ROAD RACING DRIVERS CLUB
MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES

Classes of membership:

Regular Members  – Racing drivers who have participated successfully in major professional events, i.e. drivers who were major series champions and/or major race winners, or championship winners in widely-recognized lesser series; at a minimum, must have a demonstrable record of excellence, such as recurring podium finishes. 

Associate Members – Racing drivers who have participated successfully in major professional events, but not at the championship level, or who have participated successfully mainly in lesser and/or historic events, or who have significant ties to racing, such as corporate, sponsorship, mentoring, patronage and promotion of the sport generally. 

Honorary Members – Distinguished senior international motorsports champions, team owners and those others who have demonstrated a long commitment in support of racing through active volunteerism and/or officiating.  Honorary Members shall have full Club privileges, including the right to vote, but shall not be required to pay Club dues or assessments.

CURRENT MEMBERS

TONY  ADAMOWICZ     Costa Mesa, CA
Tony A-to-Z has to lead off our RRDC biographies....he began his racing career as a winner in a Volvo 544 at Marlboro, Md. … Before he retired from professional racing, he had notched two class wins in the Rolex 24 At Daytona (1969, ’79); a class win in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1972; a historic class win in the first-ever SCCA Trans-Am Championship series at Sebring in 1966; and the 1969 SCCA F/5000 series championship. His list of career race wins includes the 1966 Marlboro 12-hour Trans-Am, 68-69 season Trans-Am wins at Lime Rock (2), Meadowdale, Bridgehampton, St. Jovite, Watkins Glen and Bryar; F/5000 at Kent and Road America in 1969; and IMSA GTO/GTU class wins at Daytona, Riverside, Road America (2), Mid-Ohio, Brainerd, Sears Point, and Portland … He also won a non-championship 12-hour race in Quito, Ecuador in 1971 in a Ferrari 512 … Tony’s unique personality was enhanced in 1971 when he, Oscar Koveleski and Brad Nemecek formed the Polish Racing Drivers of America and drove a Chevy motor home to a second place overall in the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, finishing only 20 minutes behind winners Dan Gurney and Brock Yates in a Ferrari Daytona.

DENNIS AASE Anaheim, CA

One of America’s premier production car racers. Starting in Porsche 911s, Aase was a winner not only in the Sports Car Club of America’s National Championship arena, but also in the International Motorsports Association’s tough Camel GTU category. In the 1980’s Aase was hired by Dan Gurney’s All American Racers for AAR’s Toyota IMSA GTU and GTO programs, where again he was a consistent winner. Now retired as a driver, Aase remains involved in the sport as a team owner and a consultant.

BILL ADAM     Miami, FL
Started his career in sports cars as a privateer - winning a Canadian championship before being hired professionally by the Group 44 race team in 1980. Co-drove with Bob Tullius in the Triumph TR-8 in the IMSA series and had victories at the Sebring 12 Hour endurance race, Road Atlanta, Mosport, and Road America. Drove the Prototype Jaguar GTP racer to four IMSA victories…Recently Adam has been racing an Audi R8 in the Historic Sports car Racing series, winning the Daytona WSC Enduro race in November 2005. Works as a television broadcaster covering major sports car racing.

WARREN AGOR          Rochester, NY

Warren graduated from Cornell University, was a captain in the US Army, and then worked for Roger Penske's racing team as a mechanic and fluids specialist. He then became a stockbroker, but he absolutely hated it, and left his job very soon.
In 1968 he formed Agor Racing Enterprises and went on to become a top driver in the Trans-Am – finishing fourth in the 1972 Series Championship.

ROBERT AKIN IV Los Angeles, CA

GEORGE ALDEMAN      Hockessin, Del.
Began racing in 1956 with an ex-Formula 3 Cooper-Jap. 1960 National Champion in Formula 3 1964 Runoffs champion in Formula Libre .1971 and 1974 IMSA Baby Grand champion with Datsun 510/AMC Gremlin . Overall winner in 1992 Nelson Ledges 24-Hour with Caterham S-7.

AJ ALLMENDINGER      Huntersville  NC

Driver for Richard Petty’s NASCAR Team.. He was previously one of America’s top open-wheel, road- racing drivers. Began racing in quarter-midgets… moved up to karts and twice won the IKF Championship. Won the Barber-Dodge Pro Championship…moved up to the Toyota Atlantic Series and won that championship – scoring seven victories in twelve races. Became a top Champ Car driver scoring many wins before going NASCAR racing.

BILL ALSUP     Durango, Colo.
Veteran open-wheel racer who won dual 1978 championships with the SCCA VW Golf Cup for Super Vees, and the USAC Mini-Indy series for the same cars , Switched to CART in 1979-84, finished second in the 1991 PPG Championship and 11th at Indianapolis 500 . Returned to road racing in 1985 and won the IMSA Camel Lights class at Watkins Glen and Laguna Seca.

ROBERT AMES    Portland, OR

DAVID AMMEN     Cotuit, Mass.
Started racing in 1962 with Fiat Abarth Zagato. Raced in Runoffs for 20 years . Raced Porsches and Camaros in IMSA Endurance series . Member of SCCA Board of Governors for eight years, and President of Road Racing Drivers Club for six years.

MARIO ANDRETTI    Nazareth, PA
Mario is perhaps the greatest American driver in the history of the sport. He is one of only two drivers to win races in Formula One, IndyCar, World Sports Car Championship, and NASCAR  He also won races in midget cars, sprint cars, and drag racing…During his career, Andretti won the Indy-500,four IndyCar titles, the 1978 Formula One World Championship, and IROC VI. To date, he remains the only driver ever to win the Indianapolis 500 (1969), Daytona 500 (1967) and the Formula One World Championship, and, only one of two drivers to have won a race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Formula One, and an Indianapolis 500. He was the only person to be named United States Driver of the Year in three decades (1967, 1978, and 1984).He was also one of only three drivers to win races on road courses, paved ovals, and dirt tracks in one season, a feat that he accomplished four times.

