CA: SCCA Cal Club First Friday Niter Social RoadRally
2023-02-03 19:00 - 22:00 UTC | • Bank of America – Mission Hills, SMSCC FFN Start, 10300 Sepulveda Blvd, Mission Hills, CA, 91345, United States
It’s February, which means Jeanne English will be the Rallymaster and celebrating her birthday! The rally will travel some of the Santa Clarita area canyon roads, with the emphasis on fun driving. There are NO TRAPS on this month’s rally, so be prepared to stay on time! The rally finishes at Topper’s Pizza Place, 18417 Soledad Canyon Rd, Santa Clarita (at the intersection of Soledad Canyon and Sierra Highway).

We will be using the Richta GPS Competitor app for timing and scoring, with timing in seconds. The maximum penalty this month is 120 seconds (2 minutes) per leg.This app is FREE and easy to use on any GPS-enabled smartphone.Go to the App Store or Google Play Store, or https://richtarally.com/. There is no need for additional timing equipment or clocks – your Official Time shows in the app!

Also, if you want to see all the scores at the Finish, download the FREE Richta Scoreboard app.

Please try to register online at msreg.com/FFN022023 for the SCCA Cal Club, Santa Monica Sports Car Club sanctioned rally. This helps us with figuring out how many sets of instructions to print, and trophies, and other stuff. If that doesn’t work for you, you can still register in person at the start. We start at the Bank of America rear lot in Mission Hills. In-person registration opens at 7:00 pm, with the first car out at 8:01 pm; there is a beginner/Richta meeting at 7:40 pm.

Is your usual rally partner not available for this FFN? Let Jeanne know and she will attempt to match you up with another single. Contact Jeanne at ean21@juno.com.

OH: Ohio Winter Rally
2023-02-04 13:30 - 21:00 UTC | • DiBella’s Subs, Solon, OH, 30050 Aurora Rd, Solon, OH, 44139, United States
Tanned, rested and ready… A northeast Ohio tradition since 1966 is back! Neohio Region, SCCA invites you to enter the 2023 Ohio Winter Rally. The ~165 mile route will traverse portions of northeast Ohio’s Lake Erie “snowbelt” counties.

Competitors can expect an absolutely straightforward, gimmick-free, Time-Speed-Distance (TSD) road rally with emphasis on precise timing at well placed controls. Columnar “tulip” style route instructions, with Official Mileages for all action points (similar to a stage rally routebook), will be used.

In an effort to help teams with limited prior timekeeping experience stay on schedule, and to mitigate the possibility of “double jeopardy” from carrying a timing error through multiple controls, parenthetical perfect cumulative leg times will be provided at all speed change locations.

The rally will count toward both the SCCA Great Lakes Division Rally Championship, and the SCCA National Touring Rally Championship as Divisional Rally.

Tentative Schedule (all times EST):

Saturday, January 28, 2023: 23:59 – Early entry cutoff

Wednesday, February 1, 2023: 18:00 – Registration closes. General Instructions, and Richta password distributed via email.

Thursday, February 2, 2023: 20:00 – Competitor briefing / Novice Q & A session (via Zoom)

Saturday, February 4, 2023:

13:30-14:30 – On-site registration

15:01 – Car #1 starts rally.

20:45 (approx) – Car #1 finishes.

Competition Classes:

E – Equipment unrestricted.

L – Odometer unrestricted. Calculating device restricted only in that it may not be integrated with odometer.

G – GPS–derived odometer only, and any calculating device.

S – Stock odometer only. Calculating device restricted only in that it may not be integrated with odometer.

Novice – Class S entry in which neither team member has previously entered more than 5 TSD rallies.

Entry Fees:

SCCA Members (driver and/or navigator has annual membership): $45.00/car before early entry cutoff, $55.00 thereafter.

Others: Add $20.00 to above (member) fees (to purchase the mandated SCCA Weekend/Trial memberships for both team members).

Individuals that purchase a Weekend membership are eligible for a $15.00 credit toward an annual SCCA membership for 60(?) days following the rally.

NOTE: All teams must enter here. NO WALK-IN ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED ON THEDAY OF THE RALLY!

