RoadRally
Welcome to the St. Louis Region’s RoadRally page. Here you will find recent news and schedules as well as other information.
In many ways, road-rallying is the original form of organized motorsports competition. Today, it is conducted on roads open to the public (unlike today’s stage rallying) and under normal rules of the road.
Contact: roadrallychair@stlscca.org
Upcoming Events
August 2025
Saturday August 9
- 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
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Regional RoadRally Tulips ReduxSaturday August 96:00 pm – 10:00 pmRegional RoadRally Tulips Redux
Tulips Redux 2025
About this event
Tulips Redux 2025
Aug. 9, 2025
A St. Louis Region, SCCA, Touring RoadRally and Social Evening
Description: Tulips Redux 2025 is an evening Monte-Carlo-style Touring Road Rally and social event of about 60 miles. It is similar to this year’s Tulips & Other Spring Flowers and 2023’s Tulips by Night and Tulips Redux Road Rallies. We have designed the event with the new/occasional rally team in mind. Expect paved Madison County, Ill., 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 seconds, with checkpoint arrival times calculated to whole minutes. After the rally, stick around to enjoy conversation and hospitality at our finish location.
Start: Troy Park & Ride, 809 S. Main Street, Troy, IL 62294.
Finish: Vitale’s Hideaway on historic Route 66 (today, Illinois 4) outside Staunton, Ill. Vitale’s Hideaway has been a stop at Route 66 and the Worden Y since Route 66 was established in the 1920s. A popular nightspot and dance hall in the 1930s, today it serves as a neighborhood bar and grill, one that recently was featured on the TV reality show Bar Rescue.
Size of the field: We are limiting the field to 25 teams.
Registration: Pre-event registration only here at MotorsportReg.com. Entries on a first-come basis. Registration closes Wednesday, Aug. 6, at 11:59 p.m.
- Aug. 9 check-in: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Troy Park & Ride.
- Safety meeting: 6:45 p.m.
- First car departs the start: 7:01 p.m.
- First car arrives at the finish: approximately 9:00 p.m.
What you need:
- A vehicle
- A driver and navigator
- A smartphone or tablet with the Richta GPS Competitor App installed (this app, free from Google Play or Apple’s App Store, is our timing and scoring system–see timing and scoring note below for more details)
- A clipboard and calculator, pencils and paper
- A map light or similar device
- A happy inclination to take an evening drive
Entry fee: $30.00 per team for SCCA teams, $50.00 per team for nonmember teams. An SCCA team is defined as a team in which at least one participant is an SCCA member. The $50.00 team entry fee for a nonmember team includes a $20.00 SCCA Weekend Membership for the team’s “primary entrant,” i.e., the member who pays the entry fee. The other member of a non-SCCA team will receive a free SCCA Trial Membership, as will any non-SCCA member of an SCCA team.
Information: James H. (Jim) Heine, rallymaster, 314.922.6120, roadrallychair@stlscca.org.
Good things to know–timing and scoring: Tulips Redux 2025 is an SCCA Road Rally during which you will be timed at several locations along the rally route. As indicated above, we will use the Richta Rally GPS Checkpoint System for timing and scoring. To compete, each participating team must have a smartphone or tablet with active data cellular service (no airplane mode and no wi-fi only devices) with the Richta Competitor App installed. The app will report your arrival time and leg score to your cellphone or tablet moments after you pass each GPS checkpoint location. To download the app, search for Competitor Richta or Richta GPS Competitor App at Google Play or in Apple’s App Store. For more information about the Richta GPS system visit https://richtarally.com.
The SCCA Detroit Region’s rally page has an excellent summary of the Richta system, especially its Competitor App. Visit http://drscca.org/rally/using-the-richta-competitor-app. It’s is worth your time.
More good things to know: Aug. 9 is a full-moon night. Unless Mother Nature turns against us, we should have a lovely evening for rallying.
About the St. Louis Region, SCCA: The SCCA’s St. Louis Region, with some 600 members, offers Road Racing, Performance Driving Experience (PDE), Rally Cross, Road Rally, Solo (autocross), and Street Survival School programs to educate and provide safe environments for individuals to enjoy their street-legal (daily driver) cars and purpose-built racecars. The region is home to more than 80 national champions and has been recognized four times by the Sports Car Club of America as the Region of the Year in its member category. To learn more about the St. Louis Region, visit http://www.stlscca.org.
Event requirements
Rules and Waivers:
The standard SCCA rules regarding Road Rallies will be observed. To wit: proof of valid driver’s license and current auto insurance, vehicle inspection (self-inspection by the rally team), and signing of applicable SCCA forms.
All participants will be required to read and sign the standard SCCA waiver before being allowed to participate in this event. The signing of the SCCA’s “Release and Waiver of Liability, Assumption of Risk and Indemnity Agreement” is a precondition to participating in any SCCA event. Any adult, age 18 or older, must sign the waiver.
