[h=2]SCCA: SportsCar magazine's December 2016 issue available now[/h] Monday, 28 November 2016
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In September 2016, the Sports Car Club of America hosted its mega road race, the SCCA National Championship Runoffs. Taking place at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for the first time since 2005, this year's winner-take-all premier amateur road race attracted more than 500 competitors to the challenging Lexington, Ohio, road course, with only 28 drivers earning one of the coveted SCCA National Championship trophies – and
SportsCar magazine was on hand to cover each race in brutal detail.
In the December 2016 issue,
SportsCar (sister publication to
RACER and
RACER.com) dedicates more than 50 pages to the event which has in the past attracted such competitors as Mark Donohue, Scott Sharp, Boris Said, Randy Pobst, Bobby and Graham Rahal, and Michel Galati, to name a few. Speaking of Galati, the five time Runoffs champion turned professional racer returned in 2016 after a near two-decade absence from the Runoffs to contest the E Production class – a race he started from the pole.
The December 2016 issue also contains an interview with Neil Verhagen, who is now the youngest Runoffs champion, besting the previous record held by Graham Rahal. At age 15, Verhagen turned heads with both a spectacular qualifying effort and unbelievable race performance in Formula F.
SCCA's National Championships aren't all held on pavement, however, as the December issue illustrates with
SportsCar's coverage of the 2016 RallyCross National Championship. Held at the National Balloon Classic in Indianola, Iowa, this potentially diabolical event drew more than 100 competitors to fling dirt in the most competitive way.
Members of the SCCA receive
SportsCar magazine each month as a benefit of SCCA membership. The issue is available in both physical paper form and online through the member login at
www.scca.com. Join the SCCA now and read the December issue of
SportsCar tonight.