2010 SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge explained

The 2010 SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge was the 21st season of the SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge. It was the first season since 1998 without the sponsorship of television channel Speed.

The series returned to a combined-class race with GT, GTS, and TC racing simultaneously. The last season for combined classes was 1996, also the last year in which the series had more than two classes. There are three classes in the championship in 2010, as opposed to two in 2009. The top GT class remains the same, but the TC class has been changed to only allow more cost-effective racecars closer in spirit to the SCCA's improved touring classes. The rules were originally introduced during the 2009 season as the TC2 class within the touring car category. The cars that previously competed in the old TC class can now be run in the new "GTS" class.^[1] The new format also solves the BMW-Acura-Mazda affair that had begun thirteen years prior and had lasted almost every year since save for some competition from Saturn and Audi in some years.

In addition to the existing driver's and manufacturer's championships, 2010 saw the introduction of a team's championship, which was awarded to the team car that accumulates the most points over the course of the season, regardless of the driver.^[2]

Due to Speed no longer supporting the series, Versus broadcast all events in ninety-minute broadcasts.

The new touring cars were now comparable to the vehicles used in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge.

Schedule

Most of the calendar was released in November 2009,^[3] with the season-ending round at Miller Motorsports Park added in January 2010.^[4]

Round	Circuit	Location	Date	Supporting
1	Streets of St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, Florida	March 26–28	IndyCar Series
2
3	Long Beach	Long Beach, California	April 16–18	IndyCar Series / American Le Mans Series
4	Mosport International Raceway	Bowmanville, Ontario	May 21–23	stand-alone event
5
6	Watkins Glen International	Watkins Glen, New York	July 2–4	IndyCar Series
7	Exhibition Place	Toronto, Ontario	July 17–18	IndyCar Series
8	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Lexington, Ohio	August 6–8	IndyCar Series / American Le Mans Series
9
10	Virginia International Raceway	Danville, Virginia	September 10–12	stand-alone event
11
12	Miller Motorsports Park	Tooele, Utah	October 1–3	stand-alone event

Race results

Rnd	Circuit	GT Winning Car	GTS Winning Car	TC Winning Car
		GT Winning Driver	GTS Winning Driver	TC Winning Driver
1	St. Petersburg	6 K-Pax Racing Volvo S60	43 RealTime Racing Acura TSX	49 Irish Mike's Racing Volkswagen GLI
		Randy Pobst	Peter Cunningham	Todd Buras
2		4 Stoptech Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3	43 RealTime Racing Acura TSX	49 Irish Mike's Racing Volkswagen GLI
		Dino Crescentini	Peter Cunningham	Todd Buras
3	Long Beach	13 Dodge Motorsports Dodge Viper	19 M&T Lotus Exige	18 DG-Spec Scion tC
		Kuno Wittmer	Tyler McQuarrie	Robert Stout
4	Mosport	6 K-Pax Racing Volvo S60	35 Torvec Chevrolet Corvette	49 Irish Mike's Racing Volkswagen GLI
		Randy Pobst	John Heinricy	Chip Herr
5		2 Carlisle Chevrolet Corvette	35 Torvec Chevrolet Corvette	18 DG-Spec Scion tC
		Ron Fellows	John Heinricy	Robert Stout
6	Watkins Glen	2 Carlisle Chevrolet Corvette	43 RealTime Racing Acura TSX	18 DG-Spec Scion tC
		Ron Fellows	Peter Cunningham	Robert Stout
7	Toronto	6 K-Pax Racing Volvo S60	43 RealTime Racing Acura TSX	93 HPD/HondaRacing Honda Civic Si
		Randy Pobst	Peter Cunningham	Nick Wittmer
8	Mid-Ohio	2 Carlisle Chevrolet Corvette	43 RealTime Racing Acura TSX	20 Maxwell Paper Mazda RX-8
		Mike Skeen	Peter Cunningham	Ryan Eversley
9		14 GMG Porsche 911 GT3	43 RealTime Racing Acura TSX	20 Maxwell Paper Mazda RX-8
		James Sofronas	Peter Cunningham	Ryan Eversley
10	VIR	6 K-Pax Racing Volvo S60	34 Realtime Racing Acura TSX	50 Irish Mike's Racing Volkswagen GLI
		Randy Pobst	Nick Esayian	Todd Buras
11		8 K-Pax Racing Volvo S60	43 Realtime Racing Acura TSX	18 DG-Spec Scion tC
		Andy Pilgrim	Peter Cunningham	Robert Stout^[5]
12	Miller	13 Dodge Motorsports Dodge Viper	43 Realtime Racing Acura TSX	18 DG-Spec Scion tC
		Kuno Wittmer	Peter Cunningham	Robert Stout

