Jerry White’s sixth Sweetheart Ride Road Rally is now in the rear-view mirror of the Texas Region of the Sports Car Club of America. Sweetheart Ride has always been a dose of Jerry’s peculiar twist on Game/Trivia/Adventure (GTA) road rallies combined with a bit of timed-to-the-minute Time/Speed/Distance (TSD) road rallying. This iteration started from the Buc-ee’s store by the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. By the time it was done, the rally had covered 95 miles and visited many interesting oil and chip roads in Denton and Wise counties.
COVID-19 was still a concern, so SpeedWaivers, MotorsportReg.com, email, Google Forms, and the Richta Competitor GPS app were all utilized together for the first time to limit in-person interactions. The tech worked so well that only two officials besides the Rallymaster were needed to put on the event. John and Michelle Poulos were the RoadRally Stewards for the event, and John handled onsite registration and numerous other event day duties.
Google Forms served up and scored the game and trivia puzzles. The route instructions were included right in the Google Forms between the puzzles, yet they could be ignored until the Richta Competitor app sounded and displayed a checkpoint number indicating the route instruction to do in the next few tenths of a mile. Altogether, 97 checkpoints/route instructions were announced by the app. While the app was not timing the two TSD legs, it informed participants how they were doing regarding finishing the rally section before the end of the maximum GTA time. As far as Rich Bireta (the app developer) knows, this is the first time it has been used directly for route following and GTA timing guidance.
There were 284 GTA scoring opportunities because each of the 71 puzzles had four given solutions to select from. Competitors only had to tap on the circle for each correct solution they found along the route. Anywhere from none to all four of the proposed solutions could be valid. Only wrong answers counted towards scores, so the lower the score, the better.
In keeping with the name and original date of the rally, many of the puzzles had a Valentine’s Day theme. One stated: “The best product of your marriage might be _____.” The solutions given were: passion, children, kids, and ahead. The solutions found came from “Watch for CHILDREN,” “KIDS at Play Slow Down,” and graphic of a stop sign and arrow (“Stop AHEAD”).
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Head over to www.roadrally.page, where you can find all scores, teams, Google Forms, puzzle solutions, and a more extended version of this write-up. There is also a link there to a Google Form containing the puzzles and instructions for a six-mile “Test Your Tech Loop.” That loop is likely to stay available for a long time for anyone interested in getting comfortable with the Competitor app, with Google Forms, or even with just trying out a little slice of a Game/Trivia/Adventure road rally or of a Time-Speed-Distance road rally.
Jerry White, Rallymaster
