TX: Tour de Force RoadRally

You’re invited to the Tour de Force Rally, a Texas Region Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Social Time-Speed-Distance (TSD) tour rally over scenic paved backroads of Somervell County and Hood County. The rally starts and ends at Motorsport Ranch (MSR), in Cresson, Texas. All entrants are welcome. No prior rally experience is necessary.

A precision driving event at fun speeds. This is not a speed or racing contest. Course following is easy with GPS mileages on every turn; there are no tricks or traps on the course. We assign speeds to drive. Your goal is to follow the rally route using written route instructions and arrive at each checkpoint at precisely the correct time.  We will score you on how close to the perfect time you arrive.  Get one point for each second early or late; low score wins. No calculations necessary.

We will use the Richta GPS Competitor app for timing and scoring. This app will monitor your car’s position during the rally and will record the precise time that you pass each checkpoint on the rally.  Once you have passed a checkpoint, the app will calculate your score for that leg and announce it to you.  Scores are automatically reported to the Rallymaster.  No score sheet to fill out. We will send you information on the app after you pre-register. There are 37 timing checkpoints in about 70 miles of rally route.

We plan to conduct a virtual Rally School via Zoom (currently scheduled for March 29th) to help prepare for the rally (for details and to pre-register for the School, go to https://msreg.com/TFR26RSmsr ) . For those who can’t join the live session, we will post a YouTube video recording of the session. We encourage you to attend the School.

• Starting Place:  Motorsport Ranch (MSR)
• Free time to check out other ongoing SCCA activities – Time Trials on the 1.3-mile circuit and Spring Fling Majors club racing on the 1.7-mile circuit: 8:30 am 12:00 pm
• Registration/check-in: DriveXotic facility classroom: 10:45 am to 11:45 am on Rally Day
• Lunch break (on your own):  11:15 am to 12:30 pm
• Entrant orientation/safety briefing: DriveXotic facility classroom: 12:35 pm
• Cars leave from MSR: 1:00 pm plus your car number
• Cars leave the timed start in Granbury:  1:30 pm plus your car number
• Length: approx. 72 miles (~2 hours)
• Finish: MSR, (DriveXotic facility classroom) where we will gather for announcements and awards
• Optional Track Tour Laps on the 3.1-mile track: 5:30 pm
• Optional Dinner Party ($20 per person – payment at pre-registration): 6:30 pm
• Rally type: TSD Tour.  A smart phone, as well as a clipboard and pencil are all you need. No timing calculations needed (unless in Calculating Class – see below).
• Route: paved roads in Hood County and Somervell County
• Vehicles: Sports Cars, Family Cars, Classic Cars, Antiques, anything with 4 wheels that’s street legal is OK in this Rally. Note: speed is not a factor.
• At least two people (a Driver and a Navigator) are required in each car; contact roadrally@texasscca.com if you have a minor child (<18) in the car, as a form will need to be signed
• Three classes: First-timer (neither crew member has run a rally before), SOP (Seat-of-the-Pants) (no timing calculations may be performed), Calculating (can use any electronic app or mechanical calculator to determine if running late or early along the route)
• SCCA membership requirements: at least one SCCA Member is 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 (per vehicle): $40.00; regular SCCA Members: $15.00 discount. You must preregister on MotorsportReg.com.
• Rallymaster: John Poulos.

This event is sanctioned as a Social Rally by SCCA, under Sanction Number 26-RRST-66965. It does not qualify for National Championship points.

For more information on the RoadRally Series, visit www.texasscca.org/rally