Championships

Driver championships

Championship points are awarded to drivers based on qualifying and finishing positions. In addition, 5 bonus points are awarded to a driver leading a lap during a race, and 5 bonus points are awarded to the driver leading the most laps.^[6]

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Race	110	100	92	85	80	76	72	68	64	60	57	54	51	48	45	43	41	39	37	35	33	31	29	27	25
Qualifying	15	12	9	6	3	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–

GT standings

Pos	Driver	Car	STP1	STP2	LBH	MOS1	MOS2	WGL	TOR	MDO1	MDO2	VIR1	VIR2	MIL	Total
1	Randy Pobst	Volvo S60	1*	14	6	1*	2	3	1*	7	3	1*	2	3	1296
2	Kuno Wittmer	Dodge Viper	6	5	1*	2	4	2	6	4	14	4	10	1*	1098
3	James Sofronas	Porsche 911 GT3	3	2	5		6	7	2	2	1*	2	3	5	1052
4	Andy Pilgrim	Volvo S60	2	3	9	14	16	14	3	9	2	3	1*	2	1044
5	Jason Daskalos	Dodge Viper	12	4	12	4	3	4	9	6	7	6	11	6	888
6	Rob Morgan	Porsche 911 GT3	8	6	8	8	8	10	7	8	8	5	5	7	838
7	Jeff Courtney	Dodge Viper	10	9	7	6	7	12	8	13	5	7	6	4	836
8	Tony Gaples	Chevrolet Corvette	9	10	10	7	11	8	10	15	6	8	7	12	759
9	Dino Crescentini	Porsche 911 GT3	14	1*	2	5	15	6	5	5	15				723
10	Patrick Lindsay	Porsche 911 GT3	4	15	19	3	5	5	4	3	4	DNS			711
11	Fred Roberts (R)	Dodge Viper	13	13	16	9	9	11	12	10	12	9	8	8	684
12	William Ziegler	Porsche 911 GT3	16	12	11	12	14	13	13	12	10	10	9	10	653
13	Charles Morgan	Porsche 911 GT3	11	11	13	11	10	9	11	11	13				508
14	Ron Fellows	Chevrolet Corvette			18		1*	1*							303
15	Tony Rivera	Nissan GT-R	7	8	21	10	12								284
16	Steve Ott (R)	Nissan GT-R	15	16	20	13	13								222
17	Mike Skeen (R)	Chevrolet Corvette								1*	9				196
18	Robert Prilika	Porsche 911 GT3	5	7										11	162
19	Brian Kubinski	Chevrolet Corvette	5	7											152
20	Jeff Altenburg	Porsche 911 GT3										11	4		142
21	Tomy Drissi	Ford Mustang			14							12	DNS		102
22	Brandon Davis	Ford Mustang			3										101
23	Boris Said	Ford Mustang			4										88
24=	Brent Holden (R)	Porsche 911 GT3			15										45
24=	Scott Bove	Porsche 911 GT3				15									45
26	Nick Mancuso (R)	Aston Martin DBRS9			17										41

