Sorry, no pics as I forgot the old 5 mp Kodak camera my girlfriend at that time got for me many years ago (like 2006), and I don't have a smart phone.
I do need to correct that for/by STPR next (early) June.
I am planning on going to either Duryea, or Weatherly (or BOTH if I can make it), since I missed Pagoda.
I ran the 195/60-15 Arctic 12s at 50 psi cold front, and 47 psi cold rear, both for the 9 hour trip up there and back, and for getting to and running down the stage roads.
I figured it was better to wear the centers down more so than the edges which are needed more for cornering bite on gravel/dust/mud.
Also, someone at Team O'Neil once told me that the Arctics need to be run at much higher pressures than actual gravel tires, obviously due to the much thinner, 100 times easier to puncture/slice on sharp rocks, and mushier, NOT reinforced side walls than the 'cast iron' hard, reinforced side walls of
real rally tires (as you know/have discovered from running SCCA Rallycross events).
I barely have a single scratch on the Skid Plate Guy plate, so I guess I was raised up enough on the factory suspension, and big side wall 24.2" tall tires, to avoid contact (and they painted mostly all of the 'baby's head' rocks with day glow orange safety paint, making them easy to avoid - THANK YOU stage prep crews!!
).
The Rally Armor flaps also came through unscathed.
To work these events now one must register with USAC, YES, the very same mostly dirt sprint car, 'roundy-round' sanctioning body which now owns the American Rally Association, and provides their insurance ->(which is supposedly the main reason that the SCCA dropped Pro rallying in 2005, due to overly elevated premiums for Pro Rallying).
This could have something to do with WHY Hoosier has started to make real rally tires (which like half of the field now runs instead of Michelin, D-Mack, Pirelli, Yokohama, etc.), since that coincided with the USAC/ARA becoming a US rally sanctioning body.
You do NOT have to pay their dues/membership fees to work the rallies, but you can if you want to be a full member (the competitors MUST join, just like all participants in any SCCA event above the Solo level of competition).
From there, a Stage Captain will contact you by email to give you any pertinent info on what to bring, and where/when the first main stage crew meeting is to be held at the event.
There are only two in our even general area though, STPR in the Wellsboro area, up near the NY state line, almost out to Bradford, and NEFR set in central western Maine/eastern N.H.
Unless you feel like traveling to the upper midwest, inter-mountain west, or Pac West coast for events, in which case you might as well go to Mexico for a REAL international/world class event, with top level cars and 'pilots', the WRC round held in the Guanajuato region.
A LONG time ago, before I got into working these things, there was a national Pro Rally held in the Poconos, but the last one was like 1986 or so.
IF using your personal car (vs. a rental car), working these events is NOT for the OCD/overly meticulous/car show crew, like some on here who always garage their FiST, wash it every other day, wax it once a week, and store it for the full winter, since it WILL get VERY dusty if the conditions are bone dry, or caked with mud/silt if wet.
The dust is this ultra fine soft stuff that makes fine baking flour seem downright gritty, and it gets
EVERYWHERE, especially in the engine compartment, (YES, even with a skid plate blocking so much of the bottom of the engine bay!), and I'm sure the radiator, and intercooler (which I will air blast from the inside out this week, along with changing out the cabin and engine air filters), and on the interior/dash.