Tulips & Other Spring Flowers

Saturday, April 12, 2025

An SCCA Touring RoadRally/Social Evening Starting At World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Ill., and Ending at Schlafly's Highland Square Brew Pub in Highland, Ill.

Description: Tulips & Other Spring Flowers is an evening/nighttime Monte-Carlo-style RoadRally/tour of about 60 miles. We have designed the event with the new/occasional rally team in mind. Expect paved roads, easy-to-follow tulip diagrams for route instructions, and checkpoint locations identified by official mileages and arrival times. Timing will be in minutes and seconds, with checkpoint arrival times calculated to whole minutes. After the rally, stick around to enjoy conversation and hospitality at our finish location.

Start: World Wide Technology Raceway, 700 Raceway Blvd, Madison, IL 62060

.Finish: Schlafly Highland Square, 907 Main St. Highland, IL 62249

Size of the field: We are limiting the field to 25 teams.

Registration: Online only here at MotorsportReg.com. No on-site registration. Entries on a first-come basis. Registration closes Wednesday, April 9, at 11:59 p.m.

Provisional Schedule:

April 12 check-in: 4:45 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the start.
Safety meeting/Rally School Q&A: 6:00 p.m.
First car departs the start: 6:31 p.m.
First car arrives at the finish: approximately 8:30 p.m.

What you need:

A vehicle
A driver and navigator
A smartphone or tablet with the Richta GPS Competitor App installed (this app, free from Google Play or Apple’s App Store, is our timing and scoring system--see timing and scoring note below for more details)
A map light or similar device
A clipboard and calculator, pencils and paper
A happy inclination to take a springtime evening drive

What you don’t need: Special rally lights on your vehicle. (Your OEM headlights should do just fine.)

Entry fee: $30.00 per team for SCCA teams, $50.00 per team for non-member teams. An SCCA team is defined as a team in which at least one participant is an SCCA member. The $50.00 entry fee for a nonmember team includes a $20.00 SCCA Weekend Membership for the team’s “primary entrant,” i.e., the member who pays the entry fee. The other member of a non-SCCA team will receive a free SCCA Trial Membership (as will any non-SCCA member of an SCCA team).

Information: James H. (Jim) Heine, rallymaster, 314.922.6120; roadrallychair@stlscca.org.

Good things to know: As indicated above, we will use the Richta Rally GPS Checkpoint System for timing and scoring. To compete, each participating team must have a smartphone or tablet with active data cellular service (no airplane mode and no wi-fi only devices) with the Richta Competitor App installed. The app will report your arrival time and leg score to your cellphone or tablet moments after you pass each GPS checkpoint location. To download the app, search for "Competitor Richta" or "Richta GPS Competitor App" at Google Play or in Apple’s App Store. For more information about the Richta GPS system visit https://richtarally.com.

The SCCA Detroit Region’s rally page has an excellent summary of the Richta system, especially its Competitor App. Visit http://drscca.org/rally/using-the-richta-competitor-app. It’s is worth your time.

Finally, April 12 is a full-moon night. If Mother Nature cooperates, we will have a beautiful evening.

About the St. Louis Region, SCCA: The SCCA’s St. Louis Region, with some 600 members, offers Road Racing, Performance Driving Experience (PDE), RallyCross, RoadRally, Solo (autocross), and Street Survival School programs to educate and provide safe environments for individuals to enjoy their street-legal (daily driver) cars 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. To learn more about the St. Louis Region, visit www.stlscca.org.