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Governing Council member Mitch Bishop called into Dave Stall's radio show, "Racer Radio" on AM 1170 in San Diego, to talk about our new blog, "Stopwatch."

Racing history shared in ‘Stopwatch’ blog. By Larry Edsall, published December 10, 2018.

Luigi Chinetti is best known to American racing fans as the owner of North American Racing Team (N.A.R.T.), a team that fielded many a Ferrari with world-class drivers in U.S. sports car events. Chinetti himself only raced once in America - at the very first Sebring endurance event in 1950. This is the story of how it happened and the Ferrari 166 coupe he drove, owned by Briggs Cunningham.

Peter Sachs, a member of the IMRRC Historians Council, remembers the 1962 French Grand Prix, a race in which Dan Gurney collected an unexpected win. Reposted with permission from the Klemantaski Collection.

William Edgar, a member of the IMRRC Historians Council, relates the story of his personal connection with the Alfa Berlinetta that won the very first race through the streets of Watkins Glen in 1948, and how he was reunited decades later with the very same car.

Dick Barbour's IMSA team decided to attack the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the first time in 1978 - and they won! Here's the inside story of how it happened.

Watkins Glen seminar examines motorsports culture. By Larry Edsall, published October 31, 2018.

The fight for control of sports car racing between USAC and the SCCA reached a boiling point in the late 1950s. Read about it in this excerpt from the upcoming book on the history of IMSA authored by Mitch Bishop and Mark Raffauf: "IMSA 1969-1989" available in January 2019 from Octane Press.

"Workers Appreciated Through History" Appearing in SportsCar November 2018 by Jeff Jacobs

Lee and Jeannette Apostale of Hornell, N.Y., were the winners of the 2003 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S raffled by the International Motor Racing Research Center.