JOHN ANDRETTI    Mooresville, N.C
Only RRDC member who successfully made the leap from a solid road racing background to NASCAR wins, stopping along the way to excel in both CART and NHRA drag racing. Picked up his first Nextel Cup win at Daytona’s Pepsi 400 in 1997, then added a 1999 Martinsville win. Began racing go karts at age 11 . USAC Midget Rookie of the Year in 1983. Tuned his abilities in IMSA road racing with BMW in 1986. Won 3 Firestone Firehawk Endurance Championship races at Watkins Glen, Road America and Riverside, and a Camel GTP race at The Glen . Raced in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1988 with Mario and cousin Michael .Made CART debut in 1987, and Indy 500 debut in 1988 . First CART win came in 1991 in Australia , fifth in 1991 Indy 500 . Turned to 300mph Top Fuel drag racing in 1993 and reached semifinals in his first try. Joined NASCAR in 1993 with Billy Hagan, then to Michael Kranefuss and Cale Yarborough-owned teams for 1995-97 . Hired by Petty Enterprises in 1998...still a top NASCAR Cup driver.

MARCO ANDRETTI    Nazareth, PA
Top competitor in the 2009 Indy Car Series. Was the Indianapoils-500 “Rookie of the Year” in 2006…also won IRL Series “Rookie of the Year” honors. Scored his first Indy Car win at Sonoma in 2006. Began racing karts winning championships at Oakland Valley Raceway in NY. Moved up to the Barber Dodge Series in 2003 – winning the Series National Championship a year later. Finished fifth in the Star Mazda Series…also entered six Indy Lights races – winning three.

MICHAEL ANDRETTI    Nazareth, PA
Rolled up 42 wins in his Indy Car career. Won the CART Series Championship in 1991.Dogged by bad luck in the Indy-500, his best finishes were second and third despite leading perhaps the most laps of any driver of his era.  Finished third at LeMans in 1983 co-driving with Father Mario. Took a brief fling at F1 in 1993 driving as Ayrton Senna’s teammate at McLaren – his best finish was a third at Monza. Began racing Formula Fords, moved up to Super Vee and won the Series Championship. He followed that with the Formula Atlantic Championship a year later. Now retired from driving, he is CEO of the Andretti Autosport Indy Car team.

GASTON ANDREY     Millis, MA

JOE  AQUILANTE     Chester Springs, PA
Joe has spent many an hour behind the wheel since 1978, but his outside-of-racing business acumen is what made him successful, as the owner of the Phoenix Motorsports fleets of Camaros, Firebirds, Subarus and Corvettes in 20 years of IMSA Endurance and SCCA Club Racing programs  Personally, Joe has been an SCCA Northeast Division champion three times and been to the Runoffs 12 times... at Pocono alone, he's won 50 races sine 1980 in 10 different cars ranging from a Chevy Monza to a C5 Corvette ... His Subaru program in Grand-Am KONI Challenge racing debuted in 2006, with RRDC members Chuck Hemmingson and Kris Skavnes winning twice.

BOBBY ARCHER     Roanoke, Tex.
Made his mark in racing cars based on production models, starting with seven Ice Racing championships 1972 and 1987 in Renaults and Chevy Spectrums . Won a Runoffs National Championship in 1980 with a Renault LeCar in the GT 4 class . Turned to Corvettes to win the SCCA Escort Endurance Championship GT category in 1986-87 . World Challenge series Class A titlist in 1989 and 1990 with an Eagle Talon, then 1998 with a Dodge Viper. Two-time winner (1989-90) at the Longest Day 24-hour race in a Corvette.

TOMMY ARCHER   Duluth, MN
Tommy was the 1992 Trans-Am Rookie of the Year and the 2004 Speed GT Drivers’ Champion. Began racing in 1970 in Autocross. Qualified on the pole in 1975 for the SCCA Runoffs. Won seven of sixteen races in the 1984 IMSA Champion Spark Plug Series to claim the championship. Racing with brother Bobby, he won eleven SCCA World Challenge Drivers’ and Manufacturers’ Championships in the 1990’s. Raced for the Dodge Viper factory team in the ALMS scoring two GTS victories. Enjoys nachos and listening to rock music

DAVE ARNOLD Big Flats, NY
In 1965, at his first daily newspaper job in Dover, Ohio, Dave wrote a weekly column on auto racing. He was soon lured by the Dover newspaper's sister paper in Mansfield, Ohio where his managing editor wanted expanded coverage of Mid-Ohio's races. He left the newspaper in 1970 to accept the Public Relations position at Mid-Ohio, where he stayed until he was hired by Firestone Racing in 1984 to handle the media relations for the new Firestone Firehawk Endurance Championship. He followed that series and its successors until the end of Street Stock racing in 2000. He has covered almost 500 races in his career, including more than 25 working trips to the SCCA Runoffs between 1969-2007.

BILL AUBERLEN

Bill has been one the most successful sports car drivers in recent years. He joined with BMW Team PTG in 1996 after a very successful privateer effort. In 1997… won the IMSA GT3 championship, driving a BMW M3. He was the Grand-Am GT Series champion in 2002 and 2004. Scored back-to-back Driver's Championships in 2003 and 2004 in the SPEED World Challenge Touring Car series. Currently drives a BMW M3 in the American Le Mans Series GT2 class for Rahal Letterman Racing. His career started in the 1970s in motocross, moved to IMSA GTU in 1987. - stayed there until 1997, his last year resulting in him winning the championship. During his time in the IMSA Series he had also become the 1996 Peruvian Formula Three champion. Won the 1999 World Sportscar Championship and the American Le Mans Series (1999-2003), driving a BMW V12 LMR in 1999 and 2000. During the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta in 2000, his BMW did a spectacular back flip!  Auberlen won both the 2003 and 2004 Speed World Challenge Touring Car Championship.

