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Meet The Club Racing Board: Part 1

Words by Peter Keane, Chairman, CRB Photos by Chris Clark and SCCA This article first appeared in the June, 2020 edition of SportsCar Magazine. Everyone can read the current and past editions of SportCar digitally here. To become an SCCA member and get SportsCar mailed to your home address monthly in addition to the digital editions, click here. […]

Single-Car Paddock Reservations Open for 2020 Runoffs

Beginning at noon Central Time on Sept. 1, reservations will be accepted for single-car paddock spaces at the 2020 SCCA® National Championship Runoffs® taking place Oct. 3-11 at Road America. Paddock requests can be made at MotorsportReg.com, and competitors must be registered for the event before selecting a spot utilizing the online map. Drivers not […]

First Gear: Kimsoo Gopnik

This article first appeared in the August, 2020 edition of SportsCar Magazine. Everyone can read the current and past editions of SportCar digitally here. To become an SCCA member and get SportsCar mailed to your home address monthly in addition to the digital editions, click here. New England Region’s Kimsoo Gopnik made her mark in Junior Karts, now […]

Bluegrass PCA: Road to Road Atlanta

This article was originally published in the August issue of the Rumble, the newsletter for the Bluegrass Region Porsche Club of America. You can learn more about the Bluegrass Region PCA and view additional publications at https://bgr.pca.org/ Bucket list tracks – every motorsports fan has them. Whether it stems from a trip to the 24 Hours of […]

Hoosier Super Tour Wraps Season Sunday at PittRace

The 2020 Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA® Super Tour “regular” season came to a close Sunday with 35-minute or 17-lap challenges, whichever came first, on the 2.78-mile, 19-turn Pittsburgh International Race Complex (PittRace) circuit during a competition weekend hosted by SCCA’s Steel Cities Region. First, You Must Finish: Ryan McManus, winner of Saturday’s GT-1 race in […]

Super Close Hoosier Super Tour Racing Saturday at PittRace

The final Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA® Super Tour competition weekend of 2020 began Saturday with 25-minute races on the 2.78-mile, 19-turn circuit at Pittsburgh International Race Complex (PittRace) during an event hosted by SCCA’s Steel Cities Region. The weather Friday varied from damp to wet as intermittent thunderstorms rolled through western Pennsylvania. But by race […]

PittRace Hoosier Super Tour Saturday News and Notes

This weekend in Wampum, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh International Race Complex hosts its first-ever Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA® Super Tour. Ironically, this will also be the final “regular season” Hoosier Super Tour this year. However, the hunt for 2020 Hoosier Super Tour class championships isn’t over. The final points event of the year doesn’t happen until October […]

Hoosier Super Tour PittRace Host: Steel Cities Region

Joining Sports Car Club of America® back in 1950, the Steel Cities Region serves the area around Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania. With more than 500 members, Steel Cities is an active Region that has fun with cars across many different pursuits. When it comes to road racing, Steel Cities’ activities fall within Club Racing’s Northeast […]

Toyo Adds Contingency Program for Spec MX-5 Racers

Mazda Motorsports and Sports Car Club of America® are extremely excited to announce that Toyo Tires has added a significant 2020 contingency program for SCCA® road racers competing in the Spec MX-5 (SMX) race cars. The contingency offering is backdated to May of 2020 and includes awards for select SMX vehicles competing in Super Touring® […]

At A Glance: ’20 PittRace Hoosier Super Tour

Storylines/Things to Watch: Last “Regular” Season Hoosier Super Tour — This weekend, August 28-30 at Pittsburgh International Race Complex, the 2020 Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA® Super Tour “regular” season comes to a close. This year’s competition schedule started back in January with an opening weekend at Sebring International Raceway, followed by February events at Circuit […]

Holley Performance Brings Support Back to Time Trials Nationals

Holley Performance can make your car faster. Full stop, no discussion necessary. But thanks to the partnership between Holley Performance and SCCA, Holley Performance can help make you personally faster at the 2020 Tire Rack Time Trials Nationals Powered by Hagerty, September 24-27 at NCM Motorsports Park. For the second-consecutive year, Thursday has been dubbed a […]

The Road Racing Department Does Track Night

When you have a racetrack within driving distance, a fun car sitting in the parking lot that’s begging to be driven and a Track Night in America driven by Tire Rack event scheduled, what do you do? The answer for two SCCA staff members was simple August 20th. You go to Track Night! Eric Prill […]

Social and Distant: RoadRally Is The Answer to the 2020 Blues

What’s the perfect activity for 2020? It has to be contained and socially distant. It should limit exposure to others. It’s the 21st century, so the latest in technology should always be involved. And lots of people are searching for a new activity, so it should be something scalable to advanced users, yet a simple […]

RallyCross Tech Time

Words by Matt Wolfe This article first appeared in the August, 2020 edition of SportsCar Magazine. Everyone can read the current and past editions of SportCar digitally here. To become an SCCA member and get SportsCar mailed to your home address monthly in addition to the digital editions, click here. A friendly and welcoming tech inspection experience can […]

Mazda MX-5 Alphabet Soup

NA, IT, CRB, NB, GT, STL, EP, NC, T4, ND1, SM5, T3, MX-5, ND2, SADEV, SMX … The world of Mazda Miatas can be confusing when it comes to SCCA road racing. To help understand the acronym fest, below you’ll find a piece penned by Club Racing Board Chairman Peter Keane that gives a brief […]

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