The Sports Car Club of America ( SCCA ) is a club and sanctioning body supporting road racing, rally, and autocross in the United States and was formed in 1944. It runs many different programs for both amateur and professional racers.
Types of racing
Club racing
The club racing program is the road racing division where drivers race wheel-to-wheel on either dedicated race tracks or on temporary street circuits. Competitors require either a regional or a national racing license. Both modified production cars (ranging from lightly-modified cars with only extra safety equipment to heavily-modified cars that retain only the basic shape of the original vehicle) and designed-from-scratch "formula" and "sports racer" cars can be used in club racing.
Most of the participants in the Club Racing program are unpaid amateurs, but some go on to professional racing careers. The club is also the source for race workers in all specialties, without whom racing organization and operation would not be possible.
The annual National Championship for Club Racing is called the SCCA National Championship Runoffs and has been historically held at Riverside International Raceway (1964, 1966, 1968), Daytona International Speedway (1965, 1967, 1969), Road Atlanta (1970-1993) and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course (1994-2005). In 2006, the "Runoffs" moved to Heartland Park Topeka. Beginning in 2009, the Runoffs was held at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin for a minimum of three years. The current SCCA record holder is Jerry Hansen with 27 titles. Hansen is the father of TLC and Spike TV television personality and author Courtney Hansen.
Autocross
The Solo program is the autocross program. One car at a time, running a course laid out with traffic cones on a large paved surface, such as a parking lot or airport runway.
Competitions are held at the Regional, Divisional, National, and Pro levels. Each Division typically crowns a Divisional Champion in each class, awarded by winning a single event. Similarly, a National Champion in each class is awarded by winning the class at the National Championship (usually referred to as "Nationals") held in September. 2006 ushers in a new site for The Solo National Championship, replacing Forbes Field with the newly renovated Heartland Park Topeka in Topeka, Kansas. Starting in 2009, Nationals will be moving once again to the Lincoln Airpark, in Lincoln, NE. Individual National-level events, called "National Tours", are held throughout the racing season.
The professional autocross series, called ProSolo, runs two cars at a time on mirror-image courses and features a drag racing style "Christmas tree" start, complete with reaction times and 60' times. Class winners and other qualifiers (based on time differential against the class winner) then compete in a handicapped elimination round called the "Challenge". Points are awarded both in class competition and in Challenge competition, and an annual champion is crowned each September at the Pro Finale event in Topeka, Kansas
Road rallying
Road rallies are run on open, public roads. These are not races in the sense of speed (obviously, speed limits are to be obeyed), but of precision and navigation. The object is to drive on time, arriving at checkpoints with the proper amount of elapsed time from the previous checkpoint. Competitors do not know where the checkpoints are.
Rally racing
The SCCA ProRally is a national performance Rally series similar to the World Rally Championship. At the end of the 2004 season SCCA dropped ProRally and ClubRally. A new organization, Rally America, picked up both series starting in 2005.
Professional racing series
The SCCA also has many professional series ( Pro Racing ) such as the SPEED World Challenge as well as the Pro MX-5 Cup and newly-formed (2008) Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup . The SCCA is also the governing body for the Formula 2000 Championship Series.
Since 1966, the SCCA has sanctioned the Trans Am Series, with a brief hiatus from 2007-08. The SCCA also sanctioned the Can Am series from 1966-74.
Divisions and regions
The SCCA is organized into regions and local areas, each organizing events in that area to make the events more accessible to people throughout the country. There are eight large areas of the country which form divisions and which are further sub-divided into regions.
The number of Divisions has increased since the SCCA's foundation. Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific started as a single Pacific Coast Division until dividing in 1966. Rocky Mountain Division is a relatively recent split and the Great Lakes Division has recently been carved out of the Central Division.
