October 8-11, 2026

Edwardsville, Ill.

The 31st Annual SCCA United States RoadRally Challenge® (USRRC)

Hosted by the St. Louis Region, SCCA

Please join us!

Our Objective:
To provide you, the competitor, with an exceptional USRRC weekend that will, regardless of your skill or experience level, polish your rally skills and show you some of the most enjoyable sports-car roads in southern Illinois. Along the way, we’ll introduce you to a bit of history, showcase some out-of-the-way communities, host a reception or two, and allow plenty of time for socializing and just plain fun—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 the 2026 USRRC in accordance with the SCCA Road Rally Rules (RRRs), 2026 Edition (available online in the rally section at scca.org, as well as from Amazon.com), as amended by our General Instructions for the weekend.

If you will enjoy Monday, Oct. 12, as a holiday (Columbus Day), 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 do and see here (e.g., visit explorestlouis.com, illinoissouth.org, and columbiaillinois.com/408/Tourism). You won’t regret it.

Headquarters:
Comfort Inn
3080 S. SR 157
Edwardsville, IL 62025
618-655-3009
[Coordinates to come]

Room rate: $125/night + tax (2 people/2 beds).
Amenities: Swimming pool, business office, meeting room, complimentary hot breakfast.
Other good things to know: Easy access from St. Louis Lambert International Airport, convenient to downtown St. Louis and the Arch, in the heart of 2026 USRRC rally country.
Reservations: Make reservations by using this link: SCCA St. Louis Region Sports Car Weekend. The hotel will hold a block of rooms for the USRRC until Sept. 8.

The 2026 Challenge Rallies:

South by Southeast National Course Rrally
Great River Road National Touring Rally
Route 66 Ramble National Touring Rally (Monte Carlo format)

The South by Southeast (SXSE?) National Course Rally makes its inaugral appearence on the National Championship schedule as part of this year's USRRC. The Great River Road Tour made its sole appearance on the National schedule as part of the 2001 USRRC, which we hosted from the lodge at Pere Marquette State Park outside Grafton, Ill. The Route 66 Ramble made its first appearance on the National schedule as a divisional Tour in 2016. This year, in honor of the centennary of Route 66, we have made it a National, with the hope that we can show you a bit more of that historic route in southern Illinois than we did in 2016.

Who's Who on the 2026 USRRC Committee:

Chairman: James Heine
Rallymasters: Tom vonHatten, James Heine
Registrar: Rose vonHatten
Safety Steward: Stan Lawson
Official Precheck: Jessica Toney
Long-distance precheck: Peter Schneider

Provisional Schedule:

Tuesday, Sept. 8: Last day to reserve a hotel room at the group rate
Wednesday, Sept. 23: Drawing for car numbers
Friday, Sept. 25: General Instructions posted/emailed
Thursday, Oct. 8: Evening registration
Friday, Oct 9: South by Southeast National Course Rally
Saturday, Oct. 10: Great River Road Touring Rally
Sunday, Oct. 7: Route 66 Ramble National Touring Rally

Classes:
As defined by the RRRs—Equipped, Limited, Stock, and GPS. Regional classes may be added as appropriate.

Information:
James H. Heine, Chairman
2026 United States Road Rally Challenge
3955 Bowen Street
St. Louis, MO 63116-3125
314-922-6120
roadrallychair@stlscca.org

Registrar:

Rose vonHatten
2026 United States Road Rally Challenge
St. Louis Region SCCA
13425 Old Jamestown Road
St. Louis, MO 63033-4509
314-741-0508
rose.vonh@gmail.com
Website: scca.org or stlscca.org

Entry Fees:
Complete 2026 USRRC: $300.00

Single-Day Entries:

Friday: $125.00
Saturday: $125.00
Sunday: $125.00

Weekend Memberships:
In a change from past USRRCs all non-SCCA competitors must obtain an SCCA Weekend Membership ($20.00) that is good for the entire weekend, whether one runs one rally or all three.

