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SUMMARY:Formula 5000 Series Talk at IMRRC May 10; Series Driver Sam Posey Honored Guest
DESCRIPTION:WATKINS GLEN\, N.Y. (April 21\, 2014) – “No one outside the racing world seemed to know F5000 existed\,” Sam Posey reminisced in Road & Track magazine a few years ago. \nOn May 10\, Posey\, who would drive to second place in the Formula 5000 series in 1971 and 1972\, will be the honored guest as the International Motor Racing Research Center hosts a talk about the series that was lauded by some and overlooked by many. \nThe free talk will be at 1 p.m. All are welcome. \nThe 1968 Le Grand Mk7 that Posey drove in the Formula 5000 series in 1968 will be the centerpiece of the talk. The car has been on display at the Racing Research Center since December. \n“Although it was one of Posey’s least favorite race cars\, the Le Grand was an early and important step in the development of Formula 5000 race cars\,” Center President J.C. Argetsinger said. “The reunion between Sam and the Le Grand is certain to be a memorable experience for all.” Car co-owner Bob Mayer and Jacques Dresang\, son of co-owner Rick\nDresang\, will speak about the car’s place in history and the story of the car’s restoration. The three men collect\, restore and race vintage cars. James Stengel\, who is researching the Formula 5000 series\, also will speak. Stengel drives a Formula 5000 car in vintage races and is on the board of the Formula 5000 Drivers’ Association\, which runs the current Formula 5000 Revival Series. \nIn his March 2010 Road & Track piece\, Posey wrote about the series: “Although I never won the championship\, some of the achievements I’m most proud of as a driver came in F5000. The cars were fast\, challenging and evenly matched because so many teams could afford the components you needed to win. The racing was terrific\, and the opposition included some of the top drivers of the period. But the series did little to burnish my reputation. No one outside the racing world seemed to know F5000 existed.” \nThe Center’s May events are part of the ongoing Center Conversations series. Upcoming speakers are vintage car event organizer Murray Smith on June 21; Cary Agajanian\, son of legendary racing team owner and race organizer J.C. Agajanian in July; Steve Zautke on the Milwaukee Mile in October; and in November Michael Martin on the United States Road Racing Championship race series of the 1960s. \nDetails will be announced as they are finalized. \nThe Racing Research Center is an archival library dedicated to the preservation of the history of motorsports\, of all series and all venues\, through its collections of books\, periodicals\, films\, photographs\, fine art and other materials. For more information about the Center’s work and its programs\, visit www.racingarchives.org or call (607) 535-9044.
URL:https://www.racingarchives.org/event/formula-5000-series-talk-at-imrrc-may-10-series-driver-sam-posey-honored-guest/
LOCATION:Watkins Glen Elementary School Auditorium\, 612 S Decatur St\, Watkins Glen\, NY\, 14891\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center Conversation
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SUMMARY:Center Hosting Model Car Show and Talk
DESCRIPTION:WATKINS GLEN\, N.Y. (March 31\, 2014) – The popular hobby of model car collecting will be in the spotlight April 11-13 at the International Motor Racing Research Center. \nOver the three days\, the Center will host a model car show of hundreds of vehicles of all scales\, focusing on race cars. The show coincides with two  nnual events at Watkins Glen International: the 10th annual Toyota Green Grand Prix on April 11 and the track’s own Opening Weekend activities April 12 and 13. \nThe Arc Grand Prix Run\, a new Opening Weekend event at the track\, will be on April 12. It’s an early-morning\, 3.4-mile run on the race course to benefit The Arc of Schuyler\, a not-for-profit organization providing support to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities\, including autism. Walkers will have a one-mile route. \nAutism Speaks\, the world’s leading autism science and advocacy organization\, will be the recipient of funds raised by WGI fans driving their own cars around the track on Opening Weekend. The fee will be $25 per vehicle. The track opens to cars at 10 a.m. \nBack downtown on April 12 at 1 p.m.\, the Center will host an informal panel discussion about the hobby of model car collecting. The panel will include award-winning model designer and builder Tom Clark and Rich Chernosky of Keystone Cards in Sayre\, Pa.\, organizer of the Model Car Concours at the annual Grand Prix Festival in Watkins Glen in September.