SCCA - school me

[Magnified]

I've been a sports car / hot rod guy my entire life (with some bike time thrown in). I have never been a member of any formal car club. If you are or have been, like SCCA, or whatever, what are your thoughts? What benefits if any are there?

 

[tkracing1]

Wow this brings back memories... I was a member of the SCCA in the 80's when I built my Datsun 510 and we raced them at Sears Point... Could not tell you what if any perks besides being able to get access to tracks I normally would not have... and it was a long time ago. Not sure if you saw this page or not...

https://www.scca.com/pages/member-benefits-preview

 

[DGatzby]

With a SCCA membership you get to go their events and participate. Go to their site and make sure you have a vehicle, or have the ability to rent a vehicle to use in their events and almost as important make sure they have some events geographically around you can attend. For example, I hold a certification for a competition SCCA license. But the Challenger cannot race in SCCA. I could rent like a Ford Spec Racer for about $1,500/day and participate or buy a cheap vehicle to use on one of their classes. I may do that next year for kicks. If NASA has events near you, then you could join them and do some HDPE racing with an automatic (Challenger/Charger). Up here for a couple of seasons I chose NASA for events until they did not come to the hometown track Brainerd International any longer. Now, maybe I could travel to one or two events in other states. But instead, I am choosing to just go to the local track and maybe travel a couple of times like I did this year to different states to try other tracks with even different groups who hold similar events.