IMSA

This article is about the International Motor Sports Association. For other uses, see IMSA (disambiguation).

International Motor Sports Association
SportMotorsport
JurisdictionNorth America; United States and Canada
AbbreviationIMSA
Founded1969; 55 years ago (1969)
AffiliationACCUS-FIA
HeadquartersDaytona Beach, Florida
PresidentJohn Doonan
ChairmanJim France
CEOEd Bennett
Vice president(s)
  • Simon Hodgson
    (Competition)
  • David Pettit
    (Marketing)
Official website
www.imsa.com
United States
Canada
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The International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) is a North American sports car racing sanctioning body based in Daytona Beach, Florida, under the jurisdiction of the ACCUS arm of the FIA. It was started by John Bishop, a former executive director of SCCA (Sports Car Club of America), and his wife Peggy in 1969 with help from Bill France Sr. of NASCAR. Beginning in 2014,[1] IMSA is the sanctioning body of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, the premier series resulting from the merger of Grand-Am Road Racing and the American Le Mans Series. IMSA is owned by NASCAR, as a division of the company.[2]

  1. ^ "IMSA". IMSA. Archived from the original on 2017-07-04. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  2. ^ @bobpockrass (20 October 2019). "@DrewPalmquist IMSA Holdings is a division of NASCAR" (Tweet) – via Twitter.