We are pleased to announce the formal membership of the American Rally Association (ARA) with the SFI Foundation (SFI). The ARA is a member-driven non-profit stage rally sanctioning group and they recently completed their inaugural race season. ARA is run by a group of individuals who share
Read more →SFI is happy to welcome the Nigeria Auto Sport Association (NASA) as our newest member sanctioning body. NASA sanctions and promotes amateur and professional racing throughout Nigeria. Race activities that they oversee include High Performance Driving Experience events, rally, drag racing, time attack and trial events, and
Read more →SFI would like to welcome the All Star Circuit of Champions (ASCoC) as our newest Affiliate Sanctioning Body. ASCoC has deep roots as an “outlaw” touring race group for Sprint Cars dating back to the late 1960’s. They have a fascinating history as one of the oldest,
Read more →Everyone at SFI is busy with the kickoff to another racing season! To celebrate, we’re providing this handy race calendar to use as a quick reference schedule for some of the top race series. Please feel free to use it, post it, share it! You can also
Read more →We would like to welcome Offshore Racing Organization (ORO) as the newest group to become an SFI Member Sanctioning Body. ORO is a SoCal-based racing organization for offshore boaters to compete in the RoundUp Cup Championship. The Cup’s three races take place in iconic Southwest locations – Lake
Read more →On December 9th, 2016, SFI President and CEO Arnie Kuhns was one of three honorees inducted into SEMA’s Motorsports Parts Manufacturers Council (MPMC) Hall of Fame. During an evening reception at the Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Trade Show, the audience raised toasts to the newest inductees including
Read more →Beginning in 2017, SFI Foundation, Inc. (SFI) is changing the way its labels for Driver Restraints, Window Nets, and Roll Cage Nets are dated. SFI is implementing a New Label design which will remove the punched-out month/year date of manufacture and instead incorporate a single expiration date pre-printed
Read more →The photos below are examples of recently discovered counterfeit SFI conformance labels attached to shoes and driver suits fraudulently represented as being certified to SFI specifications. These were found on non-major brand equipment utilizing off-shore 3rd party manufacturers. Please compare the certification labels on your own race
Read more →As the world of drag racing evolves and racers push the limits of performance, SFI was approached by several of its sanctioning body members and asked to develop a minimum roll cage specification for fast, heavy drag race vehicles. These vehicles can run the quarter mile at low
Read more →SFI Technical Manager, Mike Hurst, asked the important question, “Why is it important to wear flame resistant (FR) undergarments beneath a racesuit?” To answer this question, Mike went to the SFI Test Lab with various samples to compare wearing FR and non-FR underclothing fabrics under a racesuit when
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