TOM BAGLEY     Shorewood, Ill.
Tom didn’t run his first race until age 31 – a 1971 IMSA Pro Formula Ford Race, which he ran on a provisional license from Bill Scott’s Racing School and finished 18th of 56 entries ... a new career accelerated quickly for Tom: his fifth race saw him finish seventh at the 1972 Sebring Pro VW Gold Cup race for Super Vees …the next steps were progressive – 3rd in the 1974 SCCA Gold Cup, second the following year and Gold Cup or USAC Mini-Indy series Champion in 1976-77 … The series is now gone but Tom holds the record for the most wins with 16 in 53 starts … Tom competed in three full seasons of Indy Car Racing (1978 – 1980), earning series Rookie of the Year honors in 1978, finishing 11th or better in points all three seasons, and with a best Indy 500 finish of 9th in 1979 ... He also raced and won races in SCCA TransAm, Formula Atlantic, IMSA Firestone Firehawk and Dodge Neons. Tom still holds the record for the most Pro F/SV wins - 16 out of 53 races ... Tom still does a lot of driving as track manager and head instructor at the Autobahn Country Club in Joliet, Ill ... He has been an RRDC member since 1976.

ROGER BAILEY    Indianapolis, IN

Roger is one of the sport's most respected and experienced officials...He is currently serving as the Executive Director of the Firestone Indy Lights Series.

CARSON BAIRD    State College, PA

FRED BAKER     Aurora, Ohio
Racing for over 30 years. Won his first of four SCCA Runoffs championship in 1980 with a Jaguar E-type. British native but American citizen who, in 1981, became the first American to win the Jaguar Driver of the Year award ... Won four SSCA Runoffs championships -- 1980 with C Production Jaguar XK-E, 1986 and 1987 with Showroom Stock GT Porsche 944 Turbo, and 2000 T-1 class in a Porsche 911 ... Won The Longest Day 24-hour race in 1980-83-84, and a six-hour IMSA Camel GTU race in 1974.

JACK BALDWIN    Braselton, GA
Arrived upon the road racing scene by winning the SCCA National Formula Ford Championship. Won back-to back IMSA GTU Championships in 1984-85. Was Trans-Am Rookie of the Year in 1990..won the Series Championship in 1992. Earned back-to-back invitations to the International Race of Champions in 1993-94. – his best finish a second at Talladega….Also raced successfully in the Rolex Series and the NASCAR Busch Series

JOHN "Skip" BARBER       Sharon, CT
Skip won back-to-back SCCA Formula Ford National Championships in 1969 and 1970…also won the SCCA National Formula B Championship in 1970. A winner in the North American F-B  Pro Series. Competed in several European Formula One races in a March – scoring an impressive 6th place in a non-points race at Hockenheim. Top competitor on professional F-B racing. Set a Formula-5000 qualifying record at Road America. Founder of the world-renowned  Skip Barber Racing School which has produced many of the USA's top racing talents. Former RRDC President.

JERRY BARKER    Torrance, CA

DAMON BARNETT II Palm Springs, CA

CHARLES BARNES    Dallas, Tex.
Began racing in 1959 with Alfa Romeo. 1964 Runoffs champion in G Modified. 29 race wins between 1966-68 in factory Ford Cortina. Raced SCCA Speed World Challenge GT in 2000-2001 with Corvette Z06 and Dodge Viper. Now active in Vintage racing.

AL BEASLEY    Willoughby, OH

DEREK BELL     Boca Raton, Fla.
Began racing in 1964 with a Lotus 7 and four years later debuted in Formula One for Ferrari at Italian G.P. Best finish of sixth in 1970 Watkins Glen race. Nine F-1 starts for Ferrari, McLaren, Brabham, Techno and Surtees. One of the world’s greatest endurance drivers, notably for Porsche, with 1985-86 championships in World Sports Car series. An incredible five wins (1975, ‘81, ‘82, ‘86, ‘87) in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, three wins in Rolex 24 at Daytona (1986, ’87, ’89), 18 career wins in IMSA GTX and GTP cars, one win each in F-2 and European F-5000, 22 wins in World Sports Cars, including Spa, Buenos Aires, Kyalami, Nurburgring, Brands Hatch, Monza, Fuji and many others. Also a long list of race wins in European 2-liter sports cars, Interserie, and Formula 3 . In 1985 was awarded the MBE by HM Queen Elizabeth for his service to the sport of racing. His eldest son, Justin, now runs a driving school in Florida.

DON BELL    Woodside, CA
As both a driver and now, through his business interests, as a team sponsor, Don has remained at the top of his game for many years. Starting as a successful Porsche racer in SCCA Club Racing events during the 1970s, he graduated to the IMSA Camel GT series in 1981 and to the IMSA GTP series with a Buick Argo in 1984. He won the 1986 Miami GP Camel Lights race, then switched to a Pontiac-Spice for 1987 and became the series runner up champion, winning six of 16 races and finishing second twice. Camel Lights wins include the Rolex 24 At Daytona, Road Atlanta, Mid-Ohio, Riverside, Laguna Seca and San Antonio, helping Pontiac earn the class Manufacturer Championship in 1987, and earning the GTP/Lights Most Improved Driver honor. He is currently staying active by racing in Europe in the Orwell SuperSportsCup Series with a vintage Lola T-163 Can-Am car, and also has recently raced a Porsche GT3 Cup entry in the ALMS GT3 Cup Series. His business, Bell Microproducts, currently sponsors a GT2 Porsche team in the ALMS as well as entries in the ChampCar Series.

TOWNSEND BELL    Beverly Hills, CA
Townsend finished fourth in the 2009 Indianapolis-500. He was the 2002 Indy Lights Champion…also raced in Europe in the FIA F-3000 Series and did some testing with the BAR Honda and Jaguar F-1 teams. Began racing karts and then moved up to the Skip Barber Series. In addition to actively racing, he runs a company that provides marketing and sponsorship consulting

JOHN BISHOP  Ocala, FL

The most-respected leader in the history of road racing in America - headed both SCCA and IMSA. Saw his first race at Watkins Glen in 1950 while a student of Industrial Design at Syracuse University . Began to illustrate race cars and sold them through the R. Gordon book store in New York City. Worked as a designer for Martin Aircraft. Hired by SCCA in 1956 to run its Contest Board and conceived and implemented classifying race cars by their potential, not just by their displacement. Became Executive Director of SCCA in 1962 and focused on burgeoning professional racing interest. First created the U. S. Road Racing Championship series, followed by Can-Am, Trans-Am and Formula 5000 series. Meanwhile, revamped SCCA’s Club Racing program to determine a National Champion in every class, an effort which resulted in the existence of the Runoffs. Created the International Motor Sports Association, drew up rules for a GT category and signed R. J. Reynolds as the sponsor for the new Camel GT.  Sold IMSA in 1989, retiring to an aviation ranch community where he has built an aerobatic biplane which he flies regularly, plus flying two other planes. Remains active in road racing as a director of ACCUS FIA, a commissioner of NASCAR, and a commissioner of the Grand-American Road Racing Association. Also a founder and chairman of the International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen.

