Inside the SCCA, with Runoffs Flag Chief Tiffany Bingheim

In this Inside the SCCA special, we sit down with Tiffany Bingheim, the Flag Chief for the legendary SCCA Runoffs at Road America. Tiffany pulls back the curtain on the massive volunteer effort required to run an event that fields 500-800 competitors over a full week of intense, national championship road racing. From the chaos of scheduling and managing a team of 100 flaggers to the vital importance of volunteer retention (and good trackside lunches!), Tiffany shares her journey. Hear how she went from discovering Road America at age 21 to becoming a division administrator and leading the Flagging & Communications (F&C) team for the Runoffs.

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scca runoffs

road america

tiffany bingheim

flagging & communications

scca

volunteers in racing

race management

SCCA

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Brian Bielanski

Brian Bielanski has lived a parallel life of motorsports and journalism for more than 30 years. He started in motorsports in 1986 as his father’s 16-year-old “crew chief” on SCCA FV, Sports Renault and IT Honda CRX efforts. He has also competed in, and plans to compete again, in SCCA Club racing, Autocross and Road Rally. As a journalist he’s worked in news in network staff positions with CNN and CBS and local news in seven markets from LaCrosse, Wisconsin to New York and Los Angeles. In 2009 he founded RacingWire, one of the first web-only motorsports news services given credentialed access at NASCAR, IndyCar, and NHRA events. He currently hosts several podcasts including “Inside the SCCA” and is an editor/producer for KNX 1070 NewsRadio in Los Angeles.

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