News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
This SCCA Milwaukee Region Oktoberally National Course Rally will test your ability to observe, reason, maintain the assigned average speeds, and follow explicit directions. Rallymaster Mike Thompson will use Numbered and Lettered Route Instructions and a variable Main Road Rule. Experienced rallyists will find this a challenging rally over scenic[Read More…]
Release 1.36 of Android Rallymaster was released in September 2023 It includes an enhancement to the Send Timeslips program. If no timeslip is present for a checkpoint the time is now reported as “No Time” instead of the GMT value of 0 for the local timezone. There is also a[Read More…]
As summer comes to a close, school is back in session, and we often define the remainder of the year by holiday planning and ease into the fall and winter seasons. For SCCA, we are just getting started. Between Labor Day Weekend and Halloween, SCCA members will have had the[Read More…]
Your smart device must have the latest Richta GPS Checkpoints app versions before each event. We encourage you to click the link below and check out the many useful videos, documentation, and presentation links on the Richta Rally webpage, as well charts from the comparison between Richta GPS Checkpoints system[Read More…]
A RoadRally Regional Development Committee (RRDC) shall be appointed by the RRB to coordinate and administer the SCCA RoadRally Regional program. The RRDC is a sub-committee of the RRB and reports to the RRB. That is the official statement where the words stop, and the work begins for the RRDC. Starting from scratch in[Read More…]
RReNews asked Debbi Segall Laitenberger to write a piece after her return to SCCA National RoadRally Championship Series. A member of our RReNews Clan has known her since the early-90s when Debbi was active in the SCCA Finger Lakes Region as a Rallymaster and competitor, and she also served as[Read More…]
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…]
From RReNews — The Heart of Dixie Rally Philosphy, provided by Bruce Gezon from his Smuncher’s Attic rally collection, leads off with this statement, “In the Spring of 1970, several adventuresome members of the Tennessee Valley Region cast the variable main road rule upon the rally community in a Heart of[Read More…]
From the Armchair Rally Archives of Gary Starr I have always enjoyed teaching those new to our sport the Road Rally concepts for Course and Tour rallies. Perhaps you have seen my Tips for TSD Rallyists in RReNews? I hope to do the same teaching with these Armchair Rallies in prior editions[Read More…]
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…]