WALT BOHREN     St Thomas, USVI
Walt spent five years racing motorcycles, starting in 1968, before switching to four wheels with a Formula Ford … racing a series of awesome Mazda RX-3s, he was the Most Improved Driver in 1977’s IMSA Champion Spark Plug Challenge series and became the series champion the following year … in 1980 he moved up to a Mazda RX-7 and won IMSA’s Camel GTU class Driver’s Championship … between the two classes, he was a 24-race winner.

LOGAN BLACKBURN    Indianapolis, IN

BOB BONDURANT Phoenix, AZ
Began racing on an Indian motorcycle. Moved up to a Morgan Plus 4 and then a Corvette. Got his big break when Carroll Shelby asked him to drive one of his Cobras…Bob responded with a class win in his first race. Won the 1964 LeMans GT  class co-driving with Dan Gurney. In 1965 he co-drove a Daytona Coupe to victories at Sebring, Monza, the Nurburgring, and Rheims. Also raced F3 and F2 along with USRRC sports cars. Founder of the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving. Technical advisor to the movie “Grand Prix”.

ROBERT E. BOIG    Stoughton, MA

JOHN BORNHOLDT    Mount Holly, NJ

DAVID BRABHAM    Australia
David Brabham, one of Australia's most successful racing drivers, has competed across the highest echelons of worldwide motorsport. His illustrious career stretches from karting through single-seaters to F1 while latterly he has become renowned as one of the world's leading sportscar racers.Outright victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours and capturing the American Le Mans Series title sealed two of the 44 year-old's career ambitions in 2009, continuing his own powerful legacy fitting of the Brabham name...The youngest son of three-times F1 World Champion, Sir Jack Brabham, David first got behind the wheel at the tender age of eight, driving an EH Holden on the family farm at Wagga Wagga in Australia. He began his racing career in 1983 in karts, before progressing to Formula Ford single-seaters in 1986. He moved up again, to Formula 2 the following year, winning the Australian Gold Star title in 1987.

JACK BRABHAM    Australia

Sir Jack Brabham is the first driver in history to be knighted for his services to motorsport…the triple world champion is the only Formula One driver to have won a world title in a car of his own construction – the BT19 – which he drove to victory in 1966. The following year the Brabham team won its second successive world championship when New Zealander Denny Hulme drove the BT20 to victory.
Brabham established himself in Australian oval racing before switching to road racing in the early 1950’s. His driving style matured dramatically at this time and, in 1955, he moved from Australia to Europe to drive for Charles and John Cooper. That partnership resulted in Brabham's first two championship titles in 1959 and 1960. It was also in a Cooper that Sir Jack shook the establishment at Indianapolis, qualifying the first modern mid-engined car at the 500 and finishing ninth.

ROSS BREMHER     Atlantic Beach, FL
Ross was an outstanding small sedan driver, starting in 1962, winning the1964 – 67 SCCA Regional championshps in C Sedan, then placed third in the U-2 Touring class of the 1967 Rolex 24 At Daytona … he than refocused his activities on sailing for a couple decades before returning to Vintage racing in 1993 … Among his long list of honors are an SVRA Bob Fergus “Big Fun” award, the Lime Rock Dodge Vintage Festival, an Amelia Concours d’Elegance award, SVRA Spirit of Vintage Racing, Amateur Mechanic of the Year and Driver of the Year titles, and a show title in a Porsche Club of America concours judging.

PETER BROCK     Redmond, Wash.
After graduating from the Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, Peter was hired by General Motors VP of Styling Bill Mitchell where he did design work on both the 1957 Stingray Racer and the 1963 Stingray street Corvette … after leaving GM he dabbled in racing from the cockpit angle, with a G-Modified Cooper Climax and a Lotus 11, and in 1968 may have scored the only significant race win for the Hino Contessa at the Mission Bell 100 on Riverside Raceway … in the meantime, Peter had become Carroll Shelby’s first employee where his most significant contribution to automotive designed was the famed Cobra Daytona Coupe, which won the 1965 World Championship GT class … after leaving Shelby Automotive, he became the man responsible for bringing Datsun, a novice Japanese importer, into the American sports car racing scene with the Brock Racing Enterprises (BRE) Datsun 240Z for John Morton, then the Datsun 510 coupes in the Trans-Am Under 2.5 Liter class … the 240Z effort netted two SCCA National Championships and the 510 sedan scored Datsun’s first American championships in professional racing … In the current era, Peter is equally well-known for his highly-technical Motorsports writing and photography; his bylines have appeared in dozens of publications ranging from Car & Driver to the Wall Street Journal.

JOHN BUFFUM     Burlington, VT
North America’s all-time most successful Pro Rally driver -  Winner of  Eleven SCCA Pro Rally Championships and Ten SCCA/CASC North American Cup Championships. The only American to win a European Championship Rally – the 1984 Cyprus Rallye. Surprised the European establishment by scoring a 12th place finish in the famed Monte Carlo Rallye while stationed in Germany as a US Army officer in 1969. Earned the nickname “Stuffum Buffum” from his hard-charging driving style which occasionally resulted in a crashed vehicle. Pikes Peak winner and accomplished road racer. Competed in the 1974 IMSA GT series in a BMW 3.0 CSL

DOC BUNDY     Gainsville, GA
Doc's involvement with road racing began in 1973 as a wheel polisher for famous Porsche racer Peter Gregg. Bundy worked his way into driving and ultimately won the SCCA National Championship in a D production Porsche. He has raced and won in SCCA TransAm competition, in GTP driving the well-known group 44 Jaguar, in GTO with a Roush Mustang, GTP Corvette, Showroom Stock, and has won Road Atlanta and Miami in a Lotus X180R. In 1992, Bundy was crowned Bridgestone Supercar Champion.

