News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
Using technology to reach coast-to-coast across North America and zip across the water to their island Regions, the Sports Car Club of America will host its second quarter Zoom on Thursday, June 20th, at 8 PM Eastern. All road rally enthusiasts are welcome to attend. Here is the link! We[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…]
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…]
Continuing the series of Quarterly Zoom Get-Togethers, which started in 2021, the SCCA RoadRally Board announces that the next session will occur on Thursday, May 25, 2023, from 8:00-10:00 PM EDT. Topics featured are: All SCCA members are invited to participate. Click here to join us on May 25th!
Within SCCA RoadRally programs, committees follow common paths as they begin, manage, or re-energize their programs. The RRDC is not intending to tell Regions with existing programs they must do something this way or that, yet there are standard practices many Regions follow. Therein, the RRDC hopes the RRM contributes new ideas as a Region progresses with its RoadRally program.
Continuing the series of Quarterly Zoom Get-Togethers which started in 2021, the SCCA RoadRally Board announces that the next session will take place on July 28, 2022 from 7:00-9:00 PM CDT, and will address these two topics: Update on Memberships and Waivers, presented by Aimee Thoennes from the SCCA National[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…]
RoadRally Board Chairman Mike Bennett recently sat down with Brian Bielanski from the Inside the SCCA podcast in order to discuss the basics of RoadRally. If you’ve ever wondered what RoadRally was or how to get involved (or have friends that have been asking), here’s a good podcast that you[Read More…]
There is the plan, and then there is what happens! While working with Jerry White, an SCCA Texas Region member, on his article for the Sweetheart Ride Road Rally, I shared that I had not yet completed my road rally with the Checkpoint – Richta GPS app. He joked and said[Read More…]
Statistics December 12 marked the end of the 2021 road rally season. The last event of the year scheduled to use the Richta GPS Timing and Scoring System was held, and the total event count for the year rests on exactly 100 events. Over 1,600 entrants passed through over 4,000[Read More…]
