The SCCA Triple Crown

The SCCA Triple Crown was a coveted accomplishment long before it became a formal award. To earn this award, a competitor must win his/her class in each of the following challenges: The June Sprints®; their home division’s national points championship; and, The SCCA National Championship at the Runoffs®.

Chicago Region SCCA developed the SCCA Triple Crown as a formal concept and award. Its development was inspired by televised driver interviews from the Runoffs several years ago. Drivers consistently commented that if they could win only two races in their amateur racing career, the races would be the June Sprints and the Runoffs.

That got us thinking not only about these two events, but also about the state and health of club racing in general. We wanted to tie the Sprints and Runoffs together somehow, but that addressed only two events in club racing, it didn’t tell the entire club racing picture: the continued support of national race events in each of the divisions.

So we looked at parallels in other competitive venues and the natural one was the Triple Crown in Horse Racing. We ran some statistics from the past few years to determine how many drivers would have won the Triple Crown had it been a formal program. The answer came back as very few. This told us that winning all three titles in one race season is difficult, something to strive for, and a title worthy of the successes of the competitors.

2007 Triple Crown Winners

Chicago Region would like to congratulate our 2007 Triple Crown Winners

James Goughary, Jr. in Formula Mazda, Brian Novak in F500 and Hans Peter in CSR