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SUMMARY:Argetsinger Symposium on Motorsports History
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to attend the ninth annual Michael R. Argetsinger Symposium on International Motor Racing History on Friday and Saturday\, November 21 and 22\, 2025 at our new location in the Harbor Hotel in Watkins Glen\, NY. LEARN MORE.
URL:https://www.racingarchives.org/event/argetsinger-symposium-on-motorsports-history/
LOCATION:Harbor Hotel\, 16 N Franklin St\, Watkins Glen\, NY\, 14891\, United States
CATEGORIES:Argetsinger Symposium
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SUMMARY:8th Annual Argetsinger Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC)\, partnering with the Society of Automotive Historians (SAH)\, presents the annual Michael R. Argetsinger Symposium on International Motor Racing History. The Symposium established itself as a unique and respected scholarly forum and has gained a growing audience of students and enthusiasts. The symposium is named in honor of Michael R. Argetsinger (1944-2015; below)\, an award-winning motorsports author and longtime member of the Center’s Governing Council. \nIt provides an opportunity for scholars\, researchers and writers to present their work related to the history of automotive competition and the cultural impact of motor racing. Papers are presented by faculty members\, graduate students and independent researchers. The history of international automotive competition falls within several realms\, all of which are welcomed as topics for presentations\, including\, but not limited to: sports history\, cultural studies\, public history\, political history\, the history of technology\, sports geography and gender studies\, as well as archival studies. \nKEYNOTE ADDRESS: LYN ST. JAMES \nLEARN MORE about this event.
URL:https://www.racingarchives.org/event/argetsinger-symposium-2024/
LOCATION:Watkins Glen International Raceway\, 2790 County Route 16\, Watkins Glen\, NY\, 14891\, United States
CATEGORIES:Argetsinger Symposium
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SUMMARY:Reel Wheel Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 31\, 2024 \n5:00 to 8:30 pm (details on scheduling of individual films will be posted when available) \n20th Annual Reel Wheel Film Festival: “Celebrating Historical Racing Documentaries” \nPresented for the second time in Watkins Glen\, NY in cooperation with The International Motor Racing Research Center and the Society of Automotive Historians as a prelude to Eighth Michael R. Argetsinger Symposium on International Motor Racing History
URL:https://www.racingarchives.org/event/reel-wheel-film-festival/
LOCATION:Watkins Glen Elementary School Auditorium\, 612 S Decatur St\, Watkins Glen\, NY\, 14891\, United States
CATEGORIES:Argetsinger Symposium
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SUMMARY:Michael R. Argetsinger Symposium on International Motor Racing History
DESCRIPTION:Seventh Michael R. Argetsinger Symposium on International Motor Racing History – November 3-4\, 2023\nThe International Motor Racing Research Center and the Society of Automotive Historians presented the Seventh Annual Michael R. Argetsinger Symposium on International Motor Racing History in November\, in the Media Center of the world-famous Watkins Glen International racing circuit in Watkins Glen\, New York. \nPresenter biographies and presentation previews can be seen in this year’s event program. \nAll of the presentations are available to view on Gran Touring Motorsports’ website! \nNew in 2023: The International Reel Wheel Film Festival was revived as a kick-off to the seventh annual Argetsinger Symposium. The IRWFF was curated by Thomas Schmeh\, at the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum in Knoxville\, Iowa\, from 1999 through 2013. The Festival celebrates the automobile and auto racing in film and was held in the Watkins Glen Elementary School auditorium\, adjacent to the IMRRC\, on Thursday\, November 2nd\, from 5:00 to 8:30 PM. The 2023 Festival theme was “Celebrating Historical Racing Documentaries.” \nThe Symposium has established itself as a unique and respected scholarly forum and has gained a growing audience of students and enthusiasts. It provides an opportunity for scholars\, researchers and writers to present their work related to the history of automotive competition and the cultural impact of motor racing to their peers and to the motor racing community in general. \n 
URL:https://www.racingarchives.org/event/michael-r-argetsinger-symposium-on-international-motor-racing-history/
LOCATION:Watkins Glen International Raceway\, 2790 County Route 16\, Watkins Glen\, NY\, 14891\, United States
