Buccaneer Region SCCA -
May the 4th Be With You Road Rally Episode II:
Attack of the Clocks

Sunday May 4th, 2025

Check-in: 9:15am, First Car Out: 10:00am

Our most successful road rally is back! This time with more prizes, more trivia, and a route that follows Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones movie!

New for 2025!
Prizes for best dressed or costume, best decorated car, best Chewbacca impression, and more!

Each team will be tasked with tracking down Padmé's attempted assassin by traversing the busy streets of Coruscant, then track the mysterious bounty hunter to Kamino where you'll discover the droid army the federation has been manufaturing in secret, then on to Geonosis to battle Count Duku before reporting back to the Jedi council.

We are excited to announce our latest road rally event for the greater Jacksonville area, with a Star Wars theme! Each car will drive on paved public roads using a set of predefined route instructions through various checkpoints using the Richta Road Rally mobile application. Participants will be scored based on their arrival time at each of the defined checkpoints. We will start at a fast food restaurant near downtown Jacksonville where cars will depart 1 minute apart. The finish will be a sit down restaurant, at the Saint Johns Town Center, where scoring, awards, and lunch will be available (you are responsible for purchasing your own food, we encourage everyone to eat and support the location).

New to road rally or unsure what this is all about? Check out this (somewhat lengthy but humorous) video explaination.

Any car is allowed, such that it meets all Florida state laws and is insured to meet the state’s minimum requirements. A valid driver's license and proof of insurance will be required at on-site registration. Each car is allowed as many people as there are seatbelts in the vehicle, but each car is suggested to have at least 2 people, a driver and a navigator. There will be a starting location, a calibration zone, free/transit zones, unmanned checkpoints, followed by a checkpoint near the finish location. Team numbers will be assigned but the starting order will be determined at random.

There are three available classes for this rally: Stock, Limited and Seat of Your Pants. Visit https://www.scca.com/pages/roadrally-rules for official class descriptions and rules. Below are some examples of the types of setups used in each class.

Stock: Using your vehicle's stock trip/odometer, smartphone as a calculator, and a stopwatch (perhaps the same or another smartphone). This is the most common class and recommended for novices.
Limited: Using the car’s built in navigation system to show distance traveled, a 3rd party GPS tracking system via mobile app (i.e. Richta Odometer, Maps, or a Odometer/Trip app), as long as that information isn’t transferable to the calculating device (i.e. can't be the same smartphone running the app and calculations).
SOP: Just your odometer, pens/pencils, stopwatch, and gut instincts. No calculator of any kind.

Online registration for the driver and navigator is required.

Starting Location: Panera Bread (10 Riverside Ave, Jacksonville, FL 32202)
Finishing Location: Saint Johns Town Center (final location TBD)
Registration Fee: $30 for SCCA members, $50 for non-SCCA members (weekend membership required)
Estimated Duration: XX (TBD) miles, likely just over 2hrs in duration, breaks are allowed along the way at your leisure.
Required Equipment: Dedicated smart phone with Richta Competitor mobile app, cannot be used while the rally is active. Download at https://richtarally.com/
Recommended Equipment: Clipboard, pencils/pens, highlighters, stopwatches (smartphone ok), calculator, secondary (and/or 3rd) smartphone

Event Schedule:
Thursday May 1st 11:59pm - Online event registration closes
Sunday May 4th 9:15am - On-site check in opens
Sunday May 4th 10:00am - First car out
Sunday May 4th 12:00pm (estimated) - First car arrives
Sunday May 4th 1:00pm (estimated) - Award ceremony