Club

Membership

Required to drive. Apply or renew on MotorsportReg. Applications are subject to board approval.

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Board · July 1 – June 30

Board positions are voted on at the April annual meeting so new volunteers have time to settle in. Membership and the board term both run July 1 – June 30, matching the Lions International fiscal year. Monthly meetings are the 2nd Tuesday on Google Meet. The April annual meeting is in person; the date and place are announced each year.

Our history & mission

The Alaska Sports Car Club was incorporated in 1958 with the following purposes:

• To organize a group of sports car owners and enthusiasts in order to enable them to get maximum use and enjoyment from sports car ownership and operation.
• To dispense technical information to aid in the proper care and operation of sports cars.
• To establish rules and regulations covering all activities of the Club.
• To promote and sanction road racing within the State of Alaska.
• To encourage careful, skillful and courteous driving on public highways.
• To perform and contribute to charitable works in the community.
• To own real and personal property as incidental to the foregoing purposes.

We are more famously known for the production of the Fur Rondy Grand Prix on the downtown streets of Anchorage. It became known as the longest-running street race in North America, at one point surpassing the Long Beach Grand Prix. The race met its demise after the 2009 event due to budget, traffic, and political reasons.

Our club has a long history of ice racing on various lakes. For the past 20 years we have almost exclusively raced out on Big Lake.

Tanacross is held every year on Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends. The event is at the Tanacross BLM airfield by Tok, Alaska, and is our only remaining road racing venue in the state.

As a promoter of all things cool, we also host Super Stock Trucks as part of ice racing, hold autocross from time to time, run time trial events at Tanacross, and look to start true rally and drift programs in the state.

More importantly, as of August 2010 we are a fully chartered Lions specialty club. We are not just a bunch of selfish racers. Proceeds from our events benefit community programs, and we host charitable events such as scavenger hunts and the Toasty Toes sock and boot drive for the homeless.

Timeline

1958

Club incorporated.

1963 October

Palmer Grand Prix.

1970 February

Pedro Rodriguez, 1st place in the 24-hour Daytona Continental endurance race, participates in the 3rd Annual North American Ice Racing Championship.

1974

Judy Smith, Baja 1000 driver, participates in the North American Ice Racing Championship.

1978

Bob Bondurant, creator of the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving, participates in the Fur Rondy Grand Prix.

1986

Dennis Aase, professional I.M.S.A. driver with Dan Gurney’s Factory Toyota Team, participates in the Fur Rondy Grand Prix.

1991

Christian Cook, then Vice President of American Challenge, and Matt Selby, then an instructor at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving, both participate in the Fur Rondy Grand Prix.

2010 Fall

Club chartered as a Lions Club.

2012 May

Derrick with CorkSport joined the club at our spring Tanacross event for wheel-to-wheel racing.

2013 February

Hot Rod Magazine participates in a club ice race event during the Winter Festival. View Road Kill episode #1 and episode #2.

2022 Fall

Alex Schlagel, professional drifter with team Drift HQ, joined the club at the fall Tanacross event for the drift portion. View his Alaska adventure on YouTube.