|
CAMARADERIE
k�m(ə)ˈr�dərē
Camaraderie is defined as a mutual trust
and friendship among people who
spend a lot of time together.
Submit your photo to RoadRally eNews with your story as to why your photo shows RoadRally camaraderie to you by Saturday, April 6th. RReNews is counting on you to share those images and stories, so dig through your archives!
We will share them with fellow rallyists in an upcoming RReNews under a Rally Stories Column.
|
|
What memories do you have from
your first Road Rally event?
Send your e-mail with those memories - replete with as many details you can recall as to date, place, teammate, vehicle, style of Road Rally, sanctioning body, and recollections of the event - to RoadRally eNews by Saturday, April 6th. We would welcome a photo to go along with your email to round out the story, so, haul out those tintypes, polaroids, negatives and jpgs!
RReNews is counting on you, our readers to share those stories and images, so dig through your archives today!
These requests of the month will be help me flesh out future editions of SCCA RoadRally eNews and who knows - we may see a trend, worth returning to, for our sport!
|
How can I spread the good word about RoadRally eNews?
At the recent SCCA Convention, we added the feature of sending the text message ROADRALLY to 22828, which then leads to a series of prompts that takes you to our mail list and asks for your Road Rally interests!
You can also click on the Forward to a Friend link below and send your friends an email invite!
|
|
(Click above to send a message to the RRB)
Bruce Gezon
Chuck Hanson
Clarence Westberg
Jeanne English
Len Picton
Chairman Rich Bireta
Sasha Lanz
|
(Click the name of the name of the Steward to send an eMail)
The Divisional RoadRally Steward postions are vacant for NorPac - North Pacific and RockyMT - Rocky Mountain. Please contact Rich Bireta, RRB Chairman, should you be interested in filling either of these positions!
|
|
Your RRB Committees
The RoadRally Board has the following active committees:
Rules Committee: The Rules Committee advises the RRB on changes to the RRRs (Road Rally Rules), RFOs (Rules for Organizers) and serves as a liaison to the National level events.
Mentoring Committee: Not a committee that meets, per se, but a group of volunteers, collected by RRB member Hanson, willing to mentor new and emerging programs.
National Events Committee: Charged with administering the National Road Rally Events: receives date requests and sanction applications for National Events, assigns liaisons to National Events, and approves sanctions. Advises RRB on changes to the National program.
Regional Development Committee: Working on issues and actions that can enable growth of the road rally program on the local, regional level.
Publicity Committee: Responsible for promoting the sport of road rally to our SCCA members and broader road rally community.
|
(Stay Tuned - RReNews is Striving to Get Best
Means of Contact for These Members)
Rules Committee
Bruce Gezon - Philadelphia Region - Chair Dave Kolb - New England Region - Rule Book Editor Dave Teter - South Jersey Region Jeanne English - Cal Club - Liaison to RRB Jim Friedman - New England Region Mike Thompson - Land O'Lakes Region
Mentoring Committee
Bruce Gezon - Philadelphia Region Chuck Hanson - Indianapolis Region Chair & Liaison to RRB
Clarence Westberg - Land O'Lakes Region
Jeanne English - Cal Club
Rich Bireta - Kansas Region
National Events Committee
Bob DeMeritt - Detroit Region Clarence Westberg - Land O'Lakes Region
Chair & Liaison to RRB
Dave Weiman - Guam Region
Mike Thompson - Land O'Lakes Region
Regional Development Committee
Len Picton - Washington DC Region - Chair
Patrick Strong - CalClub Region
Rich Bireta - Kansas Region - Liaison to RRB
Publicity Committee
Bruce Gezon - Philadelphia Region
Cheryl Babbe - Arctic Alaska Region - RReNews
David Head - Northwestern Ohio Region - Chair
Sasha Lanz - Texas Region - Liaison to RRB
|
SCCA Offers More than RoadRally!
