News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
Just finished up with the final measurement for Oktoberally National Course Rally, September 17th, sanctioned by the SCCA Milwaukee Region. For those of you who like ‘loops,’ there are lots. While I’ve tried to avoid unpaved roads, sometimes things are inevitable. So, I ended up with less than 10 miles of smooth[Read More…]
Not to be missed, the Johnny Appleseed Road Rally is Rallymaster Greg Lester’s adventure for the SCCA NE Ohio Region. Lester will take you through the small towns and scenic backroads on the day’s run for the SCCA Great Lakes Divisional Road Rally. CRRwUs Note: TEC Crew Challenge
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…]
The article below originally appeared in the Winter 2012 edition of the Detroit Region SCCA newsletter Open Exhaust. At the time, I had had a decent, if not overwhelmingly spectacular, rally Navigator career at the Great Lakes Division levels. I had been fortunate enough to have won POR once before[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…]
And now here I was, spending hours planning a route that competitors would pass by in the blink of an eye!
A long-time supporter of the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), the holder of the SCCA Archives, commissioned this brick in honor of Bruce Gezon, saying, “Bruce has certainly earned a place in the IMRRC.” At RReNews, we are grateful for those that help extend the accolades of our road[Read More…]
After an absence of two years because of the pandemic, the St. Louis Region’s RoadRally program is back in business with a Region social event May 15 and the return of its Gateway National RoadRally Weekend Sept. 2–4 (Labor Day weekend). Designed to reintroduce the sport, Sunday Drive #1 is[Read More…]