SCCA

TOPEKA, Kan., May 12, 2008 – Sports Car Club of America, Inc. (SCCA) announced today the results of a vote by its Board of Directors that will move the National Championship Runoffs® to Road America (Elkhart Lake, Wis.) in 2009. Road America will become the sixth venue to host the event, dating back to 1964.

The Board directed its staff to move forward to negotiate a three-year agreement with Road America for SCCA Club Racing’s signature event, which has averaged over 650 participants since 2000. The Runoffs is currently in the final year of a three-year agreement at Heartland Park Topeka, in Topeka, Kan.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Feb. 12, 2008 – Sports Car Club of America, Inc. completed the 2008 version of its National Convention and Annual Meeting Sunday in San Antonio. The four-day event featured seminars on leadership, town halls with the respective program boards, celebrations for the 2007 award winners and the annual induction ceremony for the SCCA Hall of Fame.

It was also announced that 2008 would be the final year in San Antonio, with the February 2009 Convention heading to Las Vegas.

A full collection of Convention information from the various seminars and the Annual Meeting will be available through SCCA’s secure member site within the next week.

The individual award honorees were:

Overall
Woolf Barnato Award – Ron Sharp, Des Moines Valley Region

Driver selection process held in Phoenix, Arizona from April 3-6, 2008

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Feb. 4, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Volkswagen of America, Inc. urges young amateur drivers to complete their full application for the Jetta TDI Cup series by Friday, February 29, 2008 when the registration period closes. The Jetta TDI Cup series is sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Pro Racing Inc., and will feature the only all-diesel powered field in a North American racing series and serious prize money to the series champion.

Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup: (PRNewsFoto/Volkswagen of America, Inc.)

STAFFORD SPRINGS, Conn., Jan. 30, 2008 - On a blustery weekend in northern Connecticut, the New England Region hosted the first RallyCross National Challenge event of the year at a snowy Stafford Motor Speedway.

Stock All-Wheel Drive was an all-Subaru show, save for Scott Beliveau’s Toyota Tacoma, which finished fifth. Thanks to six error-free runs, Matthew Gleiner was the class winner in his STi by nearly 10 seconds over the Imprezas of Roger Borlase and Phillip Mueller.

Stock Front-Wheel Drive was a much closer affair between the dueling Nissan Sentras of Henry Boudreau and Andy Longe. Despite coning four of his six runs, Boudreau was able to edge Longe by 2.580 seconds. They were followed by the Volkswagen Jetta of Robin Wilkins.

TOPEKA, Kan., Jan. 29, 2008 – SCCA Pro Racing has added a brand-new East Coast venue and classic American road course to the 2008 SPEED World Challenge schedule.

Following Round Six at Mosport International Raceway, the series will cross the border and head east to the brand-new New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, N.J., home of Thunderbolt Raceway. The 14-turn 2.25-mile road course will host the penultimate round of the SCCA SPEED Touring Car Championship and a SPEED GT doubleheader, September 26 – 28. The series’ inaugural event at New Jersey Motorsports Park will be held in conjunction with the ARCA/RE/MAX Series.

BUFORD, Ga., Jan. 16, 2008 - Hyper Sport Engineering has announced the construction of a Lotus Exige S for competition in the 2008 SCCA Pro Racing SPEED World Challenge GT Championship.

The Lotus Exige S is the newest Lotus model to hit the streets. The Hyper Sport Engineering racecar will utilize the same light weight, forced induction 1.8 liter engine and sophisticated suspension design of the stock Lotus Exige. Kirt Wightman, Owner and Director of Hyper Sport Engineering, is convinced the ultra fast and nimble Exige will be right at home in SPEED GT.

“I am excited about the fantastic potential of this new program,” Wightman said. “SPEED World Challenge is the right series to showcase the outstanding capabilities of the Lotus chassis.”

TOPEKA, Kan., Dec. 11, 2007 – Sports Car Club of America’s Board of Directors voted Monday night to approve action and direction to increase participation and interest in the 2008 Club Racing National program.

For the third-straight year, 25 classes will race at the National Championships Runoffs® at Heartland Park Topeka in October. The decision to increase from the previously-announced 24 class format means that GT-3, the 25th strongest class in 2007 National participation, will race at the Runoffs for the 29th-straight year, dating back to 1980.

2008 Race Schedule - Eight Great Weekends

December 6, 2007, Orlando, Fla. -- Using the largest motorsports trade show in the world as the venue, the world's most popular sports car has joined forces with one of the world's most popular brands, as Playboy becomes the title sponsor for the 2008 SCCA Pro Racing Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup. The MX-5 Cup saw thirty-percent growth in 2007 and is projected to become the number one spec professional series in the world. The series is also an integral part of the MAZDASPEED Motorsports Development Ladder that promotes champions of Mazda series to the next level of their career.

TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 30, 2007 -- Sports Car Club of America (SCCA), Inc. has announced the four individuals and one couple who will be enshrined in the SCCA Hall of Fame class of 2008.

Roger Johnson, Don and Ruth Nixon, Kjell Qvale, Robert Ridges, and Fred Schmucker will join the 20 individuals previously inducted in 2005, 2006 and 2007 during the February 2 enshrinement ceremony that will close the 2008 SCCA National Convention in San Antonio, Texas.

Profiles:

Win Streak Reaches 52 Consecutive Years and 133 Titles; Pontiac Solstice wins two classes

2007-10-15, TOPEKA, Kan. – Drivers racing Chevy and Pontiac vehicles won five Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) National Championships over the weekend at the 44th Annual Runoffs Presented by AT&T at the 2.5-mile Heartland Park Topeka circuit.

Ken Flory, a Pratt & Miller engineer, drove his Pontiac Solstice Club Sport Z0K to the model’s second straight Runoffs win against a strong field of import vehicles in the Showroom Stock B (SSB) race on Saturday.

“I was hit in the rear at the start, but that was enough to push my Solstice into the lead and we were able to stay there,” said Flory, who was competing in his first Runoffs.