits Café, 781 Debbie Lane, Mansfield, TX
• Finish at: Spring Creek Barbeque, 1724 U.S. 287 Frontage Rd, Mansfield, TX (approximately 0.75 miles east of Fat Daddy’s)
• Registration/Check-In: 11:15am – noon.
• Mandatory Safety Briefing: 12:10pm.
• Car 1 receives the code that will allow them to submit their Google Forms: 12:21pm (Car 2, 12:22pm, etc.).
• There will be at least one rest break at a gas station along the course.
• First car should finish at Spring Creek Barbeque around 4:30pm; results to be announced and trophies awarded around 5:30pm.
• Vehicles: Sports cars, family sedans, pickup trucks, SUV’s and anything else with 4 wheels that’s street legal (bring something that you will be comfortable in and will have fun driving on back roads and byways, many of which are oil & chip). Speed is not a factor.
• At least two people (a driver and a navigator) are required in each car; contact rally@texasscca.org if you have a minor child (<18) in the car, as a form will need to be signed.
• SCCA membership requirements: at least one SCCA Member required in each car, either regular/annual Member or Weekend Member; if not currently a Member, you will be able to become a Weekend Member during online pre-registration
• Rally entry fee: regular SCCA Members $28; Weekend Members $40 (includes membership fee). You must preregister on MotorsportReg.com.
• Contact the Rallymaster Jerry White should you have any questions.

Come on out and discover what game/tour/adventure (GTA) rallying is all about!

All entrants must preregister – no same-day registration allowed – and you are advised to preregister as early as possible. Go to MotorsportReg.com: http://msreg.com/SRRR23msr. The Rally Committee reserves the right to limit entries.