About the Club

The Alaska Sports Car Club was founded in 1958 to run a series of year-round events ranging from ice racing to summer road racing. While its rules allow for many different vehicles, they are predominantly based on imported cars. Volkswagen products are well represented, with a few Hondas, Mazdas, and Datsuns in the smaller displacement classes, while Porsche-powered equipment usually represents the large displacement classes.

Ice Racing

Ice racing begins in early January and runs until mid March, as long as nature cooperates. A course is plowed out of snow resting on at least 18″ of thick lake ice. The circuit is typically a .75-1.25 mile road course with speed potentials of 20 to 100 mph. Classes are Rubber to Ice (no studs of any kind), Street Studs (typically studded winter tires) and Super Studs (tires with sheet metal screws).

Fur Rondy Grand Prix

February is when the most well-known road race in Alaska, the Fur Rondy Grand Prix, is held on the downtown streets of Anchorage. This challenging event is a 7-tenths-mile long circuit of left and right turns featuring mostly wet asphalt (with a little ice and snow at times) and six foot snow berms. The snow/ice/concrete berms act as containment for the different classes of cars. The Alaska Sports Car Club fields IT and GT cars, while Legends of Alaska fields its cars. Each class has it’s own schedule for this two-day event.

Summer Road Racing

Memorial and Labor Day weekends currently represent the summer road race season. The fastest events of the year happen at Tanacross, an old WWII lend-lease airport location near Tok, Alaska. The approximately 2-mile-long course is laid out with pylons on runways and taxiways. Each two-day event provides lots of track time and socializing. The potential exists to resurrect an additional airport course used for about 10 years by the Club at the Soldotna Municipal Airport for intermediate events during the summer.