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SCCA Enduro: License To Race

When the SCCA Endurance Racing Board (ERB) began to develop the tone and philosophy of the newly formed program, among the most important aspects was to determine who could participate and how they could participate in a safe way. Those discussions led to an SCCA Enduro license that had a different feel than an SCCA […]

How To Lift Your Car With a Floor Jack

Safely lifting your vehicle is the foundational skill every motorsport enthusiast needs to master before tackling DIY repairs or upgrades at the track or in the garage. In this episode of the SCCA Shop Manual series presented by Hoosier, we sit down with JG Pasterjak from Grassroots Motorsports Magazine to demystify the process of jacking […]

We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby!

In six short years since humble beginnings in 2015, an amazing 50,000 (let us spell that out: more than Fifty THOUSAND) entrants have entered a SCCA Track Night in America driven by Tire Rack. More special to us, almost 40 percent of those entrants have been a part of the KONI Novice Program, confirming the […]

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 […]

Seating Position Matters In Driving, Heres How To Find Yours

Are you setting yourself up for optimal control behind the wheel? Proper driver positioning is the foundation of every great lap time, yet many enthusiasts overlook the basics. In this episode of the SCCA Shop Manual, professional driver and coach Tom O’Gorman breaks down his approach to getting comfortable and capable in the cockpit. Tom […]

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 […]

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