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The 1970 Trans-American Championship was a motor racing series organised by the Sports Car Club of America for SCCA Sedans. It was the fifth Trans-Am Championship . Ford won the Over 2 Liter title and Alfa Romeo were victorious in the Under 2 Liter class.
The Trans-Am Series was created in 1966 by Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) President John Bishop. Originally known as the Trans-American Sedan Championship, the name was changed to the Trans-American Championship for 1967 and henceforth. [1] The series has in fact gone by at least twenty different names through the years.
The Audi 200 Turbo Quattro is the only all-wheel-drive car ever to win a Trans Am Championship for its manufacturer. The SCCA would subsequently change the rules to two wheel drive only, and ban cars with non-American engines from taking part, but Audi had already planned to defect to IMSA after the 1988 season anyway. [13]
The 1980 Trans-Am Series was the fifteenth running of the Sports Car Club of America's premier series.After several years of recovery from the decline of demand for muscle cars in the early seventies and the 1973 Oil Crisis, Trans Am evolved into a support series for the IMSA GT Championship, using vehicles that were also used in IMSA GT races.
2010 SCCA National Championship Runoffs (U.S.) winner. Spec Racer Ford is a class of racing car used in Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) and other series road racing events. The Spec Racer Ford, manufactured and marketed by SCCA Enterprises (a subsidiary of SCCA, Inc.), is a high performance, closed wheel, open cockpit, purpose-built race car intended for paved road courses, such as ...
Dodge's early to mid-1970s factory-supported "Kit Car" program for short-track late-model stock car racing offered a choice of Challenger, and a few (less than 12) were made, but in 1974 Dodge ended the Challenger line and they went to the Dodge Dart Sports and Dodge Aspen bodies over a steel-tube chassis.
The Achieva won the touring car championship of the SCCA World Challenge from 1992 to 1994. As of 2020, Oldsmobile is the only GM division other than Chevrolet ( Sonic ) to accomplish this feat and only one of two American brands (along with Chrysler's Eagle Talon , 1989–1991) to accomplish it in the 1990s.
The SCCA Enterprises introduced the formula and sports racer in 2002. The formula car was allowed in the Formula Atlantic club racing class. In 2003 SCCA Pro Racing created Sports Racing Pro Series for the formula (FS) and sports racer (SRP) cars. [1] For the 2004 racing season the class was merged with the U.S. F2000 National Championship.