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Register Now: Road Racing Contingency Programs Available for 2025

Did you know that each year, members of the Sports Car Club of America™ competing in the Summit Racing Equipment SCCA® Road Racing series (be it the Hoosier Racing Tire Super Tour, U.S. Majors Tour®, or Regional and Divisional races) earn thousands through the Club’s contingency programs? Did you also know that these contingency programs […]

Fun, New Challenge Awaits Buttonwillow Hoosier Super Tour Drivers

An annual trip to California’s Central Valley is next for the 2025 Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA® Super Tour (HST), part of the Summit Racing Equipment SCCA Road Racing program. It will be the second of 10 weekends on this year’s HST schedule, but the Buttonwillow Raceway Park (BRP) visit holds something very different this time […]

SCCA Podium Celebrations Will Sparkle in 2025 Thanks to Mazza Vineyards

Mazza Vineyards has been making select SCCA® podium celebrations an outright party for a decade now, and as we enter the 10th year of Mazza being SCCA’s “Official Sparkling Wine,” the Club’s podium celebrations will continue as strong as ever with SCCA’s fastest drivers being given plenty of opportunities to spray Mazza bubbly with friends. […]

Nikki Prevenas, 2024 F&C SCCA Worker of the Year, Is Keeping up the Family Tradition

Sometimes, a person’s future is predetermined. When asked why she joined SCCA®, Blackhawk Valley Region’s Nicole (Nikki) Prevenas simply replied, “I was born into the SCCA. My mother worked corners while she was pregnant with me in 1977. I was on the family membership when I was a kid and grew up at Blackhawk Farms […]

SCCA Spec Miata Racer Zilisch Continues Meteoric Motorsports Climb

Let’s talk about Central Carolinas Region SCCA® member Connor Zilisch. Why? Because the motorsports world can’t stop talking about him either. At age 15, Zilisch won SCCA’s 2021 Jim Fitzgerald Rookie of the Year award after starting that year’s SCCA National Championship Runoffs® Spec Miata race in third and running to a third-place finish. That […]

Spectacular Runoffs Performance Earns Charlie Peter Prestigious RRDC Mark Donohue Award

“Slow” is not in Charlie Peter’s vocabulary. The Kansas City Region member began racing with SCCA® in 2018 in Touring 2 — the wins came fast. Come 2020, Peter set his sights on the National Championship Runoffs®, driving a BMW M235iR. The result was a third-place qualifying position and a second-place finish, barely four seconds […]

Road Racing’s Top Honors Kick Off 2025 SCCA National Convention

The 2025 SCCA® National Convention kicked off on Thursday, Jan. 16, with two key events. First (and as tradition dictates back to the Club’s founding in 1944), the Annual Meeting took place. There (and among other Club business), the state of the Club was presented. Following that, the National Convention turned to celebration as the […]

For the 2024 GT, SGT, and XGT Trans Am Champs, There Were No Easy Wins

While it’s easy to see the SCCA Pro Racing®-sanctioned Trans Am® Presented by Pirelli series as tube-frame cars sporting loud V-8s, there’s way more to the series. In there, three classes (GT, SGT, and XGT) battle at some of the nation’s best tracks. Thanks to these GT classes, fans witness slick production-based race cars driven […]

It was a Season of Redemption for 2024 Trans Am TA2 Champ Rafa Matos. But in 2025, Things Are Going to Change

Every title win is special, of course, but for Rafa Matos, the 2024 SCCA Pro Racing®-sanctioned Trans Am® Series presented by Pirelli CUBE 3 Architecture TA2 Series championship was especially sweet. For one, it completed a TA2 title “hat trick” for the 2018 and 2021 champ who quickly rose to prominence stateside after emigrating from […]

How NASCAR Driver Paul Menard Pulled off the 2024 Trans Am TA Championship

NASCAR veteran and SCCA® Central Carolinas Region member Paul Menard’s last-minute decision to compete full time in the 11-race 2024 SCCA Pro Racing®-sanctioned Trans Am® Presented by Pirelli season was huge news at the Sebring International Raceway season-opener. The Wisconsin-bred, North Carolina-resident driver joined forces with 3GT Racing — Trans Am stalwart Paul Gentilozzi and […]

Clinching the 2024 FR Championship Title is Only the Beginning for Patrick Woods-Toth

Winning championships is a consistent habit for Patrick Woods-Toth, who claimed the 2022 Ron Fellows Karting Championship, then the 2023 SCCA Pro Racing®-sanctioned Formula 4 United States Championship, and now the 2024 SCCA Pro Racing-sanctioned Formula Regional Americas Championship. However, the young driver from Saint-Lazare, Quebec, is just getting started. “Traveling from Quebec to each […]

We’re Hiring: IT Director, Road Racing Assistant Manager, and Experiential Customer Service Admin

The Sports Car Club of America™ is currently hiring for three positions and is looking for enthusiastic and knowledgeable candidates to fill the roles. All three positions require a certain level of travel throughout the year, with the possibility of remote work for at least one of the positions. The Director of Information Technology (DIT) […]

Daniel Quimby Clinched the 2024 SCCA Pro-Sanctioned Formula 4 Title, Now He’s Moving Up

It’s a long way from Sydney, Australia, to the SCCA Pro Racing®-sanctioned Formula 4 United States Championship, but it’s a trip that Daniel Quimby was glad to make. The young driver came north to show off his chops in this year’s five-event, 15-race season in F4, and that’s exactly what he did. Amassing five victories, […]

Adaptation, Sage Advice Part of Record-Setting Sunday at Sebring Hoosier Super Tour

The Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA® Super Tour (HST) opening round for 2025 has come to a close. Hosted by SCCA’s Central Florida Region Jan. 10-12, Sunday’s action was a humdinger at Sebring International Raceway. Part of the Summit Racing Equipment SCCA Road Racing program, the day’s HST contests were either 14 laps or 35 minutes […]

Lots New Saturday at 2025 Sebring Hoosier Super Tour, Plus Lewis Hamilton-Designed Tattoo

We’re nearly two weeks into the New Year already, so it’s fine time to rev things up and get the 2025 Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA® Super Tour (HST) rolling. A highlighted marquee of the Summit Racing Equipment SCCA Road Racing program, HST’s 10-event season is underway at Sebring International Raceway during a Jan. 10-12 festival […]

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