This SAFEisFast Video Explains Why Community Is Essential to SCCA's Success

“At SCCA, we’re a membership organization; we’re a Club,” SCCA® Vice President of Road Racing Eric Prill explains in a video recently released by SAFEisFast. “The community aspect is just as important as the racing. We like to say that people came for the cars and the racing, and they stayed for the people.”

The video is one of many that SAFEisFast produces about motorsports, covering everything from driver development to mental and physical training to driver safety and more. As part of the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) and headed by motorsports legend and SCCA Hall of Fame member Bobby Rahal, SAFEisFast has access to some of the biggest names in motorsport, offering invaluable insight.

Prill’s video is a quick watch, but covers a lot, offering viewers insight into the Club some may not be aware of.

“We actually govern all of our rules and races through volunteers, through members that do that,” Prill says of how the Sports Car Club of America™ operates. “At the National organization where I work, we help take the rules that have been put in place by the organization, and we work with all of our Regions across the country who put on more than 200 [road racing] events a year, to do it consistently, to apply different procedures and the rules, and also to find new ways to bring new members into our Club.”

Prill’s insight includes how Mazda’s ladder involves SCCA events, as well as his view of the road to on-track success.

“It took me years to realize that it really is about preparation and the effort you put in before you even get to the track,” he says. “In professional racing, it’s about having a great team and the right people around you. In amateur racing, there’s a lot of teams, but there are a lot of one man or one woman efforts that are the engineer, the chief mechanic, the truck driver, the head of hospitality for when their friends show up. So, it’s about preparing for that moment and just getting everything lined up and getting the right advice from the right people.”

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