1990 SCCA National Championship (highlights)
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- After I uploaded the '88 highlights, (and 'spammed' the link elsewhere) a friend of mine from Europe asked me why I called The Runoffs a "shootout". It's actually a term from old Western movies made in the US. I'm sure most of you have seen the 'gunfighters in the street' thing in one of them. As far as why I used that term for motor racing over here, this is it.
Unlike amateur racing in the rest of the world, club racing in the US isn't based upon marques, or displacement. Our biggest club (and for nearly fifty years, the only club over here) exists simply to provide opportunities for folks to go road racing in the first place. Thing is..the US is much larger than other countries. Like I've often said, the difference between Americans and Europeans is that an American thinks 1000 years is a "long time", and a European thinks 1000 miles (1600km? :D ) is a "long way".
The reason the SCCA National Amateur Championships were (and still are!) fantastic motor racing is because drivers all over the country picked up points in their local races..and then only had one long tow to the Championship Race. Once they were at the final event..points were thrown out the window. Whoever wins the race is the National Champion. As we say in the US..."shootout". You win, or you lose. But at least you had the chance.
I really don't know where or when we started using the term "The Runoffs" for the event. But I know that I loved it then, and I love it now. I read it in magazines when I was a child, and embraced it when I finally joined SCCA as an adult. And even though I was never fast enough or rich enough to participate as a driver, I am certainly stoked that I was able to participate as a marshal in many of these events. Yeah, some of the 22 races were a snoozefest. Others were epic. I'm glad I was there.
IIRC, one of my older videos was an even shorter version of the results. I'm actually kinda stoked that this one is longer.
Excellent! Thanks for sharing. I was there that year as well as 87.
We spent a nice evening watching this video . It's real racing !!!
+sportscarsmovies , glad you enjoyed it. I love The Runoffs. Imagine a family reunion at the NBA finals, except they play basketball for 8hrs. And then afterwards hand out free beer and let you sleep it off in the arena. That's what a Runoffs race day is like for participants. Home movie of a worker campsite, 1993: ruclips.net/video/6Gt4RMiKXAM/видео.html
Really cool , really cool, really cool , really cool , really cool , really cool , really cool , really cool!!
My brain still hasn't stopped processing the 1990s as being relatively contemporary so when they say that one of the podium finishers in Formula Atlantic is 71 and I realise that'd mean they'd be 100 this year it's kinda jarring
Honda Civic Sis running here is awesome!
GT5 class looks awesome!
.Been to Road Atlanta for many many years for the runoffs... racing and comorrade like nowhere else. Our South Louisiana gumbo always. gathered a crowd. Yeeehaaaw !!!!!
Your video up loads are great! GT 4 Corollas!!!
warren pyontek, oh yeah, man! The '80s and '90s were crazy days in SCCA for those of us who loved small displacement sedans. During the '60s and '70s, the "Sedan Class" required folks to still use the production "tub". But after Trans-Am went to tube cars, the rules were re-written to let smaller displacement cars do the same thing in amateur racing!! Crazy expensive, but there were people that 'went there'. If an automaker made a great engine, you just built the thing to max out the rules, and put a tube frame & custom suspension under it. And then fiberglass over it. It was like NASCAR or Trans Am for those of us who like a motor with less than 5ltr displacement.
Love these old videos! Any chance you have the 87 runoffs, specifically H Production?
*****, Not currently, but I'm looking. If I find something like *that*, yeah, you'll see it here.
Courtney Smith of Baja Boats? I own Courtneys Baja Boats Beretta from 1985.....
That is me 4th in GT1
Courtney - I have the Beretta that Dillon built for you!!
Funny seeing GM notchback FWD crap cars racing lol. I'm sure it wasn't completely stock..