Stohr Cars
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Stohr Cars designs and builds racing cars mainly for competition within the Sports Car Club of America
Sports Car Club of America
The Sports Car Club of America is a club and sanctioning body supporting road racing, rallying, and autocross in the United States. Formed in 1944, it runs many programs for both amateur and professional racers.-History:...

. The business was founded by Lee Stohr in 1991 and is based in Portland, Oregon, USA. Over 100 racing cars have been produced as of January 2011.

Origins

After driving an Elden FF for several years in the early 1980's, Lee Stohr designed and built several of his own Formula Ford
Formula Ford
Formula Ford is a single seater, open wheel class in motorsport which exists in some form in many countries around the world. It is an entry-level series to motor racing....

s, Formula Continental
Formula Continental
Formula Continental is a single seater, open wheel racing class in motorsport. It replaced Formula C as an SCCA racing class. Formula Continental includes three types of cars....

s and a Formula 3 type car. In 2001 Stohr moved into the D Sports Racing
D Sports Racing
D Sports Racing is a Sports Car Club of America class for purpose-built, 'LeMans-style', closed wheel roadracing cars. It has been called the one racing category that remains unfettered by regulations that have throttled innovation elsewhere in motorsport....

 class. Their first National Championship came just one year later at the SCCA Runoffs in Mid-Ohio. In 2005 Lee Stohr and Wayne Felch expanded the business with the introduction of a newer, faster WF1. The company was one of the first to join the new Formula 1000
Formula 1000
Formula 1000 is an open wheel class of Formula car racing by the Sports Car Club of America where a 1000 cc motorcycle engine is used to power a single seat, open wheel race car with full racing suspension. The F1000 class, also called FB, was created by SCCA in 2006...

class in early 2007.

Racing Results

  • 2011 SCCA National Champion, D Sports Racing. Stohr WF1 Driver Tom Bootz
  • 2010 SCCA National Champion, D Sports Racing. Stohr WF1 Driver Lawrence Loshak
  • 2009 SCCA National Champion, D Sports Racing. Stohr WF1 Driver Gary Crook
  • 2008 SCCA National Champion, D Sports Racing. Stohr WF1 Driver JR Osborne
  • 2008 SCCA National Champion, C Sports Racing. Stohr WF1 Driver JR Osborne
  • 2007 SCCA National Champion, D Sports Racing. Stohr WF1 Driver JR Osborne
  • 2006 SCCA National Champion, D Sports Racing. Stohr WF1 Driver Mark Jaremko
  • 2005 SCCA National Champion, D Sports Racing. Stohr WF1 Driver Mark Jaremko
  • 2004 SCCA National Champion, D Sports Racing. Stohr DSR Driver John Hill
  • 2003 SCCA National Champion, D Sports Racing. Stohr DSR Driver Mark Jaremko
  • 2002 SCCA National Champion, D Sports Racing. Stohr DSR Driver Mark Jaremko

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