Category Rallying Inaugural season 2005 Teams' champion Subaru Rally Team USA | Country United States Drivers' champion David Higgins Official website rally-america.com/ | |
The Rally America National Championship is the national championship of rallying events in the United States. The inaugural season was in 2005. Rally America was also the name given to the organization that sanctioned the championship, was briefly rebranded to RallyCar in July 2010, then reverted to Rally America the following year.
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History
Rally America was founded in 2002 by CPD Rally Team owner Doug Havir, who provided scoring and reporting services to the Sports Car Club of America's ProRally Championship. The two companies worked in tandem until the end of the 2004 season, when the SCCA withdrew its involvement in U.S. stage rallying. The SCCA then made the decision to sell all commercial and sanctioning rights to Rally America.
In 2005, the inaugural Rally America National Championship was run, incorporating most of the events previously sanctioned by the SCCA. In 2011, Vermont businessman Bill Fogg took over ownership of Rally America from Havir.
Rallies associated with Rally America
Today the calendar is geographically compact with events concentrated in the Mid-West with over half the championship held across Minnesota, Michigan and Missouri, travelling east to Pennsylvania and Maine with Oregon in the north-west the most geographically divergent event.