2024 Northern Lights ORRC & SNATR
Northern Lights is a navigational rally organized by KWRC. Navigational rallies involve finding your way along a network of paved and gravel roads while staying on time, neither early or late. Average speeds are usually 10% below the posted limits. There are instructions for beginners in the Leg B SNATR (Saturday Night at the Rallies). You can see some sample instructions here.
For the expert classes the challenge is the navigation, mostly based on maps. For the novice ORRC and the SNATR competitors the instructions are easier but still fun.
The Ontario Road Rally Championship (ORRC) event starts and finishes in St, Jacobs, a little north of Kitchener-Waterloo. If you just want to run the shorter SNATR that is fine and it costs less.
Start of Leg A, End of Leg A, Beginning of Leg B & SNATR
Tim Hortons in St. Jacobs
1229 King St N, St. Jacobs, ON N0B 2N0
GPS 43.5318, -80.5553
(Map)
Registration opens at 10:00, first car leaves at 11:01 for Leg A (the ORRC)
Leg A ends about 1:00PM
First car starts leg B at 1:31
If you are only doing the SNATR registration starts at 1:00PM
End of both Rallies
Harvest Moon Restaurant
5 Parkside Dr, St. Jacobs, ON N0B 2N0
GPS 43.5447, -80.5518
(Map)
The finish will be about 4:00PM
If you’d like to run both legs of the rally for experience but don’t want to get championship points you are welcome to do that for just the $20 SNATR fee.
Instruction levels for the SNATR are Beginner & Experienced , for the ORRC Novice & Expert.
If you are running leg A as a newer competitor you will have to use the harder novice instructions, there won’t be beginner instructions for Leg A.
How to enter:
1) Fill out our entry form
2) Complete our online annual waiver if you haven’t done one this year https://kwrc.speedwaiver.com/loqph
You need to do this on a smart phone as it wants to take your picture.
3) Pay by e- transfer to treasurer@kwrc.on.ca, or by credit card using MotorSportReg.com http://msreg.com/KWRC-NL-24 Cash works too.
Make sure you bring your valid vehicle ownership and insurance slips with you to the start, as well as a permission letter if you are not the owner of the vehicle.
Check out the brief overview of navigational rallying
Here are some sample instructions.
Event Organizers
Event Essentials
- $50 / $20 Entry fee
Event Forms
We've posted the essential and good to have forms in .pdf format so you can read them and fill them out ahead of time if needed. This could be important if you plan to run with a minor for whom who you do not have guardianship authority or if you want to register before the event.
Entry Form