Club RacingClub Racing
The best race tracks in the country are waiting for you to challenge them. Getting started in SCCA Club Racing isn’t as hard as you think. The SCCA stages more than 300 Club Racing events each year for people just like you. Whether you want to be World Champion or just crave the wheel-to-wheel racing experience, it’s time for you to get started.
Hit the track at an SCCA drivers’ school, then experience the excitement of Regional racing, step up to National-level competition and strive for the pinnacle of amateur motorsports, the annual SCCA National Championship Runoffs.
CCR would like to thank Race Engineering for their support of CCR’s Road Race program.
Club Racing Events for 2008
February 15 & 16 - Presidents National - Carolina Motorsports Park
May 24, 25, 26 - May Memorial Monster - Double SARRC, CCPS, ECR,T.T. - Carolina Motorsports Park
June 7 & 8 - Wolf Ridge Hillclimb - Wolf Lural
June 14 & 15 - June Jam (canceled) - Lowes Motor Speedway
August 2 & 3 - Eagles Nest - Banner Elk
Track Records
New track records on the updated Carolina Motorsports Park (Adobe PDF)
Sunday Aug. 3, 2008
Press Contact: Mark Seiler, Marketing/PR 704-898-0141 mark@ccrscca.com
BANNER ELK, NC - At the Second Annual Rock-N-Road Hill Climb at the Lodges at Eagles Nest John Finger, whose racing career includes multiple wins at the Chimney Rock Hill Climb and the 24 Hours of Daytona, returned to hill climbing in dramatic fashion. With little time left and “King of the Hill” honors in hand he loaded up his Riley Protofab Super Vee only to see his victory being snatched away by fellow Greenville, SC resident Gary Ramsey in his Cobra replica. Finger then unloaded his car for one last run and was able to recapture the crown. “I really had to pedal hard for this one.” said Finger, “I’m on top of the hill, not over it.” Finger’s winning time was 1:28.368, one and a half seconds faster than Ramsey. For Ramsey, whose background is decades of circle track racing, it was only his second attempt at a hill climb in a car that he builds and sells; the ‘66 Cobra Replica.
The top street-legal car was a 2006 Subaru WRX STI driven to, from and at the event by Steven Rankins with a time of 1:34.733, good for seventh overall.
The closest competition of the weekend was in C-Street Prepared class where Jeremy Cox edged defending CSP Champ Willie Stock by .059 seconds in a back and forth battle that saw Cox’s car go down with mechanical problems on Saturday afternoon only to be fixed by noon Sunday and return to action. It was Cox’s first hill climb win.
North Carolina Weekend featured last year’s Rock ‘n Road Hillclimb on their show.
View the segment here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McGSxffzfxo