Northern Pacific Division
The Northern Pacific Division consists of Alaska, Northern California, Idaho, Western Montana, Northern Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. It is broken into two major areas, Area 9 covering California and Nevada, and Area 11 covering the rest of the division. Notable events operated by this region include the Rose Cup Races, an annual SCCA National event held at Portland International Raceway. The SCCA regions within the Northern Pacific Division are as follows, with some of the main SCCA raceways listed:
- Region 27 (Northwest)
- Bremerton Motorsports Park, Port Orchard, Washington
- Pacific Raceways, Seattle, Washington
- Region 33 (San Francisco)
- Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, California
- Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, California
- Thunderhill Park, Willows, California
- Region 38 (Big Sky)
- Region 67 (Arctic Alaska)
- Region 96 (Oregon)
- Portland International Raceway, Portland, Oregon
- Region 101 (Reno)
- Region 105 (Montana)
- Region 106 (Snake River)
Southern Pacific Division
The Southern Pacific Division consists of Arizona, Southern California, Hawaii, and Nevada. It is entirely within Area 11 (which is shared with the Northern Pacific Division). The SCCA regions within the Southern Pacific Division are as follows, with some of the main SCCA raceways listed:
- Region 2 (Arizona)
- Firebird International Raceway Park, Chandler, Arizona
- Phoenix International Raceway, Phoenix, Arizona
- Region 19 (California Sports Car Club)
- Buttonwillow Raceway Park, Buttonwillow, California
- Willow Springs International Raceway, Rosamond, California
- Auto Club Speedway (former California Speedway), Fontana, California
- Region 46 (Hawaii)
- Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, Hawaii (Oahu) ( Trial basis )
- Maui Raceway Park, Puunene, Hawaii (Maui)
- Region 57 (San Diego)
- Region 72 (Las Vegas)
- Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Spring Mountain Motorsports Park, Pahrump, Nevada
- Region 88 (Arizona Border)
Rocky Mountain Division
The Rocky Mountain Division consists of Colorado, Eastern Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, and is entirely within Area 8. The SCCA regions within the Rocky Mountain Division are as follows, with some of the main SCCA raceways listed:
- Region 8 (Colorado)
- Continental Divide Raceway (closed in late 2005), Mead, Colorado
- Second Creek Raceway (closed in late 2005), Commerce City, Colorado
- Region 50 (Utah)
- Miller Motorsports Park, Tooele, Utah
- Region 52 (Southwest Montana)
- Region 53 (Rio Grande)
- Sandia Motorsport Park, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Region 81 (Pan American)
- Arroyo Seco Motorplex, Deming, New Mexico
- Region 105 (Great Falls/Central Montana)
- Region 108 (Yellowstone)
- Region 109 (Continental Divide)
- La Junta Raceway, La Junta, Colorado
- Pueblo Motorsports Park, Pueblo, Colorado
Southwest Division
The Southwest Division consists of Louisiana and Texas, and is entirely within Area 7. The SCCA regions within the Southwest Division are as follows, with some of the main SCCA raceways listed:
- Region 9 (Delta)
- Region 32 (Houston)
- MSR Houston, Angleton, Texas
- Region 41 (Texas)
- Eagles Canyon Raceway, Slidell, Texas
- Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, Texas
- Region 44 (Southwest Louisiana)
- Region 60 (Central Louisiana)
- Region 69 (South Texas Border)
- Cabaniss Air Force Base, Corpus Christi, Texas
- Region 78 (Red River)
- Region 87 (West Texas)
- Region 98 (Lone Star)
- Texas World Speedway, College Station, Texas
Midwest Division
The Midwest Division consists of Arkansas, Southern Illinois, Western Iowa, Kansas, Northern Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Western Tennessee, and is entirely within Area 6. The SCCA regions within the Midwest Division are as follows, with some of the main SCCA raceways listed:
- Region 15 (Kansas)
- Heartland Park Topeka
- Region 16 (Kansas City)
- Kansas City Region SCCA
- Region 21 (St. Louis)
- Gateway International Raceway Madison, Illinois
- Club Racer's Website
- Region 30 (Oklahoma)
- Region 48 (Nebraska)
- Mid-America Motorplex
- Region 54 (N
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