Many of you know of the Sports Car Club of America through RoadRally, yet we have much more to offer our fellow motorsport enthusiasts! Each of these SCCA-sanctioned programs also offer support roles that don't even require you to compete or have a vehicle - Registration, Tech, Safety Stewards, Timing & Scoring and More! Come Join Us! Club Racing - Our wheel-to-wheel racing action. For more information, please click here and learn more at our Go Racing page! Solo (also known as Autocross) - Paved. Cones. New course each event. Do it in your daily driver. Do it in your Road Rally vehicle! Click here to head to The Starting Line, and then click the Resources tab for more information about this exciting SCCA driving challenge! RallyCross - While similar to Solo in that you have a new course each month - these events are on grass, ice, snow, gravel, and dirt. Think a scaled down stage rally. Click here to checkout this motorsport and how you can become involved!
|
|
 |
"We are Road Rally enthusiasts!
The Sports Car Club of America is the best grassroots Road Rally organization within North America,
and it's time we started acting like it!"
Welcome to the first edition of SCCA's RoadRally eNews!
There is much planned for upcoming RReNews editions and your participation along the way is essential for it's success:
- reading each edition
- eagerly replying to the Questions of the Month
- submitting to the Photo of the Month
- sending in your Road Rally questions for future edition replies
- forwarding editions on to fellow Road Rally enthusiasts
- asking questions about our sport of Road Rally
- submitting your Road Rally stories
Yes! SCCA wants to share the good news of Road Rally across North America, for both SCCA members and those who also enjoy the sport through their local car and marque clubs!
As for my role with RReNews? I welcome your constructive comments, critiques, and kudos!
Yours for the sport,
Cheryl Lynn
Send Me an Email
|
| Checkpoint Chat from the RRB
Thoughts from RoadRally Board Chairman Rich Bireta -
I just returned from the SCCA National Convention and thought this would be an appropriate time to share some of the news coming out of the Convention and to offer my thoughts on the state of our sport and priorities for the RoadRally Board for the remainder of 2013.
The SCCA National Convention is the only time that members of the RRB can meet face to face without the pressures of a competition event. We made good use of our time together meeting formally for a total of six hours and spending several additional hours together in informal discussions. We had a positive and productive Town Hall meeting. Thank you to every one who was able to attend in person. Look for the details of these meetings in the minutes in the next FasTrack.
There are several items of news to share with you. First the big news: the $5 per car Weekend Membership is suspended for one year for RoadRally, yet the Weekend Membership information is still required. The SCCA will evaluate this fee at that time and determine whether this suspension has the desired effect of increasing the number of competitors and number of events that are held. Now is a good time to reach out to the local non-SCCA rally clubs and to expand your recruiting efforts to non-SCCA members. Second item of news: the 90-minute competition limit for events sanctioned as Social rallies is removed. The reason for this change was to remove a barrier to Regions starting a rally program. We encourage new Regions to sanction events as Social rallies, which lowers the sanction fee to a flat $20 and reduces the amount of paperwork involved in the event. Third, we approved a rule change to Article 4 of the RRRs, which limits the number of points in a championship series (course/tour/GTA), to 40 points in a seven day period. All three items have been posted to the www.scca.com forums.
One of the most encouraging meetings I had last week was the annual meeting of the RRB Chair with a delegation from the SCCA Board of Directors, the body which oversees the entire SCCA and appoints RRB members. The message from these BOD members (Bruce Lindstrand, R David Jones and Mike Lewis) was clear: Work to increase participation in the sport of road rally; make events fun to attend and participate in; don't let us (the BOD) delay your efforts; make changes necessary to accomplish these goals as you see fit. The entire RRB was in attendance and we left that meeting optimistic and encouraged.