Minor Participants: A Minor taking part in this event must have an Annual Minor Waiver on file with the SCCA for the current calendar year, i.e., 2025.
The Age of Majority is 18 years except in Alabama and Nebraska, where it is, 19 and Mississippi, where it is 21.
The Annual Minor Waiver will be issued to the Minor by the SCCA National Office. For more information about this process, click on the following document and see the section “Minor Annual Waivers”: Digital Annual Waiver 12-01-2021.pdf.
Before obtaining an “Annual Waiver Minor” for a child, nonmember parents/guardians, as well as the minor in question, must obtain an SCCA Guest Account.
1. Log onto scca.com.
2. Click on “Join/Renew” in the information bar at the top of the page.
3. Click on “Create a Guest Account.”
4. Click on “I don’t have a Member ID.”
5. Complete the required information.Once you, as parents or guardians, have received your Guest Accounts, you can begin the process of acquiring an Annual Minor Waiver for your child. See again the document noted above: Digital Annual Waiver 12-01-2021.pdf.
Do not wait until the last moment to obtain an Annual Minor Waiver for your Minor child/participant. SCCA staff normally are not available after regular business hours or during weekends; so a last-minute Annual Minor Waiver request cannot be processed before the start of this RoadRally. Without a valid waiver, your Minor will not be allowed to participate.
Finally, please read carefully:
If you are registering yourself for the first time, and you will be paying for the event entry, choose Option 1 on the order form and follow the prompts.
If you are registering as a co-entrant and your partner has already registered, choose Option 2 on the order form.
Friday August 29 – Monday September 1
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Divisional RoadRally WeekendFriday August 29 – Monday September 1Divisional RoadRally WeekendThe Principal Hotel 310 S. Main St. Columbia, IL 62236 (618) 281-2300
2025 STL GatewayDivisional RoadRally Weekend
Join us LaborDay weekend for three days of SCCA road rallying:
Ø Friday, Aug. 29: Tulips by Night Divisional Touring Rally
Ø Saturday, Aug. 30: Lewis Carroll’s Concurrent Twins(choose one)
· Tweedledum Divisional Course Rally, or
· Tweedledee Divisional Touring Rally
Ø Sunday, Aug. 31: Milburn Pennybags Presents Divisional GTA Rally
Our Objective:
To provide an entertaining, low-key weekend that will polish your rally skills while highlighting southern Illinois’ enjoyable sports-car roads and historic neighborhoods. Along the way, we’ll showcase some out-of-the-way crossroads communities and allow time for socializing—all in the hope that you will have as much fun participating in this weekend as we’ve had organizing it for you.
We will conduct our rallies in accordance with the SCCA’s RoadRally Rules (RRRs), 2025 Edition, as amended by our General Instructions for the weekend.
The 2025 RRRs are available online in the rally section at scca.org as well as from Amazon.com.
If you will enjoy Monday, Sept. 1, as a holiday, we urge you spend an extra day in St. Louis and enjoy some of the great things our region has to offer. Actually, visit a day early, too. There’s a lot to see and do here. You won’t regret it.
Headquarters:
The Principal Hotel
310 S. Main St.
Columbia, IL 62236
(618) 281-2300
The Principal Hotel (http://www.principalhotelcolumbia) is adelightful gem in the heart of historic Columbia, Ill. Developed on the groundsof the former Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and School, the hotel isthe anchor of a new complex that includes a restaurant, coffeehouse(breakfast/lunch), hotel bar, swimming pool, patios, event space, meetingrooms, and sports bar (which, hopefully, will be open by Labor Day weekend).Main Street restaurants and pubs also are within easy walking distance of thehotel.
Ø Room rate: $109/night + tax (2people/2 beds). The Principal Hotel will hold a block of rooms for the rallyuntil May 30. To obtain our group rate, use the link below, and reserveyour room no later than May 30!
https://www.reseze.net/servlet/SendPage?hotelid=1785&skipfirstpage=true&page=4017
Also, if you choose to arrive Thursday, Aug. 28, therate for Thursday evening is $98/night + tax.
When you register, the hotel will charge the firstnight’s stay + tax as a deposit, which is fully refundable if you cancel atleast 24 hours ahead of your scheduled arrival.
Ø Things to do: There are numerousgood restaurants and inviting shops in Columbia, as well as several golfcourses nearby. World Wide Technology Raceway and Fairmont Park (FanduelSportsbook & Horse Racing), are all a 20–40 minute drive from the hotel, asare the historic streets of nearby Belleville, Ill., as well as downtown St.Louis and the Gateway Arch. Sadly, the Cardinals are in Cincinnati most of LaborDay weekend, but if you linger through Labor Day, they are at home Sept. 1 fora 1:15 p.m. game against the (soon-to-be) Las Vegas Athletics.
Ø Other good things to know: Ourrally headquarters offers easy access to St. Louis Lambert InternationalAirport.
