News, Views and How-To's of Road Rally
The Steel Haul Course Road Rally is a 175-mile route on paved and unpaved roads to Armstrong County. It features Lettered Route Instructions (LRIs), Numbered Route Instructions (NRIs), and changing Main Road Determinants (MRDs). The Steel Haul Course Road Rally is the first of the two-day weekend, with the Iron[Read More…]
The SCCA Arizona Border Region will be sanctioning the Desert Sands National Course Rally and the Great Canyon National Tour Rally over the March 5-6, 2022 Weekend. The rally will be based out of Tucson, with the Hampton Inn as the host hotel Friday and Sunday evenings and the Holiday[Read More…]
The tradition continues with the Fast Friday Niter Rally Series! Many Rallymasters share the responsibilities of the series, and this year it enters its 50th Year (or is it 51?)! The Santa Monica Sports Car Club is a Chapter of the SCCA California Sports Car Club aka Cal Club.
The rally is somewhat easier than past years. The mileages are consistent. The times recorded by Richta between IPhone, Android, and Timewise were never off by more than 0.5 seconds. The control locations are consistent with Winter Challenge and fair. — Pre-Checker Mike Collier, Jan 22nd
Across the last four years, a new autumn tradition has been put in place for Lynn and me. In October of 2018, we entered our 1948 Hudson Commodore in the Inaugural running of the Great American Mountain Rally Revival (GAMRR). The “revival” is a resurrection of the original Great American Mountain Rally[Read More…]
Dawn of August 21 arrived under a light overcast. The weather reports spoke of intermittent yet light showers. Fortunately, the rain mostly held off until the last 30 minutes, leaving us with some perfect top-down weather. The Mini Monte Regional Tour Rallye started and ended in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, which has[Read More…]
by Peter Schneider and Jim Wakemen Some people’s initial impression of New Jersey is only based on what they see on television, whether it is the urban landscape of the Sopranos or Seaside Heights bar scene as seen on Jersey Shore. But that is only a tiny part of what the state is all about. New[Read More…]
By Bob Sonntag & Paul Dornburg The 2021 edition of Paul and Carolyn Dornburg’s Ice Cream Rally was run on the back roads of eastern Daviess County, Kentucky, on July 25th. A good time was had by all. The competition was as hot as the summer day. This being THE “Ice Cream[Read More…]
The Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Rallye, a summertime tradition, returned after being put on hold last year because of COVID-19. Chuck Larouere returned as Rallyemaster in 2021. He brought the latest technology, utilizing the RichtaGPS Rally app, so all competitors were automatically timed as they passed the “electronic” checkpoints. Seventy-seven[Read More…]
Rallymasters Kasey Klaus and Torm Kelsey Green delivered a great Saturday Rally on June 12 using roads less traveled. It was a tour-style rally, meaning it included no route following challenges (tricks and traps). The drive was about 100 miles from the start in northwest Portland to the ending location[Read More…]