TOPEKA, Kan. (Aug. 24, 2005) - Sports Car Club of America, Inc. has announced the hiring of Pego Mack as Rally Manager.

Mack, of Manchester, Conn., joins SCCA's National staff after having served the Rally community in a variety of roles, including organizing event teams, SCCA New England Region Rally Chairperson, SCCA RoadRally Board Member and Rallymaster of more than 100 Time Speed Distance (TSD) events since 1973.

As New England Region Rally Chair, she coordinated all region rally activity, which included RallyCross, Performance Rally and RoadRally. She was also a senior organizing team member with the Maine Forest ProRally, which once ran as part of the SCCA ProRally Championship.

The Rally Manager announcement was a highly anticipated one as it followed SCCA's announcement in July that it will hold the Club's first, National-level RallyCross event Oct. 14-16 in Hastings, Neb.

"Pego joins us just as a new chapter in SCCA Rally is starting to be written, and she will be an important contributing author," SCCA Vice President of Competition Programs and Region Development Howard Duncan said. "We are excited about having someone with Pego's extensive, varied Rally background, and she will be instrumental in helping to grow not only the traditional RoadRally program, but also our new Closed Course Rally program, beginning with our inaugural SCCA RallyCross National Challenge event in Hastings."

Mack will assume full control of the program in Topeka beginning Oct. 1.

"I am looking forward to joining the dynamic team at the National Office," Mack said. "I am also excited for the opportunity to work with the entire rally community and build on the momentum we have going."