(This “From the President” article, from SCCA® President and CEO Mike Cobb, appears quarterly on SCCA.com.)
With the summer months rolling in and SCCA’s season eyeing its biggest National Championship moments, you might think the regular competition season is beginning to wind down to make room for those title fights. In reality, Team SCCA is just beginning to squeeze the throttle. Across every corner of the Club, from Solo® and RallyCross® to Time Attack, Road Racing, Targa, and RoadRally, the months ahead are stacked with opportunities to chase season-long championships, set personal bests, and (most importantly) create the kind of memories that define #funwithcars.
How will you find your fun this summer? I have a few suggestions.
Head to an Awesome Autocross
It’s shocking to think that while SCCA’s 2026 National Solo® season first took to the autocross course in March, the events are still revving up.
With the Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Tour, there’s Crow’s Landing (June 12-14), Bristol (July 3-5), Packwood and Grissom (both on the same weekend (!), July 17-19), and Finger Lakes (July 31-Aug. 2).
Those competing in the Tire Rack SCCA ProSolo® Series are in a similar spot, with plenty of events left to choose from, like Toledo (June 12-14), Bristol (July 1-3), Packwood (July 24-26), and Lincoln (Aug. 7-9). And don’t forget the ProSolo Finale in early September.
Meanwhile, the Tire Rack SCCA Shootout hasn’t even begun, with its events (St. Louis on July 10-12, Grissom on Aug. 7-9, and the Lincoln Invitational on Sept. 5) poised to hit the course.
This list doesn’t even include the Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Championships, taking place Sept. 7-11, in Lincoln, NE. This year’s event theme is video games, so I can’t wait for everyone to press “start” on that one.
Get Rowdy with RallyCross
RallyCross competition should prove to be a wild one this year. The RallyCross Divisional Challenge includes Great Lakes (June 19-21), MiDiv (July 3-5), Southern Pacific (July 21-Aug. 2), Lake Superior (July 21-Aug. 2), and Southeast (Sept. 18-20), all of which lead to the Oct. 16-18 RallyCross National Championship, which will be held for the very first time at Camp Verde Equestrian Center in Camp Verde, AZ
Set Personal Bests at Time Attack and Targa
The Tire Rack SCCA Time Attack Challenge got off to an early start this year, already hosting most of this season’s East and West Challenge events. Still on the board are a pair of West events, namely the Aug. 22-23 weekend at Ridge Motorsports Park and the Nov. 14-15 event at Buttonwillow Raceway Park.
Taking place between those two is the Tire Rack SCCA Time Attack National Championship at Eagles Canyon Raceway on Oct. 23-25. That is the inaugural National Championship event for the series, and if the May 2-3 Eagles Canyon Time Attack Challenge event told us anything, it’s that things are going to get wild at October’s title bout.
There’s also SCCA Targa to think about, which goes hand-in-hand with numerous Time Attack Challenge events. A road trip that hits four tracks in four days, with the final event on each Targa adventure aligning with a Time Attack Challenge sounds like the best time ever, and there are still four events taking place this summer (Targa Carolinas, June 10-13; Targa New England, June 15-18; and Targa Great Lakes, July 29-Aug. 1).
Run Green-to-Checker in Road Racing
With an outstanding Chicago Region Junes Sprints® in their rear-view mirror, drivers and teams alike are racing toward the last two Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA Super Tour events of the season (Watkins Glen on June 19-21 and Barber Motorsports Park on Aug. 29-30) in preparation for the Sept. 28-Oct. 4 National Championship Runoffs® at Road America.
All Super Tours are fast fun, but the Barber event should be a thriller as this is the first time the Super Tour has been to that facility, which means track records are going to drop.
USRRC’s Route 66 Adventure
Yet still, there’s more – although, admittedly, this one’s in the fall.
RoadRally has its events you can find here, but one must-attend National event I really want to highlight is the 2026 United States RoadRally Challenge®, being hosted Oct. 9-11 by St. Louis Region. This year marks the fifth time St. Louis Region has hosted the event, which is a special treat considering this year also marks the 100th anniversary of Route 66 – a fact St. Louis Region plans to embrace.
Make it YOUR Summer of Fun!
When you think about it, it only makes sense: Summer is here, so of course SCCA action is heating up. From autocross and dirt courses to racetracks and cross-country adventures, the months ahead are packed with wall-to-wall opportunities to create unforgettable memories.
In fact, for Team SCCA, it seems that summer is when the season truly hits the throttle. So get out there and make this a summer you’ll never forget.
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