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SCCA Pro Racing’s Board of Directors announced that it has hired Bob Wildberger to be its next President.Wildberger comes to SCCA Pro Racing after a colorful motorsports career at DaimlerChrysler, which saw him last serve as Senior Manager of Dodge Motorsports before his retirement earlier this year.
“Bob Wildberger brings a great mix of motorsports operations and marketing to SCCA Pro Racing,” SCCA Pro Racing Board Chairman Brian Holtz said. “We’ve been working with Bob as a consultant for the last several months and he is an excellent fit for the company as it moves forward.”
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.
The club racing program is the road racing division - purpose built race cars racing wheel-to-wheel on either dedicated race tracks or on temporary street circuits. To compete you will need your regional racing license. 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.
Most of the participants in the Club Racing program are unpaid amateurs, but some go on to professional racing careers. The club also is 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 "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). Beginning in 2006 "Runoffs" will move to Heartland Park Topeka. 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.
The Solo program[2] 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.
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. Similarly, 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.
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 Rallies[3] 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.
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.
The SCCA is responsible for the start of professional road racing in the U.S. and we’re still the leader. Programs ranging from karting to formula cars, spec cars to custom racing machines make SCCA Pro Racing the most dynamic organization in the professional road racing.
SCCA Pro Racing's history officially dates back more than 35 years with the creation of the United States Road Racing Championship in 1963, the prelude to the Can-Am Challenge, although the concept of SCCA Pro Racing started in the mid-1950s.
Sensing a need to expand from their amateur-only status, a
visionary group of SCCA members collected in the early 1960s to stake
the SCCA's claim on professional road racing. Not only did SCCA
drivers start competing professionally by 1963, but the events were
sanctioned and organized by the SCCA. Professional racing within the
membership of the SCCA, and around North America, was off and
running. Can-Am and the Trans-Am
Series.
SCCA Pro Racing delivers, hands down, the most competitive and exciting road racing series' to take to the track. It's your chance to see tomorrow's champions today. It's also time for competitors to step up to the next level where the bottom line becomes get in, go fast, get paid. Nothing else matters.
The SCCA has several professional series including the popular
SPEED World Challenge
introducing the brand new 2006
SIRIUS Satellite Radio Mazda MX-5
Cup, plus Formula
D (Drift)
,
and Formula
2000 Championship series.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_Car_Club_of_America
Learn more at www.scca.org/
2005: Cameron Argetsinger, A. Tracy Bird, John Fitch, Arthur Gervais, Harry Handley, Vern Jaques, Bill Milliken, Sue Roethel, Art Trier and Rob Walker.
2006: John Bornholdt, John Buffum, Mark Donohue, Denise McCluggage and Grant Reynolds.
2007: Marge Binks, Marc Gerstein, Carl Haas, Curtis LeMay and Ted
Robertson will join the 15 individuals inducted in 2005 and 2006,
during the February 3 enshrinement ceremony that will close the 2007
SCCA National Convention in San Antonio, Texas.
Source: SCCA, E-Mail
or www.scca.com
or www.world-challenge.com
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