News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
Congratulations to the SCCA Milwaukee Region and the celebration of 75 Years of Motorsports over the July 8-10th weekend. And, we are delighted they added a road rally into the mix on the eve of the big weekend. Here are the standings and photos – from registration, on the road,[Read More…]
June 2022 CP Open and Close Times and Directionally Sensitive Checkpoints In the Richta GPS Checkpoints system, when a rally entrant passes a checkpoint, the Competitor – GPS Checkpoints app detects this passage of the checkpoint and generates a timeslip and a score; that is what the app is meant[Read More…]
Eureka Road Rally is an SCCA Divisional Course Rally written by Jeanne English. It is a companion rally to ITN’s Thunder Road, a Monte Carlo-style SCCA National Tour Rally written by Joe Akerman on Saturday, October 15. Both are headquartered at the Hampton Inn in Arvin (Tejon Ranch), CA. Registration[Read More…]
The Summer Challenge Road Rally, with Rallymaster John Buffum, will be sanctioned by the SCCA New England Region and held on Saturday, August 13th. More information is available at https://winterchallengerally.com or by reaching out to Buffum via email: johnbuffum1@gmail.com. Update August 14th – Here are the standings for this annual[Read More…]
A rally group out of the Chicago area gave me the idea about six years ago. Put your rally together, sell the “entry” as a donation to your cause, and they can run it whenever their schedule allows. Their events were to view holiday lights, and timing was not a[Read More…]
Stick with me. It truly is a positive piece! “As of now, the exorbitant costs of international motor racing—Formula One in particular—is because of the engines. There are only a few constructors and the job is virtually a custom one. The Watkins Glen (N.Y.) and Mexico City promoters of Grand[Read More…]
On the beautiful North Texas Sunday afternoon of February 20, 2022, the Texas Region of the SCCA put on the seventh edition of the Sweetheart Ride Road Rally (SRRR). Typically SRRR has been run on the Sunday before Valentine’s Day, but this year’s event was pushed back a week due[Read More…]
The Seacoast Scramble Road Rally is a 150 +/- mile TSD Road Rally, sanctioned by the SCCA New England Region, that uses a combination of Written Route Instructions, Tulip Diagrams, and basic navigation skills. The route will begin in Farmington, NH, head into Maine, and back to New Hampshire. The Seacoast Scramble uses a[Read More…]
News from the CSCC Geargrinders, A Review of 2021 — Cascade Sports Car Club’s Geargrinders Road Rally Program put on nine road rallies and averaged 24 cars per rally, improving over 2020’s average of 18 vehicles per rally. A very successful rally season. Procedures we implemented in 2020, at the[Read More…]
The October First Friday Niter, coming up on October 7, is being written by guest Rallymasters Revere Jones and Jared Leadbetter. The odometer check heads east on the 210 to Sunland. The rally travels up Big Tujunga Canyon to Angeles Forest and down Angeles Crest into La Canada-Flintridge, where the[Read More…]