Midwestern Council
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The Midwestern Council of Sports Car Clubs was formed in 1958 and is a confederation of eight separate Wisconsin and Illinois amateur racing organizations. The group holds regional races at local race tracks including Road America, Blackhawk Farms Raceway, Gingerman Raceway and Autobahn Country Club among others. The group's rulesets and car classifications are similar to the SCCA with minor but distinct differences. Midwestern Council prides itself on a family-friendly atmosphere and emphasis is on fun and safety first. Safety has always been paramount, and the combination of thorough driver training, tough stewarding and sensible competition has given the group over thirty seasons of fatality-free racing.
Midwestern Council is celebrating it's 50th anniversary in 2008, which makes it one of the longest existing amateur racing organizations in the United States. "Council" as it is colloquially named has parallel history to several long-running and historically significant racetracks in the Wisconsin and Illinois area.
[edit] Types of Racing
Midwestern council supports wheel-to-wheel style circuit-track racing, high speed autocross, (HSAX), lap days and holds several annual schools to teach drivers how to be responsible on track with other competitors.
[edit] Noteable Membership
While the Council's emphasis has always been "on fun and not as a breeding ground of racing heroes", some of the more notable members of Midwestern Council's history are listed below:
- Rick Dittman and Bruce Nesbitt have been Trans-Am regulars after
getting their start in Midwestern Council.
- John Mahler raced at Indy after attending a Midwestern Council school.
- Mike Rahal, Bobby Rahal's father.
- Horst Kwech, 2.5 Trans-Am champion, and later a Ford factory
team driver, was a North Suburban Sports Car Club member/racer.
- John Welch, Bill Vincent and Bob Dupre, all MC members, set up a race
team to compete in the single-seater Can-Am series and ran several events.
- Augie Pabst and Harry Heuer raced Scarabs and Chapparals with MC at Meadowdale and Milwaukee State Fair Park.
- Burt "B.S. Levy" creator of The Last Open Road, a series of racing fiction books inspired by real life events.
