News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
From the Home Office in Lawrence, Kansas — We are delighted to report our best-ever year with Richta GPS Checkpoints! Thank you to the Rallymasters and Organizers for choosing Richta GPS Checkpoints for your events with our Competitor, Rallymaster, and Scoreboard Apps. 2024 Richta GPS Checkpoints Stats: 2,421 Competitors entered[Read More…]
Greetings from the Richta home office in Larryville, Kansas – July 2024 Last night, we released new versions of the Competitor and Rallymaster apps for Android and Apple devices. The significant enhancements in this release include the ability of the Rallymaster to specify alternate increments for time allowances and a[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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
Statistics December 12 marked the end of the 2021 road rally season. The last event of the year scheduled to use the Richta GPS Timing and Scoring System was held, and the total event count for the year rests on exactly 100 events. Over 1,600 entrants passed through over 4,000[Read More…]
October 2021 As we near the end of the 2021 road rally season, I want to provide some perspective on the current state of the Richta GPS Checkpoints suite of apps and share some plans for next year. The use of these apps has grown steadily this year. As I[Read More…]
Join Rallymaster Joanna Weissen for the last FFN by the Cal Club Region Santa Monica Sports Car Club as they go on hiatus. Last year's January FFN, the rally will be a tour (no traps) focusing on Christmas light displays, which were spectacular, with many lights and a few massive displays. It[Read More...]
It is again time to enjoy the winter roads of the Southern Tier with the Finger Lakes Region’s 2025 Winter Rally Series. The first rally of the SCCA Finger Lakes Region Series consists of approximately 180 competitive miles using mostly unpaved roads in the New York Southern Tier. Entry fees[Read More...]
The 16th Annual Ithaca Winter Rally is approximately 170 rally miles long and uses mostly unpaved roads in the southern part of Central New York. This is the second event in the SCCA Finger Lakes Region Winter Rally Series.Entry Fees: $45 per vehicle for SCCA Members, and a $15 Weekend[Read More...]
The SCCA Land O' Lakes Region's Yucatan Safari is a 200+ mile TSD day/night road rally traversing the high-quality gravel roads through the hardwood forests of SE MN. The rally will start in Winona and wind through Winona, Fillmore, and Houston counties before returning to Winona. The simple instruction format[Read More...]
Join The Rallye Club on Saturday, February 1st, for our membership Rallye in memory of TRC's dear friend Larry Friedrich. Life of Larry will be an A/B Gimmick Car Rallye. Membership can be renewed during registration. The start is at 11 AM, the Rallye School is at noon, the checkpoint[Read More...]
The SCCA Land O' Lakes Region continues its Yucatan Safari weekend with the Grumpy Old Men National GTA RoadRally, a navigational scatter. Navigational Scatters were created to provide a rally challenge without the burden of staying on time. We track your progress using the MiRally transponders. Your course is converted[Read More...]
The SCCA Buccaneer Region is excited to announce our latest road rally event and our first 2025 — Road Rally Event #1, which will be held at the SEDiv Annual Convention. Each car will drive on paved public roads using a set of predefined route instructions through various checkpoints using the[Read More...]
Neohio Region, SCCA invites you to enter the 2025 Ohio Winter Rally (OWR) on February 1! This annual hivernal tour of the Lake Erie "snowbelt" counties of far northeastern Ohio dates back to at least 1966. It was one of the core events of the long-lamented Ohio Rally Championship (ORC)[Read More...]
The Hollows, Gulches & Hills RoadRally is approximately 200 miles on paved and unpaved roads. This is the third event in the SCCA Finger Lakes Region Winter Rally Series. Vehicle and driver requirements:Snow tires are recommended (all seasons may limit your speed group eligibility)DTow rope/strapOne (1) DOT Reflective Triangle (or[Read More...]
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