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Summer Showcase a Smashing Success

In a first-of-its-kind event, the Steel Cities Region and the SCCA National Track and Time Trials programs joined forces to create the End of Summer Showcase event at Pittsburgh International Race Complex (PittRace) August 27–29, with seven separate events and more than 460 entrants. The entries were spread across events from each of the departments […]

Tig Willard: From Jackman To Track Night

When you hear that Track Night in America is for everyone, we mean it. First time on a race track? It’s for you. Have competed at the highest level of two different professional sports? Still the same event; still for you. Why? Because it’s so much fun. That’s why Jonathan “Tig” Willard, former professional football […]

End of Summer Showcase Festival Set for This Weekend

This weekend at Pittsburgh International Race Complex, AKA “PittRace,” the normal excitement of an SCCA Summit Road Racing weekend will be enhanced with an “all things SCCA” approach–the inclusion of a wide variety of SCCA events in a single weekend, at a single facility. It’s an End of Summer Showcase Festival.   In addition to […]

Grab Track Night September Discount with Falken Tire

The fun isn’t near done in 2021 as Track Night in America Driven by Tire Rack closes out the summer with even more opportunities for you and your car to get on race circuits across the U.S. and blow off some steam while having a GREAT time! And so your experience is even better, Falken […]

Hagerty Feature: Reading Your Rubber

Among the many reasons our friends at Hagerty are a wonderful partner to the SCCA is that they love #FunWithCars just as much as we do — and they are a wealth of knowledge on a variety of car-related subjects. The following article originally appeared on Hagerty.com. For this and all of Hagerty’s car-related content, visit their media […]

Get Sporty at Time Trials with the Car You Got

“Run what you brung” is a longtime colloquial phrase in motorsport and doesn’t take any level of diploma to understand. Back when SCCA got its start 75+ years ago, “run what you brung” was pretty much the norm. While that is not really the case anymore today in SCCA Road Racing, it still remains a […]

KONI Outfits Your Entire Fleet

Surely by now, we all know the performance benefits of KONI Shocks on our race, track, autocross and even street car. But none of that matters if we don’t have a good way to get our competition car to the site. Luckily for all of us, KONI’s new STR.T LT Series performance shocks for pick-up […]

Renee Dupuis Helping More People On Track

Getting started in motorsports can be a leap of faith for those who haven’t done it before, but it sure gets easier when there’s someone there willing to help you through the process. Renee Dupuis is one of those faces. After participating in arrive and drive programs over the past 15 years, she jumped into […]

Avery Towns: From Track Night To The Runoffs And Beyond

Is it possible to go from Track Night in America to the Runoffs in just a little over a year? It is if you’re ambitious like Avery Towns. Towns, a 17-year-old student at Jesuit Dallas who grew up a self-proclaimed car guy, has parlayed skill, ambition and right-place, right-time into one of the top rides […]

Moving From Track Night To Road Racing

Rare is the person who spends an afternoon on a race track and thinks “Gee, I sure am glad I got that out of my system.” More common is that first taste infects the soul, leaving the participant searching for a bigger and mightier “fix.” For Track Night in America drivers, that fix comes in […]

Justin Barbry Named Interim TNiA Program Manager

A face very familiar to Track Night in America Driven by Tire Rack participants in the Southeast and beyond will soon become familiar to the rest of the country, as Justin Barbry has been named the Interim Track Night in America Program Manager for the 2021 season. Barbry will fill the role formerly occupied by […]

Ride “The Ridge” with Track Night!

“The Ridge,” heard of it? It’s not where teens go to “make out” after being booted from the fast food parking lots. For motorsport enthusiasts, “The Ridge” refers to Ridge Motorsports Park in Shelton, Washington. Situated about 90 minutes southwest of downtown Seattle; the 16-turn, 2.47-mile circuit with over 300 feet of elevation change is […]

September Events Set To Open July 1st

On July 1 at 11 am CT, Jack Track will proclaim “open sesame” and unlock registration for Track Night in America Driven by Tire Rack events scheduled for September. A magical time will be had by all who sign up, as fun-loving fanatics of motorsport put a bow on 2021 summer activities thanks to more […]

Track Night + Competition = SCCA Time Trials

This past weekend in Bowling Green, Kentucky, around 210 drivers gathered at NCM Motorsports Park for the fourth annual Tire Rack Time Trials Nationals Powered by Hagerty. What does that have to do with Track Night in America Driven by Tire Rack? Well, a giant chunk of those drivers are regularly seen at Track Nights […]

Summer Savings with Valvoline

June Afternoons with Track Night It’s June, which means we’re almost at the halfway mark for 2021. The good news? That means only a third of the Track Night in America Driven by Tire Rack season is in the rearview mirror, because summer is when it really heats up. Even better are the fine folks […]

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