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5 Steps to Getting Your Windshield Banner on Straight

If you’re headed to a National SCCA® event, like the upcoming Tire Rack SCCA Time Trials National Championship or the SCCA RallyCross® National Championship Presented by Bingham Equipment Company, or you attended the recent Tire Rack SCCA Solo® National Championships, windshield banners are a prerequisite. This is a good thing. For many of these events, […]

Time Attack Nationals

With a Town Takeover and More, The Upcoming Time Attack National Championship Just Got Even Cooler

This is it, folks – this is the last time we’re going to remind you to enter the inaugural Tire Rack SCCA® Time Attack National Championship. This Oct. 22-25, 2026, event will mark the first time SCCA has ever crowned National Champions for Time Attack competition, so it goes without saying that there will be […]

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These Members are SCCA’s 2026 Workers of the Year, and Your Words Explain Why

These are the people standing at the corner stations when the rain starts falling. They’re on the grid when the temperatures climb, they’re in tech when the wind cuts through their jackets, and at registration long before the first drivers get to the track. Through heat, cold, rain, wind, or perfect racing weather, they show […]

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Weida Returns to Runoffs with F6 Title

The Formula 600 field may have missed the 2025 version, but judging by the class performance in the 63rd Mission Foods SCCA® National Championship Runoffs® at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., it would be hard to tell. Just like 2024, Calvin Stewart started his No. 07 SabbathTruth.com/Hoosier Novakar Blade Suzuki on the Tire Rack pole. […]

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Ybarra, 14, Wins Formula F as Youngest Runoffs Champ in History

Formula F (FF) is known to be one of the most hotly contested classes in SCCA® Road Racing, and at the 63rd Mission Foods SCCA National Championship Runoffs® at Road America, the class lived up to that reputation in so many ways. Going into the Oct. 4, 2026, Hagerty Race Day, any of the top […]

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Ave Saves Best for Last with GT-1 Victory

Tony Ave, the reigning GT-1 National Champion and a member of SCCA’s Central Carolinas Region, made the very most of his visit to Wisconsin and America’s National Park of Speed for the 63rd Mission Foods SCCA® National Championship Runoffs®. Over the course of two Hagerty Race Days that occurred Oct. 3-4, 2026, Ave put himself […]

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Stewart Earns STU National Championship in 10th Runoffs Showing

Editor’s note: This article was modified to include a post-race penalty that affected the race winner. Chances were good that a Lotus was going to finish on the Super Touring® Under (STU) podium. And one did. What nobody saw coming was the 360-degree spin another Lotus took in one of the most dangerous sections of […]

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3rd Time’s the Charm: Stephens Earns SRF3 Championship Gold

As the final afternoon of Hagerty Race Days at the 63rd Mission Foods SCCA® National Championship Runoffs® at Road America in Elkhart Lake came around, it was time for the Spec Racer® Ford Gen3 (SRF3) race, one of SCCA’s most popular, enduring, and hotly contested classes. When the Runoffs is held at Road America, races last […]

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Workman Claims 2nd F Production Title in Unpredictable Runoffs Race

To put it mildly, the F Production (FP) race during the 63rd Mission Foods SCCA® National Championship Runoffs® at Road America was utterly unbelievable in its unpredictability. There, one driver picked up his second championship in the class during a battle that saw drama unfold all but simultaneously before the race ended under caution. This […]

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Schmidt Dominates B-Spec for 1st Gold, Super Sweep and Track Record

The Runoffs® B-Spec race is a nailbiter year after year, with the victor usually being decided on the last lap or even the final set of corners. But the 2026 Mission Foods SCCA® National Championship Runoffs, taking place Oct. 3-4 in Wisconsin at Road America, presented something totally different during the event’s second Hagerty Race […]