| So what is a Rally?My love of rallying began at school | | | | showed much interest in TSD rally although we did |
| at Tennessee Tech. About once a month, the Golden | | | | have some fun events.They did however support |
| Eagle Sports Car Club would have a navigational road | | | | Rally Racing and Rally Cross. Rallycross is where you |
| rally. In these events we would follow a set of route | | | | race in a field on a miniature road course marked by |
| instructions and arrive at secret checkpoint locations | | | | pylons or barrels. This sport has been lots of fun in my |
| along the route. You either had to arrive at the correct | | | | Jeep. It reminds me of the days when my grandfather |
| time or get the answers to questions along the way - | | | | would send me out to the field to get a part off a |
| sometimes both.Being engineering majors and sports | | | | dozer and I would slalom the pickup through the junk |
| car nuts, my roommate and I took well to this game. | | | | tractors.Then there is Rally racing. This is where you |
| We instantly began looking at ways to improve our | | | | run a gravel road through the forest as fast as you |
| skills. We wrote crude calculator programs to figure | | | | can. The sport is normally dominated by Subaru's and |
| our time and worked to improve the accuracy of our | | | | Mitsubishi's but I have had a lot of low budget fun |
| odometers. Since most of the events were at night, | | | | racing a Jeep Cherokee. I have raced with both |
| we built lots of lighting gadgets to see both inside the | | | | SCCA and NASA on Stage rally races and I have |
| car and out.Later our efforts evolved into the | | | | been working as an official with Rally America. Rally |
| CompuRally computer software that both measures | | | | Racing is definitely the ultimate way to get an |
| and calculates TSD rally information. We ran the | | | | adrenaline boost in the woods.Mike Strawbridge is a |
| SCCA national circuit and got a couple of first place | | | | avid ralliest in all its forms. He uses the skills he has |
| trophies before moving on to other interests. I still like to | | | | learned there to help others improve their businesses. |
| run a regional rally with the Georgia Sports car club or | | | | See for more info. |
| TLSCC in middle Tennessee. My local region never | | | | |