Ohio Winter Rally
February 1 @ 2:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Neohio Region, SCCA invites you to enter the 2025 Ohio Winter Rally (OWR). This annual hivernal tour of the Lake Erie “snowbelt” counties of far northeastern Ohio dates back to at least 1966. It was one of the core events of the long lamented Ohio Rally Championship (ORC) series.
Competitors can expect an absolutely straightforward, gimmick-free, Time-Speed-Distance (TSD) road rally with emphasis on precise timing at well placed controls. Columnar “tulip” style route instructions, with Official Mileages for all action points (similar to a stage rally routebook), will be used. The ~165 mile route will wind through Ohio’s Geauga, Ashtabula, and surrounding counties.
The rally’s difficulty will be dictated by prevailing road and weather conditions. Competitors should come prepared to spend extended periods outside in severe winter conditions.
In an effort to help teams with limited prior timekeeping experience stay on schedule, and to mitigate the possibility of “double jeopardy” penalties from carrying a timing error through multiple controls, parenthetical perfect cumulative leg times will be provided at all speed change locations.
The rally will count toward both the SCCA Great Lakes Division (GLD) Rally Championship, and the SCCA National Touring Rally (NTR) Championship (Divisional Rally).