JIM BUSBY     Laguna Beach, CA
Scored nine IMSA Camel GT series wins in 1976, 78, 79 and 80. Group 5 winner at 1978 Le Mans 24-Hour, and repeated in 1982 and 1984.

JOE BUZZETTA    St James, NY

LARRY CAMPBELL     Loudon, Tenn.
Successful SCCA Club racer who turned semi-pro. Started racing in 1970 with an Austin Healey Sprite and one year later was the Runoffs National Champion in F Production. Became the first winner of the RRDC’s Mark Donohue Award that year. Won the Sports 2000 National Championship a decade later. Four-time CenDiv champion in F/P and twice more in S2000. Raced a Ford Pinto in the IMSA Goodrich Radial Challenge between 1974-77 with several top 5 finishes.

RANDY CANFIELD     Gaithersburg, Md.
Idol of the small-engine SCCA Production car racers in his Bugeye Sprites. Won the Runoffs H Production National Championship 5 times, 1969, 1971-72, 1985 and 1990 with 14 runner-up or third place finishes in non-title years. 30-time H/P NeDiv titlist between 1967-2002, the last at age 72. Began racing in 1961 with a Sprite, and won the FIA Group 4 class in the 1968 12 Hours of Sebring in a factory MG Midget.

CRAIG CARTER        Markle, IN

HOWARD CHERRY     Fairfield, Conn.
With John Higgins and Charles Monk as his co-drivers, in 1987, Howard shared a IMSA Camel GTP Lights win in the 12 Hours of Sebring race, one of the crown jewels of American road racing … He started that season with a second place in the Daytona 24-Hour, and followed it with another win, this time at West Palm Beach, all in a Porsche-powered Fabcar chassis … Howard started racing in 1981 in the SCCA Club Racing ranks with a Crossle 32F in Formula Ford, won seven SCCA Nationals in Formula Atlantic in 1983-84, and was the Central Division’s Driver of the Year.

FRED CLARK     Jacksonville, FL
Crewman-driver-car owner-car builder-race promoter and SCCA official -- Fred is one of the original 3000 members of the Sports Car Club of America … His tenure as a driver began with a street Corvette for autocross purposes, which got him interested in the organizational side of racing … to give back to racing, Fred chaired many SCCA race events, been a SCCA Regional Executive and is co-chairman of the 45th anniversary of Formula Vees … While racing Formula Vees, he also formed an crewman/co-driver alliance with Porsche dealer George Drolsom … Fred bought the Lynx / Caracal car company, resulting in 12 SCCA Runoffs titles for the company between 1971 and 1997 … He continues to stay active with SCCA activities in the Southeast, as well as vintage race promotion.

HARLEY CLUXTON III    Scottsdale, AZ
Motorcycle and automobile race car driver turned Ferrari dealer and race team owner. After retiring from racing competition he turned to collecting some of the rarest racing and historically significant automobiles.

PRICE COBB

Few race car drivers are as well-rounded as Price Cobb. He burst upon the road racing scene as one of the “young lions” in the golden era of Formula Atlantic – battling wheel-to-wheel against the likes of Bobby Rahal, Keke Rosberg, Tom Gloy and Elliott Forbes-Robinson. He went on to achieve great success racing sports cars – taking the overall victory in the 1990 24 Hours of LeMans behind the wheel of a Silk Cut Jaguar. He is also world’s winningst Porsche Cup Champion.

NICHOLIS COLLELO     East Troy, WI
After nine years of go kart racing, starting when Nicholas was 11 years old, he began a successful tenure in SCCA Club Racing and pro series, starting with the 2003 Mazdaspeed Miata Cup championship in 2003, dominant runs in Formula Continental to win the Runoffs in 2005-06-08  … his third such feat was enough to justify the SCCA’s highest honor, the President’s Cup. In 2009 he introduced the Firman FB car into SCCA racing, winning the ARRC in November 2009.

CHRIS CORD    Ketchum, ID
Chris is a race car driver and grandson of Errett Lobban Cord, the founder of the Cord Corporation which also ran Cord Automobile. In 1987, Chris won the IMSA Camel GT Driver's Championship…was invited to the International Race of Champions in 1988. During this time his best finish was sixth place, at Watkins Glen International.


DON COURTNEY     Weston, Fla.
1981 winner of RRDC Mark Donohue Award. 1978 winner of SCCA President’s Cup. Began racing in 1973 at age 43 with Formula Vee. 1978 and 1981 Runoffs champion in F/Vee. Long-time IMSA Camel GTO, GTP and Lights driver. Active in SCCA Florida Region as race official.

DAVE COWART     Tampa, FL
One of IMSA’s most-successful GT category racers in the late 1970s and early 80s, Dave was the Camel GTO series titlist and Most Improved Driver in 1978 with his Porsche RSR, then switched to the radical Red Lobster-sponsored BMW M1 in1981 where he became a repeat champion. One of many RRDC members with humble starts in SCCA Club Racing before turning semi-pro, Dave began racing in 1969 with a then-10-year old Fiat Abarth Double Bubble

NICK CRAW     Littleton, CO
Started racing in 1967 with a Formula B Brabham BT-21 and won the 1969 DC Region’s Norair Trophy .. 3rd in 1971 Formula Atlantic series ... Two-time (1973-75) IMSA Goodrich Radial Challenge champion in BMWs ... 1993 American Road Race of Champions winner in ITS class, and two-time (1994-96) winner of Nelson Ledges 24-Hour race. Former director of Hospital Ship Hope. Found out on a Mid-Ohio race weekend he had been named to head the Peace Corps. CEO of the SCCA for 17 years, longer than any other person ... Named President of ACCUS in late 2004. Elected President of the FIA Senate in October 2009.

