Event Program: 2025 Pitt Race SpeedTour

In This Program

A full run-down of when all of the weekend’s events are taking place, including: practice / qualifying / race session times, car show times and much more!

OPTIMA’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car

OPTIMA’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car is a safe, fun and high-profile national championship event for street legal performance vehicles. The challenge puts competitors through a unique blend of tests of each vehicle’s performance, street-ability and engineering workmanship.

Group 1 – Recognized small displacement production sports cars, sedans

Group 3 - Series-produced sports cars and sedans in production pre-1972

Group 4 - Limited produced sports cars, racing "specials" and GT cars built or in production prior to 1960

Group 5b - Lotus 23 and early sports racers 

Group 8 - Recognized series-produced sports cars and sedans in production prior to 1979, and later cars by invitation

Other cars may be accepted by invitation.

Group 5a - Sports 2000

Group 7 - World Championship of Makes, on slicks; Under 2L sports cars as raced after 1972; Can-Am as raced after 1967; center-seat Can Am, SCCA ASR and BSR

Group 9 - All open wheel cars on slicks from 1970 to 2014 from the early F-2 cars to modern F-1 cars and everything in between

Group 11 - GTP/Group C, ALMS, PSCR, WSC, Grand Am, Prototypes, SCCA P1 and P2 as raced from 1981

Other cars may be accepted by invitation.

Group 6 - Select big bore production sports cars and sedans through 1972

Group 10 - Select GT sports cars, Trans-Am; select cars raced between 1973 and 1999, Trans Am and production based contemporary cars as raced from 1999 to 5 years from today’s date or other cars as assigned

Group 12 - Early and late model Stock Cars, mostly 3.0L

Other cars may be accepted by invitation.

FRP - Formula Race Promotions hosts competitive F1600 series, F2000 series, Atlantic and Formula Ford Series. FRP offers a wide array of championships for teams and drivers alike

Other cars may be accepted by invitation.

FV - Small displacement Formula Cars based on the 1963 Volkswagen Beetle. This class enhances competition by controlling costs and emphasizing driver ability.

Other cars may be accepted by invitation.

John and Peg Bishop turned road racing from a hobby into a business, and made everybody a professional racing driver.