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Richard Childress, famed NASCAR team owner, will join a select group of recipients of the Cameron R. Argetsinger Award for Outstanding Contributions to Motorsports. Presented annually by the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), this year’s gala and award ceremony will be held on Aug. 18, 2023, at the Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel. Motorsports broadcast journalist Dr. Jerry Punch will be emceeing the evening’s festivities.

New on the grid! The 1973 BMW 2002 currently owned by Bennie Bish from Whitney Point, NY.

Gordon Eliot White has written seven books on the history of American open-wheel racing, including a history of Fred Offenhauser and the Offenhauser racing engine.

Joe Freeman's talk will cover the history of some of the earlier champion race drivers who but for a stroke of bad luck, and unfortunate last-minute mistake, or just the intervention of fate, were never able to win America's greatest race, the Indianapolis 500.

Watkins Glen’s International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) is set to host The Racing Legacy of A-Bay on Saturday, May 20. Motorsports historian (and Lime Rock Park public address commentator) Greg Rickes will host a 90 to 120-minute presentation to re-live history when they raced ‘round the houses in Alexandria Bay.

The Governing Council of the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) in Watkins Glen, New York has appointed Phyllisa A. DeSarno as its most recent Governing Council member.

J.C. Argetsinger is the oldest son of Cameron Argetsinger and experienced first-hand, starting as a young boy, the interactions between his father and NASCAR founder, the late Bill France Sr., as plans to bring NASCAR to Watkins Glen were unfolding those many years ago. J.C. publically shared many personal remembrances of both his father and France at a recent conversation series event held at the International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen.

The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) will have the exciting new 2024 Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray 3LZ Convertible for its 25th Anniversary sweepstakes fundraiser.

Brands Hatch Circuit, situated in the rural county of Kent, was the venue for the eighth round of the Manufacturers' Championship for prototype cars on July 30, 1967. It was the first time that Brands Hatch had been used for the series and the drivers found that it was quite different from the other continental venues that had their long sweeping curves and lengthy straights. By contrast, Brands Hatch was shorter in length, 2.7 miles, with hills and tight corners to contend with which proved a challenge to the engineers who were responsible for setting up the cars.

Dr. Lezotte's current project focuses on women's growing involvement in AutoCross - the reason's 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.