News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
The SCCA Finger Lakes Region Winter Series is noted for well-done rallies in chilly temps and not always the best weather. We had some team members considering one of the events, and they were told, “Be sure you have studded tires!” Weather doesn’t slow these diehard rallyists down, and here[Read More…]
From Red Hen Racing, friends Gavyn Gill and Alex Summers are joined by Ty Masters of West Virginia and Gabrielle Adkins of Menominee, Wisconsin for SCCA Land o Lakes Region Flamethrower RoadRally, Saturday, February 25, 2022. We’ll give you a warning on language in the video, there is a word[Read More…]
From RReNews — The Alfa Romeo Owners of Oregon have the Dirty Rat Rally, and we think this may go into their rally “bag of tricks.” Our sport has elders who hold the keys to long-used subtle and non-so-subtle tricks and traps. We know the RoadRally Regional Development Committee is seeking[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.
Thank you to Ed Sain for getting this video out for the promotion of this successful event. This is from the Ciocca Corvette Road Rally, run on November 12th, which was put together by the SCCA South Jersey Region. Congrats to Jim and Rose Wakemen, and to the production team[Read More…]
It’s easy to forget the outside world when you’re on a rally, you fall within the walls of the rally bubble and the rest of the world ticks by, but there are dates, like Armistice Day, that should not be ignored, events that should not be forgotten as we enjoy the freedom to explore this continent and country, something we might not have been able to do a mere 40 years ago, lest we forget.
Encompassing the Regions of the SCCA Great Lakes Division, the Division is one of the few that holds an annual Championship across the Regions. Greg Lester is the Pointskeeper for the Division, and he has been faithful to the timely posting of both the standings and event finishes. Below you[Read More…]
We talked briefly as Team Wiseley was making their way north from their “rally” home of the SCCA Texas Region, rounding Indianapolis and making their way to Michigan. Driver Ethan Wiseley and Navigator Misty Wiseley are regular attendees at their local Region rallies and partake in autocross. They’ve rallied with[Read More…]
The SCCA RoadRally Board seeks recommendations for potential recipients for the Robert V. Ridges Award for 2022. Please send any name(s), along with justification for consideration, before midnight, November 29, 2022, directly to the RRB via email: rrb@scca.com. To aid in your understanding of the gentleman whose name the Award[Read More…]
Bruce Gezon posted up asking, “Anyone ever seen or used one of these?” Off to the googley-bits we went to find that Popular Science featured it in their August 1952 issue – the Tachimedion!