ENTRY DEADLINE: Sept. 30 2026.

ABOUT THE SPORTS CAR CLUB OF AMERICA

The Sports Car Club of America®, Inc., founded in 1944, is a 67,500-member motorsports organization that incorporates all facets of autocross, rally and road racing at both club and professional levels. With headquarters in Topeka, Kan., the SCCA annually sanctions more than 2,000 events through its 116 Regions and subsidiary divisions. Much of the SCCA’s activities are made possible with support from the following Official Partners: Chevrolet, the Official Truck of the SCCA; Hawk Performance, the Official Brake Products of SCCA; Mobil 1, the Official Oil of SCCA; Sunoco, the Official Fuel of SCCA; and Tire Rack, the Official Tire Retailer of SCCA. To learn more, visit scca.com.

ABOUT THE ST. LOUIS REGION, SCCA

The St. Louis Region, with some 600 800 members, offers Club Racing, Performance Driving Experience (PDX), RallyCross, RoadRally, Solo (autocross), and Street Survival School programs to educate and provide safe environments for individuals to enjoy their street-legal (daily driver) vehicles 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. In 2026, the region will become the first SCCA region to host the United States Road Rally Challenge (USRRC) five times, having hosted the premier event previously in 1998, 2001, 2005, and 2018. To learn more about the St. Louis Region, visit stlscca.org or the region’s Facebook page.

ABOUT THE SOUTHERN ILLINOIS REGION, SCCA
Encompassing the State of Illinois' southern counties, the DCCA's Southern Illinois Region works closely with the St. Louis Region to host events at World Wide Technology Raceway and other venues throughout metropolitan St. Louis. Its southern Illinois counties have long served as as resource for both St. Louis and Southern Illinois Region rallymasters.

ABOUT EDWARDSVILLE, ILL.
Named for Ninian Edwards, influential Kentucky and Illinois businessman and politician, governor of the Illinois Territory from 1809 to 1818, War of 1812 hero (native Americans and people of color might have a different view of him), and third governor of Illinois (1826–30), Edwardsville was first settled in 1805 and incorporated in 1818, when Illinois became a state. (Before 1818, the Illinois Territory that Edwards governed included all of what we know today as Illinois and Wisconsin, as well as parts of modern-day Michigan and Minnesota.)

Today, Edwardsville is the county seat of Madison County, Illinois, an affluent business and bedroom community in the Illinois portion of metro St. Louis, the home of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and the location of several residential districts included on the National Register of Historic Places, including the village of Leclaire, established in 1890 by St. Louis industrialist N. O. Nelson as a model workers’ village, and incorporated into the City of Edwardsville in 1934.

Edwardsville also is the headquarters of Prairie Farms Dairy, one of the largest dairy cooperatives in the United States and a company ranked among the top 10 largest privately held companies in the St. Louis region.

ABOUT SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

Comprising the southern third of the state and beginning roughly south of Interstate 70, southern Illinois offers features distinct from other parts of the Land of Lincoln. The farther south one travels, the more “southern” the region becomes, a heritage of its early 19th-century immigrants from Kentucky and other parts of the upper antebellum south. In terms of population and economy, southern Illinois claims the largest metropolitan region—“the Metro East”—outside of Chicago, an energetic business climate, two of the state’s leading universities—Southern Illinois University–Carbondale, and Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville—and a major military installation, Scott Air Force Base, as well as Scott’s civilian aviation neighbor, MidAmerica St. Louis Airport. In terms of topography, the region offers a more varied landscape than the tabletop evenness of central Illinois or the glaciated ruggedness of its northwestern portion. As in much of Illinois, agriculture remains an economic cornerstone, but it is a more diverse industry in southern Illinois than the corn/soybeans monoculture prevalent in central and northern Illinois. As a home for SCCA rallying, the St. Louis and Southern Illinois Regions of the SCCA have explored the country lanes, roads, and highways of southern Illinois with great success since the founding of the two regions in the years after World War II. We will do so again in 2026, with great pleasure.