Our Next Rally
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Blue Ridge Mountain Sports Car Club
Presents:
(Rail)Road to El Dorado
Date: May 17th 2026
Registration: Registration is at 1:00 PM and the first car starts at 2:01 PM. Rally fee is $10.
Start:
Sheetz 1100 Center Ave, Butler, PA 16001
Coordinates: 40.8459 N 79.8821 W
Midpoint: Parker / Foxburg, PA
End: Compadres Mexican Restaurant, 101 Clearview Cir, Butler PA 16001 (Clearview Mall, 10 min from start)
Description: Rallymaster Rob tells us: A tour rally of about 75 miles roughly following the extant Buffalo & Pittsburgh and former Baltimore & Ohio north to Eldorado (an unincorporated community in northern Butler County, not the legendary city of gold) with transit zone midpoint in Parker and Foxburg, and then back again. Should take about 3.5 hours. Paved roads and unpaved roads will be used. Some moon crater sections where CAS will be low. No intentional course following traps. Open and DIY controls will be used.
What beginners should bring with them:
For starters - there should be two of you in the car: a driver, and a navigator (who isn't inclined to get car-sick reading while moving, or has an antidote for it).
Bring a mechanically sound car* that has a tenths -reading odometer (a resettable trip odometer can be a help), a clipboard, a four function calculator, several working pens, a set of highlighters (for marking up the route instructions) and post-it notes.
If you can choose between a mechanical odometer that "rolls" and a digital display, the mechanical will enable you to interpolate to the hundredths. If you only have the digital tenths, then you'll have to do a lot more "guessing" in between the numbers clicking over. We have folks who have gotten good at this with practice!
While every team has their own procedure, it's useful to be able to highlight things like speed changes, and free zones (remember - there is a tutorial to get you started!) so that "on the road" it helps you remember them better. The post-its are to stick on your dashboard to remind the driver of the assigned speeds and what the active course following priorities are.
Also - having a good map of the area that includes secondary (and tertiary roads) can be very helpful if you get lost and can't regain the rally course.
*While a cell phone and a AAA membership can't hurt, a lot of the time, we'll be traveling on roads that are well off the beaten track, and you may not have much of a description of where you are! "Well - we got here by turning left after "Snodgrass", then right at T, and left by protection... " While a GPS unit probably won’t help you very much while running the rally, it may be very useful for telling AAA where you are if you break down.