NY: Finger Lakes Region Mayer May Not Be Slippy RoadRally
2023-02-18 14:30 - 22:00 UTC | • Mighty Taco Restaurant, East Aurora, NY, 123 Grey Street, East Aurora, 14052, United States
The Finger Lakes Region Mayer May Not Be Slippy RoadRally is a 185-mile road rally on paved and unpaved roads through Erie, Wyoming, Cattaraugus, and Allegany counties. In keeping with the Winter Rally Series format, this is an evening TSD rally run at speeds within the local speed limits.

Snow tires are recommended (all-season tires may limit your speed group eligibility)Tow rope/strap and 90 minutes of flares or one DOT triangle are required to compete.

The Rally starts at Mighty Taco Restaurant and will finish at Wallenwein’s Hotel, 641 Oakwood Avenue, East Aurora, NY 14052.

$45/car plus $15 for each non-SCCA member in the carEquipped, Limited, Stock, and Novice classesInstead of using open (manned) controls as is typical for the FLR Winter Rally Series, this event will use the Richta GPS Checkpoint system for timing and scoring.

Schedule

Check-in and Tech Inspection: 2:30 – 3:30 PM

Driver’s Meeting: 3:40 PM

First car off: 4:01 PM

First car finish: approx. 10:00 PM

For additional information, contact Rallymaster Karl Mayer.

VT: Winter Challenge RoadRally
2023-02-18 16:00 UTC | • The Hollow Inn – Barre, VT, 278 S Main St, Barre, VT, 05641, United States
The long-awaited Winter Challenge Road Rally, sanctioned by the SCCA New England Region, by Rallymaster John Buffum. We encourage you to check the Winter Challenge Road Rally website for more information.

The Winter Challenge Rally weekend, presented by Vermont SportsCar, will consist of a single SCCA New England Region rally running from 4 pm Saturday until 1 am Sunday with two breaks. Although no car-breaking roads will be used, most of the roads chosen are rural, unpaved roads, which will undoubtedly be snow and ice-covered.

For 2023, the anticipated classes may be:

Class A Calculating equipment may receive direct input from a mileage-measuring device. Typical calculating devices in this Class include Alfa, Chronar, Timewise, and Zeron rally computers.

Class L If distance information is acquired only from a mechanical odometer, it must be manually fed into any calculation device; the distance measuring device must be separate from the calculation device. (e.g. Curta calculators, tables, laptop computers, electronic APP, programmable and nonprogrammable electronic calculators. If the distance information is derived solely from GPS signals, then any electronic APP may be used.

Class S Distance information must be visually acquired from the vehicle’s stock, non-adjustable odometer in the stock location.

OR: CSCC Rally School and Road Rally
2023-02-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | • Dealer’s Supply, 2345 NW Nicolai St., Portland, Oregon, 97210, United States
The Annual Cascade Sports Car Club Road Rally School and Rally.

The Cascade Sports Car Club (CSCC) Road Rally School will be a Zoom Class on Friday evening, February 17th. The school will review the Generals for the February 18th Road Rally and allow teams to ask their rally questions; teams will be provided the link after Registration.

There is no onsite Registration, and all teams must register on MotorsportReg and sign the e-Waivers. All official communication for the CSCC rally is via email.

Entry fee is $20 per car for Cascade members and $30 per car for non-members. The entry fee includes the virtual rally school on February 17 and the practice road rally on 18th.Register online by midnight Wednesday, Feb. 15: http://msreg.com/CSCCRallySchool23

Teams will be able to gather after the event at the ending restaurant, standings will be emailed in the afternoon, and there will be a Zoom session Saturday evening to talk about the rally with the Rallymasters.

TX: Sweetheart Ride Road Rally
2023-02-19 11:00 - 17:30 UTC | • Fat Daddy’s Sports and Spirits Cafe, Mansfield, TX, 781 Debbie Lane, Mansfield, TX, 76063, United States
The Texas Region of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) invites you to join us for Jerry White’s annual Valentine’s Day-themed Sweetheart Ride Road Rally. It will be about a 90-mile drive on some of the scenic hard surfaced country roads in Johnson and Ellis Counties. All are welcome and no prior rally experience is necessary.