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SUMMARY:Schedule for 2022 Symposium - Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, Nov. 5\nMorning Session\, 9:00 a.m. to noon\nRandy Cannon | Caesars Palace Grand Prix – presented via Zoom\nRandall Cannon is a freelance journalist and author.  His first book\, Stardust International Raceway\, explored the convergence of organized crime influences and motorsports interests in the international capital of legalized gambling\, Las Vegas.  Cannon’s current offering\, Caesars Palace Grand Prix\, drills even more deeply into that nexus while also tracing the threads of history that culminated in the only F1 events to date in that unique city.  Mr. Cannon will present at the Symposium from that research\, as well as the incremental steps forward from Caesars Palace that will result in the return of F1 to that destination mecca of gambling\, the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix. \nGordon Eliot White | Harry Miller: The Man and the Cars\nMr. White is a retired newspaper correspondent who covered Washington\, D.C.\, Europe and the Far East for the Chicago American and other newspapers for 34 years. After he retired from newspaper work he became the Smithsonian Institution’s auto racing advisor\, following a sport he had enjoyed since 1939. He since has written seven books on the history of American open-wheel racing\, including a history of Fred Offenhauser and the Offenhauser racing engine. \nHe has served as the unofficial historian of the Harry A. Miller Club and as curator and archivist of more than 12\,000 drawings\, tracings and blueprints of Miller’s cars and engines\, as well as of thousands of documents covering the history of American racing since early in the 20th century. His presentation will address Harry Miller and Miller’s impression on American racing as well as how aficionados rediscovered him after he had been all but forgotten and\, over the past 40 years have unearthed and restored many of his cars. \nKatharine Worth | Politicizing Grand Prix Racing in 1930s Germany and Great Britain – presented via Zoom\nKatharine Worth is a graduate student in History at the University of Western Australia. Following her Master’s research at the University of Edinburgh on the banal and natural involvement of politics historically in the Olympic Movement\, Ms. Worth’s current research traces the relationship of politics and nationalism in Formula One (and its motor racing predecessors). \nHer presentation will analyze the 1930s through the lens of Grand Prix racing – and the aspirations to race at that level – in Germany and Great Britain\, addressing how motor racing became increasingly connected to politics and nationalism\, showcasing the complex relationship between Germany and Britain at the time. Ms. Worth’s discussion will highlight the British and German perspectives and usages of motor racing in the 1930s as motor racing became entangled with the politics and rising tensions of the period. Speed became the marker of “civilization” in Europe – a power Germany possessed and one that Great Britain envied. \nHannah Thompson | Charlotte’s Glory: The NASCAR Hall of Fame in the Queen City – presented via Zoom\nHannah Thompson is a cultural historian of the Carolina Piedmont and is new in the museum field with her current position with the Gaston County Museum of Art & History. Ms. Thompson also helps restore Coca-Cola “ghost signs” throughout the Southeast in her spare time. She examines the history of the NASCAR Hall of Fame from its inception in 2001 through the global pandemic\, bringing into consideration why Charlotte was selected as the seat for the Hall and how the Hall has affected NASCAR and its fans. Ms. Thompson suggests that Charlotte is often overlooked in motorsports history despite its lasting impact on the auto racing world. \nAfternoon Session\, 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.\nKeynote: Buz McKim | Moonshine and Its Connection to the American Auto Industry\nBuz McKim\, formerly historian at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte\, N.C.\, is a distinguished figure in the motorsports world and a much sought-after speaker at motorsports gatherings. Mr. McKim served as director of archives for International Speedway Corporation and as coordinator of statistical services for NASCAR. He is the author of “The NASCAR Vault: An Official History Featuring Rare Collectibles from Motorsports Images and Archives.” \nMr. McKim’s presentation explores the origins of modified stock car racing in the illegal distribution of untaxed adult beverages\, or “moonshine.” He recounts the development of NASCAR in 1949 and its evolution in the 1950s from a truly “stock” competition to a manufacturer-supported testing ground for advances in the engineering and design of American automobiles. Mr. McKim’s talk describes the irony of how the automotive engineering modifications inspired by “wild