Championship Cup Series

The Championship Cup Series (CCS) is an American motorcycle racing sanctioning body. The American Sportbike Racing Association LLC is the parent company of CCS.

Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, CCS has been in operation since 1984, founded by Roger Edmondson in Asheville, North Carolina. It is currently owned and operated by Kevin Elliott. CCS is one of the largest club level racing organizations in the U.S., operating more than 60 sanctioned events each year at most of the nation's premier motorsports road-course facilities.

CCS operates as multiple regions throughout the country, divided mostly by geography for both ease of administration and to allow participants to focus on one championship series for the region that is closest to them, which obviates the need for them to travel all over the country in pursuit of a championship. Doing so would make the pursuit of championships biased towards those racers who have the time and finances to travel widely.

CCS also partners with many other organizations to provide track days, practice dates, and additional racing classes (e.g., USGPRU) during their event weekends.

CCS is generally considered a "club racing" or "sportsman" body, connoting that most (but not all) participants race in the series as a hobby, at their own expense, and usually incur a net financial cost rather than profit from their participation, spending thousands of dollars a year out-of-pocket while doing so. Thus, most participants (with notable exceptions) participate in club level events in the pursuit of their hobby rather than in an attempt to create a professional career.

CCS management is very cognizant of this fact, and accordingly makes a concerted effort to keep participation affordable and to disintegrate financial resources from the chance for championship success. Regardless, all motorsports are equipment expensive and by their very nature they afford an advantage to participants who can afford to purchase better equipment, support, and more opportunities to practice.

In addition to being a venue for hobbyists to pursue their passion, club racing is seen by many as an entry path to top-level professional series, such as AMA; in fact, the AMA itself allows club racing experience in certain organizations, such as CCS, to count as credit towards obtaining an AMA racing license. While most CCS club racers spend several thousand dollars of their own money each year to pursue their hobby, there are an elite few racers who are actually able to make a living by entering CCS and other club races selectively and, through a combination of talent, dedication, training, practice, and financial investment, are able to consistently win races with purses that are sufficient to offset their expenses and provide them with a living. While club racing is a hobby for most participants, it is a vocation for these elite few racers.

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