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SCCA Club Racing's Best Take Center Stage at Mid-Ohio

9 October 1998

LEXINGTON, Ohio : North America's best amateur road racers take center stage this week at the 'Olympics' of motorsports, the 35th annual SCCA Club Racing Valvoline Runoffs, Presented by NAPA Auto Parts, held for the fifth-consecutive year at the 2.4-mile, 15-turn Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

This week's events are capped off by three days of racing; Friday, Saturday and Sunday...as more than 600 drivers compete in 24 different classes for National Championship titles.

This year's Valvoline Runoffs, Presented by NAPA Auto Parts are highlighted by the return of live television coverage on the Speedvision Network, with coverage beginning Friday, October 10, Saturday, October 11 and Sunday, October 12 at 1:30 p.m. (EDT). A veteran broadcast crew including David Hobbs, Dorsey Schroeder, Greg Creamer and Bobby Gerould will provide commentary for the 15 televised races.

Runoffs participants earn an invitation to race for the championship in their respective class by earning points at SCCA National races..with the top eight competitors in each of eight divisions (in each class) earning the right to compete.

This weekend's races feature a wide variety of race cars, including: Formula Atlantic single-seat, winged, open-wheel cars; identically-prepared Spec Racer Fords; Showroom Stock sports cars and sport sedans as well as highly-modified production-based GT-class sports cars and sports sedans.

Seven classes will race Friday and eight classes will race each day on Saturday and Sunday, with top-three post-qualifying and post-race results available for each class on the AP wire daily by 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time.