country boys” led to all-around improvements in automotive technology. \nLauren Goodman | Lucy O’Reilly Schell: Innovator of French Motorsports \nLauren Goodman received her MFA in screenwriting from the College of Motion Pictures Arts at Florida State University. While volunteering at the REVS Institute in Naples\, Florida\, she encountered one of two Maseratis entered by Lucy Schell in the 1940 Indy 500. Lauren’s research into Lucy’s time in France as a team owner and principal has been presented at REVS Institute. Lauren’s writing draws heavily on history and the lives of women whose achievements have been overlooked. Presently\, she is developing Lucy’s story into a feature-length project. Lauren’s presentation will highlight Lucy’s role in motor racing history and her contributions to the sport. \nChris Lezotte | Real Racers Turn in Both Directions: Autocross\, Life Skills\, and the Woman Driver\nAfter a career in advertising – some of it spent writing car commercials – Chris earned a master’s degree at Eastern Michigan University and a Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University. Now working as an independent scholar\, Chris investigates the relationship between women and cars in a variety of contexts\, including women’s participation in traditionally masculine car cultures (including motorsports) as well as representations of women and cars in popular culture. Her current project focuses on women’s growing involvement in autocross – the reasons for women’s participation; the methods by which women negotiate entry into a historically masculine environment; and how the autocross experience contributes to women’s identity\, self-knowledge\, and empowerment. \nRoundtable: Daniel Simone\, Moderator | Fifty Years After Title IX – On and Off the Track: A Roundtable on Women in Motorsports \nDaniel J. Simone earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Florida. He then taught at Monmouth University before serving as Curator at the NASCAR Hall of Fame from 2016-2021. Dr. Simone is on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Voting Committee and delivers presentations and academic papers at universities and automotive museums across the United States and Canada. He currently serves as program assistant at the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library\, where he is co-processing and researching the Women’s Sports Foundation Collection and conducting oral histories and developing content for a digital exhibition. \nThe Michael R. Argetsinger Symposium on International Motor Racing History has provided a platform for excellent in-depth and thought-provoking presentations on the successes\, struggles\, and contributions of unheralded women racers and car owners across various auto racing disciplines.  The green flag for this roundtable discussion will wave with the panelists integrating these prior presentations into a brief historiographical discussion of women in motorsport.  From there\, the panelists will pull from their multi-disciplinary backgrounds and markedly different professional experiences and discuss why\, where\, and how they extended the boundaries of women in motorsports history scholarship.  Finally\, the audience will take the checkered flag with a challenge: to propose new themes and topics for future conversations\, with an emphasis on the accomplishments women have made in motorsports without ever owning or taking the wheel behind a race car.      \nFriday\, Nov. 4th Schedule
URL:https://www.racingarchives.org/event/schedule-for-2022-symposium-day-2/
LOCATION:Watkins Glen International Raceway\, 2790 County Route 16\, Watkins Glen\, NY\, 14891\, United States
CATEGORIES:Argetsinger Symposium
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SUMMARY:Schedule for 2022 Symposium - Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, Nov. 4\nMorning Session\, 9:00 a.m. to noon\nJames Miller | F1: From Circus to Media Spectacle\nJames Miller’s engagement with F1 includes chatting about race strategy with Nicki Lauda at the 1977 USGP\, where Lauda won his second world championship. Now it involves at-home viewing of real-time\, in-car camera images on a flat-screen TV. Has Formula One left behind its gritty\, dangerous and somewhat esoteric past to become a cross between the World Cup and Disneyland (think Miami)? How much of its new global popularity can be summed up as (perhaps merely) “media spectacle?” Miller is professor emeritus of communications at Hampshire College. He has studied new media as a Fulbright researcher in Paris and a visiting professor at MIT’s Media Lab. \nMark D. Howell | Living Loud\, Living Fast: Connections Between Musicians and Motorsports\nMark Howell is a Professor of Communications at Northwestern Michigan College. Prior to NMC\, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University. As