As of Monday, Sept. 11, 31 rally cars had registered for the 46th Annual Waste Management STPR® Super Regional Car Rally this Friday and Saturday, Sept. 15 and 16 with 12 stages of competitive rallying on forestry roads in Tioga and Potter counties and two Friday stages on Waste Management, Inc. property, near Wellsboro. Registration remains open until Thursday, Sept. 14.

The majority of the 31 entries are from Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio with other East Coast states also represented. Waste Management STPR® Super Regional driver and co-driver (navigator) point scores will count towards the American Rally Association East Regional Championship series.

Each STPR® rally team will race their cars in stages on closed public and private roads, trying to get from the beginning to the end of each stage as fast as they can.

The course includes a total of 14 stages with 103 competitive miles and 307 transit miles. While some stages are basically the same, others have new sections of road not used in decades.

People attending will be able to view rally action from four different spectator areas, three of them on forestry roads and the Jump Spectator Area on Waste Management property.

Spectators should bring food, water and lawn chairs. Portable toilets for the public will be available at each spectator area.

The Tioga County Fairgrounds in Whitneyville, near Wellsboro is rally headquarters. On Friday, Sept. 15 starting at approximately 2 p.m., rally cars are expected to be in 30-minute service at the fairgrounds. The cars will be serviced at Patterson Lumber in Galeton on Saturday.

STPR® will start this Friday, Sept. 15 (Day 1) at 9:30 a.m. when the first car leaves the fairgrounds to transit to the course. In the forest at the Asaph Picnic Area Spectator Area, fans will see the cars come through the sharp 90-degree right-hander on Stage 1 in Asaph in the morning starting at about 10:15 a.m. and again in the afternoon on Stage 5 in Asaph at about 3:15 p.m.

At the Wilson Point Spectator Area, the cars will come through Stage 2 beginning around 11 a.m. and Stage 6 at about 4 p.m. maneuvering around a hay-bale chicane at a tight corner.

Also on Friday, event sponsor Waste Management will host two stages on its property just outside of Wellsboro in Duncan Township. The exciting jump stage where cars can travel up to 125 feet in the air will be run twice on Friday afternoon with Stage 4 starting at about 1 p.m. and Stage 8 around 5:45 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 16 (Day 2) will begin with the Parc Exposé around The Green in downtown Wellsboro. All teams and their cars must be at The Green no later than 9:15 a.m. By 9:30 a.m., the rally cars will be parked on streets that border The Green to give fans the opportunity to see the cars up close, chat with the drivers and co-drivers, take photos and get autographs.

During the Parc Exposé, the competing rally cars will line up for the ceremonial start on Main Street in front of the Tioga County Courthouse. At 10:31 a.m., the first car will be flagged away from Main Street followed in one-minute intervals by the others. 

The rally teams will transit to the Shepard stage. Spectators at Spring Brook, the large new spectator area, will see the cars approach a T-intersection on a slight hill and after negotiating the T will leave on a gently winding wider road surface. Cars will start Stage 10 around 12:30 p.m. and Stage 12 at about 4 p.m.

At the Wilson Point spectator area, the cars will maneuver around a hay-bale chicane at a tight corner on Stage 11 beginning around 2:15 p.m. and do it again on Stage 13 at about 4:45 p.m. Wilson Pointis the only spectator area open both days.

The first car will finish the rally around 6:42 p.m. Saturday night at the fairgrounds.

The event will end at 8:45 p.m. with the traditional podium champagne spray for the winners.

Rally information is available on the STPR® website at www.stpr.org and at the American Rally Association at https://www.americanrallyassociation.org.