United States Road Racing Championship
The United States Road Racing Championship (USRRC) was a Sports Car Club of America series for professional racing drivers. SCCA Executive Director John Bishop helped to create the series in 1962 to recover races that had been taken by rival USAC Road Racing Championship, a championship that folded after the 1962 season.[1] For its first three seasons, the series featured both open-topped sports cars and GT cars. Ford and Porsche dominated the Over- and Under-2 Liter classes, respectively. The USRRC ran from 1963 until 1968 when it was abandoned in favor of the more successful Can-Am series, which was also run by the SCCA.
In 1998 the USRRC name was revived by the SCCA as an alternative to the
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship
.
Champions
| Season | Driver | GT Makes |
|---|---|---|
| 1963 |  Bob Holbert
|
AC Cobra
|
| 1964 | Jim Hall
|
Shelby American
|
| 1965 | George Follmer
| |
| 1966 | Chuck Parsons
|
|
| 1967 | Mark Donohue
| |
| 1968 |
USRRC champions
| Season | Can-Am | GT1 | GT2 | GT3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 |  James Weaver
|
 Thierry Boutsen
|
Scott Sansone Cameron Worth
|
 Ross Bentley
|
| 1999 | Elliott Forbes-Robinson Butch Leitzinger
|
no title | Larry Schumacher John O'Steen
|
Cort Wagner
|
References
- ^ Gousseau, Alexis (23 April 2006). "A tribute to John Bishop". IMSAblog. Retrieved 29 May 2010.