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In the mid-1960s, a group of people in the Columbus, Ohio, area created the Columbus Rally Club to organize endurance road rallies in central and southern Ohio, as well as a few “fun” events, such as the Columbus Alley Rally.

The Columbus Rally Club initially organized the Sunriser 400 Forest Rally and a 400-mile “brisk” time-speed-distance rally through southern Ohio. This event started as a cornerstone of the MONY (Michigan-Ohio-New York) Endurance Rally Series. The Sunriser usually ran in the fall with headquarters in Chillicothe, Ohio.

By about 1970, the Columbus Rally Club (CRC) was also organizing the Tulip 200 Forest Rally as a Spring event. With the introduction of Special Stages to the MONY series, these events became the foundation for PRO rallying in the Great Lakes area. When the Sports Car Club of America began sanctioning performance rallies, the Sunriser 400 Forest Rally was one of the inaugural events in the National Championship. The Tulip 200 soon became a stage-only event as part of the SCCA Divisional PRO Rally Series.

About this time (1969-1970), Ohio State University had an active sports car club organizing time-speed distance rallies. The OSU Sports Car Club (OSUSCC), Scioto Valley Sports Car Club (SVSCC), Buckeye Sports Car Club (BSCC), and several other rally clubs began to fade in the mid-1970s.

At that time, the die-hards of these groups gathered to form a new, consolidated club, the Central Ohio Rally Club, known as CORC.

2023 NEWS FROM CORC

The first meeting for 2023 was held on Tuesday, January 24th.  We will have our CORC meetings from January to May on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7 pm at the MOD Pizza at 6181 Sawmill Rd. Dublin, OH 43017, next to Meijer and the Tesla charging station. Meeting dates for the rest of the year will be posted later.

We have a tentative rally schedule for June through October on the fourth Saturday of each month.  Start locations and times will be posted as we receive them.

DATE                                                                                    RALLYMASTER

Saturday, June 24                                                                      Janis Ford and Dave Sellers

Saturday, July 22                                                                         Barb Crockett and Dave Bruce

Saturday, August 26                                                  Eagan Foster and Craig Wright

Saturday, September 16 (please note date change)     Jim DePaul

Saturday, October 28
TBD

If you are interested in helping or organizing a rally this year, please email me at phoffmannb@gmail.com.

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2023 NEWS FROM CORC

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OH: First Rally of 2020

• LaRosa's Pizzeria 7048 Hospital Dr, Dublin, OH, United States

The Central Ohio Rally Club will hold its first rally of the season on Saturday, April 25th. Registration will open at 4:30P, with the first car off at 5:30P. The rally will be 70 miles long, and we should finish the rally about 8:30P. The finish will be at LaRosa's[Read More...]

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