IMRRC archival staff and volunteers are currently engaged in a massive process of reviewing all collections of media guides and press kits that have been donated over the last twenty-five years in order to create a fully inventoried compendium of such publications. This process entails review of many hundreds of media guides prepared for the press by sanctioning bodies in all genres of racing, such as NHRA, USAC, CART, Champ Car, IndyCar, SCCA , and IMSA, and many others that are specific to racing series, race tracks and discrete racing events. These often include detailed statistical and scheduling information that is otherwise difficult to retrieve as well as sometimes stunning contemporary graphics.
In addition, the IMRRC has many thousands of individual press kit produced by driving teams and corporate entities that are replete with fascinating detail and often photography associated with individual drivers and cars. Major contributors of media guides and press kits over the years have included such long-time supporters of the IMRRC as Governing Council member John Gorsline, former Watkins Glen press director Bob Kelly, noted journalists George Webster and Mike Paz, RRDC organizer and former driver Judy Stropus, IMRRC members Jan Elliott and Lime Rock track announcer Greg Rickes, circle-track expert the late Dr. Gary George, and many others. It is intended that this valuable collection of media guides and press kits, now re-organized for ease of access, will be of enhanced value to motor racing scholars and enthusiasts who routinely access the resources of the IMRRC.