I had the opportunity to present an updated version of the RRB's Strategic Plan, sometimes known as the STRAP. Some of you may view this plan or any plan in a low light, but I maintain that it does determine where the RRB should spend its limited resource of time. We'll be posting this on the SCCA web site in April, but the strategic plan basically says we want to increase the number of road rally events, increase the number of regions organizing events and increase the number of entries to these events. We will to do this by identifying and implementing actions which make Road Rally events easier to organize and conduct, more fun for competitors, more visible inside and outside the SCCA, and more frequent in their occurrence and geographic scope. The specific actions we are taking in this area are documented in our "Growing the Program" document.
The second major item in the plan admits that no previous actions have succeeded in adding enough events, new organizing committees, and competitors to the National program. The RRB has offloaded administration of National program to a National Events Committee of the RRB. Further, we'll minimize the number of rules changes to the National program, limiting changes to those which increase participation in the sport, or simplify or modernize the National program.
Another item of news coming out of the Convention is that we had an open session for Regions wanting to start (or restart) their RoadRally program. This session was very well attended and I am happy to announce that we have received interest from seven SCCA Regions who want to start a rally program and we have assigned mentors from the RRB to five of these programs.
Feel free to contact me at Rich Bireta with your comments or feedback.
Click here to download a pdf of this article to use in your Region's newsletter or to post on your Region's website!
|
|
RReNews Questions Asked Thus Far
We'll be sticking to Road Rally questions in the future, yet I want to answer three questions that have come in from many folk and get them out of the way with this first RReNews!
How did I get on this list?
I worked to build the RReNews mailing list with our RoadRally Weekend Members from recent years, active SCCA Members, our Rallymasters, faithful Checkpoint Workers, Safety Stewards, Divisional RoadRally Stewards, Registrars, Drivers, Navigators and Board Members.
Many of you have been added through my efforts in working with Rick Myers and Michelle Lour in SCCA's Membership Department, Deena Rowland in the Rally/Solo Department, and fellow SCCA Members serving with me on Publicity Committee.
Another one of those damn National Staff non-rally persons? Who is Cheryl Babbe? What does Arctic Alaska Region have to do with this?
Across the Regions of the SCCA, there are many enthusiasts actively working on their Regional RoadRally programs. Your volunteer RoadRally Board and Committees are comprised of SCCA members from Alaska to Pennsylvania and Minnesota to Texas! I happen to be with the Arctic Alaska Region, which I founded back in the Spring of 1988; I wanted a home for my beloved sport of Road Rally. This is my fortieth-year of Road Rally and not my last!
Seeing a need for an eNews to reach fellow RoadRally enthusiasts in the SCCA, I had been working on one for a Spring release...and then came along Chair Dave Head and the opportunity to work with the Publicity Committee! I've enjoyed my time working with this Dave, Bruce and Sasha on this Committee, and we have some exciting works coming down the road!
RReNews, is a work in progress and growth. I shall hope to prove to those four old rallyists who have seen many renditions of newsletters come-n-go, and who have given my effort the 'ol "meh, this won't last long", that they don't understand the desire of fellow Road Rally enthusiasts to have communication about our sport. Heck! I'm hoping they'll choose to submit and share their stories!
How do I get off this damn list?
I'll be honest. I hope you stay for a few editions and give us a chance. Yet should it be that you do not wish to receive our RoadRally eNews - please click the SafeUnsubscribe link at the bottom of this message. We truly don't want to add to your inbox should you not wish to receive our monthly mailings; clicking that link will allow you to remove your name from future mailings of my SCCA RoadRally eNews efforts.
Now, let us move onto the Road Rally matters -
What are YOUR questions about Road Rally! From SCCA administration matters, matters regarding the RRB or one of it's Committees, checkpoint or safety steward questions, rally theory questions, rules of the game - what is it that you would like to know? What is it that you would like to share? Have a column you would like to write? Contact me at RReNews - Come Join Us!
|
|
Route Instruction #1
Click on the Update Profile/Email Address at the bottom of this message. This is important and only 13% of you have taken this step! Please confirm that you want to be a part of the Road Rally Community being built by following the prompts - it is a two stage process - and share your Road Rally interests today! |
|
