News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
Many of you are probably wondering about dates for the Great American Mountain Rally Revival aka GAMRR 2024. We have decided to take a break for this year. We will not be running the GAMRR in 2024, which comes with mixed emotions. However, after five fantastic years and thousands of[Read More…]
Join the SCCA San Diego Region on Saturday, April 6th (yes, this is our rescheduled February 3rd rally) for a navigational TSD (time/speed/distance) Road Rally on public roads at assigned (legal) speeds. A score will be awarded based on your correct arrival time at checkpoints. Our 75-mile route for Hernandez Hideaway[Read More…]
Some people think that stories have a beginning, middle, and end. However, the Alcan 5000 trip has a beginning; it never really ended. It was an experience that kept giving, growing, and empowering me. So, I guess let’s start. The journey didn’t begin on day one; it started a few[Read More…]
A Practical Experiment Combining RoadRally and Solo A fast-paced dance between cones, a precision reversing maneuver on the clock, hairpin turns on gravel, blind curves with unexpected ice, and half of this at night — all in the same event! That’s what competitors enjoyed at the 2024 Flamethrower Regional Rally[Read More…]
From the Richta GPS Home Office in Kansas — March 10, 2024 Earlier this morning, I released version 1.39 of the Android Rallymaster app. This version contains a fix for a bug first reported two years ago. Identifying the root cause of the bug illustrates the care that must be[Read More…]
Raindrop 2024—Rally in the Valleys will start at the “big rock” in Duval. It will be a leisurely paced Time-Speed-Distance (TSD) rally along some of the rivers and their valleys that make up the northeast corner of the Seattle area. Some great driving roads have views, twisty bits, and urban[Read More…]
We’ll see where it takes them—after all, it is a road rally! Yet, establishing interest for the Rocky Mountain Division’s Colorado Region and Continental Divide Region in delving into an SCCA RoadRally program is checked off the “Let’s Start a RoadRally Program” list. With Regional Executive Robert Melanson’s interest at last year’s[Read More…]
Milwaukee Region SCCA will host the 2024 Spring Scamper car rally on Sunday, April 7th. You’re invited to join us for this new 100+ mile, 4+ hour rally around Madison, WI. No prior rally experience is necessary, and any type of street-legal car is welcome. You do not have to[Read More…]
Kicking off their 2024 AROO Cup Series of Sunday road rallies, the Alfa-Romeo Owners of Oregon, starts with a Rally School on Sunday, March 9th. The School is free to attend, in person or by Zoom (link sent with registration). As an intro, AROO is known throughout AROC (and the[Read More…]
It’s April—the month of fools. And that means Larry Scholnick is the Rallymaster for the April First Friday Niter, sanctioned by the Santa Monica Sports Car Club and the SCCA, Cal Club Region! Larry is fooling us by having a trapless rally—yes, it is a tour! There are two lettered[Read More…]
If you love spirited driving on backroads, our dual-rally weekend with the Flamethrower Road Rally and Alligator Slide is for you! Here are two great winter rallies in one weekend; you can run these rallies in your street car with no special modifications. Grab a friend, and let's go! Alligator Slide[Read More...]