IL: Rally with the March Hare Rally, Columbia

The March Hare’s ‘Continuing Education’ Rally 2026

Join the March Hare for a fun afternoon of rallying over the country roads of the Metro East’s Monroe County, IL. Expect a low-key Touring road rally of about 75 miles with a number of checkpoints along the way. “Continuing Education” is a fun social event and exercise in simple route-following during which you will be timed at several locations along the rally route. Expect a rally of about 2-1/2 hours duration that both starts and ends at the Sunset Overlook wine bar and restaurant on Bluff Road in Columbia, Ill. New to rallying, or an occasional competitor? We believe you also will find the March Hare’s route an enjoyable Saturday-afternoon adventure.

Start and finish: Sunset Overlook

Size of the field: We are limiting the field to 25 teams.

Registration: Pre-event registration only via the registration link below. Entries are on a first-come basis. Registration closes Wednesday, Sept. 9 at 11:59 p.m.

• Sept. 12 check-in: noon to 1 p.m.at Sunset Overlook.
• Safety meeting: 1:00 p.m.
• First car departs the start: 1:30 p.m.
• First car arrives at the finish: approximately 5:00 p.m.

What you need:

•  A vehicle
• A driver and navigator
• A smartphone or tablet with the Richta GPS Competitor App installed (this app, free from Google Play or Apple’s App Store, is our timing and scoring system–see timing and scoring note below for more details)
• A clipboard and calculator, pencils and paper

Entry fee: $20.00 per team for SCCA teams, $45.00 per team for non-member teams. An SCCA team is defined as a team in which at least one participant is an SCCA member. The $45.00 entry fee for a nonmember team includes a $25.00 SCCA Weekend Membership for the team’s “primary entrant,” i.e., the member who pays the entry fee. The other member of a non-SCCA team will receive a one-time free SCCA Trial Membership (as will any non-SCCA member of an SCCA team).

Information: J. Thomas vonHatten, a.k.a. the March Hare, Rallymaster, 314-715-1398, tom.vonhatten@gmail.com. You will find more information on the registration site about the rally, the Richta GPS Checkpoint App, and Waiver requirements for your team.

Good things to know: As indicated above, we will use the Richta Rally GPS Checkpoint System for timing and scoring. To compete, each participating team must have a smartphone or tablet with active data cellular service (no airplane mode and no wi-fi only devices) with the Richta Competitor App installed. The app will report your arrival time and leg score to your cellphone or tablet moments after you pass each GPS checkpoint location.

The SCCA Detroit Region’s rally page has an excellent summary of the Richta system, especially its Competitor App. Visit http://drscca.org/rally/using-the-richta-competitor-app. It’s is worth your time.

About the St. Louis Region, SCCA: The SCCA’s St. Louis Region, with some 600 members, offers Road Racing, Performance Driving Experience (PDE), RallyCross, RoadRally, Solo (autocross), and Street Survival School programs to educate and provide safe environments for individuals to enjoy their street-legal (daily driver) cars and purpose-built racecars. The Region is home to more than 80 National Champions and has been recognized four times by the Sports Car Club of America as the Region of the Year in its member category. To learn more about the St. Louis Region, visit www.stlscca.org.