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USERA - United States Endurance Racing Association
The United States Endurance Racing Association is a road racing sanctioning body that conduct endurance and sprint race events in the United States and Canada. The USERA Endurance Championship was established in 2006 as a low cost, professional endurance championship for drivers looking to move beyond regional and club racing programs.

The USERA Endurance Championship was initially run with spec Mazda Miata sports cars and there were 6 race events held in 2006. At the end of 2006, the series migrated to the Spec Racer Championship, running SCCA Spec Racer Fords as the primary car. There were two events held in 2007 and the series did not conduct events in 2008.

Type of cars
The USERA Endurance Championship has been conducted with two spec series cars. The first was the Mazda Miata built to club racing "Spec Miata" specifications. The second was the SCCA's Spec Racer Ford purpose built sports racer.

Latest season
No endurance events were run in 2008.

Endurance race format
The endurance races are typically three hours in length and on many race weekends, there are double races with one race on Saturday afternoon and the second on Sunday afternoon. One night race was ran at Nashville Superspeedway and the format of that event was altered slightly to run two one hour "sprint races" with a 20 minute break in the middle.

Points system
Drivers and Teams each season championship points based on their finishing position. Points are awarded to the top forty drivers in each race. An extra point is awarded to the driver who wins the pole position, leads a race lap and leads the most laps.

Previous champions
Currently, the driver's championship is awarded per season. The overall driver's championship is the driver gaining the most points overall throughout the season. There have been three USERA Endurance Champions. Chris Puskar and David Daugherty shared the inaugural 2006 Driver's Championship co-driving the Puskar Motorsports Spec Miata entry. In 2007, Herb Sweeney IV won the Driver's Championship in the abbreviated Spec Racer Championship.