Sports Car Club of America

The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) is a club and sanctioning body supporting road racing, rally, and autocross in the United States It runs many different programs for both amateur and professional racers.

Related Topics:
Road racing - Rally - Autocross - United States

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The club racing programhttp://www.scca.org/amateur/club_racing/index.html is the road racing division - purpose built race cars racing wheel-to-wheel on either dedicated race tracks or on temporary street circuits. Cars raced can be either modified production cars (ranging from nearly showroom cars with only additional safety equipment, to heavily modified cars that retain just the basic shape of the original vehicle) or designed-from-scratch "formula" cars.

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Most of the participants in the Club Racing program are unpaid amateurs, but some go on to professional racing careers.

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The annual National Championship for Club Racing is called the "Runoffs" and has been historically held at the Mid-Ohio race track.

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The Solo programhttp://www.scca.org/amateur/solo2/index.html is the autocross programme. 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.

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Competitions are held at the Regional, Divisional, and National levels. Each Division typically crowns a Divisional Champion in each class, awarded by winning a single event. Similarily, a National Champion in each class is awarded by winning the class at the National Championship (usually referred to as "Nationals") held the second week in September at Forbes Field in Topeka, Kansas. Individual National-level events, called "National Tours", are held throughout the racing season.

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Forbes Field - Topeka - Kansas

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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

Related Topics:
ProSolo - Drag racing - Topeka - Kansas

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Road Rallieshttp://www.scca.org/amateur/roadrally/index.html 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. Trick is, you don't know where the checkpoints are.

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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.

Related Topics:
SCCA ProRally - Rally - World Rally Championship - Rally America

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The SCCA also has many professional serieshttp://www.sccapro.com/index.html like the Trans-Am Series and the more popular SPEED World Challenge.

Related Topics:
Trans-Am Series - SPEED World Challenge

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