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

Road America

Road America is a road course located near Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin on Wisconsin Highway 67. It has hosted races since the 1950s and currently hosts races in the NASCAR Nationwide Series , American Le Mans , SCCA Speed World Challenge Series, ASRA, and AMA Superbike series.- Current track and...

, Blackhawk Farms Raceway

Blackhawk Farms Raceway

Blackhawk Farms is a private circuit racetrack located outside South Beloit, Illinois, on a farm on the border between Wisconsin and Illinois. Blackhawk Farms was established in 1967, about a decade after nearby Road America.-History:...

, Gingerman Raceway

Gingerman Raceway

GingerMan Raceway is a road course located east of the town of South Haven in Southwest Michigan.Built in 1995, the track opened for its first full season of racing sports cars and motorcycles in 1996...

, Grattan Raceway Park, Milwaukee Mile

Milwaukee Mile

The Milwaukee Mile is a -long oval race track in West Allis, Wisconsin that seats about 40,000 spectators. It operated as a dirt track until 1953. The track was paved in 1954....

 and Autobahn Country Club

Autobahn Country Club

Autobahn Country Club is a road racing complex located near Joliet, Illinois. The facility includes a configurable main track with a north track, a south track, a full track of , and a kart track....

 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 celebrated its 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.

Club Affiliation

Eight distinct clubs combined in order to provide a more cost-effective method of controlling track rental fees and a more consistent competition field size. They include:

• Chicagoland Sports Car Club (CSCC)
• Full Throttle Racing Club
• Great Lakes Sports Car Club (GLSC)
• Lakeshore Sports Car Club (LSCC)
• Madison Sports Car Club (MSCC)
• North Suburban Sports Car Club (NSSC)
• Salt Creek Sports Car Club (SCSCC)
• Sports Car Club of Rockford (SCCR)

Types of Racing

Midwestern council supports wheel-to-wheel style circuit-track racing, high speed autocross, lap days and holds several annual schools to teach drivers how to be responsible on track with other competitors.

The final wheel-to-wheel event of the season is the locally well-known "That Loooong Race" - a 100 mile mini-enduro wheel to wheel race at Blackhawk farms Raceway. The two-day event features six race groups, trick-or-treating and big wheel races for the kids, Saturday worker rides and free crew/guest admission. The race has been held for 41 years and is hosted/sponsored by the Chicagoland Sports Car Club.

Notable 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
  John Mahler
  John Mahler , is a former open wheel race car driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series. He raced in the 1970-1973 and 1976-1981 seasons, with 39 combined career starts, including the 1972 and 1977-1979 Indianapolis 500...
  
   raced at Indy
  Indianapolis Motor Speedway
  The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway, Indiana in the United States, is the home of the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race and the Brickyard 400....
  
   after attending a Midwestern Council school.

• Mike Rahal, Bobby Rahal
  Bobby Rahal
  Robert "Bobby" Woodward Rahal is an American auto racing driver and team owner. As a driver, he won three championships and 24 races in the CART open-wheel series, including the 1986 Indianapolis 500...
  
  's father.

• Horst Kwech
  Horst Kwech
  Horst Kwech is a race car driver, race car constructor, engineer and inventor known primarily for his several wins and two championships in the early Trans-Am Series races of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s.-Biography:...
  
  , 2.5 Trans-Am champion, and later a Ford factory

team driver, was a North Suburban Sports Car Club member/racer.

• John Welch
  John Welch
  John Welch was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.-Biography:Born near New Athens, Ohio, Welch received a liberal schooling and was graduated from Franklin College....
  
  , 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
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   and Milwaukee State Fair Park.

• Burt "B.S. Levy" creator of The Last Open Road
  The Last Open Road
  The Last Open Road is a novel written by B.S. Levy, a long time amateur racer. It tells the story of a young mechanic from Passaic, New Jersey who becomes involved in automobile road racing during its peak in the 1950s. The book follows Buddy Palumbo, the main character, as he has to balance...
  
  , a series of racing fiction books inspired by real life events.