ROBERT CRISS    Bethel Park, PA

PETER CUNNINGHAM     West Bend, Wis.
It is almost a flip of the coin to decide whether Peter Cunningham should be more respected for his personal ability as a championship driver, or for the legacy team he created 15 years ago with RealTime Racing as first Honda’s, and now Acura’s factory team in the SCCA SPEED World Challenge Touring Car championship … As a driver, through March of 2008, Peter had won 79 sports car races in eight different professional series, a record unmatched by anybody in North American sports car racing history, as well as seven Drivers’ Championships in SCCA Pro Racing series, and five more in everything from ice racing to SCCA Pro Rally … As a team owner, he heads an effort which has won 65 individual events (by eight of his drivers) in 15 years of World Challenge racing, 10 Drivers’ Championships, 15 second or third places in season-long drivers’ points, and most important in the bigger picture, 10 Manufacturers’ Championships for the Honda and Acura brands, which may explain the length of their relationship.

JEREMY DALE   Fort Collins, CO

Jeremy began his driving career at the age of 16 in the Canadian amateur and vintage car ranks. His first race car was a 1955 Cooper Formula 3 powered by a Triumph motorcycle engine. He later owned, prepared and raced a 1969 Lotus 69 Formula Ford., and then went on to race successfully in the Skip Barber Series. He was a factory driver for Dodge in the IMSA Firehawk Series in 1988-89 and accrued multiple wins behind the wheel of a Dodge Daytona and Eagle Talon, culminating in a Firehawk Series Championship in 1989.  He raced a factory Nissan  300ZX from 1990 through 1992, scoring multiple wins. In 1991, Jeremy and his teammate were drafted into Nissan’s GTP program for the 1991 Daytona 24-hour, sharing a Nissan Group C car with Arie Luyendyk and Julian Bailey. The car was leading during the 20th hour when it suffered a right rear tire blowout at 215 mph, forcing its retirement from the race. In 1994, he was the lead driver for the Brix Racing / Oldsmobile IMSA World Sports Car (WSC) team, winning his class at the Daytona 24-Hour as well as overall wins in Portland and Phoenix.

MIKE DALE   Remmington, VA

DEREK DALY    Noblesville, Ind.
As a racer, Derek parlayed the 1975-76 Formula Ford championships into the ignoble life of living in a school bus for a year … The year after that, 1977, he was the British F-3 champion and in that era, the title landed him a Formula One drive … he made 49 starts in F-1 and six in the Indy 500 … in sports car racing, he was a two-time winner in the 12 Hours of Sebring … Derek’s largest presence in racing has happened since he retired, and because he was such a good driver … He’s been a racing-on-TV commentator for ESPN, Fox, Speed, NBC, etc., and has been amply awarded for the quality of his efforts in explaining this complicated business to the proletariat … In 1996 he opened the Derek Daly Performance Driving Academy at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, an effort which earned it “best of” awards from both Motor Trend and Automobile magazines … His MotorVation company merged racing’s necessities with those of the business world to improve one’s performance in the latter .. He’s also written a book on racing and been the force behind a video game.

TOM DAVEY     Piermont, NY
Tom is a five-time SCCA National Champion - winning twice in open-wheel cars and three times in GT machines … also finished second in Formula Ford and third in S-2000 at the SCCA runoffs … Tom won the North American Pro Formula Ford Championship, was runner-up in the World Super Vee Championship, finished third in the Pro Super Vee Championship Series, and third in the World Formula Vee Championship ... An occasional endurance driver, he scored GT class victories at Sebring and Watkins Glen and participated three times in the Baja 1000 … A writer and filmmaker by profession, Tom used his racing experience to create some 200 motorsports TV programs - including the ESPN "Secrets of Speed" series and Fox Sports international weekly motorsports program "V-Max" … He currently owns the ex-John Watson Tui F2 car and a KGB shifter kart.

DUANE DAVIS    Camas, WA

DUNCAN DAYTON     Danbury, Conn.
Many drivers finish their careers in Vintage and Historic cars, but Duncan started his there in 1993, and now owns the succesful Highcroft Racing race car preparation business … His five proudest wins are in the Monaco Historic GP races (1997-2000-02-04-05) which annually run prior to the Grand Prix of Monaco … As a professional racer in the American le Mans Series he shared 2002 season race wins in the LMP675 class at Sebring and the Petit Le Mans, and added three more in 2003 at Road Atlanta, Trois-Rivieres and a Petit Le Mans repeat. As a team owner, his Patron Highcroft Acura Team won the 2009 ALMS Championship.

SHERMAN DECKER    Lanesville, IN

DR. TOM DEHN    El Dorado Hills, CA
Tom is an Honorary RRDC member who has served the sport in ways other than driving race cars … As a physician who has brought his talents to race tracks across the Midwest, he began going to races in 1968 in that capacity … Served as Medical Director, then Chief of that group, for the Milwaukee Mile between 1968 and 1995 … also served in the same capacity at Road America, and for the Chicago region SCCA between 1968 and 2000 … in 1996 the SCCA honored Tom with its Outstanding Physician of the year award … Road America added to his awards with their Governor’s Cup in 2003.

JIM DENTICI     Oconomowoc, WI
Began racing in the mid-50s early days of Quarter-Midgets and go karts. Moved to sports cars in 1981 with great success. 1981 Runoffs champion in GT-4, followed by 1989 and 1993 titles in GT-3and GTL in 2009. 1998 winner of the Wisconsin Governor’s Cup for outstanding contribution to road racing. 1998 FIA European Champion for Historic Touring Cars.

DON DEVENDORF   Los Angeles, CA

Long time top Nissan driver and team owner. Won the IMSA GTU Championship in 1979 - scoring nine wins in thirteen races. Captured the IMSA GTO Championship in 1982. Before that he was a leading SCCA racer - winning three C Sedan National Championships.

