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There’s An App for That! Rabbit Stages Editor and Richta Working Together?
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…]
There’s an App for That! Rabbit Rally Quick Reference Guides Debut
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…]
AL: Pine Mountain Trek Kicks-Off Rally Program
SCCA Alabama Region made history last weekend by hosting its first known Road Rally, the Pine Mountain Trek. Not to scare anyone away after their first rally, it was sanctioned as a Trek, a lead-follow event that was not officially scored and thus not a competition. Saturday dawned chilly with[Read More…]
OH: Vertigo Road Rally
Rallymaster Ron Johnstonbaugh of the NE Ohio Region took rallyists on a ±160 mile route through the hills of Carroll, Columbiana, and Jefferson counties. The Vertigo Rally was a straightforward, gimmick-free TSD road rally. As part of the SCCA Great Lakes Division Rally Championship and the SCCA National Tour Championship,[Read More…]
Richta GPS Checkpoints “Best Practices” presented at SCCA Quarterly Zoom
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…]
United States Road Rally Challenge Set for October 20-22nd
It’s time to Save the Date!The Philadelphia Region and South Jersey Region, with Rallymasters Clyde Heckler and Jim Wakemen, are working on the routes for the October 20-22nd Weekend:• 50th Anniversary Little Appalachian National Course Rally, Exton, PA• Up the Creek National Course Rally, • Jersey Devil National Tour RallyThe last two out of Vineland, NJ When it started,[Read More…]
SCCA RRB Quarterly Zoom Set for May 25th
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, May 25, 2023, from 8:00-10:00 PM EDT. Topics featured are: All SCCA members are invited to participate. Click here to join us on May 25th!
MN: Flamethrower Team “Drifts” to Farmer’s Field
For several more split seconds, a war commenced between the added resistance to the right side of the car, pulling us further into the softer and even more resistant snow and the steering wheel, willing the car back on the road.
There’s an App for That! Richta GPS Checkpoints Year End Wrap Up
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…]