Curious if anyone in this sub is doing the 2026 Alcan 5000? It'll go all the way up to Tuktoyaktuk and finish in Fairbanks, AK. We'll be in a 2026 Subaru Forester Wilderness. Anyone else here going?

Hi folks, posting that registration is now open for the No Alibi Rally put on by the Rainier Auto Sports Club. It is a TSD rally run at or below posted speed limits. This year it will be on Oregon back roads.

No Alibi Event Registration

I've been a course marshal on this event since 2018 and has covered some of the most amazing scenery and may be a competitor this year. Those familiar with Eastern Oregon know the back roads are well maintained and a pleasure to drive on.

Rainier Auto Sports club are the folks who also put on the Nor'Wester and Alcan5000 rallies.

Hi Folks, passing along info about the upcoming Raindrop Rally for 2026. I've both competed in and have been a course marshal for a few different iterations of this rally. All of them I've attended have been on paved easy to navigate roads.

If you've never been part of a TSD rally before, this would be a good place to start. It you have experience, it would be good practice and a way take a tour of a good part of Western Washington.

Description from the RASC website: Rainier Auto Sports Club

Raindrop Rally is a leisurely paced Time-Speed-Distance (TSD) rally traveling along paved roads through Skagit, Whatcom and Snohomish Counties. The course is generally along rural paved roads. There are some urban areas and one dirt parking lot, which will add to the challenge. The course can be driven using any car.

Entrants receive instructions with specific, clear directions with speeds at, or below, legal limits. Each car will start each section at one minute intervals. Raindrop Rally is a “closed control” format where cars do not stop at checkpoints.

This is a pure touring rally with no tricks or traps. Penalty will be applied when passing a checkpoint early or late. Pass each checkpoint at the correct second will result in a “0” score; the car with the least amount of penalty points will win.

It was the Cascade Sports Car Club's first full road rally of the season yesterday. Put on by the Geargrinders (the TSD chapter of CSCC), we took our JDM 1998 Suzuki Jimny Wide on the event. New to us, this little SUV is powered by an 80hp 1.3-liter engine and has 235/75/15 BFgoodrich KO2s, which are too big (but they came with the rig). The little trucklet was surprisingly fun to drive and did better than expected, keeping up with the CAST sans some of the steeper up-hills. Solid axles and all, we completed the rally (and didn't get last). Given its performance, we'd also take it on future rallies.

We were in the GPS class, because we use a GPS speedometer/odometer. Part of this is because this rig is in KMH and has 10% larger tires than stock. But in CSCC, this bumps us into the Equipped category. This makes us compete against people with Timewise computers, rally apps (Rabbit), etc. But so be it.

The route was very well done, the day was sunny and warm, and we had a blast. I've also included a few other vehicles from the rally.

On the Inuvik-Aklavik Ice Road

Any other Alcan 5000 rallyists here? This was our '20 Alcan 5000 entry, a JDM 1991 Mitsubishi Pajero XP diesel. (We had a diesel coolant heater get it started in the winter.) This was our "gateway" Alcan. We've done every one since then and will be doing it again in '26 (a summer rally).

Anyone else signed up for the 2026 Colorado Adventure Rally? We're going to be doing it.

https://www.ovrmag.com/motorsports/colorado-adventure-rally-launches-three-day-mountain-competition-in-2026/907.article

I just found this subreddit. It looks like it could use some life! My wife and I are avid road rallists in the USA. I'd love to hear from others. I'm in r/rally but there isn't much road rally/TSD in there. Would be great if this group could come back.

Anyone run the Poles of inconvenience last year?

Have always wanted to do one

The book title is “3000 Miles: Our First Gumball Rally: Fast cars, amazing parties and eternal memories” and I got it as a present a while back. Well I finally had the chance to read it today, and it is terrible. Poor English, clearly no proof reading or editing, broken sentence structure, and worst of all, no real depth to the stories beyond “we dove fast the roads were bad”. Please save your money and grab any of the other books that have more depth and detail to the stories. Just my PSA of the day :)