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…]
Road Rally News
SCCA to Honor Members during Women’s History Month in March 2023
SCCA Women on Track (WoT), a part of the SCCA Foundation, honored a woman in our SCCA ranks from across our RoadRally, Solo, RallyCross, Racing-Club and Pro, and Track events – be they Navigators, Drivers, Administrators, Competitors, Crew or Enthusiasts each day of March 2022! The SCCA WoT is preparing[Read More…]
Next SCCA RoadRally Zoom Get-Together Scheduled for Dec 15; Topics Now Established!
We can’t stress enough the importance for all SCCA Realists to attend the December Quarterly Zoom! 2023 Changes to be Addressed, Lester on Official Results Form and Intro to MiRally App
THUNDER ROAD by Into the Night Rally Team
We want to invite everyone to an upcoming rally from the Into The Night Rally Team. Thunder Road 2022 is set for October 15, 2022, and will Start (and Finish) at Hampton Inn, 5601 Outlets at Tejon Pkwy, Arvin, CA 93203. This is off I-5 at exits 219 A and[Read More…]
Rallymaster Sends Updates on Oktoberally and Badger Coulees National Road Rallies
Just finished up with the final measurement for Oktoberally National Course Rally, September 17th, sanctioned by the SCCA Milwaukee Region. For those of you who like ‘loops,’ there are lots. While I’ve tried to avoid unpaved roads, sometimes things are inevitable. So, I ended up with less than 10 miles of smooth[Read More…]
SCCA National Events Committee Summer Update
NECs News 6/29/2022 One of the jobs of the NEC, in addition to the scheduling of National Rallies, is to assist the RRB in updating the Road Rally Regulations. At our last Zoom, we worked on some rules changes/updates suggested by the RoadRally community. Those suggestions have been submitted to the RRB[Read More…]
There’s an App for That – Controlling Checkpoint Detection
June 2022 CP Open and Close Times and Directionally Sensitive Checkpoints In the Richta GPS Checkpoints system, when a rally entrant passes a checkpoint, the Competitor – GPS Checkpoints app detects this passage of the checkpoint and generates a timeslip and a score; that is what the app is meant[Read More…]
Dominion Rally Trek ’22 by WDCR
RReNews Update 220706 – We’ve received word that this date was postponed due to inclement weather. The new date is November 5th. Once again, WDCR will undertake a Trek format Road Rally with a non-competition driving tour of the Virginia countryside on June 11th. The Dominion Rally Trek ’22 will[Read More…]
MI Rallyist Looks Back on Press on Regardless 2011, and Its Effect on his Road Rally Career
The article below originally appeared in the Winter 2012 edition of the Detroit Region SCCA newsletter Open Exhaust. At the time, I had had a decent, if not overwhelmingly spectacular, rally Navigator career at the Great Lakes Division levels. I had been fortunate enough to have won POR once before[Read More…]
Nothing New Under the Sun – Richta GPS Competitor App
A rally group out of the Chicago area gave me the idea about six years ago. Put your rally together, sell the “entry” as a donation to your cause, and they can run it whenever their schedule allows. Their events were to view holiday lights, and timing was not a[Read More…]