The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) has welcomed Carrie Lee and Barbara Hughes as administrators for its experiential and road racing departments.

Lee has been hired as experiential programs customer service administrator and is responsible for managing customer service operations and providing support to customers. The role acts as a liaison between event participants and SCCA program management teams.

Lee will report to SCCA Senior Manager of Experiential Programs Jennifer McAbee.

Hughes has been selected for the role of assistant manager and senior administrator of road racing and will be responsible for providing support for the overall SCCA Road Racing program, including U.S. Majors Tour, Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA Super Tour, National Championship Runoffs and local racing initiatives. Among other duties, the position assists the director of road racing in the formation of department event operational goals and supporting strategies and tactics.

Hughes will be based out of the SCCA's Topeka, Kansas, headquarters and will report to Director of Road Racing Jeff Barrow.

For more information, visit scca.com.

Tim Lewis, team leader and cofounder of NHRA Top Fuel team Foley Lewis Racing, has passed away. Team leader and cofounder Doug Foley shared the following message:

It is with a very heavy heart that we announce the passing of our longtime team leader and, more importantly, our friend, Tim Lewis. Tim was a successful businessman who in the late '90s attended my drag racing school. It was there that we formed an almost 30-year relationship.

We started competing in Alcohol Dragster and made the leap to Top Fuel in 2004. This was an unattainable dream that Tim made happen. We traveled the country in our motorhome like we belonged in this class. We won, we lost, but most importantly, we always laughed.

Tim had a great personality and didn't take life too seriously... No matter my crazy ideas, he was always encouraging and enthusiastic about tackling my vision, whether it was for the team, my business or my family...

The last race he attended was Charlotte in the Fall, where we went to the finals, which now I look at as a gift from God on what would be our last race weekend together. The team and I will race this season in his honor and we will miss him dearly.

For more information, visit foleylewisracing.com or visit the team's Facebook page here.

Image courtesy of Foley Lewis Racing, Facebook

Bernie Fedderly, a drag racing crew chief who supported multiple drivers to NHRA numerous wins and championships, has passed away.

Fedderly first came to national attention in 1980 when he tuned Terry Capp to a win at the NHRA U.S. Nationals, before later joining John Force Racing, where he helped the team to 109 national event wins and 13 championships, according to the NHRA. He retired prior to the 2013 season.

Fedderly is a member of both the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame and the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame.

For more on Fedderly, read the NHRA's story on his career here.

Image courtesy of the NHRA.

High Limit Racing, the sprint-car series owned by Kyle Larson and Brad Sweet, has unveiled a new franchise system.

Aimed at creating a sustainable business model for its race teams, the system will distribute up to $18 million in prize money over the next four years.

Effective in 2026, 10 High Limit Racing teams will join the franchise system. The franchises are permanent and aim to create long-term value for team owners with the ability to sell and/or transfer the franchise.

The series has already awarded franchises to the five highest finishers in the 2024 championship standings. Five more franchises will be awarded at the conclusion of the 2025 season. These franchises will be secured based on average point finishes from the 2024 and 2025 seasons among drivers who didn’t earn a franchise in 2024.

For more information, visit highlimitracing.com.

IMSA has revealed the 2026 calendar for the WeatherTech Sportscar Championship and the Michelin Pilot Challenge.

The WeatherTech Championship will return to all 11 venues where the series will race in 2025, and the Michelin Pilot Challenge will host its 10 rounds at the same 10 venues from the 2025 schedule.

The biggest change to the 2026 WeatherTech Championship schedule sees Road America joining the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup. With new sponsorship from Motul, the August 2 race in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, will increase to a six-hour endurance race.

Meanwhile, the penultimate round of the season at Indianapolis Motor Speedway will be a two-hour and 40-minute sprint race, scheduled for September 20.

The Michelin Pilot Challenge schedule remains the same for 2026, including a four-hour headlining race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio, on June 7.

For more information, visit imsa.com.

See the full schedule for the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech Championship and the Michelin Pilot Challenge below:

Image courtesy of IMSA

Robert Hight is stepping down as president of John Force Racing (JFR).

