SCRRC Rules

Championship Format

The SCCA Southern California RoadRally Championship Series is presented by CalClub’s two affiliated rally clubs - the Santa Monica Sports Car Club and the Into the Night Rally Team. The competition year begins on January 1st and ends on December 31st.

Each event in the Championship shall be conducted as an SCCA-sanctioned Regional RoadRally. Each Regional event in the Championship shall be conducted according to its own set of General Instructions. 

• SMSCC General Instructions

The general instructions above should cover all you need to know for this series. If you want to learn more about more advanced road rally, you can read the National rules. National or Divisional events will be run in accordance with the National Rules:

• SCCA RoadRally Rules 

Event Duration

Each event in the Championship should be a minimum of 105 minutes and a maximum of 240 minutes in (instructed) duration Start to Finish. Events longer than 120 minutes of (instructed) rally duration shall have rest breaks of at least 15 minutes per 120 minutes of (instructed) rally duration. Breaks must be at locations where adequate rest rooms are available. Each event in the Championship should finish at a location which has food, drink and rest rooms available.

Championship Points

The annual series Championship shall be awarded based on each entrant’s total points from only their five highest-scoring events, regardless of class. There is no limit to the number of Championship events an entrant may run, but only their top five scores will be counted toward the Championship. Championship points shall be awarded for each event based on the entrant’s finishing position in the class they entered for that event. Points shall be awarded as follows for each event.

Position (in class) Points

 1 10

2 8

3 6

4 5

5 4

6 3

7 2

8 1

WORKER POINTS

Each Rally Chairperson shall designate up to four workers to receive 10 Championship points per worker for that specific event. Each worker may receive up to 30 total Championship points per year in this manner.
 

ANNUAL CHAMPIONSHIP AWARDS

Championship awards shall be given to the top 3 entrants with the highest point totals for the year, regardless of class.