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"75 Years of Driver History" Appearing in SportsCar May 2019 by Jeff Jacobs

Race team owner and former champion race-car driver Bobby Rahal will be honored on June 27 by the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) with the 2019 Cameron R. Argetsinger Award for Outstanding Contributions to Motorsports.

"Carrying the Momentum" Appearing in SportsCar April 2019 by Jeff Jacobs

The 1,000th Formula One Grand Prix of the modern era was recently held at Shanghai in China. We thought it would be cool to look back at some fascinating photos from the very first race - the British Grand Prix held at Silverstone on May 13, 1950. Re-posted with permission from the Klemantaski Collection blog, Peter Sachs author.

The winner of the 1986 Ferrari 328 GTS is Andrew Giles from Yulee, Florida with ticket number 1596. We raised over $113,000 for the IMRRC.

When IMSA published rules for a new kind of prototype class in 1980 called IMSA GTP, BMW collaborated with March Engineering in the UK to produce one of the first examples. That started the ball rolling for what would turn out to be a long, successful participation of March-based GTP cars in the Series, including two overall championships in 1983 and 1984.

It's well known that post-war road racing started at Watkins Glen in 1948. But how and why did racing move "up the hill" from the village? Read all about it in this post from IMRRC Historian Bill Green.

The 1975 running of the 12 Hours of Sebring saw BMW take victory with the potent CSL in the hands of Hans Stuck, Sam Posey, Brian Redman, and Allan Moffat. But it wasn't without controversy as corner workers kept radioing in that the car's brake lights weren't working in turns one and two.

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.