Bishop was also instrumental in founding the SCCA Trans-Am Series and the SCCA / CASC Can-Am series.

The SCCA also holds National-level events in an alternate format called ProSolo.

They also won the 1966 manufacturers ’ championship in the inaugural SCCA Trans-Am series, and repeated the win the following year.

The block could also be shortened, starting with the Formula Atlantic engine in 1970, followed by the and variants for SCCA club racing and sports car racing.

Besides rallies, the Focus has also been used in the SCCA Speed World Challenge Touring Car Series, the TC 2000, resulting champion in 2003 and 2005.

Carroll Shelby would also enter a pair of 2000GTs to compete in the SCCA production car races competing in the CP category.

Team Mitsubishi Starions also won the Sports Car Club of America ( SCCA ) U. S. Endurance Championships three of those four years, competing against the fully factory-backed ( Wolin's team was only partially sponsored by Mitsubishi ) efforts from Chrysler, Audi, Nissan and Mazda.

It hosted a NASCAR Nationwide Series event and a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on a 1. 25-mile ( 2 kilometer ) oval, a infield Road Course used by SCCA and various car clubs, and also has a quarter-mile drag strip that hosts an annual National Hot Rod Association event.

Bishop was also instrumental in founding the SCCA Trans-Am series and the SCCA / CASC Can-Am series.

Since then the site has also been used by the following SCCA regions: Finger Lakes, Western New York, Mohawk Hudson and Central New York.

He was also SCCA Formula A Champion in 1967, driving a Lotus 41.

He was also known for his participation in the SCCA Trans-Am Series, where he had, at one point, piloted a BF Goodrich-sponsored Pontiac Firebird, known as the " Tirebird " and also several FIA events with the Greenwood Corvette team.

That year, Donohue also won two divisional championships: in SCCA B Class in a GT350 and in SCCA Formula C in a Lotus 20B.

In addition to the stock car racing that NASCAR is famous for, ISC tracks also host IRL IndyCar races, Grand-Am, IMSA GT and SCCA sports car races, WKA go-kart races and AMA motorcycle races.

At one of the races that season, the series was compared to the Trans Am Series, also sanctioned by SCCA.

After a long period of dormancy, Sno * Drift was run again as national event for the SCCA, although not as a full event, but instead at 60 %, while also counting as coefficient 3 divisional event.

* 1987-1988 SCCA Escort Endurance Series champion, driving Corvette ; also competed in the SCCA truck series winning the manufacturers championship for the Jeep brand.

Tommy also had a championship title in the SCCA truck series and overall wins at the 24 Hours of Mosport and Nelson Ledges.

Road Atlanta also hosts several Sports Car Club of America ( SCCA ) Regional and National competition events throughout the year.

The SCCA sanctions RallyCross events, similar to autocross, but on a non-paved course.

The SCCA began sanctioning professional racing in 1963, when the United States Road Racing Championship was formed.

Current SCCA-sanctioned professional series include Trans-Am, the SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge for GT and touring cars, and the Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup.

Newman's first professional event as a racer was in 1972, in Thompson, Connecticut, and he was a frequent competitor in Sports Car Club of America ( SCCA ) events for the rest of the decade, eventually winning four national championships.

The SCCA had now taken the big step up to professional racing.

Formula Mazda has its own class in SCCA club racing, and there is a North American professional series named Star Mazda Championship that is part of IndyCar's Road to Indy ladder system.

Prior to Formula Atlantic, professional Formula B races were held in the United States from 1965 to 1972, firstly with the SCCA's poorly-supported Formula A, then as part of the SCCA Formula Continental Championship in 1968 ( when they were largely overshadowed by the V8-powered Formula 5000 cars ) and then as an independent series from 1969 to 1972.

The SCCA traces its roots to the Automobile Racing Club of America ( not to be confused with the current stock car series of the same name ).

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.

SCCA ProRally was a national performance rally series similar to the World Rally Championship.

In 1972, SCCA started its first showroom stock racing series, with a price ceiling on the cars of $ 3, 000.

However, the SCCA continues to provide a major support series for the more prestigious series.

This series, known as the SCCA World Challenge, consists of a one hour race for each round, combining three classes: GT ( Chevrolet Corvette, Aston Martin DB9, etc.

* SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge – GT and Touring Car Racing series in the US and Canada

In 1970, Mustang won the SCCA Trans-Am series manufacturers ’ championship again, with Parnelli Jones and George Follmer driving for car owner / builder Bud Moore and crew chief Lanky Foushee.

Almost since its inception, Acura has been involved in American motorsports, specifically in Sports Car Club of America ( SCCA ) and IMSA GT Championship series.

Intended for Sports Car Club of America's ( SCCA ) " Formula S " series.

The Alliance and Encore, while comparatively underpowered, had a definite advantage in ride and handling against other small cars available in America at the time and even had their own SCCA spec-racing series, the Alliance Cup.

The Trans-Am Series is an automobile racing series which was created in 1966 by Sports Car Club of America ( SCCA ) President John Bishop.

When these two marques dropped out interest in the series waned and the SCCA cancelled the series.

SCCA Pro Racing will continue to sanction Trans-Am events and provide contracted event operations services to the series.

SCCA Pro Racing President Tom Campbell, sights not having the resources to support growing the series as one of the reason for the transition.

Clagett had a 22-year affiliation with SCCA Pro Racing and the Trans-Am Series, most recently as Executive Director of Trans-Am in 2005 when Champ Car operated and sanctioned the series.

The SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge racing series, run by the Sports Car Club of America, and the Grand American Road Racing Association, respectively, utilize modified production-based cars, sports cars, and touring cars, similar in spirit to the original Trans-Am racers.

The Sports Car Club of America ( SCCA ) spec-racing series Renault LeCar Cup was successful, and while relatively underpowered with its " fuel sipping " 1. 4 L engine, the Alliance's " excellent " ride and handling compared to the other small cars sold in America at the time, was an advantage that contributed to establishing the Alliance Cup in 1983.