The challenge is to see how many correct puzzle solutions (many with a sweetheart theme) you can find based on signs and objects along the rally route. Puzzles can have from zero (0) to four (4) correct solutions. Think of it as a visual scavenger hunt. Google Forms will be used to display the route instructions and puzzles and to collect and score you and your sweetheart’s/navigator’s solutions. To use a Google Form you will need a browser on a smartphone, tablet or laptop computer that can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi or cellular data. In addition, you will need a separate smartphone to run the Richta GPS Competitor app. It will use GPS signals to monitor your time and course and to tell you when to stop working on a puzzle and/or when to prepare to do the next route instruction.

You should also participate in the February 11th Zoom Rally School (or watch the recording of it) and visit roadrally.page to help prepare for the rally.

Awards: First Timers, Novices (every person in the vehicle has won 2 or less rally trophies), and General Class. Optional Master Class – no trophies awarded.

Start at: Fat Daddy’s Sports & Spirits Café, 781 Debbie Lane, Mansfield, TX

Finish at: Spring Creek Barbeque, 1724 U.S. 287 Frontage Rd, Mansfield, TX (approximately 0.75 miles east of Fat Daddy’s)

Registration/Check-In: 11:15am – noon.

Mandatory Safety Briefing: 12:10pm.

Car 1 receives the code that will allow them to submit their Google Forms: 12:21pm (Car 2, 12:22pm, etc.).

There will be at least one rest break at a gas station along the course.

First car should finish at Spring Creek Barbeque around 4:30pm; results to be announced and trophies awarded around 5:30pm.

Vehicles: Sports cars, family sedans, pickup trucks, SUV’s and anything else with 4 wheels that’s street legal (bring something that you will be comfortable in and will have fun driving on back roads and byways, many of which are oil & chip). Speed is not a factor.

At least two people (a driver and a navigator) are required in each car; contact rally@texasscca.org if you have a minor child (<18) in the car, as a form will need to be signed.

SCCA membership requirements: at least one SCCA Member required in each car, either regular/annual Member or Weekend Member; if not currently a Member, you will be able to become a Weekend Member during online pre-registration

Rally entry fee: regular SCCA Members $28; Weekend Members $40 (includes membership fee). You must preregister on MotorsportReg.com.

Contact the Rallymaster Jerry White should you have any questions.

Come on out and discover what game/tour/adventure (GTA) rallying is all about!

All entrants must preregister – no same-day registration allowed – and you are advised to preregister as early as possible. Go to MotorsportReg.com: http://msreg.com/SRRR23msr. The Rally Committee reserves the right to limit entries.

IN: Find Another Opportunity RoadRally
2023-02-26 12:00 - 16:30 UTC | • Hardee’s, Covert Avenue, Evansville, IN, 4400 Covert Ave, Evansville, IN, 47714, United States
Find Another Opportunity, the first TSD RoadRally of the 2023 Rally Season for the Southern Indiana Region, takes place on Sunday, February 26th, by Rallymaster Bob Sonntag.

The route is all paved. Not all of it nicely paved; but, it is all paved…except the antique bridge that’s more planked than paved. The route runs from Hardee’s in Evansville through Vanderburgh, Warrick, and Spencer counties to get to Turoni’s Pizza in Newburg, Indiana.

If you’re new to TSD (Time/Speed/Distance) rallies, plan on being at Hardee’s by noon. That’ll allow time for a bit of tutoring to make your afternoon more enjoyable.

Check-in around 12:30 PMDrivers meeting at 1:00 PM, and the first car off after the Driver’s Meeting.

The Find Another Opportunity will use the Richta GPS Competitor app so you will need it installed on a smart device (phone or tablet) before you get to the rally.

Entry Fees:SCCA Member Driver: $37SCCA Student Member Driver: $27SCCA Member Navigator: Free

SCCA members should have an annual waiver or expect to be charged an additional $5.

Guest Driver: $57Guest Student Driver: $47Guest Navigator: Free for the first SCCA event.Guest Navigator: $20 after the Free Trial membership is used.

It is expected that all participants are at least 18 years of age. Minors (ages 12-17) present insurance issues. Call Paul Dornburg, 270-314-9069 should you have a question about entering with a minor.

Here’s the link to more information and registration. Registration closes at 6:00 CST Saturday evening. You may also reach the Rallymaster at the contact info below.

If you can’t wait for some rally fun, email Harold Davis (hrdavis55@gmail.com) for the On-The-Road rally practice he and Karen put together. Use that practice to keep Find Another Opportunity from becoming ANYTHING like seeking a better job.
