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We’ll talk with Erin (Crocker) Evernham, Alison Sload, Kaylee Bryson and Taylor Ferns about their journeys, the challenges they’ve faced, and how the sport is evolving for the next generation of female racers. So buckle up, because this conversation is going to be fast, fierce, and full of insight from the best in the business!

Shortly after the NASCAR Hall of Fame Class of 2025 nominees were announced, two-time Daytona 500 winner and NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr. posted, “Ray Elder won six NASCAR Western series championships: 1969, 70, 71, 72, 74, and 75. Elder would compete with the NASCAR Cup regulars when they ran at Riverside and beat them in 1971 and again in 1972.” Yet Ray Elder was not one of the nominees.

"From the Archives" 2025 Calendars are still available, a monthly calendar with 13 historically significant photos selected from our archives.  Perfect for your home, office, shop or garage!

IMRRC archival staff and volunteers are currently engaged in a massive process of reviewing all collections of media guides and press kits that have been donated over the last twenty-five years in order to create a fully inventoried compendium of such publications. 

The IMRRC collaborated with the South Central Regional Library Council (SCRLC) to digitize almost 700 photographs and 12 reels of 16 mm film.

Rev Up Your Dreams: Enter Now and You Could Drive Away in Your Dream Car – A Bold Statement of Intent for Those Who Dare to Dream Big! The drawing is February 16, 2025.

Celebrating nearly 60 years of TransAm history, we were joined by professional drivers: Cindi Lux, Michele Abbate, Amy Ruman along with special guest Erin Vogel for a panel discussion about what it's like to race in TransAm today, and why more people should not only watch, but get involved in this unique variant of the Road Racing discipline!

October 5, 1980, was a very important day at Watkins Glen International circuit. Historical research, including about motor racing, cannot be done with hypotheses or with “what ifs” but only with facts. However, it can indeed be conceived that the facts of that day affected many future things. This was going to be the last F1 GP at Watkins Glen.

This material was provided by Ford Easton, who grew up in upstate New York and was an avid fan of racing in his youth, and is now recognized as an expert on racing in this genre.  He is the author of the definitive book on the subject, "Stock Car Racing in the '50s: Pictures and Memories from Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania" (2014). 

The 1895 Horseless Carriage Contest sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald (aka “first” auto-race in America) – a peek into the WHAT, WHY. WHEN. WHERE, WHO beyond the auto history lore of a Duryea victory on a cold and snowy, Thanksgiving Day in Chicago.