a motorsports historian\, Dr. Howell has published numerous articles and two books: From Moonshine to Madison Avenue: A Cultural History of the NASCAR Winston Cup Series (U of Wisconsin/Popular Press\, 1997) and Motorsports and American Culture: From Demolition Derbies to NASCAR (Rowman and Littlefield\, 2014)\, of which he was a co-editor. Since 2011\, he has been a Senior Writer for Frontstretch.com\, where his essays appear every Wednesday during the racing season. Dr. Howell also spent three years (2001-2003) as a part-time crew member with Brett Bodine Racing in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series\, and has worked closely with NASCAR drivers Hut Stricklin\, Kenny Wallace\, and Todd Bodine. \nDr. Howell’s presentation for this year’s Symposium Living Loud and Living Fast will explore the connections between musicians and motorsports. The presentation highlights how several well-known professional musicians from diverse genres took their interest in high-performance vehicles to regional\, national\, and sometimes even international levels of motor racing competition. \nMario Felice Tecce | Racing as a Paradigm for Pursuing the Best – presented via Zoom\nDr. Tecce received his M.D. and PhD. at the University of Naples\, Italy\, and is currently full professor of Biochemistry at University of Salerno. Besides his molecular research about cancer mechanisms\, he explored race car driving as a major reference paradigm of pursuing the best and of free will exercise. Having a strong interest and deep passion for car racing\, he analyzed Formula One seasons of the last fifty years and suggests that race car driving can be a major example of general life choices between good and bad in a joint competition to pursue the best possible. \nRoundtable: Timothy Robeers\, Mike Stocz\, Katya “Kate” Sullivan | Aspects of Media Treatments of Motor Racing Topics – presented via Zoom \nDr. Timothy Robeers is currently working as a Research & MarCom Manager at b²sense in Brussels\, Belgium. Following a career in academia\, he remains affiliated with the department of communication sciences at Antwerp University\, Belgium and combines extensive expertise in market & communication research\, social and environmental sustainability\, and their applications in motorsport and media. Besides having participated as a driver and team-owner in rally raids across Africa\, Dr. Robeers has also consulted for a range of motorsport businesses and organizations including Formula E and the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme. Additionally\, he is a co-founder and Assistant Editor for the Journal of Motorsport Culture & History. \nMike Stocz is a senior lecturer of sport management & leadership at the University of New Hampshire. He is one of the founding members and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Motorsport Culture & History. Mike’s previous works have included a bottom up framing analysis of the Tony Stewart-Kevin Ward Jr. incident on Facebook\, as well as works within legal issues in K-12 sport administration\, an economic funding model for college athletics\, and a textual analysis of the American Outlaws fan group in the digital space. \n  \n \nKate Sullivan is an Assistant Professor in Strategy & Enterprise at Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University\, where she teaches a range of entrepreneurship and management courses as well as conducts research as a well-being and performance psychologist. In addition to her academic career\, she has worked in the classic car industry for more than a decade.  Ms. Sullivan personally holds several regional land-speed records. \nIn the roundtable\, she explores the forgotten history of alternative power vehicles in motorsport\, demonstrating that the current concerns over the environmental impacts of auto racing –and the attendant hand-wringing over its future –are far from new. Showing how alternative power vehicles have been part of society’s need for speed from the beginning\, she will suggest how to harness this worry to instead create new buzz for racing. \nAfternoon Sessions\, 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.