\nAdmission to the model car show and to the panel discussion is free and open to all. Car show hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. \nAmong the special exhibits in the show will be a display of models of almost every car raced by the famed Briggs Cunningham team from the 1940s through the early 1960s. \nThe Center’s April events are part of the ongoing Center Conversations series. Upcoming talk topics include Formula 5000 racing\, featuring legendary Sam Posey as the honored guest\, on May 10; vintage car event organizer Murray Smith in June; Cary Agajanian\, son of great racing team owner and race organizer J.C. Agajanian in July; and the Milwaukee Mile in October. \nDetails will be announced as they are finalized. \nThe Racing Research Center is an archival library dedicated to the preservation of the history of motorsports\, of all series and all venues\, through its collections of books\, periodicals\, films\, photographs\, fine art and other materials. For more information about the Center’s work and its programs\, visit www.racingarchives.org or call (607) 535-9044.
URL:https://www.racingarchives.org/event/center-hosting-model-car-show-and-talk/
LOCATION:International Motor Racing Research Center\, 610 S. Decatur St.\, Watkins Glen\, NY\, 14891\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center Conversation,Model Car Show
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SUMMARY:Holland International Speedway Talk
DESCRIPTION:WATKINS GLEN\, N.Y. (Jan. 29\, 2014) – Western New York’s Holland International Speedway will be the subject of a talk Feb. 8 at the International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen. \nThe 1 p.m. free talk is part of the annual Center Conversations speaker series that offers insider presentations on a wide variety of topics in racing. \nUpcoming Center Conversations talks will include land speed record competition\, Formula 5000 racing and the Milwaukee Mile. Details will be announced as they are finalized. \nHolland International Speedway\, located in Erie County south of Buffalo\, is one of NASCAR’s longest-sanctioned tracks. Known as “Thunder in the Hills\,” Holland is the subject of a recently released pictorial-format book from Arcadia Publishing as part of its NASCAR Library Collection. \nBook authors Tim Bennett and Larry Ott will be joined in their talk by champion driver George Skora III. The presentation will include showing many of the 200 photos included in their book. \nBennett is general manager at Holland\, which was co-founded in 1960 by his father\, Ronald Bennett\, Richard Knox and Gordon Becker. Ronald Bennett continues to serve as track president. “I started my career picking up garbage at the age of 7 and worked my way  up through all positions. You name it\, I did it\,” Bennett said. \nOtt is a motorsports columnist for The Buffalo News and has covered races at Holland since 1985\, after years of attending races. He also has done motorsports television work for various networks\, including Time Warner Cable. \n“Over the last few years I have gained a great deal of respect for the mission of the Racing Research Center and the tremendous effort and devotion of the staff\,” Ott said. “I look  forward to the Conversation series event. I am truly honored and proud to have been invited to speak at this one-of-a-kind research facility.” \nHolland is home track for Skora\, who won the won the 2013 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Pro Modified division championship there. The title followed his 2012 NASCAR Late Model division championship at Lake Erie Speedway in North East\, Pa. The division was discontinued at Lake Erie at the end of 2012. \nHolland was built in 1960\, originally as a one-third-mile dirt oval with a seating capacity of 1\,200. It was expanded to three-eighths-mile in 1964. In 1968\, the speedway was converted to asphalt and now has capacity for more than 7\,000. \nThe popular Center Conversations program has long been a cornerstone of the Racing Research Center’s educational outreach and oral history initiative. Noted authors\, race historians\, drivers\, team owners and track officials have taken listeners behind the scenes of every race series over the years. Speakers have included Donald Davidson\, historian at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; Doug Nye\, writer and historian; David Donohue\, racer and son of famed driver Mark Donohue; Bobby Rahal\, driver and team owner; and the\nlate John Fitch and Bill Milliken\, both legendary figures in road racing. \nThe Racing Research Center is an archival library dedicated to the preservation of the history of motorsports\, of all series and all venues\, through its collections of books\, periodicals\, films\, photographs\, fine art and other materials. For more information about the Center’s work and its programs\, visit www.racingarchives.org or call (607) 535-9044.
