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Just in time for the 2025 Le Mans, Jordan Taylor stopped by for an “Evening With A Legend” podcast episode discussing his previous 8 attempts at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and what it means to be back this year with Cadillac and Wayne Taylor Racing at the front of the pack!

Save the Date! Society of Automotive Historians - 2025 Annual Awards Banquet; Saturday, September 20, 2025 at the fabulous Durant-Dort Factory One building in Flint, Michigan

Thanks to a grant from a generous long-time donor, the IMRRC has embarked on an ambitious digitization program, beginning with a selection of films from archives.

All that was missing were the Nitro fumes!! On Saturday, May 10 the IMRRC’s first Center Conversation program of the season was presented to a large, enthusiastic crowd of ‘Straight Line’ fans. Dean Johnson, the promoter of the track from 1964 to the track’s closing in 1974 and Jim Oddy, long time competitor at the track as well as drag strips around the country

In honor of the upcoming Indy 500 we revisit the Center Conversations with Donald Davidson about the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Joseph Freeman on Indy Roadsters

Discover Corvette Thunder At The Glen! Watkins Glen is the birthplace of American Road Racing.  But did you know that they also have an event specifically for Corvette?

As a young boy growing up during a Western New York summertime I can recall hearing those iconic “Sunday, Sunday Niagara” radio advertisements promoting the upcoming drag racing events at the legendary and now defunct Niagara (NY) Drag Strip.

We hope that Corvette Z06 sweepstakes winner Bill Parker is enjoying the car now that the weather has improved for those of us in the northeast!

The IMRRC, in conjunction with the Society of Automotive Historians, will soon be launching a Virtual Symposium on International Motor Racing History that will provide an on-line platform for presentations on aspects of motor racing history by authors, academic motorsport scholars, enthusiast historians, and students who wish to present their research and findings to the motorsport community. 

Niagara Dragway was one of the most popular and iconic drag strips in New York State from the early 1960’s to 1974. “SUNDAY…NIAGARA” commercials boomed from superstation WKBW during that period making Niagara THE PLACE TO BE for maximum automotive excitement! “Straight Line Speed – the History of Niagara Dragway” will be the topic of the IMRRC’s first Center Conversation series of the season, on Saturday. May 10 from 1-3PM.