GTS standings

Pos	Driver	Car	STP1	STP2	LBH	MOS1	MOS2	WGL	TOR	MDO1	MDO2	VIR1	VIR2	MIL	Total
1	Peter Cunningham	Acura TSX	1*	1*	6	3	3	1*	1*	1*	1*	4*	1*	1	1466
2	Nick Esayian	Acura TSX	3	3	2	4	4	2	3	2	2	1	2	4	1252
3	Ernie Jakubowski (R)	Porsche Cayman S						3	2	10	3	DSQ	3	13	535
4	Kevin Helms (R)	Honda Civic Si	6	4						4	8	2	4		526
5	Tyler McQuarrie (R)	Lotus Exige S			1*	2	2								359
6	Ben Crosland (R)	Ford Mustang FR500S								5	4			2*	293
7	Michael Pettiford	Chevrolet Corvette	4	5	3										275
8	Tommy Sadler	Acura TSX			DNS			4				3	5		266
9	John Heinricy	Chevrolet Corvette				1*	1*								264
10	George Winkler (R)	Ford Mustang FR500S								9	6			3	241
11	Ricardo Colinello	Ford Mustang FR500S								6	7			8	216
12	Brandon Davis	Acura TSX	2	2											200
13	Brad Adams (R)	Ford Mustang FR500S								7	10			9	196
14	Devin Cates (R)	Ford Mustang FR500S								3	5				165
15	Tom Lepper (R)	Pontiac Solstice GXP	5	6											162
16	Gary Savage (R)	Ford Mustang FR500S								8	9				132
17	Charles Espenlaub	Mazda3			4										85
18	Gary Tolar (R)	Porsche 996			5										83
19	Stan Wilson	Dodge Neon SRT										5			80
20	Pratt Cole (R)	Ford Mustang FR500S												6	76
21	Scott Kuhne (R)	Pontiac Solstice GXP			7										72
22	Karl Poeltl (R)	BMW 325i E46										DNS		10	69
23	Kevin Marshall (R)	Lotus Exige S			8										68
24	Kyle Kelley (R)	Chevrolet Corvette												11	60
25	Paul Dagis (R)	BMW M3				DNS									3
26=	Dale Laakso (R)	Acura RSX			DNS										0
26=	Fabryce Kutyba	BMW M3 E46												DNS	0

TC standings

Pos	Driver	Car	STP1	STP2	LBH	MOS1	MOS2	WGL	TOR	MDO1	MDO2	VIR1	VIR2	MIL	Total
1	Robert Stout (R)	Scion tC	2	2	1*	4*	1	1*	3	4	10	2	1	1*	1317
2	Eric Meyer (R)	Mazda RX-8	5	5	2	3	5	7	2	3	8	16	14	3	1022
3	Brett Sandberg (R)	Acura TSX	4	7		7	7	4	10	6	13	3	6		740
4	Robb Holland	Volkswagen Golf GTI				5	3		6	12	15	4	2	10	619
5	Dan Gardner (R)	Scion tC	3	4	5			2	8	10	3				595
6	Shea Holbrook (R)	Honda Civic Si	6	6		DNS		8	5	8	6	9	15		553
7	Michael Pettiford	Volkswagen Jetta GLI							4	7	14	8	3	6	441
8	Don Istook	Audi				6	8	6	7			10	7		428
9	Todd Buras (R)	Volkswagen Jetta GLI	1*	1*								1*	DSQ		414
10	Nick Wittmer	Honda Civic Si			3				1*	5	9				392
11	Greg Shaffer (R)	Volkswagen Jetta GLI				9	4		9			5	13		377
12	Charlie Soloman (R)	Mazda RX-8				8	9			DSQ	5	12	5		346
13	Carolyn Kujala (R)	Mazda RX-8								11	11	13	10	8	293
14	Tom Lepper (R)	Scion tC				2	6							4	276
15	Ryan Eversley (R)	Mazda RX-8								1*	1*				249
16	Chip Herr	Volkswagen Jetta GLI				1	2*								246
17	Jason Saini	Mazdaspeed3								2	2				224
18	Branden Peterson	Honda Civic Si									12		4	5	219
19	Jeff Mosing (R)	Mazda RX-8								13	7			7	210
20	David Tuaty	Honda Civic Si								14	4		8		201
21	Mark Hein	Honda Civic Si	7	3											199
22	Colin Cohen (R)	Volkswagen Golf GTI						6				14	9		188
23	Alexander Lvov	Volkswagen Golf GTI	8	DNS				3							175
24	Devin Cates (R)	Volkswagen Golf GTI										6	12		139
25	Tony Wedderburn (R)	Chevrolet Cobalt	9	8											132
26	Alex Ratcliffe (R)	Lexus IS300						9					11		121
27	Pierre Kleinubing	Mazdaspeed3												2	106
28	Tommy Chen (R)	Mazda RX-8			4										88
29	Taylor Hacquard	Mazdaspeed3												9	84
30	Carl Hober	Honda Civic Si										7			72
31	Bob Roth (R)	Honda Civic Si								9					64
32	Tristan Herbert (R)	Lexus IS300										11			57
33	Jose Armengol (R)	Honda Civic Si										15			45

