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Sports Car Club of
America
Amateur
Club Racing |
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Regions of the Central Division SCCA |
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The SCCA
was formed in 1944, at first as only an enthusiast
group. The SCCA began sanctioning road racing in 1948,
with the inaugural Watkins Glen Grand Prix. Cameron
Argetsinger, an SCCA member and local enthusiast who
would later become Director of Pro Racing and Executive
Director of the SCCA, helped organize the event for the
SCCA.
In 1951, the SCCA National Sports Car Championship was
formed from existing marquee events around the nation,
including Watkins Glen, Pebble Beach, and Elkhart Lake.
Many early SCCA events were held on disused air force
bases, organized with the help of Air Force General
Curtis LeMay, a renowned enthusiast of sports car
racing. LeMay loaned out facilities of Strategic Air
Command bases for the SCCA's use; the SCCA relied
heavily on these venues during the early and mid 1950s
during the transition from street racing to permanent
circuits.
By 1962, the SCCA was tasked with managing the U.S.
World Sportscar Championship rounds at Daytona, Sebring,
Bridgehampton and Watkins Glen. The club was also
involved in the Formula 1 U.S. Grand Prix. SCCA
Executive Director John Bishop helped to create the
United States Road Racing Championship series for Group
7 sports cars to recover races that had been taken by
rival USAC Road Racing Championship. Bishop was also
instrumental in founding the SCCA Trans-Am Series and
the SCCA/CASC Can-Am series. In 1969, tension and
in-fighting over Pro Racing's autonomy caused Bishop to
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Midwestern Council of Sports Car Clubs
Amateur Club Racing |
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The
Midwestern Council of Sports Car Clubs was formed in
1958 and is an association of eight separate Wisconsin
and Illinois amateur racing organizations. It is one of
the longest existing amateur racing organizations in the
United States. Midwestern Council prides itself
on a family-friendly atmosphere and emphasis is on fun
and safety first.
The group
holds regional races at local race tracks including Road
America, Blackhawk Farms Raceway, Gingerman Raceway,
Grattan Raceway Park, Milwaukee Mile and Autobahn
Country Club among others. Rule sets and car
classifications are similar to the SCCA with minor but
distinct differences. |
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Midwestern
Council Sports Car Clubs
Based out of
Rockford, IL |
Chicagoland
Sports Car Club
Chicago, Illinois |
Full Throttle
Sports Car Club
Roselle, Illinois |
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Great Lakes
Sports Car Club
Waukesha, Wisconsin |
Lakeshore
Sports Car Club
Oak Creek, Wisconsin |
Madison Sports Car Club (Est. 1954)
Madison, Wisconsin |
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North Suburban Sports Car Club
Elk Grove Villiage, Illinois |
Salt Creek
Sports Car Club (Est. 1959)
Downers Grove, Illinois |
Sports Car Club of Rockford
Rockford, Illinois |
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Racetracks
in Midwest
Used by SCCA and MCSCC |
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Sports Car Club of
America
Pro Racing Series |
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SCCA Pro Racing,
Ltd is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Sports Car Club of America, Inc. - a
45,000-member organization dedicated to motorsports
events. SCCA Pro Racing provides full-service
organization, operation and sanction for numerous
professional racing series, documented within this web
site. Each series holds events on high-profile race
weekends and annually crowns Champions.
Known for its operational expertise, SCCA Pro Racing has
been the choice of privately owned racing series, as
well as those promoted by automobile manufacturers, to
conduct all facets of their Championships.
SCCA held its first professional race on
February 3, 1963, which was a United States Road Racing
Championship (USRRC) race won by Jim Hall at Daytona
International Raceway.
Throughout the years, SCCA Pro
Racing has been at the forefront of the professional
racing landscape in the United States with such landmark
series as Trans-Am, Can-Am, Formula 5000 and World
Challenge. SCCA Pro Racing formally became a subsidiary
of SCCA in 1993, and is a voting member of the
Automobile Competition Committee of the United States (ACCUS)
- the FIA delegate for this country. |
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Other Road
Race Programs
Pro and Amateur |
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The
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
is a non-profit association established as the
International Association of Recognized Automobile Clubs
in 1904 to represent the interests of motoring
organizations and motor car users. Headquartered in
Paris, the FIA consists of about 213 national member
organizations in 125 countries worldwide. To the general
public, the FIA is mostly known as the governing body
for many international auto racing events, especially
Formula 1 racing. |
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FIA Formula One World Championship (also Formula One,
Formula 1, and F1) is the highest class of single-seat
auto racing that is sanctioned by the Fédération
Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). |
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The
International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) is an auto
racing sanctioning body based in Daytona Beach, Florida.
It was started in 1969 by John Bishop, a former
executive director of SCCA, and his wife Peggy with help
from Bill France, Sr. of NASCAR. IMSA is the sanctioning
body of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship, the
premier series resulting from the merger of Grand-Am
Road Racing and the American Le Mans Series. |
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The Tudor United SportsCar Championship (TUSCC) is a
sports car racing series based in the U.S. and Canada
and organized by IMSA. TUSCC formed in 2014 as the
result of a merger between two existing North American
sports car racing series, the American Le Mans Series
and Rolex Sports Car Series (formerly the Grand-Am
Series).
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The IndyCar Series is the premier level of American open
wheel racing. These cars look similar to FIA's Formula 1
racecars. (One could suggest calling theses Formula Indy
racecars.) The current championship, introduced by
Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Tony George, began in
1996 as a competitor to CART known as the Indy Racing
League (IRL). Citing CART's increasing reliance on
expensive machinery and overseas drivers, George aimed
to create a lower-cost alternative. In 2008, the Verizon
IndyCar Series merged with the Champ Car World Series
(formerly CART). The series is sanctioned by IndyCar. |
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The National Auto Sport Association (NASA) is an
American motorsports organization promoting road racing
and high-performance driver education. Founded in 1991,
NASA hosts High Performance Driving Events (HPDE),
automotive rallies, time trials, autocross and amateur,
club-level automotive racing, divided amongst
regionally-based chapters within the United States. |
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ChumpCar is
very affordable, competitive endurance road racing, with
cars valued under $500. Endurance races range from
7-hours to 36-hours long. It's for those that have
always wanted to go road racing without all the hassles
or expense. |
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