URL:https://www.racingarchives.org/event/holland-international-speedway-talk/
LOCATION:Watkins Glen Elementary School Auditorium\, 612 S Decatur St\, Watkins Glen\, NY\, 14891\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center Conversation
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SUMMARY:Bill Green Starts 2014 with Talk on Vanderbilt Cup Races
DESCRIPTION:WATKINS GLEN\, N.Y. (Jan. 11\, 2014) – Center Historian Bill Green will discuss the George Vanderbilt Cup races of 1936 and 1937 in the first Center Conversations talk of 2014. The free talk will be on Saturday\, Jan. 18\, at 1 p.m. \nGreen will speak about the short\, two-year run of the George Vanderbilt Cup competition at Roosevelt Raceway on Long Island. Other Center Conversations talk topics during 2014 will include the history of Holland International Speedway in western New York; land speed record competition; Formula 5000 racing; and the Milwaukee Mile. \nDetails will be announced as they are finalized. \nThe international W.K. Vanderbilt Cup races were conducted on Nassau County\, NY\, streets and on a closed circuit from 1904-10. The races moved to other states for the next six years. The George Vanderbilt Cup races were at the then-new facilities at Roosevelt Raceway for just two years in 1936 and 1937. \nAnother 20 years would pass before a Vanderbilt Cup was again awarded in the United States. The Cornelius Vanderbilt Cup was run at Roosevelt Raceway in 1960 as a Formula Junior event\, and in 1965\, 1967 and 1968 the Bridgehampton Sports Car Races were billed as the Cornelius Vanderbilt Cup. \nGreen\, who is the Center’s historian\, is internationally recognized for his exhaustive knowledge about racing at Watkins Glen and elsewhere. His personal collection of racing materials was launched at the first Watkins Glen race in 1948 when\, as an 8-year-old\, he bought a program. The collection today comprises 3\,000-plus hard and soft cover books\, racing posters\, photographs\, motorsports magazines and full race results of Watkins Glen 1948 to present. \nSince 1948\, he has missed only two Watkins Glen race seasons: 1966 and 1967\, when he was stationed in Morocco with the U.S. Navy. He made up for the misses by attending Formula One races in England and Germany. \nThe popular Center Conversations program has long been a cornerstone of the Racing Research Center’s educational outreach and oral history initiative. Noted authors\, race historians\, drivers\, team owners and track officials have taken listeners behind the scenes of every race series over the years. Speakers have included Donald Davidson\, historian at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; Doug Nye\, writer and historian; David Donohue\, racer and son of famed driver Mark Donohue; Bobby Rahal\, driver and team owner; and the late John Fitch and Bill Milliken\, both legendary figures in road racing. \nThe Racing Research Center is an archival library dedicated to the preservation of the history of motorsports\, of all series and all venues\, through its collections of books\, periodicals\, films\, photographs\, fine art and other materials. For more information about the Center’s work and its programs\, visit www.racingarchives.org or call (607) 535-9044. The Center also is on Facebook at “International Motor Racing Research Center” and on Twitter at “@IMRRCatWG.”
URL:https://www.racingarchives.org/event/bill-green-starts-2014-with-talk-on-vanderbilt-cup-races/
LOCATION:Watkins Glen Elementary School Auditorium\, 612 S Decatur St\, Watkins Glen\, NY\, 14891\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center Conversation
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