The 55-year-old Hight began his career as a crew member on John Force’s championship-winning Funny Car in 1995. Later, he was the facilities manager at JFR before becoming the company’s first designated test driver in 2004. He made his competitive driving debut in 2005, winning in just his fourth career start. Force promoted him to company president in 2011.

Bob McAleer, JFR's Brownsburg, Indiana-based director of business operations, will work closely with team owner Force to run the operation, the team said.

For more information, visit johnforceracing.com.

The NTT INDYCAR SERIES has announced the race week schedule for the debut Grand Prix of Arlington in 2026.

A joint venture between Penske Entertainment, the Dallas Cowboys and Texas Ranger partner REV Entertainment, the INDYCAR Grand Prix of Arlington will take place March 13-15, 2026, with practice and qualifications set for Friday, March 13 and Saturday, March 14, and the race set for Sunday, March 15, 2026.

The 2.73-mile, 14-turn track layout will feature three iconic sporting venues: AT&T Stadium, home of the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys, Globe Life Field, home of Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers and Choctaw Stadium, former home of the Texas Rangers.

For more information, visit indycar.com.

The Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula 1 Team has expanded its junior program line-up for 2025.

The program expands to include 12 young drivers, competing across various categories from karting to FIA Formula 3.

The official 2025 junior program drivers are:

• Noah Strømsted, 17, Danish
• Doriane Pin, 21, French
• Rashid Al Dhaheri, 16, Emirati
• Yuanpu Cui, 17, Chinese
• Alex Powell, 17, Jamaican-American
• Ethan Jeff-Hall, 16, British
• Andy Consani, 15, French
• Luna Fluxa, 14, Spanish
• Kenzo Craigie, 14, British
• James Anagnostiadis, 14, Australian
• Julia Montlaur, 12, French
• Many Nuvolini, 11, Italian

For more information, visit mercedesamgf1.com.

Back-to-back Indianapolis 500 winner Josef Newgarden will be at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum on April 22 for its first speaker series event of the year--and first public event in the new Museum.

Scheduled for 6:00-8:00 p.m. EDT, "An Evening with Josef Newgarden" will feature an in-depth discussion with host Doug Boles, INDYCAR and Indianapolis Motor Speedway President, about Newgarden's racing career, goals for this season and more. Following the discussion, the audience will engage in a Q&A and then a meet-and-greet autograph session with the driver. The program will be from 6-8 p.m. in the Museum's Atrium.

Tickets are available now at imsmuseum.org/tickets.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its plan on Wednesday to meet President Trump's executive order on federal electric vehicle (EV) mandates, starting with reviews of several regulations passed by the previous administration. 

The EPA will reconsider the federal motor-vehicle emissions standards that require automakers and truck manufacturers to increase zero-emissions vehicle sales (known as the Model-Year 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles regulation and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles). Today, only EVs and five plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) meet these standards. 

The EPA will reconsider its March 2024 vehicle emissions regulation for model-years '27-'32, which effectively requires two out of three new vehicles sold to be EVs by 2032. The EPA will also reevaluate the 2022 Heavy-Duty Nitrous Oxide (NOx) rule, which was a centerpiece of the Biden Administration's Clean Truck Plan. 

California's EV mandate and internal combustion engine (ICE) ban—known as ACCII and currently impacting 11 other states—remains in place and is not affected by these EPA actions. Congress has until mid-April to overturn the federal waiver that enables the California mandates.  

• Learn more about the Congressional Review Act process here.

SEMA and PRI react: "SEMA and PRI thank EPA Administrator Zeldin and President Trump for this bold action. SEMA and PRI have long advocated that government mandates, including those designed to support the sale of EVs and eliminate the sale of ICE vehicles, are the wrong approach to reducing motor vehicle emissions. The federal and state governments should take an 'all of the above' approach to vehicle technology, incentivize innovation, and allow the market to determine the best ways to reach improved emissions goals." 

Critical to note: The EPA action only impacts the EV mandates signed in 2023 and 2024. The March 10 EPA announcement is not a further rollback of emissions standards in place before the EV mandates implemented by the Biden Administration. None of President Trump's executive orders reverses existing laws that prohibit the use of defeat devices. A change to this policy would require separate legislative action by Congress and significant changes to the Federal Clean Air Act. 

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