News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
Continuing the series of Quarterly Zoom Get-Togethers, which started in 2021, the SCCA RoadRally Board announces that the next session will occur on Thursday, August 31, 2023, from 8:00-10:00 PM EDT. Topics featured are: All SCCA members are invited to participate. Join us on August 31st!
Greetings from the RRB, and welcome to the third edition of The Mike Drop. We are wrapping up one of the busiest First Halves ever in the SCCA RoadRally program, and more events are being added to the calendar frequently. What a great time to be involved in our sport![Read More…]
Hello everyone. I want to take a moment of your time to let you know what’s going on at the NEC. First off, we have welcomed Debbi Laitenberger, as a new member of the NEC. Debbi has a wealth of experience as an organizer of National Road Rallies and looks[Read More…]
Back in the 1980s, when my wife Carol Gezon and I did all of the administration for The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, there were often cartoons within the route instructions of characters and other items as done by Dave “Footie” Laffitte. One of those characters was a critter called the Sidehill Muncher[Read More…]
In a few sentences, after 60 years, a road rally tradition ended, with these two lines: “This winter’s St. Valentine’s Day Massacre has been our last competition. The Old Maltese is fine; 60 years seems to be a good time to say howdy and adieu.” So, with those words, we[Read More…]
RReNews asked Debbi Segall Laitenberger to write a piece after her return to SCCA National RoadRally Championship Series. A member of our RReNews Clan has known her since the early-90s when Debbi was active in the SCCA Finger Lakes Region as a Rallymaster and competitor, and she also served as[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…]
Dangerousroads.org describes Jacob’s Ladder this way, “Set high in the Ben Lomond Ranges, in the northeastern part of the country, the road to the summit is totally unpaved and runs through dramatic dolerite cliffs. It’s called Ben Lomond Road. Starting at Upper Blessington, on C401 road, the ascent is 17.7 km[Read More…]
My Dad was the spy in our family, yet I enjoy genealogy – delving into finding the answers, now using modern technology. RReNews contacted seventeen Rallymasters to bring you news of their events these past four weeks. In this edition, you’ll read the wonderful rally wrap-ups from eight requests (we hope others[Read More…]