The Sports Car Club of America is a 55,000-member non-profit organization featuring the most active membership participation organization in motor sports today, with over 2,000 amateur and professional motor sports events each year.
True grassroots motor sports participation remains the backbone of the club, as 109 regional chapters conduct the vast majority of the club's participation events. The individual SCCA regions are brought together into a powerful national club, and the national office, under the leadership of Steven D. Johnson, coordinates and administers rules, licensing, insurance and member benefits.
Many of these regional chapters have their own Web sites. Here you can locate information about events they sanction, regional meetings and gatherings, schedules and results, regional officials, and much more.
Providing direction to the national office is an 12-member SCCA Board of Directors, elected by the membership for three-year terms and representing each of the club's 13 geographic areas. The Board of Directors sets club policy, maps the future direction of the club, resolves issues and ensures that the needs of individual members are met.
The SCCA's monthly magazine, SportsCar, offers lively coverage of the many different SCCA activities, and most regions also have their own publication.
The foundation of the SCCA remains its Club Racing program, as more than 8,000 licensed participants compete in 300 amateur road racing events conducted at the regional and national levels. The year culminates in October with the annual Valvoline Runoffs, which determines the national champions in 25 classes.
The SCCA's Rally/Solo Department offers a variety of events that suit amateur and professional competitors alike. On the pro side, ProSolo events and the SCCA ProRally Championship series are conducted, while amateur participants have Solo I, Solo II, RoadRally and ClubRally.
Race officiating is another important role of the SCCA. Every major U.S. road racing event is staffed by SCCA members working in a variety of capacities. The SCCA's 5,000 trained and licensed workers provide emergency services, course communications, timing and scoring, scrutineering, registration and marshaling for the course, pre-grid, pit lane and paddock.
SCCA Enterprises, a wholly owned subsidiary of SCCA, Inc., brings another dimension to the club-race car construction. SCCA Enterprises constructs and maintains the SCCA Spec Racer program, a single-seat sports racer. Since the debut of the first Spec Racer in 1984, over 760 cars have been built and delivered, making it the most popular class in SCCA history.
In 1966, the formation of a sedan-based professional series billed as the "Trans-American Sedan Championship" grew into North America's longest continuously running road racing series. The Trans-Am series began as a showcase for car manufacturers, but by the series' second year several big-name road racers shared the spotlight. After a 30+-year history, the SCCA's Trans-Am Series has carved quite a place in road racing history.
While the Trans-Am
Series is SCCA Pro Racing's most notable form of road racing, the sanctioning body also organizes, officiates and sanctions many other top-notch professional series, including the World Challenge and the Pro Spec Racer. Information on bygone SCCA Pro Racing series can be found in the SCCA Pro Racing Archives. Contact SCCA Pro Racing for details.
SCCA Pro Racing, Ltd., has become multidimensional in the 1990s. Not only does it sanction, organize and officiate these highly entertaining races-continuing its tradition of providing the essential functions at the track-but now it handles most of its own promotions, marketing and television programming.
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