News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
December 3, 2023, marked the 34th Annual Toys for Tots Teddy Bear Road Rally, hosted by the Northern New Jersey Region of the SCCA and Motorsport Club of North Jersey. Subaru World of Hackettstown was this year’s sponsor and has been for the last eleven years. Twenty-eight teams competed in this year’s rainy[Read More…]
The Furrin Group, based in Michigan, has a long history and will celebrate its 70th Anniversary in 2024. In 2023, they held the Up Shift Creek Rally on May 13th and the Down Shift Creek Rally on October 21st.
“In 0.54 miles turn right at the stop sign for Rt.23 follow County A directions to continue on A (get left quickly).” Sounds simple, right? And it was, but not until you arrived at the location and saw what the route instructions were telling you to do. Our Rally Master,[Read More…]
Jr. Crowe put together a “tricky” rally for the last points rally of SCCA Southern Indiana Region’s 2023 season – Crowe’s Circus Rally. Starting in Rockport, Indiana, it went west to REO and north to Santa Claus before turning south to finish in Rockport. There was one particular route instruction[Read More…]
October 21st was a perfect day for a gimmick rally, but Triumphs Around the Chesapeake went a bit further. They mixed a gimmick rally and a poker run into one great event for everyone — the Fall Foliage Poker Run. All of nature was on display with the fall colors of[Read More…]
Indianapolis Region of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) hosts a Halloween event every October. Participants get a map of sites in the area and questions to answer based on items found at those sites. In addition to the many cemeteries on the list, there are decorated houses and old school buildings[Read More…]
On a weekend with temperatures soaring above 107 degrees, the Texas Region held a Solo and Time Trials event. A dramatic reminder of a RoadRally “competitive differentiator” over other disciplines: no helmets or fire suits required, and the ability to roll up the windows and enjoy the comforts of a/c!
Before this event, one person had signed up on MotorsportReg, and one person had called me to say that he would pay at the event but didn’t want to sign up on MotorsportReg (although he uses MotorsportReg for other sporting events). Morgan is active in flagging and scrutinizing at Circuit[Read More…]
The winning car was launched off a cliff. The class-winning rental car was teamed up with a “Bunch of Idiots.” This was no ordinary rally. Lemons, the group known for low-cost endurance racing with a sense of humor, also has a successful endurance rally series. Little known to most rally[Read More…]
Bruce Gezon and Clyde Heckler Rallymastered a question-and-answer GTA rally for the SCCA Philadelphia Region on July 23rd. Bob Morseburg served as the RoadRally Safety Steward. The rally ran in the Kutztown, PA, and Berks County area with a “hex sign” theme. The area is known to have many farms[Read More…]