Washington DC Region SCCA Announcement 2021 Winter/Spring Virtual Racing!

In a few weeks we’ll get our 10th season underway and we hope you like what we have planned. The season will include three points championships across two distinct race groups...lost you yet? Here’s how the two groups breakdown:

Group 1 - Global MX-5 Cup + Ford Mustang FR500S

Group 2 - GT3

• Audi R8 LMS

• BMW M4 GT3 Prototype

• Ferrari 488 GT3

• Ford GT GT3

• Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO

• Mercedes AMG GT3

• McLaren MP4-12C GT3

And here’s our schedule - note that we are racing every two weeks and alternating between the two groups:

• Round 1 - 2/17/21 Group 1 Lime Rock Park

• Round 2 - 3/03/21 Group 2 Road Atlanta

• Round 3 - 3/17/21 Group 1 Watkins Glen (Cup)

• Round 4 - 3/31/21 Group 2 VIR (Full)

• Round 5 - 4/14/21 Group 1 Summit Point

• Round 6 - 4/28/21 Group 2 Road America

• Round 7 - 5/12/21 Group 1 VIR (South Course)

• Round 8 - 5/26/21 Group 2 Watkins Glen (Boot)

Group 1 - 30-minute sprint races, open setups and a 20x incident limit.

Group 2 - 60-minute races, single driver, open setups, fuel limits and a 25x incident limit.

(You don’t need to participate in both group events to be eligible for one of the three Championships.)

We won’t stray far from our familiar format and I’ll have more information available shortly.

WDCR iRacing 2020 starts January 22nd

The 2020 Spring iRacing season kicks off on Wednesday the 22nd of January and continues for the next 8 weeks and for the first time we’re racing the super popular Skip Barber Formula 2000! This event flyer has the schedule details.
Join us each Wednesday evening for two exciting sprint races in the Skippy and in addition to the 6- round championship we will hold two endurance rounds for GT-class cars just to mix things up a bit.
All events are livestreamed to YouTube by SYMtv and new for this season, our races will be simulcast to the Region’s Facebook page! Current league members will receive additional information in the coming weeks and for anyone interested in joining us or just want to know more about the Region’s Virtual Racing program please go to https://wdcr-scca.org/virtual-racing or send an email to sim-racing@wdcr-scca.org and we’ll be happy to steer you in the right direction.

HEADS UP! SCCA NEEDS YOUR INPUT

Article by Jack Burrows, Area 2 Director

The bylaws which govern SCCA have remained largely unchanged for some years. Our bylaws can only be revised by a vote of our members and require ballots to be sent and returned through the mail. Given the time and money involved in mailing ballots with postage paid return envelopes, this is a costly, cumbersome, and protracted process.

The club's Board of Directors therefore proposes to drag SCCA into the current millennium by changing our bylaws to provide for electronic voting. A detailed explanation of the proposal with its specific changes to our bylaws and the resulting voting process will be laid out in an article in upcoming issues of Sports Car.

Essentially, the Board's proposal is to allow SCCA to use electronic ballots (e.g., email) for things which our bylaws require to be voted on by our members. It also provides for people to opt out of electronic balloting if they prefer to receive and return hard copy ballots by mail. This change can't happen unless and until its voted on and approved by our members. Eligible members will therefore be receiving a ballot in the mail in the coming weeks asking for approval of electronic notification for items requiring a vote of the membership. The Board and I ask for your approval.

This would not a radical change. Many - if not most - of SCCA's regions already use electronic voting for things like elections for region officers. So the proposal would merely serve to bring SCCA nationally into the same practice as that which already widely used on the regional level. I encourage everyone to read the Sports Car article and vote in favor of the option for us to use electronic voting.