South Carolina Region — Sports Car Club of America

Update from our Solo Chair, James George:
“In the past few weeks life has become chaotic. With the hoarding of TP, shelter-at-home rules, and social distancing, a lot has changed. Everyday there is more news about how COVID-19 will affect us and what we should do to prevent it. To add to this chaos is the unknown in motorsports: are we having an event, do I need to prep my car, when’s the next event gonna happen? The answers are something we just don’t know yet.

Under the current conditions and with everyone’s safety in mind, the Solo Team has agreed to temporarily suspend all autox events. What does this mean for you? This is a great time to work on your car, tune your suspension, purchase a helmet, figure out that “sound that you just don’t know where it’s coming from”, or finish another project unrelated to cars. In the end, we want everyone to stay safe and healthy. When the time comes to autox, we will send out another communication with plenty of time for you to get prepared to start the season again.

While the thought of no autocross right now is unfortunate and upsetting, Peter Bruschi reminds us that we autocross because we love it and see no better way to spend our weekend. The world’s changed over the past month but at the end of it all, we’ll be back chasing those cones quicker than you can say autocross.”

The South Carolina Region and Solo Team have been carefully monitoring the current information of COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Currently the March 28 event at Georgetown Airport has not been canceled but COVID-19 precautionary measures will be in affect.

At any event there are several places where we are in close contact, but one of the most “in your face” examples is wearing one of our loaner helmets. At this time, we have decided to suspend the loaner helmet program. LOANER HELMETS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE. We encourage everyone to buy and wear their own helmet. There are many companies that sell helmets: Apex Performance (Myrtle Beach), Discovery Parts (Atlanta), Solo Performance Specialties, Winding Road Racing (Road Atlanta),and SafeRacer to name a few. Drivers should look for helmets that are SNELL approved (DOT helmets are not accepted) that are manufactured 2010 or newer (i.e. SA2015). Open face helmets are allowed and typically the cheapest option with a typical price of $150.

Other precautionary measures that will be in affect at this time are sanitizing community used equipment (example: radios) and minimizing large gatherings of people (example: drivers meeting conducted through announcing circuit).

We understand that you still want to have #funwithcars and we will be posting updates as more information is known. We encourage everyone to stay informed by visiting the CDC webpage here.

We thank you for your understanding and wish everyone to be safe and healthy.
– Your Solo Team

We finished the season of racing for 2019, but we’re not done with the fun yet! Be sure to register soon so we can give the final number to the venue.

Register HERE!!

Registration closes this Saturday night, December 28th at 11:59PM.