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2021 Vegas Champ Tour Fast Notes

Las Vegas Motor Speedway was the site for this past weekend’s Tire Rack Las Vegas Champ Tour, an event hosted by SCCA’s Las Vegas Region. The course included plenty of slaloms and sweepers, presenting a tricky challenge for competitors. Those who produced class wins after two days of competition put on quite the display of […]

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 […]

2021 Texas Champ Tour Fast Notes

GrandSport Speedway, located about 50 minutes southeast of downtown Houston in Hitchcock, Texas, was where 174 Sports Car Club of America autocrossers came to play this past weekend, March 26-28, at the Tire Rack Texas Championship Tour, the second Champ Tour event of the year. Temperatures topped out in the upper 70s Saturday and lower […]

SportsCar Feature: Pobst on Electronic Nannies

Words by Randy Pobst This article first appeared in the July, 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. What would your electronic nannies do? I had […]

Challenges Faced at Charlotte ProSolo

It’s never easy to talk about the things that go wrong at an event. Whether you’re a participant trying to justify mistakes or the organizers consoling the participants that weren’t given the high-quality event they signed up for, announcing failure is an important part of finding solutions. Due to a catastrophic failure in the timing […]

2021 Wendi Allen Scholarship Fund Award Recipients Named

Now in its eighth year, the Wendi Allen Scholarship Fund (WASF) encourages women from SCCA’s Solo community to become more successful drivers and contributing members of the Sports Car Club of America. Named and established by the family of Wendi Allen, the scholarship honors the multi-time National Solo champion who loved and supported SCCA’s autocross […]

2021 Dixie Champ Tour Fast Notes

The SCCA Tire Rack Dixie Tour opened the Champ Tour season last weekend in South Georgia. Let’s dive right in… In B Street, David Marcus cleaned up his cone troubles and took the opening day lead. Jason Ruggles made a huge jump on Sunday in his BMW, launching into the lead from third place on […]

Staff Members Bring Life-Long Training And Love Of The Club

The National Staff of the Sports Car Club of America, to a person, carries a love of the Club with them in everything they do. But for a handful, that love came naturally, passed down from prior generations and embedded in their genes. Like everything children learn and absorb as they grow, each unique SCCA […]

SportsCar Feature: The Early Days

Words by Paul Brown This article first appeared in the November/December, 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. With no 2020 Tire Rack Solo National Championships […]

Concept Test Success at the FIRM

This past weekend, a ProSolo 1 concept-test event was held at the Florida International Rally & Motorsport Park in Starke, FL. Using the West loop of the road course, the goal was to test the feasibility of a ProSolo-style event using only one course, instead of the traditional two. Because this event was primarily intended […]

SportsCar Feature: A Home In Solo

Words by James Heine Images Courtesy of Mitchell Coughran 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. For 19-year-old Mitchell […]

’21 Solo Contingency Programs Now Available

Visit the SCCA Solo Contingency Webpage for Details Poetry has made a resurgence in popularity of late, so we thought we’d try our hand at using it to deliver news. Without further ado, here’s a limerick for the 2021 Tire Rack SCCA National Solo crowd concerning contingency: Here’s a story ’bout autocrossSCCA Solo the best for usBut […]

Get To Know The SCCA Foundation

We know the legal language, some of us by heart over the years — “The SCCA Foundation supports hands-on education and safety programs, recognizes excellence in automotive engineering education and promotes the SCCA’s heritage and club history. The goal of the SCCA Foundation is to give back to our communities.” Yeah, yeah — but what […]

CAM Roars into 2021 with Challenge Calendar

The Tire Rack CAM Challenge Series Powered by SCCA, America’s Pro-Touring Autocross Championship Series, has revealed its event schedule for the coming year. While the series may look a bit different than before, CAM certainly will still be gettin’ ‘er done in 2021. Six SCCA National ProSolo events will contain special CAM Challenge elements within. […]

Submissions Open for 2021 Wendi Allen Scholarship

Both applications and nominations are now sought for the 2021 Wendi Allen Scholarship Fund (WASF). Submissions must be made by March 1st at 8am CST and should include what makes someone a good nominee, how they got started in autocross, competitive background, Club involvement, and plans for the 2021 Solo season.  Complete Submission Here! A Selection […]

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