About this event
YES, IT'S TRUE! After many years without a rally, club founder Bowie Gray is bringing back to life the sport of road rallying. This is the activity upon which THSCC was started. A Sunday afternoon drive in the country, the driver and navigator follow written directions at specified average speeds, attempting to arrive at surprise checkpoints at just the right time as calculated by the rally master. Points are awarded for being too early or too late, with the lowest score winning.
The 50th Anniversary Road Rally will be held on Sunday, November 2nd, and is a TSD (Time/Speed/Distance) rally covering approximately 75 miles of all paved roads in Nash and Wilson counties just east of Raleigh.
The rally will start across the street from the Hardee's Restaurant at the intersection of US264-Alt and Highyway 581 in Bailey, NC in the parking lot for Innovative Builders, LLC and ends with a party - where the route instructions will direct you! Event checkin begins at 12:00 noon. To learn more about how the rally works, read the Road Rally General Instructions.
A Car Team consists of a driver and a navigator. No other persons above the age of 10 are allowed in the car.
Entrants must choose either of two classes:
- Stock: Using only the car's stock dashboard instruments, pencil/pen and paper
- Equipped: Using any additional equipment not listed in Stock, such as hand calculators, computers (that includes smartphones), or other non-factory installed average speed calculating equipment.
Event entry fee is $25 per Car Team. This event is for THSCC members and their guests. Entry fee includes after-rally party with food and drinks. We also need volunteers to help run the event, those volunteers will get free food & drink at the afterparty (there is an option on the registration form for this).
We encourage you to prepay online through the secure MotorsportReg website. Payment is deferred and accounts will not be charged until registration closes, so if you register and find out that you can't make it please cancel your registration prior to registration closing and you will not get charged.
Event requirements
This Road Rally will be held on public roads. Remember that your actions represent our club and you are solely responsible for your driving on the public roads. Use your head and be safe!