Provisional Schedule:
Friday, Aug. 29
Ø 3:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. Registration and check-in
Ø 6:00 p.m. –10:00 p.m. Tulips by Night Divisional Touring Rally
Saturday, Aug. 30
Ø 9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Late check-in and registration
Ø 10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Lewis Carroll’s Twins Concurrent Rallies
Sunday, Aug. 31
Ø 9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Late check-in and registration
Ø 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Milburn Pennybags Presents GTA
Ø 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Awards presentation and good-byes
Good Things to Know:
Ø Sunset, Friday, Aug. 29: 7:34 p.m. CDT; civiltwilight, 8:04 p.m.; astronomical twilight, 9:08 p.m. (Now, it’s dark. 😊)
Ø Moon phase, Aug. 29: Waxing Crescent(illumination 36.06%)
Timing and scoring:
Tulips by Night and the Lewis Carroll Twins will use RichBireta’s Richta GPS checkpoint system for timing and scoring. To compete, eachparticipating team will need a smartphone or tablet with active data cellularservice (no airplane mode and no wi-fi only devices!). The Richta Checkpointapp will report your arrival time and leg score to your cellphone or tabletmoments after you pass each GPS checkpoint location. For more information aboutthe system visit richtarally.com. Also, the SCCA Detroit Region’s rallypage has a good summary of the Richta system, especially its Competitor App: http://www.drscca.org/rally/using-the-richta-competitor-app.
Classes: Equipped, GPS, Limited, and Stock—per theRRRs.
Information:
James H. Heine, Chairman
2025 Gateway Divisional RoadRally Weekend
3955 Bowen Street
St. Louis, MO 63116-3125
314-922-6120
Registrar:
Rose vonHatten
St. Louis Region SCCA
13425 Old Jamestown Road
St. Louis, MO 63033-4509
314-741-0508
Website: scca.org or stlscca.org.
Entry Fees:
Weekend (all three days): $135.00 for SCCA memberteams; $155.00 for nonmember teams, which includes a Weekend Membership for theprimary nonmember entrant—the person paying the entry fee—and a free SCCA TrialMembership for the co-entrant.
An SCCA member team is defined as one in which at leastone member is a regular member of the SCCA. In such cases, the non-SCCA member willreceive a free SCCA Trial Membership for the weekend. In a non-SCCA-memberteam, as noted, the primary entrant will receive a Weekend Membership and the co-entrantwill receive a free Trial Membership.
Single-Day Entries:
Friday: $50.00 for SCCA member teams. A non-member team willbe charged the Weekend Membership fee only once during the weekend; that is, ifthe team, for example, enters both the Saturday and Sunday rallies, the teamwill pay the Weekend Member fee only once.
Entry deadline:Aug. 27
About the Sports Car Club of America®
The Sports Car Club of America, Inc., founded in 1944, isa 70,000-member motorsports organization that is home to autocross, track days,time trials, rally, and road racing at both the amateur and professionallevels. With headquarters in Topeka, Kan., the SCCA annually sanctions morethan 2,000 events through its 115 Regions and subsidiary divisions. Much of theSCCA’s activities are made possible with support from the following OfficialPartners: Tire Rack, the Official Tire Retailer of SCCA; Sunoco, the OfficialFuel of SCCA; Hawk Performance, the Official Brake Products of SCCA; Hagerty,the Official Insurance Provider of SCCA; and IMSA, the International MotorSports Association. To learn more, visit scca.com.
About the St. Louis Region, SCCA
The St. Louis Region, with some 600 members, offers Road Racing,Performance Driving Experience (PDX), RallyCross, RoadRally, Solo (autocross),and Street Survival School programs to educate and prov
November 2025
Sunday November 23
- 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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Road Rally St Louis Regional GTA AfternoonSunday November 2312:00 pm – 4:00 pmRoad Rally St Louis Regional GTA AfternoonTBD
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About RoadRally
The St. Louis Region maintains a regular schedule of local RoadRally events and from time to time offers also Divisional and National weekends that attract SCCA rally teams from around the country. Our “legacy” event is the Daniel Boone National Rally, which has been part of the Region’s portfolio since the late 1950s. Since 1998, we have four times hosted the United States RoadRally Challenge, the premier event on SCCA RoadRally’s annual National Championship calendar.
Rally School 2024
On the Region level, this year we are hosting a five-event Rally School series. Designed to impart the basics of road-rallying to a new generation—or to refresh your skills if you’re familiar with the sport, each event will focus on a specific aspect of road-rallying and help you gain a better understanding of the sport.
Each rally will begin and end at Sunset Overlook on Bluff Road in Columbia, Ill. (www.sunsetoverlook.com). Expect a mid-afternoon check-in, a rally school with a Q&A, and a 4 p.m. start. Each rally will run approximately two hours.
You may run all five events or just those that suit your Saturday afternoon plans. Find more information about the rallies at motorsportreg.com.
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