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Hoosier Super Tour VIR: Saturday Notebook

Round Five of the Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA Super Tour is this weekend at VIRginia International Raceway in Danville, Virginia. Saturday featured eight race groups, with qualifying before the lunch break and 25-minute timed races in the afternoon. Daugherty 2.0: As a double-digit Runoffs winner with ten in his career, it takes a lot to […]

VIR: An American Classic

Let’s get this out of the way: if you haven’t been to VIRginia International Raceway in recent years, you’re missing out. Full stop. VIR’s 3.27-mile layout comes from the glory era of track layouts in the 1950s that include Road America, Watkins Glen, Mid-Ohio, Laguna Seca and more — designs that came from racers on […]

Tracey Burckhard: 2021 Wendi Allen Scholarship Recipient

To say Tracey Burckhard is upbeat would be like saying Mount Everest is tall. It’s an utter understatement doing a disservice to reality. The 46-year-old autocrosser and lifelong resident of Albany, New York, is a Mohawk Hudson Region member who absolutely radiates positivity, a character trait that undoubtedly played a role in her earning one […]

Hagerty is Our Featured Partner for April

April Track Night Discounts Thanks to Our Friends at Hagerty There has been lots of “stimulus” going around the U.S. in the last year. As the Track Night in America Driven by Tire Rack Featured Partner in April, Hagerty has its own stimulus package to get you out on course for some #funwithcars and to […]

Full Steam Ahead To Hallett With Racers360

Who’s ready for some fun at Hallett Motor Racing Circuit!? To help get you ready for Hallett our friends at Racers360 have created a great video that is a must watch. This week, Racers360 pro-coach, Jade Buford walks us through how to tackle turn 2 at Hallett. More than that, it’s an introduction to Racer360’s […]

At A Glance: Hoosier Super Tour at VIR

The Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA Super Tour reaches the halfway point this weekend at VIRginia International Raceway (VIR), round five on the 10-round calendar. VIR has grown into one of the premier tracks in the country, as evidenced by the 318 entries currently registered for the event. Bordertown VIR is, as you might have guessed, […]

SCCA Annual Meeting Scheduled for April 24

The 2021 SCCA Annual Meeting–a requirement of the SCCA’s bylaws–is scheduled for April 24 at 10 a.m. CT. The meeting will be held virtually and is open to all SCCA members, free of charge. The Annual Meeting is the Club’s official business meeting, hosted by SCCA President and CEO Michael Cobb and Chairman of the […]

Looking Forward: Time Trials Tour at Buttonwillow Raceway Park

The second event of this year’s Tire Rack Time Trials National Tour Powered by Hagerty takes place this weekend, April 10-11, at Buttonwillow Raceway Park situated toward the southern end of California’s San Joaquin Valley. This will be the very first visit for Time Trials National Tour to Buttonwillow, and serves as the only chance […]

Find Your Fun: Eight Members Who Form a Small Slice of the Pie

Whether your goal is a National Championship or simply “Go Fast, Be Last,” the number one goal of the SCCA is, of course, “fun with cars.” With help from our friends at Hoosier Racing Tire and Mazda Motorsports, we’ve found eight members who have discovered their fun. Although Road Racing’s Richard Dickey, Kevin Fryer and […]

SportsCar Feature: The Next Generation

Words and Images by Richard S. James 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. Mazda’s Spec MX-5 package for […]

Weekend Track Night Double Feature at Buttonwillow

If you’ve been to a Track Night, you know that we pride ourselves on our ability to adapt to anything that gets thrown at us. Sometimes that’s a car that decides it just can’t quite make it back into pit lane on its own and thinks being towed isn’t a great plan. Other times, it’s […]

Track Night Partners Up for Savings

It’s important in motorsports, and life in general, to have good partners. Thankfully, Track Night in America Driven by Tire Rack has a bunch of fantastic partners that make the 2021 season possible. Even better, our featured partners will have a little something extra for Track Night in America participants in the coming months. Each […]

Top 3: Exercises to Improve Driving Performance

Words by Senna Saurino Strengthening these three areas helps you focus on winning. How often does a driver say, “That race really took everything I had!” or “I feel hungover from X event weekend?” It likely wasn’t the alcohol. Like any other sport, a racer’s workout regimen is crucial to his or her success. The […]

A Look Ahead to VIR with Racers360

Did someone say we are going to VIR?  That’s right, the closest thing to heaven on Earth, VIR is near the top of everyone’s favorite track list is coming up next! To help get you ready for VIR our friends at Racers360 have created a great video that is a must watch. This week, Rolex […]

SCCA Introducing Endurance Racing Program in 2022

The 2022 SCCA Team Enduro National Championship — noted in this article and originally scheduled for April 1 and 2, 2022 — has been postponed, with the focus of the new Enduro Program shifting to its National Tour events scheduled for the balance of 2022, and a ramp up to a 2023 National Championship. Sports […]

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