In modern times, the SCCA seems to vary in popularity from region to region as there is some healthy competition in some areas from newer organizations like NASA, but they do a good job of keeping at least a presence pretty much everywhere in the form of autrocross and "Track Night in America" events in places where they don't have the facilities or membership numbers available for full on race events.Īs far as Greenwood goes, that was a fun reminder - I had kind of forgotten about that track! If you're a road racing enthusiast, it's kind of a sad and all too typical story. As an interesting side note, the SCCA was the sanctioning body for CART after the "first split" in '79 when CART originally split from USAC. The SCCA at large is still a pretty big deal within amateur racing circles, though it's certainly not in the public consciousness the way it would have been in the heyday of sports car racing in the USA in the 50's and 60's. That's a good way for people to get a toe in the water at not much cost.which can then be a gateway drug for getting involved in the club more seriously. They do seem to run some local autocross-type events "locally" (i.e. I have hopes of making the trek down someday) A lot of the guys in the club I belong to have run down there and rave about it. It doesn't appear they have a "home track", as the road racing events they have listed on their site are in other states - Kansas, Missouri, even Oklahoma (Hallett, which, by reputation, is supposed to be a wonderful facility. I was an avid race fan back in the day (my old man and I would go to the Fairgrounds, Knoxville or Boone a few times a month) but I never heard of this track until this post.Ĭlick to expand.Good to see DSM has an SCCA chapter alive and kicking. I can't imagine 40 degrees made out of wood. I went to Bristol and looked down the banking in the corners and it is only 30 degrees but it is steep enough to scare the crap out of you. Those guys must have had balls of steel to drive a car with that era of technology 90 mph on a 40 degree wooden banked track. As someone who did court ordered community service in Valley Junction in '93, I can assure that the flood plain was probably really big down there before the Army Corps of Engineers put in the levy system.
Valley Junction is pretty old and I would guess that the area that you suggest at 14th and Railroad is where it was because that looks like one of the few undivided parcels big enough to build a mile oval that didn't get slashed by a street and it was probably cheap land due to proximity to the railroad and flood plain.
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