ED DIEHL    Largo, Fla.
Ed started racing in 1960 at Marlboro, Md., in a Triumph TR-3 … Two years later he and Bob Tullius campaigned a unique (for Bob) black-painted Triumph … The following year he raced a factory TR4 in the 12 Hours of Sebring, with Charlie Gates and Robert Cole, finishing second in the GT 11 class … The variety of cars Ed has raced over the years includes a Holman-Moody Ford in a 12-hour sedan race at Marlboro, Md., a Saab Sedan Champ, and a G Modified Lola Mk 1 … Competed in the first-ever Trans-Am race at Sebring in 1966 and finished fourth in his class with a Saab, co-driven by Sam Perry … Also once drove one of the rare Corvette Grand Sport cars … Winner of SCCA Regional and local club championships in a Triumph Spitfire from 1989 to 2000 …. Currently drives a Mazda RX-7 and instructs in SCCA Drivers’ Schools.


CHUCK DIETRICH    Sandusky, Ohio
RRDC Member since 1958. Began racing in 1948 with MG-TC. 3rd in British Empire Trophy Race. Won 10 straight SCCA National races, 9 SCCA CenDiv championships, 1963 SCCA National Champion in G Modified .. 1967 Runoffs champion in Formula B. 1969 GT class winner at 12 Hours of Sebring. 1970 GT class winner at 24 Hours of Daytona .Over 25 wins at Mid-Ohio


JOHN DINKEL     Irvine, Calif.
John is one of the RRDC’s select few Honorary Members, selected not only for his talent as a weekend racer, but for his career spent enhancing auto racing as a journalist for car magazines and for various manufacturers … He was among journalists invited to race in the famed Longest Day 24-hour race at Nelson Ledges, an event which spawned professional Street Stock racing in the U.S., and evolved into today’s SCCA World Challenge and Grand-Am Cup series … He won that race in 1980-83-86-88 in Saab, Fiat, Porsche and Datsun entries … He also raced in the Longest Day’s professional successor, the SCCA Escort Endurance series, driving a Corvette … He now owns John Dinkel & Associates.

FRANK DOMINIANNI   Little Falls, NJ


DAVID DONOHUE    West Chester, Pa.
Following success in Porsche Club of America events, where he was also an instructor, David’s first professional race was the 1993 IMSA Firestone Firehawk Endurance Championship event at Mid-Ohio … the following season, he raced a BMW M5 for Ed Arnold in the IMSA Bridgestone Supercar Championship, then won the 1997 CART Super Touring series in a BMW … He joined the factory Dodge Viper team in 1998, winning the GT-2 class at Le Mans … he scored several American Le Mans Series class wins in the Viper during the 1999 season … He also spent many a race weekend competing in the NASCAR Craftsman Trucks and Busch Grand National series before joining forces with Bob Snodgrass to race one of the Brumos Porsche Fabcars in the Rolex Sports Car Series where he won 2003 races at Fontana, Watkins Glen and Le Circuit St. Jovite, and the 2009 Rolex 24 At Daytona … The RRDC’s top award for a driver at the SCCA Runoffs is named for his father, Mark.


JIM DOWNING     Atlanta, Ga.
One of the most successful racers in International Motor Sports Assn. History with 40 race wins and six season championships, all in Mazda-based cars with Rotary engines built by the Downing/Atlanta team. Began his IMSA career in 1974 with a Mazd. Won the 1981 Drivers Championship in the International Sedan series. His team built the Mazda RX7 which won 23 races and five Camel GTU championships between 1982 for himself, then two more for Jack Baldwin and Tom Kendall. Switched to two-rotor Mazda Argo and won three consecutive Camel Lights driving titles (1985-86-87) plus the 1989 Kodak Endurance trophy for completing the most miles of any Camel GT series competitor. Built his first Mazda Kudzu World Sports Car in 1993. Mazda-engine reliability led him to multiple wins in IMSA’s two most prestigious races, the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring. Along with brother-in-law Dr. Robert Hubbard’s development talent, led the manufacturing and distribution of the Head and Neck Restraint System (HANS) which has revolutionized racing safety.


GEORGE DROLSOM     Jacksonville, Fla.
Starting in 1956, George was one of the first people to race the then-new Ford Thunderbird in Club racing, going against the Corvettes in the B Production class … he won the GTU class at the 1965 Bridgehampton USRRC race during his long tenure in USRRC and Can-Am events … it was IMSA’s Camel GT series where George and his Porsche 911s were truly prominent with 93 race starts, competing 13 times in the 1966-83 Rolex 24 At Daytona, and many times in the 12 Hours of Sebring … in 1967 he had class wins in both the Sebring and Nassau events, and won the 1975 Porsche Cup for under 2.5 liter cars .. he is also one of the founders of the Amelia Island Classic car show … he grew up on a farm near Sandwich, Ill., and developed a knack for being able to repair all things mechanical … while in college, given a choice of washing dishes in a sorority house or becoming a part-time employe of a Porsche dealership, he picked the latter …He later became a Porsche salesman to dealers over a 12-state area, then moved to Florida to cover the Southeast U.S. for Porsche and later became the first non-German employed by the Porsche factory.

KEN DUCLOS    Stowe, VT

RALPH DURBIN   Colorra, MI


ROB DYSON     Millbrook, N.Y.
One of America’s top sportsman drivers since the 1980s, his Dyson Racing cars have won many races and championships. Began racing in 1974 in SCCA Club Racing with a B Sedan Datsun 510. Became an SCCA Runoffs champion in 1981 in the GT-2 class. Winner of the IMSA Camel GT L. A. Times Grand Prix in 1986 and named IMSA’s Most Improved Driver that year. Shared the winning car in the 1997 Rolex 24 at Daytona.

BOB EARL    Novato, CA
Bob started racing in 1972 and quickly established himself as one of the most competitive drivers in North America - as well as a top test driver and driving coach. His career highlights include: SCCA Formula Ford National Champion, 24 career victories in the International Motor Sports Associations Camel GT Series, two victories in the 24 Hours of Daytona, one victory and three second places in the 12 Hours of Sebring, along with the Macau Grand Prix Championship

STEVE EARLE    Buellton, CA
Took up racing in 1977 with a Porsche in IMSA Camel GT events. Drove with late RRDC member Bob Akin in 1978 at Daytona, Sebring and Talladega. Scored his first podium finish in 1978 in Rolex 24 at Daytona in the GTO class. Second on C2 category at 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1985.


