We are a small group of Atlantic Canada road #Rally enthusiasts dedicated to growing the sport within our region. Learn about road rallying here and on our website at https://roadrallyatlantic.ca!
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All good things must come to an end, and so it is with our 2025 Atlantic Region Motor Sports (ARMS) road rally season. For the first time in recent memory, we conducted five events on various surfaces and using both traditional and Richta/GPS scoring methods. We welcomed a number of new novice crews (all of whom performed amazingly well) and enjoyed the company and competition from a number of experienced crews possessing long motorsport histories.
The start control location for the Lost in Lunenburg #Rally on October 18 promises to be one of the most picturesque in recent memory!
Supplementary Regulations are now available for both the New Scotland Road Rally and Bluenose Rally! #rally
http://roadrallyatlantic.ca/2025/04/18/supplementary-regulations-may-rallies/
We continue our series highlighting route instruction types with "numbered turns." #rally #roadrally
Double the fun in May
For those of you not familiar with our climatic challenges here on the Atlantic coast of Canada, you may find it strange we have scheduling difficulties when it comes to motorsport events in the region. A short driving season (think May to November, if we’re lucky) and a number of track, rally and other events to fit in, scattered among clubs in four separate provinces, means our summer calendar is tight.
http://roadrallyatlantic.ca/2025/02/23/double-the-fun-in-may/
That’s a wrap – the 2025 Midwinter Moon is in the books!
It may not have been a perfect rally day (some of us were hoping for more snow and other weather challenges) but it was clear, cold, and breezy for the 2025 ASCC Rally of the Midwinter Moon. A ton of preparation had gone into the organization of this rally, and the rallymasters had all of the i's dotted and t's crossed - well, everything within their control anyway...
http://roadrallyatlantic.ca/2025/01/28/thats-a-wrap-the-2025-midwinter-moon-is-in-the-books/
Midwinter Moon looking good!
I was lucky enough to do the Richta CP and first route check today for this rally being held on January 25. The rally area is about 1.5 hours from home, so a relatively early start was in order. Arriving at the start venue in Shubenacadie, I reset everything and headed out on the rally route. My intention was to see how things worked for the first couple of sections and if that went sideways, I'd break off and head home to re-engineer some…
http://roadrallyatlantic.ca/2025/01/09/midwinter-moon-looking-good/
Supplementary Regulations for the #Rally of the Midwinter Moon (Jan. 25) are now available! Follow the link in the Resources page of the RRDG website.
https://roadrallyatlantic.ca/docs-and-regs/
Our updated Road Rally Manual is live!
Our chairperson, Chris P, has given our road rally manual the final touches and we've published a PDF copy on our Resources page. We hope it will be a valuable resource for road rally crews of all experience levels and, if you haven't competed yet, will give you the knowledge and confidence to tackle your first rally! And why not make that first rally the Midwinter Moon on January 25?
http://roadrallyatlantic.ca/2024/12/19/our-updated-road-rally-manual-is-live/
We're starting a new Mastodon group for road #rally @roadrally. If you're a road rally fan or participant, follow the group and contribute!
An Update
We hope you've been able to have a look at our website and make note of what we have to offer. Websites are always a work in progress and while ours is no different, I've removed the caveat that "we're still under construction." We've accomplished a few things since our last blog post. We've initiated a new Facebook group where we can make timely announcements, and exchange road rally information with like-minded enthusiasts, beginners and experts from around…
Our chairperson (who is also a long-time road rally navigator and organizer) has developed a road rally manual and speed tables for use by new and experienced road #rally crews. You can find them on our Resources page here:
https://roadrallyatlantic.ca/docs-and-regs/
Arguing with my wife is like reading a Software License agreement.
In the end you have to ignore everything and click "I agree".
Testing, testing
We've added a new page to the site. Test Rallies will provide information on the test rallies we've developed to help new or novice crews gain experience with road rally and to see how the Richta Rally system Competitor app works. These are short, comfortably-paced rallies with no traps, no obscure instructions, and various CPs to help crews get comfortable with Richta and the look and feel of a regional or club rally.
The 2026 HERO-ERA Badawi Trial to the Last Oasis classic endurance #rally was presented earlier today. The rally covers some 8000 km, mostly within Saudi Arabia, from Jeddah to Dubai.
Cars up to 1975 vintage are permitted The early-bird entry fee is the princely sum of 42000 British pounds, but a 10K deposit will hold your place.
Deep pockets? More info here:
https://www.hero-era.com/rallies/2026/03/badawi-trail-to-the-last-oasis-2026
Our website is coming along, and our chairperson and scribes are beavering away at our Road #Rally Manual geared towards new and novice competitors and rallymasters.
We're just 50 days away from our first 2025 road rally, the Rally of the #MidwinterMoon. Check our website and here for more info as the day nears!
The Venture Bound Motor Club will conduct their Winter Table-Top Rally from January 13 - 26, 2025. A couple of our group members have completed these in the past and they're a great way to improve #RoadRally navigation skills while having fun in the process. They're always well done, thought-provoking, and a lot of fun.
Have a look at the Venture Bound TTR site and sign up! #rally #TTR
#Intro Toot! We are the Road #Rally Development Group, a small organization of road rally enthusiasts in Atlantic Canada with a goal of promoting and growing our favourite motorsport within the region.
Follow us here and at https://roadrallyatlantic.ca for rally info, regulations, calendars, links and instructional material. We look forward to engaging with old and new rally fans on Mastodon!
