About this event
2025 Gateway Divisional RoadRally Weekend
Join us Labor Day weekend for three days of SCCA road rallying:
Friday, Aug. 29: Tulips by Night Divisional Touring Rally
Saturday, Aug. 30: Lewis Carroll’s Concurrent Twins (choose one)
Tweedledum Divisional Course Rally, or
Tweedledee Divisional Touring Rally
Sunday, Aug. 31: Milburn Pennybags Presents Divisional GTA Rally
Our Objective:
To provide a 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. For occasional rally teams, or for Regional rally teams, we believe these Divisional rallies will offer an easy introduction to the next step of SCCA road-rallying.
We will conduct our rallies in accordance with the SCCA’s Road Rally 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 is a delightful gem in the heart of historic Columbia, Ill. Developed on the grounds of the former Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and School, the hotel is the anchor of a new complex that includes a restaurant, coffeehouse (breakfast/lunch), hotel bar, swimming pool, patios, event space, meeting rooms, and sports bar (which, hopefully, will be open by Labor Day weekend). Main Street restaurants and pubs also are within easy walking distance of the hotel.
Room rate: $109/night + tax (2 people/2 beds). The Principal Hotel will hold a block of rooms for the rally until May 30. To obtain our group rate, use the link below, and reserve your 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, the rate for Thursday evening is $98/night + tax.
When you register, the hotel will charge the first night’s stay + tax as a deposit, which is fully refundable if you cancel at least 24 hours ahead of your scheduled arrival.
Things to do: There are numerous good restaurants and inviting shops in Columbia, as well as several golf courses nearby. World Wide Technology Raceway and Fairmont Park (Fanduel Sportsbook & Horse Racing), are all a 20–40 minute drive from the hotel, as are 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 Labor Day weekend, but if you linger through Labor Day, they are at home Sept. 1 for a 1:15 p.m. game against the (soon-to-be) Las Vegas Athletics.
Good things to know: Our rally headquarters offers easy access to St. Louis Lambert International Airport.
Provisional Schedule:
Friday, Aug. 15
6:00 p.m.: Drawing for car numbers, General Instructions mailed
Friday, Aug. 29
3:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.: Registration and check-in
6:00 p.m. –10:00 p.m.: Tulips by Night Divisional Touring Rally
Saturday, Aug. 30
8:30 a.m.–9:30 a.m.: Late check-in and registration
9:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m.: Lewis Carroll’s Twins Concurrent Rallies (the Touring rally will depart first, followed by the Course rally)
Sunday, Aug. 31
9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m.: Late check-in and registration
10:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.: Milburn Pennybags Presents GTA
1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m.: Awards presentation and good-byes
More Good Things to Know:
Sunset, Friday, Aug. 29: 7:34 p.m. CDT; civil twilight, 8:04 p.m.; astronomical twilight, 9:08 p.m. (Now, it’s dark.)
Moon phase, Aug. 29: Waxing Crescent (illumination 36.06%)
Timing and scoring:
Tulips by Night and the Lewis Carroll Twins will use Rich Bireta’s Richta GPS checkpoint system for timing and scoring. To compete, each participating team will need a smartphone or tablet with active data cellular service (no airplane mode and no wi-fi only devices!). The Richta Checkpoint app will report your arrival time and leg score to your cellphone or tablet moments after you pass each GPS checkpoint location. For more information about the system visit richtarally.com. Also, the SCCA Detroit Region's rally page has a good summary of the Richta system, especially its Competitor App: www.drscca.org/rally/using-the-richta-competitor-app.
Classes: Equipped, GPS, Limited, and Stock—per the RRRs.
Information:
James H. Heine, Chairman
2025 Gateway Divisional RoadRally Weekend
3955 Bowen Street
St. Louis, MO 63116-3125
314-922-6120
roadrallychair@stlscca.org.
Registrar:
Rose vonHatten
rose.vonh@gmail.com
Website: scca.org or stlscca.org.
Entry Fees:
Weekend (all three days): $135.00 for SCCA member teams; $155.00 for nonmember teams, which includes a $20.00 Weekend Membership for the primary nonmember entrant—the person paying the entry fee—and a free SCCA Trial Membership for the co-entrant.
An SCCA member team is defined as one in which at least one member is a regular member of the SCCA. In such cases, the non-SCCA member will receive a free SCCA Trial Membership for the weekend. In a non-SCCA-member team, as noted, the primary entrant will receive a Weekend Membership and the co-entrant will receive a free Trial Membership.
Single-Day Entries:
$50.00 for SCCA member teams. A non-member team will be charged the $20.00 Weekend Membership fee only once during the weekend; that is, if the team, for example, enters both the Saturday and Sunday rallies, the team will 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, is a 70,000-member motorsports organization that is home to autocross, track days, time trials, rally, and road racing at both the amateur and professional levels. With headquarters in Topeka, Kan., the SCCA annually sanctions more than 2,000 events through its 115 Regions and subsidiary divisions. Much of the SCCA’s activities are made possible with support from the following Official Partners: Tire Rack, the Official Tire Retailer of SCCA; Sunoco, the Official Fuel of SCCA; Hawk Performance, the Official Brake Products of SCCA; Hagerty, the Official Insurance Provider of SCCA; and IMSA, the International Motor Sports 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 provide safe environments for individuals to enjoy their street-legal (daily driver) vehicles and purpose-built racecars. The region, chartered in 1949, 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 stlscca.org or the region’s Facebook page.
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 duoculture 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 2025, with great pleasure.
Event requirements
Rules and Waivers:
The standard SCCA rules regarding RoadRallies 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.