\nQuinn Beekwilder\, Trey Cunningham | Lessons Learned: A Pedagogical Approach to Teaching Motorsports History \nQuinn Beekwilder is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the motorsport management degree at Belmont Abbey College. Having come from a decade of working at Charlotte Motor Speedway\, he wanted to give back to the motorsport program at Belmont Abbey that got him there in the first place. He has a unique perspective of being one of the first graduates of the program and is able to address concerns and direct the program for the greater benefit of current students. Motorsport history has always been a passion of Mr. Beekwilder. The approaches that he takes to the course are crafted to focus on the historical development of NASCAR while incorporating experiential activities to support the curriculum. The students refer to Mr. Beekwilder as the fast van driver. \nDr. Cunningham is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sport and Motorsport Management at Belmont Abbey College. Belmont Abbey College offers a four-year undergraduate academic program designed to prepare aspiring professionals and leaders for a career in the motorsport industry. The presentation will discuss Belmont Abbey College’s pedagogical approach to introducing and reinforcing the history of motorsports throughout the entire curriculum. Moreover\, Dr. Cunningham’s presentation will discuss the many perceived lessons learned and ever-evolving adjustments made along the way in the Department’s efforts to successfully prepare students to become lifelong learners of the history of motorsports. \nElton G. McGoun | Putting the “Sports” in “Sports Cars” \nSkip McGoun is an Emeritus Professor of Finance at Bucknell University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and at the University of Donja Gorija in Montenegro. He has presented and published on the history and culture of finance as well as automobile history and culture and served as Area Chair of the Vehicle Culture Section of the Popular Culture Association. He considers the two senses of the word “sports” — competition and recreation — and their relative roles in the creation of the class of vehicles known as “sports cars.” \nJonathan Summers | Motor Racing as a Mediated Experience \nJon Summers is a teaching assistant and guest lecturer at Stanford University. He’s an independent automotive historian\, podcaster\, blogger and Pebble Beach Docent. A lifelong car and motorcycle enthusiast\, Jon’s recent work has focused on historiography in motor racing\, delving into not just what happened\, but how these stories were preserved\, by whom and why. From text and still photography through television and now to YouTube\, Goodwood and Gran Turismo\, Jon’s presentation examines the evolution of the methods in which the stories of motor racing have been told and the history preserved. \n \nJoe Freeman | Second to One\nJoseph Freeman is an automotive historian\, writer\, publisher\, vintage racer\, and racing car collector\, well known in the racing world for his expertise on automotive subjects and as owner of the award-winning publishing house Racemaker Press of Boston. His talk will cover the history of some of the earlier champion race drivers who but for a stroke of bad luck\, an unfortunate last-minute mistake\, or just the intervention of fate\, were never able to win America’s greatest race\, the Indianapolis 500. Mr. Freeman’s reflections are based on his recent book Second to One: All But for Indy. \nTrevor Lister | Truth is the Daughter of Time – presented via Zoom\nTrevor entered the University of Canterbury on a public service scholarship\, graduating with a double degree in Physics and Mechanical Engineering. On graduation\, he worked in the Ministry of Transport in the setting and administration of Motor Vehicle Safety Standards\, primarily on natural gas and LPG vehicle standards. This led to a secondment to a national research and development organization where he was responsible for research on a wider range of alternative motor vehicle fuels. It led also to an international consultancy in that area\, including a stint as the New Zealand delegate to the International Natural Gas Vehicles Association. \nUpon completion of that work\, he returned to his foundation automotive design skills and his motorsports hobby. At which point he became an inspector and certifier on other peoples’ projects\, as well as designing\, building and racing his own cars. In semi-retirement\, he took up teaching and tutoring pre-apprenticeship students in Mathematics\, Science and Automotive Engineering. In full retirement\, he assumed the role of Editor of the Newsletter of The Classic Motor Racing Club of New Zealand. That is when\, searching for Newsletter stories\, he came across the work of Donald Capps\, and their common interest in old Maseratis. The upshot of working together on the histories of these cars became the main point in the presentation to this symposium. It appears that Maserati in the 1950s identified their competition cars by their engine numbers\, not their chassis numbers\, and that this process allowed for individual cars to have carried more than one identity. This has implications for the provenance of these cars. \nSaturday\, Nov. 5th Schedule
URL:https://www.racingarchives.org/event/schedule-for-2022-symposium-day-1/
LOCATION:Watkins Glen International Raceway\, 2790 County Route 16\, Watkins Glen\, NY\, 14891\, United States
