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SVRA Announces Vintage Race Of Champions (VROC)
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The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) announced today that it would present a championship points series called the Vintage Race of Champions (VROC) in 2019.
VROC builds on the success of the SVRA Charity Pro-Am races that began at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) in 2014. Virginia International Raceway (VIR) hosted a second pro-am this past September. A new pro-am will be presented at the Road Atlanta weekend on March 28-31, making for a three-race series. Plans call for two championship trophies to be awarded – one for both an amateur and a professional racer.
All three races will benefit charity. The new Road Atlanta Charity Pro-Am will support Hope For The Warriors, a national nonprofit organization that provides assistance to combat-wounded service members, their families, and families of those killed in action.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Brickyard Invitational Charity Pro-Am will benefit the Morgan Adams Foundation. The Morgan Adams Foundation supports laboratory and clinical research in the area of pediatric cancer, with an emphasis on tumors on the brain, spine and central nervous system. The Brickyard Invitational will be presented on a new date in 2019 – August 1 through 4.
The VIR event will benefit IGNITE – the Autism Society of North Carolina’s community center for young adults with high-functioning autism or Asperger’s syndrome. IGNITE was founded by The Evernham Family Racing for a Reason Foundation – a nonprofit established by legendary NASCAR crew chief Ray Evernham and his family. Evernham, with professional co-driver Boris Said, won the VIR race in 2018.
“The pro-am races have not only been a great benefit to charity, but they have proven to be a hit with fans,” SVRA CEO Tony Parella said. “They get unprecedented access to their heroes from IndyCar, NASCAR, Trans Am, IMSA, and short track racing, many of which have become frequent competitors in our races beyond the pro-am events.”
SVRA officials have set a goal of expanding the VROC series to five races with a television package and entitlement sponsor by 2020. More information will come.
In related news, SVRA will present motorsports reunions to celebrate iconic marques next year.
The idea was tested with a Corvair reunion at the Virginia Int’l Raceway weekend in September, which saw the largest number of racing Corvairs ever appearing at a single venue, and also attracted new car owners to SVRA.
For more information, visit svra.com.
Featured Marques For 2019 SVRA Motorsports Reunions
Sebring – MG Reunion
Road Atlanta – Early Porsche Reunion 356 / 911
Auto Club- Datsun reunion
Road America – Lola reunion
Laguna Seca – Historic Trans Am
Lime Rock – 55 years of Mustang Reunion
Mid-Ohio – Corvair Reunion
Portland – BMW Reunion
Brickyard – 50 years of American Formula Fords
Watkins Glen – Triumph Reunion
VIR – Alfa Romeo Reunion
COTA – Ginetta Reunion
VROC builds on the success of the SVRA Charity Pro-Am races that began at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) in 2014. Virginia International Raceway (VIR) hosted a second pro-am this past September. A new pro-am will be presented at the Road Atlanta weekend on March 28-31, making for a three-race series. Plans call for two championship trophies to be awarded – one for both an amateur and a professional racer.
All three races will benefit charity. The new Road Atlanta Charity Pro-Am will support Hope For The Warriors, a national nonprofit organization that provides assistance to combat-wounded service members, their families, and families of those killed in action.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Brickyard Invitational Charity Pro-Am will benefit the Morgan Adams Foundation. The Morgan Adams Foundation supports laboratory and clinical research in the area of pediatric cancer, with an emphasis on tumors on the brain, spine and central nervous system. The Brickyard Invitational will be presented on a new date in 2019 – August 1 through 4.
The VIR event will benefit IGNITE – the Autism Society of North Carolina’s community center for young adults with high-functioning autism or Asperger’s syndrome. IGNITE was founded by The Evernham Family Racing for a Reason Foundation – a nonprofit established by legendary NASCAR crew chief Ray Evernham and his family. Evernham, with professional co-driver Boris Said, won the VIR race in 2018.
“The pro-am races have not only been a great benefit to charity, but they have proven to be a hit with fans,” SVRA CEO Tony Parella said. “They get unprecedented access to their heroes from IndyCar, NASCAR, Trans Am, IMSA, and short track racing, many of which have become frequent competitors in our races beyond the pro-am events.”
SVRA officials have set a goal of expanding the VROC series to five races with a television package and entitlement sponsor by 2020. More information will come.
In related news, SVRA will present motorsports reunions to celebrate iconic marques next year.
The idea was tested with a Corvair reunion at the Virginia Int’l Raceway weekend in September, which saw the largest number of racing Corvairs ever appearing at a single venue, and also attracted new car owners to SVRA.
For more information, visit svra.com.
Featured Marques For 2019 SVRA Motorsports Reunions
Sebring – MG Reunion
Road Atlanta – Early Porsche Reunion 356 / 911
Auto Club- Datsun reunion
Road America – Lola reunion
Laguna Seca – Historic Trans Am
Lime Rock – 55 years of Mustang Reunion
Mid-Ohio – Corvair Reunion
Portland – BMW Reunion
Brickyard – 50 years of American Formula Fords
Watkins Glen – Triumph Reunion
VIR – Alfa Romeo Reunion
COTA – Ginetta Reunion
