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(R&M) CONTENTS 2 Letter from the President 3 What is SCCA? 4 SCCA Club Racing National Staff 5 SCCA Club Racing Style Guide 6 SCCA Sponsors 10 Club Racing Categories and Classes 14 The Structure of Club Racing 15 SCCA Divisions 16 The SCCA National Championship Runoffs® 19 The Future of Club Racing 20 BFGoodrich Tires Super Tour 21 SCCA Club Racing Super Sweep Winners 22 2010 National Champions 28 Former National Champions 46 Inactive Class National Champions 61 Multiple National Championships 63 Consecutive Championships 64 Multiple Class Champions 74 Runoffs Pole Winners 91 Inactive Class Pole Winners 102 Multiple Pole Winners 104 Consecutive Poles 105 Miscellaneous Records 106 Manufacturer Records 109 Runoffs Lap Records 113 Divisional Championship Records 115 National Point Championships 118 Major Club Racing Awards 128 BFGoodrich Tires Worker of the Year SCCA Club Racing (800) 770-2055 FAX (785) 232-7214 www.SCCA.com © Copyright 2011 Sports Car Club of America, Inc. 2011 SCCA® Club Racing Media Guide 1 Dear SCCA Media Partners: WHAT IS SCCA®? Welcome to another extraordinary season of SCCA Club Racing, the Sports Car Club of America, Inc. was founded 67 years ago by a most competitive grassroots racing program in North America. group of amateur motorsports enthusiasts and today boasts nearly 45,000 members. SCCA now sanctions more than 2,000 amateur Our Club Racing program continues to evolve and a big addition for 2011 was the start of the BFGoodrich Tires SCCA Super Tour program. With and professional motorsports events each year. With 114 regional the help of our partner, BFGoodrich Tires, we have created a series of chapters covering the entire United States, Guam and Puerto Rico, high profile events that include many aspects that you’d only find at the SCCA provides true grassroots participation and is the largest National Championship Runoffs. active motorsports membership organization in the world. Local events at nearby circuits remain the backbone of club activities. This is the top program during the regular season, which again features SCCA’s volunteer staff provides everything from course marshaling some 230 Regional races and 71 SafeRacer National Racing Series to timing and scoring, at both club and professional events. competitions. Add in our Performance Driving Experience, Time Trials and Driver School events and it makes for a packed schedule for our In addition to Club Racing, SCCA is the home to Pro Racing, Regions, creating more opportunities for people to race across the coun- try than any other organization. RallyCross, Solo and RoadRally, all of which offer a wide variety of amateur and professional motorsports competitions. SCCA Our season again culminates with the big one – the 48th Annual SCCA Enterprises, a wholly owned subsidiary of SCCA, constructs National Championship Runoffs® at Road America. Now in its third sea- and maintains two cars, the venerable SCCA Spec Racer Ford, son out of a five-year agreement with Road America, this year’s event a single-seat sports racer that is one of Club Racing’s most will be as competitive as ever, with 600 racers and 500 workers swarm- popular classes, as well as the dual purpose Formula Enterprises/ ing Elkhart Lake, Wis. for a week to crown 28 National Champions. Enterprises Sports Racer, now in its seventh year, with Formula Enterprises making its Runoffs debut in 2008. This will also be the third year of our SCCA Club Racing Super Sweep program (see page 21 for the 2010 winners), the most challenging award a racer can earn. To accomplish this feat, a driver must win: a Divisional SCCA’s Club Racing program is designed to fulfill the need of Championship, a National Points Championship, a race at one of nine the “amateur athlete.” It is a comprehensive, nationwide program select Club National Races, and the National Championship Runoffs all featuring races held throughout the year that cater to the driver in the same class. We’re hopeful, and have already seen, that the new who perhaps prefers to test his or her skill on a part time basis, award will unite the entire spectrum of Club Racing, making it a truly rather than compete full-time on SCCA’s professional circuits. “national” competition by giving Club Racers the opportunity to compete Nevertheless, because the competition at the club level is so fierce, head-to-head against drivers across the country. many professionals also participate in this program to further hone their skills and compete at SCCA’s National Championship Runoffs. No matter what event you visit, each weekend brings a new story to be told. We thank you for your assistance in telling those stories. The amateur road racing program is administered by SCCA’s Club If you have any additional questions about SCCA Club Racing, you can Racing Department. A full staff of SCCA personnel handles the always contact our Communications department for help. needs of the amateur race car driver, developing a full schedule of 240 Regional events, along with approximately 30 Driving Schools, Thank you again for your support of SCCA Club Racing. I look forward 45 Performance Driving Experience events and another 70 National to seeing you at the races, races. Club Racing is an integral part of SCCA. Nearly half of the membership is involved on the amateur level, either as drivers, crew, workers or officials. More than 8,000 SCCA members hold competition licenses allowing them to compete within SCCA’s Club Jeff Dahnert Racing programs. SCCA President & CEO 2 2011 SCCA® Club Racing Media Guide 2011 SCCA® Club Racing Media Guide 3 SCCA Club Racing National Staff SCCA Club Racing Style Guide President & CEO First Usage: Jeff Dahnert Sports Car Club of America Executive Assistant SCCA® National Championship Runoffs® Aimee Thoennes Second Usage: Club Racing SCCA Terry Ozment - Vice President, Club Racing SCCA Runoffs Deanna Flanagan - Club Racing Manager Proper Capitalization: SCCA Club Racing Janet Farwell - Club Racing Events Manager SCCA Club Racer Finance Rick Ehret - Vice President of Finance National Class Names (Abbreviations): Mindi Atchison - Manager of Accounting & Human Resouces American Sedan® (AS) Spec Racer® Ford (SRF) Spec Miata (SM) Member and Region Services C Sports Racing (CSR) Sports 2000 (S2) Colan Arnold - Vice President, Membership & Region Services D Sports Racing (DSR) Michelle Lour - Member Services Manager Touring 1 (T1) E Production (EP) Touring 2 (T2) Rick Myers - Region Services Manager F Production (FP) Touring 3 (T3) H Production (HP) Marketing and Communications Super Touring® Over (STO) Eric Prill - Vice President, Marketing & Communications Formula Atlantic® (FA) Super Touring® Under (STU) Formula Continental® (FC) Reece White - Public Releations Manager Formula Mazda (FM) Showroom Stock B (SSB) Formula F (FF) Showroom Stock C (SSC) Melissa Flesher - Manager of Marketing Services Formula Vee® (FV) Jenny McAbee - Marketing and Communications Specialist Formula 500 (F500) Formula 1000 (FB) John Steflik - Creative Director Formula Enterprises (FE) Technical Services Department GT-1 (GT1) Doug Gill - Technical Services Department General Manager GT-2 (GT2) GT-3 (GT3) John Bauer - Technical Services Manager GT-Lite (GTL) Brian Harmer - Technical Specialist Ryan Miles - Technical Services Assistant 4 2011 SCCA® Club Racing Media Guide 2011 SCCA® Club Racing Media Guide 5 BFGoodrich Tires proprietary SuperSyn anti-wear technology that provides performance beyond conventional motor oils. 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