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Charge of the Headlight Brigade

American motor endurance race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ5074269 ↗
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The Charge of the Headlight Brigade was a 13-hour endurance race for sports cars and sedans hosted by the North Carolina Region of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA). The event was held at Virginia International Raceway in Danville, Virginia, beginning in 2003. The name is a reference to the Charge of the Light Brigade, an 1854 battle memorialized in a famous poem by Alfred Tennyson.

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This entry incorporates text from “Charge of the Headlight Brigade” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.