Manufacturer championships

Manufacturer points are awarded according to the highest-finishing car from that manufacturer. Only manufacturers that are SCCA Pro Racing corporate members receive points.^[6] Points are awarded on the following basis:

In addition, one bonus point is awarded to the pole-winning manufacturer. In the table below, the manufacturer's top finishing position is shown, with pole winner in bold.

GT standings

Pos	Manufacturer	STP1	STP2	LBH	MOS1	MOS2	WGL	TOR	MDO1	MDO2	VIR1	VIR2	MIL	Total
1	Volvo	1	3	6	1	2	3	1	7	2	1	1	2	85
2	Porsche	3	1	2	3	5	5	2	2	1	2	2	5	68
3	Dodge	6	4	1	2	3	2	6	4	5	4	4	1	52
4	Nissan	7	8	20	10	12								0

GTS standings

Pos	Manufacturer	STP1	STP2	LBH	MOS1	MOS2	WGL	TOR	MDO1	MDO2	VIR1	VIR2	MIL	Total
1	Acura	1	1	2	3	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	111
2	Porsche			5			3	2	10	3	5	3	13	24

TC standings

Pos	Manufacturer	STP1	STP2	LBH	MOS1	MOS2	WGL	TOR	MDO1	MDO2	VIR1	VIR2	MIL	Total
1	Scion	2	2	1	2	1	1	3	4	3	2	1	1	87
2	Volkswagen	1	1		1	2		4	7	11	1	2	6	57
3	Mazda	5	5	2	3	5	7	2	1	1	12	5	2	56
4	Honda	7	3	3	10		3	1	5	4	7	4	5	38

External links

• World Challenge Official Website

Notes and References

1. News: World Challenge Announces Revised Competition Classifications. SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge. Sports Car Club of America. 2009-12-07. 2010-02-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20100212140038/http://www.world-challenge.com/news/story.php?ID=1518. 12 February 2010 . live.
2. News: World Challenge Adds Team Championship. SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge. Sports Car Club of America. 2010-02-10. 2010-02-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20100225025344/http://www.world-challenge.com/news/story.php?ID=1531. 25 February 2010 . live.
3. News: Two More World Challenge Dates Added to 2010 Schedule. SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge. Sports Car Club of America. 2009-11-18. 2010-01-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20100201093304/http://www.world-challenge.com/news/story.php?ID=1514. 1 February 2010 . live.
4. News: World Challenge Finale, 2010 Schedule Set. SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge. Sports Car Club of America. 2010-01-15. 2010-01-16.
5. News: Stout Declared VIR Race 2 World Challenge Touring Car Winner. 2010-10-03. 2010-10-06. SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge. Sports Car Club of America.
6. Web site: 2010 SCCA Pro Racing Regulations. Sports Car Club of America. 22 June 2010. 7 July 2010. 29–30. https://web.archive.org/web/20110716013402/http://cms.scca.com/documents/Pro%20Racing/rules/2010%20PRR%20Version%2018.pdf. 16 July 2011. dead. dmy-all.