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SUMMARY:IMRRC to Host Racing History Symposium
DESCRIPTION:IMRRC To Host Racing History Symposium Nov. 9-10\, 2018\nBuz McKim\, retired historian at the NASCAR Hall of Fame\, will be keynote speaker\n  \nThe International Motor Racing Research Center is again partnering with the Society of Automotive Historians to present “The First Turn Meets the Cultural Turn—History on the Eights\,” a symposium on racing history geared to both motor racing scholars and the world of motor racing enthusiasts. \nThe fourth annual Michael R. Argetsinger Symposium on International Motor Racing History will take place Friday and Saturday\, Nov. 9 and 10\, 2018. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend any or all of the sessions with no charge. \nThe two-day event will showcase discussions on Formula Vee\, Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing\, the early days of NASCAR\, the career of British automotive designer and engineer Reid Railton\, and more. \nRick Hughey’s Formula Vee will be on display Friday at the Watkins Glen International Media Center. \nFriday morning and afternoon sessions will be held at the Watkins Glen International Media Center inside the world-famous Watkins Glen race track. Presentations will include Tom Adamich’s analysis of the deep cultural roots and enduring success of Formula Vee\, the “People’s Race Car\,” from its origins in the work of Ferdinand Porsche to its birth as an American racing phenomenon in the 1960s. Francis Clax\, a one-time competitor in professional motorcycle racing\, will present “Americans Enter Grand Prix Motorcycle Racing\,” talking of America’s late entry into the international arena of grand prix motorsports. \nFriday’s presentations will also feature Kate Sullivan\, an accomplished scholar who holds several regional land-speed records in Scotland\, speaking on the fascinating story of the evolution of NASCAR from its humble beginnings as an accessible arena for drivers to a sophisticated big business. Sullivan will suggest ways to return the sport to its more inclusive roots. Skip McGoun\, a distinguished scholar on the history of finance and culture will explain the driving forces—publications\, organizations\, and communities—that gave birth to and provided the force for automobile racing. Paul Baxa of the University of Toronto\, a returning contributor to the Symposium\, will address the horrific accident that took place in the 1928 Italian Grand Prix and the critical impact the tragedy had on the survival and redefinition of grand prix racing. Finally\, Bryan Gable will explore the development of NASCAR in Charlotte\, N.C. and its surrounding region and how NASCAR achieved success as a desirable and profitable industry. \nKate SullivanSkip McGounDr. Paul Baxa\nAn evening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. at the IMRRC Visitor’s Center in downtown Watkins Glen will include a screening of the movie Cars followed by Jon Summers presenting “Differentiating Between Richard ‘The King’ Petty and Pixar’s ‘Mr. The King’.”  Mr. Summers’ discussion will examine the ways that NASCAR history is received and understood while showing how its place in American history and culture is open to debatable conclusions. \nKarl Ludvigsen \nThe Saturday sessions will take place at the Watkins Glen Elementary School auditorium adjacent to the IMRRC. Karl Ludvigsen\, internationally renowned motorsports historian and author\, will discuss the career of Reid Anthony Railton\, a Cheshire born automotive engineering genius who rose to renown in the 1930s as his great cars—powered by names like Birkin\, Campbell\, Straight\, Cobb\, Mays\, and Gardner—achieved sensational and record-breaking success. Having worked as an executive with GM\, Fiat\, and Ford and with over four dozen books to his credit\, Ludvigsen has compiled a major research collection\, now housed at the Revs Institute. \nBuz McKim \nThe highlight of this year’s Symposium is the presentation by Buz McKim\, recently retired historian at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte\, N.C.\, who will be the keynote speaker. McKim will discuss the life of Bill France\, Sr. and stock car racing during his years as a driver\, chronicling the events which prompted France to develop a sanctioning body for the sport and reminiscing of the colorful personalities who enlivened the early days of stock cars. McKim is the author of The NASCAR Vault: An Official History Featuring Rare Collectibles from Motorsports Images and Archives. \nA detailed schedule can be seen here.
URL:https://www.racingarchives.org/event/imrrc-to-host-racing-history-symposium/
LOCATION:Watkins Glen International Raceway\, 2790 County Route 16\, Watkins Glen\, NY\, 14891\, United States
CATEGORIES:Argetsinger Symposium
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