Literature Review on Women in Motorsports
...Host & Google Scholar) to gain a broader understanding of this academic realm of inquiry. Various search term including Women in Racing and variants were included in the search. Initial... Read More
IMRRC Launches Search for Executive Director
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (Sept. 21, 2015) – The International Motor Racing Research Center has begun a nationwide search for an executive director. The new position was created to boost the... Read More
An Overview of Motorsports Podcasts Focused on Women
...Meaning that they may be fairweather and just seeing what’s out there. Sure, we could have went through and used these same search terms through Google Podcasts, Spotify, and others.... Read More
Center Conversation: Open Wheel Madness
...This leads to an interesting discussion that was recently occurred. Racing historians go with what I term the Chris Economacky rule. Economacky, the dean of motorsports, said the term big... Read More
Indy Legends and the Lore of the 500 with Donald C. Davidson
...not familiar with that term, I’ll try to explain it. Uh, during the thirties and early forties, basically most American championship racing was going a mile and half mile dirt... Read More
Argetsinger Symposium
...is to summarize the current academic literature across two repositories (EBSCO Host & Google Scholar) to gain a broader understanding of this academic realm of inquiry. Various search term including... Read More
Center Conversation: Steve Post – Then & Now
...BreakFix’s History of Motorsports series is brought to you in part by the International Motor Racing Research Center, as well as the Society of Automotive Historians, the Watkins Glen Area... Read More
Privacy Policy
The International Motor Racing Research Center PRIVACY POLICY The International Motor Racing Research Center, Inc., owner of the website located at www.racingarchives.org (hereinafter “IMRRC”) respects the privacy of every individual... Read More
IMRRC Appointment of New Executive Director
...guided by senior search consultant Daniel Keegan of Museum Search & Reference, a firm in Manchester, NH and Boston, MA, of which the principal is Marilyn Hoffman. About the International... Read More
Dan DeRusha Steps Down as Executive Director
...the search and transition to my successor.” The IMRRC will launch a search for a new executive director immediately. Governing Council Chairman John Saunders stated, “We’re looking for an executive... Read More
Symposium Recap
...the current academic literature across two repositories (EBSCO Host & Google Scholar) to gain a broader understanding of this academic realm of inquiry. Various search term including Women in Racing... Read More
Don Cox: The Man Who Saw It All
...a great idea!” That was the start of air jacks on racing cars. All cars have air jacks now.” Don Cox started his career as an engineer with Chevrolet’s Research... Read More
Argetsinger Award 2019
...WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (April 30, 2019) – Race team owner and former champion race-car driver Bobby Rahal will be honored on June 27 by the International Motor Racing Research Center... Read More
Aspects of Media Treatments of Motor Racing Topics
...tie my love for communications based research with historical research to be a little bit more in line with conference itself and expand at least a little bit more into... Read More
March Madness – March Cars in the IMSA Camel GT Series
...both Lime Rock and Mid-Ohio. The first few races proved the M-1/C had real potential and the decision was made to further develop the chassis and engine. The long-term plan... Read More
The Crusading Days of Jackie Stewart: Evaluating the Development of Safety in Motor Racing During the 1960s.
...overcome the resistance and criticisms they faced? Answers to this question are best understood, I would argue, by exploring the influence of three significant long-term social processes. Emerging masculinities, mediatisation... Read More
SAH: New Issue: SAH Journal (#328 through #332)
...the all the forums on the site. Searching for information on designer Jack Garnier Jack Garnier was the last head of Nash Styling. He passed away in 2007, but I’m... Read More
TransAm, The First 50 Years (1966-2016)
In celebration of 60 years of TransAM racing, and the inaugural class of Hall of Famers at Sebring in 2025; we wanted to take you back to 2015 when the... Read More
Racing with Rich Energy: How a Rogue Sponsor Took Formula One for a Ride.
...willing to go into the tall grass in search of William Storey, someone with a self-serving explanation for every one of his many dubious enterprises. But arguably someone with only... Read More
Fifty Years After Title IX – On and Off the Track: A Roundtable on Women in Motorsports
...lot of the same conclusions that I do in terms of how women got into it, how they’re treated, etc. In terms of my own scholarship, I haven’t done a... Read More
Butch Leitzinger’s thoughts on Watkins Glen International
...The location itself is a connection to history. It is this connection that inspired the decision to build the International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen. Created in 1998... Read More
The Motorsports Library
...Search the IMRRC catalog via STARCat below! With over 6,500 books, 15,000 programs, posters, artwork and racing records, The IMRRC is one of the largest and most comprehensive Motorsports Libraries... Read More
Daniel G. DeRusha Named Executive Director of IMRRC
...N.Y., has been selected as the new executive director of the International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen. DeRusha joins the IMRRC following a 13-year tenure with the Corning... Read More
CRASH! From Senna to Earnhardt – How the Hans Helped Save Racing
...Rutherford. Twenty-year-old future star John Paul, Jr. was another of those behind the wheel of the Porsches. The fearless and fast German, Walter Rohrl, co-drove a Lancia Turbo in search... Read More
Center Conversation: The battle for Land Speed Records (George Webster)
The battle for the Land Speed Record in the 1960s – Campbell, the Arfons, and Breedlove. From the archives of the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) comes the digitally... Read More
Clothing, photographs, programs, newspaper clippings.
...arrives is to inventory items prior to archival housing for long-term storage. For us, this can be the most exciting step in processing a collection, uncovering treasures along the way.... Read More
The Best Years of Our Lives (The Rebirth of Postwar European Motorsports)
...Bucknell University and was a long-term Visiting Professor at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and at the University of Donja Gorija in Montenegro. He has presented and published on... Read More
Roundtable on the State of the Field of Motor Sport History
...twists and turns that ultimately lead to the most famous racetrack on the planet and what that track means. Not just in terms of competitive nature, but in terms of... Read More
The First Horseless Carriage Race
...eponymous wagon maker who, with prescience, commended the sponsoring newspaper “…for transferring the manufacture of of the motocycle (a term applied to the horseless carriage after a naming contest) Bio... Read More
Early Days at IMSA: Formula Cars on Ovals
...barely off the ground, the Club viewed IMSA as a potential rival. Ultimately, this approach didn’t work and was abandoned, but the short-term threat to IMSA was quite real. Track... Read More
LACar.com features 2020 Corvette Sweepstakes
...Research Center in Watkins Glen, New York is the preeminent place for what I call “paper” my (very) broad term for items that are not hardware (like cars). Photos, journals,... Read More
Nurburgring’s Days of Glory Come Alive in the Werner Winter Collection
...term for repeat winners) included Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Tony Brooks, Jackie Stewart, John Surtees and Jacky Ickx. Nearly every famous name associated with motor sports in the 20th... Read More
Accelerating Through Life – Hurley Haywood & The Porsche 914-6 GT
...and potential that Haywood exhibited during the race, comforted his conscript: “We have to accelerate your process-out paperwork!” How’s that for the quick application of a racing term to Army... Read More
Employment Opportunities
Located in the heart of the beautiful Finger Lakes region, Watkins Glen is known as the birthplace for road racing and Formula 1 in America. The International Motor Racing Research... Read More
Werner Winter Collection
...its final Grand Prix, James Hunt, in 1976. Other Ringmeisters (the term for repeat winners) included Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Tony Brooks, Jackie Stewart, John Surtees and Jacky Ickx.... Read More
Symbolic Significance: A Grand Opera and a Grand Prix
...a long-term Visiting Professor at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and at the University of Donja Gorija in Montenegro. He has presented and published on the history and culture... Read More