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Center Conversation on board track and dirt racing in the early 1900s featured in Area Auto Racing News.

The selection of motor racing's early "national champions" was not very scientific and has endured a number of revisions over the years. Famed motor racing historian Don Capps proposes that revisionism used in American football might help explain what happened.

"Remember That?" Appearing in SportsCar February 2019 by Jeff Jacobs

The 12 Hours of Sebring is one of the three most iconic sports car endurance races in the world, along with the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Rolex 24 at Daytona. The Sebring event has been held uninterrupted since 1952 but its future wasn't always assured. The 1972 race looked to be the last - until a trio of heroes stepped in to save it.

IMRRC featured in monthly MG club Magazine - featuring MGs on display at the IMRRC

The 1989 Camel GT season was hotly contested between the TWR Jaguars and the powerful Nissan GTP ZX-Turbos run by the highly successful Electramotive team. Nissan had won the six races leading up the Portland round in August that year. And they would have won that race as well, if not for highly unusual circumstances at the end of the race.

"Celebrating the 75th" Appearing in SportsCar January 2019 by Jeff Jacobs

Martin Raffauf recounts a few of the highlights of the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1981 when he was a crew member on the winning Bob Garretson Porsche 935.

A.J. Foyt was drafted into Preston Henn's Porsche 935 in the wee hours of Sunday morning during the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1983. He didn't tell the co-drivers. Find out what happened next in this account excerpted from the book: “IMSA 1969-1989: The Inside Story of How John Bishop Built the World’s Greatest Sports Car Racing Series,” authored by Mitch Bishop and Mark Raffauf, available now from Octane Press and wherever books are sold.

The 1976 24 Hours of Daytona was a race plagued by unusual and unforeseen circumstances that stalled much of the 72 car field and brought the race to a grinding halt for the better part of three hours. The following account of the race is excerpted from the book: “IMSA 1969-1989: The Inside Story of How John Bishop Built the World’s Greatest Sports Car Racing Series,” authored by Mitch Bishop and Mark Raffauf, scheduled for publication in January 2019 from Octane Press.