Start on pole, lead every lap, win the race. Jim Drago got the first and last parts of the instructions for dominance correct, but he seemed to forget the middle part during his quest for a second straight SCCA Spec Miata National Championship. “The week had gone pretty much flawlessly,” Drago says of the 2013 […]”
Rob Huffmaster has a bit of experience with the SCCA National Championship Runoffs. But the car he drove to the 2013 Super Touring Lite National Championship has more titles than he does. Huffmaster drove the Mazda RX-8 to the 2007 Touring 3 National Championship victory when the Runoffs was held at Heartland Park Topeka. His […]”
For more than a decade, the winning trend in the Sports Car Club of America’s C Sports Racing category has been to rebody a Formula Atlantic car to meet the sports racing rules. The Formula Atlantic cars are fast, and adding the bodywork tends to make them quicker. Usually those who make the conversion use […]”
Darryl Wills may not have raced everything, but as he rattles off the list – flat track, motocross, offroad and road racing on two wheels; sprint cars, drag racing, offroad and sports cars on four – it sure seems like it. So it seems almost unlikely that a Formula Mazda, spotted during a visit to […]”
History has shown that, even with a given set of rules, there is no one right way to build a racecar. With enough latitude, designers will find unique solutions to solve a common problem. Witness things like six-wheeled Tyrell F1 cars, turbine-powered Indy cars or even diesel-powered sports cars. In SCCA’s Production category, a common […]”
At the 1977 Champion Spark Plug Road Racing Classic – what the Sports Car Club of America’s National Championship Runoffs was called then – at Road Atlanta, the B Sedan grid was full of Datsuns. That was only to be expected, as Datsuns had ruled the class for the previous six years. There was […]”
The trend in the past few years to create a winning C Sports Racing car in Sports Car Club of America Club Racing competition has typically followed two paths – rebody a Formula Atlantic car, or use a high-revving motorcycle engine in a lightweight chassis. Yet Dudley Fleck has managed to buck that trend and […]”
Production-based racecars are a perfect place for a racer to get started, and many drivers never leave the arena of Touring cars, Spec Miata and the like. But for the driver seeking something fast but who still wants something that looks like a road car, Grand Touring may be the ideal destination. The Sports Car […]”
Jim Downing was one of the racers at the first SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Riverside International Raceway in 1964. In fact, he scored the first Runoffs pole in history, in Formula Vee. Fifty years later, he’s still racing at the Runoffs in a Mazda rotary-powered Peach Day-02 C Sports Racing car. But in between […]”
Hello, My name is Patrick Gallagher and I am a driver for CJ Wilson Racing in the Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup. I started racing quarter midgets and karts when I was six and since then I have driven numerous racecars. Last year I was fortunate enough to drive for JAY Motorsports in the U.S. F2000 […]”
Every year, the Sports Car Club of America’s top Club Racers gather at the SCCA National Championship Runoffs to prove who is the best of the best. The 50th edition took place this past weekend at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., with a near-record entry of more than 700 cars. Out of 28 SCCA […]”
After a day of practice and three days of qualifying, the 2013 SCCA National Championship Runoffs races are ready to get underway at Road America for the 50th Anniversary edition. Eight Mazda drivers claimed pole positions for the races, including those in all-Mazda or Mazda-powered classes. All pole times were set on Tuesday, as rain […]”
Not since 1968 at the now-gone Riverside International Raceway has the Sports Car Club of America National Championship event been held west of the Rocky Mountains. In 2014 that changes as Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca hosts the Runoffs in California 50 years after the 1964 inaugural event at Riverside. “Club Racing is the heart and […]
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