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Pete Hylton (born January 30, 1957) is the archivist and historian for the Sports Car Club of America.He is the author of two books: Ghost Tracks: A Historical Look at America’s Lost Road Racing Tracks [1] and Sports Car Club of America 60 Years in Photos.
The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) is a non-profit [2] American automobile club and sanctioning body supporting Autocross, Rallycross, HPDE, Time Trial, Road Racing, and Hill Climbs in the United States. Formed in 1944, it runs many programs for both amateur and professional racers.
She was the first woman to win a Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) national championship. Mims won the SCCA Class H championship in 1963. She was known as the "Pink Lady" of racing because she wore a pink racing helmet and coveralls and had the phrase "Think Pink" emblazoned on the back of her pink racing cars.
At the same race the following year, racing an ASA 411, Dietrich partnered Mims and the pair finished 24th. [6] After her retirement from racing, she wrote for the Sandusky Register and remained active as an administrator within the Sports Car Club of America. She suffered a stroke, and later died, in 2015, aged 88. [7] [2]
The 1960 SCCA National Sports Car Championship season was the tenth season of the Sports Car Club of America's National Sports Car Championship. It began April 3, 1960, and ended November 13, 1960, after seventeen races.
Past Pacific Coast Champion Sports Car Club of America Sports and Formula Cars; First woman to race in a US MC/FIM sanctioned motorcycle race in the US (1960) First woman to finish the Baja 1000 (1968) First woman to Road Race motorcycles in the US; First woman to race Motocross in the US; First woman to compete with Europeans in International ...
He moved into wheel-to-wheel with the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) to win the SCCA Northeast Division GT1 championship. Bob entered Trans Am in the 1990s and still ranks in the top twenty drivers for most race starts with 95, topped by a third-place podium finish during the 2000 Long Beach Grand Prix weekend.
The SCCA National Sports Car Championship was a sports car racing series organized by the Sports Car Club of America from 1951 until 1964. It was the first post- World War II sports car series organized in the United States .