News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
Flamethrower’s surface this year was icy gravel with a threat of 1-2″ of snow that never came to pass. The SCCA Land o’Lakes Region rally, a part of the CENDiv Road Rally Championship, had nine cars competing, including one first-time team that had to leave early for an appointment, yet they[Read More…]
It was 3:45 a.m. when Brycen left his house, and then he drove for two hours to pick me up. An additional four hours of driving took us to a city park in Verona, Wisconsin, for the ten o’clock registration. The parking lot resembled a millennial car meet, with a[Read More…]
Press On Regardless has a new competitor. Deep in the Northwoods of Minnesota, stage rally organizers put together an event that captures the spirit of old-school rallying. Like a Nurburgring in the forest, we call it Green Heck. My dad and I started organizing the Headwaters Regional Rally and Ojibwe Forests Rally with the American Rally Association[Read More…]
A Practical Experiment Combining RoadRally and Solo A fast-paced dance between cones, a precision reversing maneuver on the clock, hairpin turns on gravel, blind curves with unexpected ice, and half of this at night — all in the same event! That’s what competitors enjoyed at the 2024 Flamethrower Regional Rally[Read More…]
Rabbit Stages Editor as timing support for a Richta-scored National Tour Rally: Great Potential deserving of future development. We used Rabbit Rally’s Stages Editor feature at Roads Scamper on Sunday, June 4th, by the SCCA Milwaukee Region. This app, running on my Samsung tablet via an external Rabbit Glo GPS, kept track of[Read More…]
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…]
Hello, and thank you! It was not entirely foreign to me, as my Dad and I (Sealed Beam Rally Team) shared Chief of Controls duties at Nemadji Trail Winter Rally (stage rally) in early December. I found that work satisfying and knew I had to try TSD organizing. One of[Read More…]