Stop! Don’t click that “Register” button for your next SCCA® Targa event just yet! We’ve got some important news that could save you hundreds!
First, though: What is SCCA Targa? It’s a four-day motorsports adventure that maximizes fun behind the wheel. Each day features at least one on-track experience, which you can share with a teammate. Rather than a brief session at each location, SCCA Targa delivers multiple days of driving, camaraderie, and unforgettable road trips, all alongside fellow enthusiasts – your future friends. It’s also something you can enter right now. Think we’ve already announced this? You’re absolutely right – we have! But truth be known, there was one nugget we neglected to mention because, frankly, we hadn’t thought of it yet.
We’ll get to that, but back to that existential question: What is SCCA Targa?
The 2026 SCCA Targa calendar includes four events, each one four days in length. There’s Targa Tex-ish, which runs April 29-May 2, visiting tracks in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and back to Texas. Targa Carolinas takes place June 10-13, with stops in North Carolina and South Carolina. Targa New England follows on July 15-18, traveling through Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire (with an evening visit to Mt. Washington), and Pennsylvania. Then Targa Great Lakes wraps the season on July 29-Aug. 1, featuring circuits in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois (plus an optional ferry ride across Lake Michigan).
Peruse all of the SCCA Targa events in detail.
SCCA Targa is something you won’t want to miss – and the only way to guarantee you won’t be sitting on the sidelines is by registering right now.
What wasn’t announced in that article, however, is that a new class will be offered at all four of this year’s SCCA Targas.
“The new class is called the ‘Targa Experience,’ and it allows drivers to enter any of the SCCA Targa events and run without scoring,” explains SCCA’s Manager of Time Trials John Hunter. “That means your lap times and TrackSprint segments will not be timed. This does a couple of things. One, it removes the competition element from your event, which in turn reduces stress. Some drivers thrive on that pressure – others, not so much. The Targa Experience class enables teams to enter the event purely for the thrill of the drive, eliminating the stress of the scoring. And two, for those looking to obtain track insurance for the event – like through SCCA partner Hagerty – entering a non-timed track day often puts you in a lower insurance price bracket.”
To register for the Targa Experience class, after selecting your experience level (Novice, Intermediate, or Advanced), you then select “EX” for “Experience.”
Regardless of whether your time is scored at the SCCA Targa event of your choosing, pricing remains the same, as does the 10% discount to the Tire Rack SCCA Time Attack Challenge weekend that takes place alongside the final stop of each SCCA Targa.
NOW you can register!
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(Editor’s note: This article was updated to add Evan Williams to the list of 2025 RallyCross® TripleCross winners. Our apologies for the oversight.)
For many drivers, the ultimate victory is earning an SCCA® National Championship title. For RallyCrossers, there’s a step further: the TripleCross.
Earning a TripleCross is far from simple – it involves winning a Regional RallyCross, a National Challenge, and a National Championship all in the same class in the same year. This is an accomplishment nobody can sneeze at, regardless of how freshly cut the grass around the RallyCross course is. For some, a TripleCross is years in the making. For others, it’s a target they can hit nearly every time.
This year, six members took home TripleCross honors, with three of those accomplishing the feat for the first time, one claiming their second TripleCross, one earning their fourth, and another having their 2025 TripleCross trophy be their fifth.
First Timers
Washington DC Region member Michael Golden, Texas Region’s Todd Briley, and Tennessee Region’s Evan Williams all earned their very first TripleCross trophies during the 2025 season.
Golden’s class is Stock Rear, with his Regional win coming during an event hosted by his home Region. His Divisional Challenge gold medal was earned not far from home during the Great Lakes RallyCross Divisional Challenge at Jackson County Junior Fairgrounds in Cottage, WV. He then locked in the TripleCross award with a win at the RallyCross National Championship in Hollytree Off Road in October.
Todd Briley’s class of choice was Modified All – his choice for a location? A little bit of everywhere. Briley’s Regional win came in Colorado during a Colorado Region event. His Challenge win? That came at the same event as Golden’s, in West Virginia. Then, of course, he traveled to Alabama for the National Championship event.
The class of choice for Evan Williams was UTV Sport, where he clinched the National Championship title by a scant 2.581sec after two days of competition. His Regional win came at a Tennessee Valley Region event, while his Challenge victory was had at the Southeast Divisional Challenge, hosted at Hollytree Off Road. Not bad for a RallyCross Nationals rookie – although it should be mentioned that his RallyCross National Championship winner’s trophy and TripleCross award will join the trophy he earned in 2024 when he won at the Solo® National Championships. Also on that shelf are trophy finish awards from the 2022, 2023, and 2025 Solo Nats.
For Golden and Briley, this was their first SCCA National Championship title.
Back for Seconds
Earning his second TripleCross in 2025 was Wichita Region member Timothy Thompson.
Thompson’s first RallyCross National Championship title came in 2022, but it wasn’t until the following year when the chips landed in place for his first TripleCross. In 2025, running the same Stock All class that he won his previous RallyCross National Championship titles in in 2022 and 2023, Thompson added the National Championship title to his Northeast Oklahoma Regional win and Midwest Divisional Challenge at Billy Bob’s Billings RallyX Farm in Billings, OK, to clinch his second TripleCross award.
Four and More
Earning one TripleCross is hard, but earning four is downright madness – just don’t tell Prepared Rear driver Shawn Roberts that, because for him, racking up TripleCross awards is seemingly just something a person does.
Hailing from the same Region as Michael Golden, Roberts added to his 2020, 2021, and 2024 TripleCross trophy shelf with another Prepared Rear TripleCross in 2025. His wins came at a Washington DC Regional and the Southern Sweet Tea Classic Southeast Divisional Challenge, held at the same location as where he earned his 2025 National Championship.
This means Roberts has yet to win a RallyCross National Championship without it also coming with a TripleCross.
Leading the charge this year with the most TripleCross awards is Kansas Region’s Mark Hill. His 2025 RallyCross National Championship win was the sixth of his career, with an impressive five of those also coming with a TripleCross award (2019, 2020, 2021, 2024 and, of course, 2025). Beyond the National Championship win, in 2025, he took Prepared All wins at a Kansas City Regional and the Midwest RallyCross Divisional Challenge.
Are you one of SCCA’s next TripleCross winners? Find an SCCA RallyCross event near you and get to work!
(Looking for an inside line on the Club? “Inside the SCCA” is a podcast that features interviews with the Club’s leading personalities, but it’s not owned by SCCA®. Instead, it’s an independent media outlet managed by Rule 15 Productions and hosted by longtime SCCA member and journalist Brian Bielanski. He uses the Club’s name with permission.)
On this special episode of the Inside the SCCA podcast, host Brian Bielanski is joined by SCCA’s Vice President of Road Racing Eric Prill, where he announces the location of the 2027 and 2028 SCCA® National Championship Runoffs®.
Spoiler alert: The event will take place at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, with specific dates confirmed for 2027.
Watch (or listen to) the podcast below, then talk about it on SCCA Road Racing’s official Facebook group.
An audio version is also available:
