Next Rally

Rally School Registration: https://msreg.com/DMR26RSmsr

Rally Registration: https://msreg.com/DMR26msr

Rally Info

The Texas Region of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) invites you to a fun drive in the country in Denton County, Texas. All are welcome and no prior rally experience is required. We give you a map with several waypoints and you visit these specific locations on the map. With this year’s theme, locations to be visited are in Denton County horse country. Plot your thriftiest rural trail!

You determine your route and drive to each location, which will be verified by the Richta GPS smartphone app. The team who visits all the required landmarks in the shortest distance will win, and the winners will receive awards. A trail driver’s version of the traveling salesman problem! It is not a speed or racing contest. Scores are automatically reported to the Rallymaster.  No score sheet to fill out. As we did last year, we will encourage all contestants to download and use a GPS-based odometer app, as a way to ensure consistency of mileage measurements across all entrants, instead of our usual pre-rally odometer calibration check. We will send you information on these apps and procedures for their use after you pre-register. 

If you’re new to road rally and/or still deciding whether to sign up, we plan to conduct a brief Rally School via Zoom (August 9th) to help prepare for the rally (for details and to pre-register for the School, go to  https://msreg.com/DMR26RSmsr). For those who can’t join the live session, we will post a YouTube video recording of the session. 

  • Rally Day: Saturday, August 15, 2026
  • Registration and Starting Place: Prairie House Restaurant, 10001 US-380, Cross Roads, Texas 76227
  • Registration opens at 9:45 am on Rally Day.  Registration will close at 10:15 am (times may be adjusted). 
  • After registration, you will receive your maps and instructions for locating seventeen or so locations in Denton County that you must visit.
  • Take 30 minutes to determine your route from maps provided.  No GPS/electronic aids permitted here.
  • Cars leave the official start whenever you are ready, in any order (but at 1-minute intervals). First car out about 10:30 am. 
  • Length: as short as you can make it in miles, probably about 3½ hours in time
  • Finish: Prairie House Restaurant, 10001 US-380, Cross Roads, Texas 76227
  • In the unlikely event that you encounter any odometer problems or discrepancies, you will be instructed upon return to complete an odometer calibration run, which starts and ends back at Prairie House Restaurant
  • Rally type: Shortest-distance map rally. SCCA calls this a GTA (Games, Tours, Adventures) rally.
  • Route: You choose your route from maps provided.  You may use any public road you wish in your attempt to log the shortest distance on your odometer.  Depending on your chosen route, you may encounter short stretches of unpaved road, though we think that the shortest-distance route will be all paved.
  • Classes: First-timer, Novice (3 rally trophies or less), General, and Master (this is an optional class: no trophies).  GPS and other electronic aids welcome in any class once you’re on the road.
  • At least two people (a driver and a navigator) are required in each car; contact roadrally@texasscca.com  if you have a minor child (<18) in the car, as a form will need to be signed.
  • Vehicles: Sports Cars, Family Cars, Classic Cars, Antiques, Hot Rods, Cruisers, Convertibles, anything with 4 (or even 3) wheels that’s street legal is OK in this Rally. Note: speed is not a factor.
  • Rally entry fee (per vehicle): $45.00; regular SCCA Members: $15.00 discount. A $5.00 late fee will be assessed to anyone not preregistered on MotorsportReg.com.
  • Rally Master: John Poulos

On public roads, always at legal speeds, with plenty of entertainment for you and your team partner!

 Registrants will be emailed the rally rules a few days before the event. We encourage entrants to pre-register at least a week in advance. It gives you time to prepare and us time to properly plan for awards and other car-count-dependent arrangements. The Rally Committee reserves the right to limit entries. To pre-register, follow this link to MotorsportReg.com:  https://msreg.com/DMR26msr 

Rally School Info

If you signed up or are planning to sign up for the DFW Shortest Distance Map Rally (August 15th), or if you just want to learn about rallies and the Richta smart phone app that we will be using for the rally, then we invite you to a short Rally School.  John Poulos, Rallymaster for the Shortest Distance Map Rally, will be your instructor.  When you register, we will send information on how to download the app. 

Rally School Day is Sunday, August 9th. The “classroom” instruction will be conducted via Zoom session.  Class begins at 1:00 pm and should run for about an hour and a half, including time for Q&A.  We will send out the Zoom session invite a day or two ahead of the Rally School.

Follow-up questions after the event should be directed to John Poulos, who will compile them and post and/or distribute answers to all entrants. For those who can’t join the live session, we plan to record the Zoom session and post a YouTube video as well and will share information on how to access it after the Rally School.

There is no charge for this event. You must pre-register. Registration is per individual, not per team/car. To pre-register, follow this link to MotorsportReg.com:  https://msreg.com/DMR26RSmsr  . To keep track of who attended and any follow-ups, please register each individual attendee if possible.

Note: if you plan to register for the DFW Shortest Distance Map Rally we strongly urge you to do so early and in time to also attend this Rally School and/or view the recorded session.