Posts by James Heine

Registration now is open for all three current 2025 St. Louis Region RoadRally events, beginning with Tulips & Other Spring Flowers April 12 and including Tulips Redux Aug. 9 and our Gateway Divisional RoadRally Weekend Aug. 29–31 (Labor Day weekend). Visit motorsportreg.com for information about all three events. Tulips and Other Spring Flowers Saturday, April…

Registration is open for Tulips & Other Spring Flowers April 12. “Tulips” is an evening Monte-Carlo-style road rally/tour of about 60 miles designed with the new/occasional rally team in mind. Expect paved roads, easy-to-follow tulip diagrams for route instructions, and checkpoint locations identified by official mileages and arrival times. Timing will be in minutes and…

Building on its 2024 Rally School Series, the St. Louis Region in 2025 will host seven road rallies, beginning April 12 with Tulips & Other Spring Flowers. Included in the schedule are Labor Day weekend rallies that qualify as part of the SCCA’s 2025 National Course, Touring, or GTA Championships. Participating teams will earn National…

First, our thanks to everyone who ran our Great Pumpkin Thanksgiving GTA Tour Nov. 23. Without a doubt, Mother Nature provided a perfect fall day for a Great River Road rally/tour that began with a check-in at the Melvin Price Locks & Dam 26 in Alton, Ill., and ended at the lodge at Pere Marquette…

Registration is open online at MotorsportReg.com for the St. Louis Region’s Great Pumpkin Thanksgiving GTA Tour Nov. 23. The Region’s last road rally for 2024, the Great Pumpkin GTA [for “Game, Tour, Adventure,” i.e., a non-timed gimmick rally] is a sign-hunt excursion from the National Great Rivers Museum at the Melvin Price Locks & Dam…

(The following is provided by 2024 STL Rally School Rallymaster Tom vonHatten.) The final event in the 2024 St. Louis Region SCCA Rally School series was held under warm late summer skies this past Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024. Seven teams (four of them new to the series) took part. The event results are provided below.…

Registration is open for Rally School #4 July 27. As with Rally Schools 1, 2, and 3, Rally School #4 will begin and end at Sunset Overlook on Bluff Road in Columbia, Ill. Expect a mid-afternoon check-in beginning at 2:30, a 3:15 p.m. rally school with a Q&A, and a 4:01 p.m. departure for Car…

The third St. Louis Region, SCCA, Rally School Series event was held Saturday, June 29, at Sunset Overlook in Columbia, Ill. The purpose of the series is to gradually introduce TSD (time-speed-distance) rally concepts to novice competitors using short-distance events (about 60 miles) that can be completed in two to three hours. Rally 3 introduced…