Betty Harrison’s introduction to SCCA® came in a roundabout way that is both unique and familiar. She had a horse, and a friend of hers who also had a horse was married to an SCCA racer. Her friends and another racing couple......Read more

Julie Hammons started volunteering with the Sports Car Club of America® at a Memorial Day event in 1981. “In those days, you worked on a logbook before you were approved,” she explains. “I didn’t become a member until 1986.”......Read more

It all began in the 1960s when Beth Burkhard’s parents, Sheila and Josh Cockey, were invited to a race at Marlboro Speedway by a cousin who was a Formula Vee® racer. They were hooked and started working Flagging &......Read more

Kathy McLeod’s first experience with sports car racing came as a spectator at the Chicago Region June Sprints at Road America in 1966. Three years later, she was dating a gentleman who was going to Road America to race, so......Read more

It’s likely that many SCCA® members, including a lot of drivers, have no idea what the Club’s Race Data Technician does. In short, the job is to collect the objective vehicle dynamics data needed for the performance of a car,......Read more

Brian Williams went “straight” into motorsports, but it took some curves before he was introduced to SCCA. “I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, and there was no road racing,” he says. “It was either dirt track, round-d-round, or......Read more

Don Drennon first spectated at Road Atlanta at a Can-Am race in 1974. In 1987, while spectating at the SCCA® National Championship Runoffs®, he heard a recruiting pitch that was often repeated over the PA system: “Want to get......Read more

When it comes to streaming races in the motorsports world, the Sports Car Club of America was a pioneer. While it’s the norm now, the SCCA National Championship Runoffs was ahead of the curve – streaming live since 2009......Read more