The 1998 SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge was the ninth running of the

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's World Challenge series. It was the final year before

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purchased the series, thus giving the World Challenge a TV contract. This led to the series' popularity growing and ultimately surpassing that of the

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. 1998 was the final year of the T1/T2 format, as Speed reformatted the classes into GT and TC.

Results

http://scca.cdn.racersites.com/prod/Documents/Pro%20Racing/Archives/1998-SCCA-WorldChallenge.pdf

References

{{Speed World Challenge years GT World Challenge America