Every month (except December), on a Sunday afternoon, the Blue Ridge Mountain Sports Car Club sponsors a Road Rally, which is an amateur, competetive, friendly sporting event. All you need is a car with a standard odometer, a stopwatch, a non-programmable calculator, and a pen. A typical rally team is one driver and one navigator. The driver must be of legal driving age and the vehicle must be street-legal and properly inspected and insured.

The routes consist of lightly-traveled rural roads in the vicinity of Pittsburgh. If nothing else, a Road Rally is a wonderfully scenic drive through parts of Pennsylvania you'd otherwise never see.

Despite the club's name, ownership or even passion for sports cars is not a requirement. We get folks driving every kind of car you can think of. Some of our rallies, especially in the warmer months, are specifically designed for those who do want to bring out their precious garage queens. We try to warn participants in advance if a rally will be travelling on unpaved roads.

The club is governed by a board of directors that meets at least yearly. It has determined that many rules, such as scoring penalties and definitions, will be determined on a rally by rally basis and clearly written in the General Instructions (or Generals, for short) for each rally. However, some things, such as the determination of "classes" (the division of who is competing against who) must remain the same from rally to rally.

Although we don't require it, we do encourage rallymasters to allow folks in the Novice class to have extra passengers in the car. (Normally, there is a penalty for more than two people in the car.) By doing this we're encouraging folks to come out and have fun with old friends and meet new folks. Once your past Novice level you won't need the extra help!

Another thing we don't require is membership in the group to participate in any BRMSCC event. All rallies and the yearly dinner/awards meeting is open to anyone. Participating in a rally usually has a fee of $7; "Night Owl" and picnic rallies are usually a little more, say about $10-15. This fee applies to the whole car. Your only other expenses is for gas, and food, should you choose to join us in the post-rally "Food & Berate the Rallymaster" fest where we gather to compare notes and good-naturedly harass the Rallymaster for the mistakes we make.

Coming soon, copies of our newsletter, The Checkpoint.

For further information about the Blue Ridge Mountain Sports Car Club, feel free to contact any of the following members:

Esther Filderman (moose+ATcmu.edu)
Jenny Ladd (jny+ATcmu.edu)

Or call (412) 322-6368
Get information about our next rally.

Go to the main TSD rally page.