TERRY EARWOOD     Deland, Fla.
Only RRDC member who became equally-successful in both professional drag racing and sports car road racing. Began drag racing in 1970 and the following year became the NHRA’s Southeast Division champion in the Super Stock category. Won a prestigious NHRA U. S. Nationals championship in 1973 (Super Stock class) in a Hemi Plymouth Barracuda .. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1976 in the NHRA’s Southeast Division. Between 1986 and 1994 his 30 wins in the IMSA Firestone Firehawk Endurance Championship and later IMSA Endurance Championship made him the series’ winningest driver. Became the 1996 Touring class champion. Also holds series record for most starts (121), and second in top 10 finishes. Along with brother Steve, owner of the drag strip at Rockingham, N.C., organized the first police pursuit driving schools. Later became an instructor for the Skip Barber Racing School, and is now the Chief Instructor for the school’s programs.


CHARLIE EARWOOD    Punta Gorda, Fla.
Gave up weekends behind the wheel for 40 years in the Tower as Chief Steward for various series/races including 12 Hours of Sebring, 24 Hours of Daytona, SCCA Runoffs, IMSA Firehawk, SCCA Trans-Am, World Challenge, Formula Ford, and HSR. Awarded Craig Hinton Trophy for contributions to Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR). 1981 winner of SCCA’s Woolf Barnato Trophy for outstanding long-term contributions to the sport of road racing .. Operating Steward for RRDC Advanced Drivers Schools at Daytona.


CHRIS ECONOMAKI     Charlotte, N.C
Chris is America’s best-known motor racing journalist and TV broadcaster, the best friend of every up-and-coming driver in every form of motorsports could have, and the man who has seen it all happen. No driver in any series, no publicist, no sanctioning body head will ignore his phone call. His 'voice' is National Speed Sport News, (the only racing paper in the Library of Congress) where he started his career by hawking copies at East Coast tracks while still a teenager. Received his first byline in 1935, earning him a press card which enabled him to see the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup races at Roosevelt Raceway. Became NSSN’s editor around 1950 and is now the Publisher Emeritus.  Joined ABC-TV in 1961. Has called races in over 15 countries, including the famed 1957 Race of Two Worlds at Monza. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., his first race as a fan was in 1929 when he peered through the fences at Ho-Ho-Kus Driving Park in New Jersey, then found a way to get into the races free by lying on the running board of cars as they passed the ticket gate.

ROGER EDMONSON     Daytona Beach, FL
Grand-Am President/CEO Roger Edmonson also had a 25 year career in race series management. He created the Championship Cup Series for motorcycles in 1984, a series which grew to 3,000 riders, the largest road racing motorcyclist group in the U. S. … From 1986 to ’94 he operated the road racing programs for the American Motorcyclist Assn. where he created the SuperSport and Harley-Davidson Twin Sport classes … he was a member of the FIM Road Racing Commission, cycling’s version of the F.I.A. … He was the first employee of the Grand-American Road Racing Assn.

PAUL EDWARDS     Ft Collins, CO

Paul started racing karts at age 12, netting six championships – two Western USA and four California state – in four years with 45 race wins. He is a two-time Team USA Scholarship winner. He was a Red Bull Driver search Finalist and won Pilotte Elf Competition in France. Finished second in the 2007 Rolex GT class and won the 2008 Rolex Series GT class championship scoring a season-high four wins, six podiums and 11 top-10 results


VIC ELFORD     Plantation, Fla.
At the age of 13, Vic’s father took him to see the first post-war British Grand Prix at Silverstone. He decided then and there he would become a race car driver, starting with a Mini-Cooper in 1961 and rallying in a DKW the following year …Five years later, he was doing both for the Porsche factory team … while his countless wins at the Nurburgring, Targa Florio, Daytona and Sebring are the stuff of legends, perhaps his 1968 season best sums up his versatile career: It began with a win in the Monte Carlo Rally, and one week later he was in the winner’s circle for the Rolex 24 At Daytona … One month later he won the 12 Hours of Sebring and in May scored an epic win in the Targa Florio … Two weeks later he’d won the Nurburgring 1000km then was off to his Formula One debut, in an outclassed Cooper T86B which he drove to a stunning fourth place finish in the wet French Grand Prix … His rally driving experience also paid off in 1970 when he drove Jim Hall’s Camaro to a Trans-Am series win at the rainy Watkins Glen race … He was very much the focused racer, but knew what was more important: When a Ferrari crashed in front of his Porsche at Le Mans, he stopped to rescue the driver from the burning car, thus earning him the Chevalier de l’Ordre du Merite by French President Georges Pompidou …He has written three books, including the “Porsche High-Performance Driving Handbook” and his biography,“Reflections on a Golden Era in Motorsports.”


GENE FELTON     Roswell, Ga.
One of IMSA’s all-time champions. Ex-U. S. Marines captain had his first taste of racing on motorcycles (and won a championship) while stationed at Okinawa in 1959. Began road racing in SCCA competition in 1964 with a BMW 700, Now has 46 IMSA wins on his lengthy resume; 25 in Kelly American Challenge series, 11 in Camel GTO, 8 in Champion Spark Plug Challenge, 2 in GT class. Also won the first SCCA Trans-Am he ever entered, and has 2 SCCA Escort Endurance series wins. Career stats include 73 pole qualifying spots with 63 qualifying track records. Has also raced in NASCAR Modifieds and Grand National. Multiple championships in Southeastern Mini-Stock competition on both pavement and dirt. Class pole and 2nd place finish at 1982 24 Hours of Le Mans. Helped develop Chevrolet’s new V-6 engine in 1981. 4 consecutive IMSA Kelly American Challenge championships between 1977-80. 1984 GTO class winner at 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring with Terry Labonte. Suffered severe injuries in a 1984 Trans-Am crash at Riverside but still finished 2nd in season points despite missing 70 days or half the season. Now owns Gene Felton Restorations, restores ex-Winston Cup cars for Vintage racing, where he has 102 race wins and 9 season championships. 1996-2003 President of Historic Stock Car Racing Group. Nominated to International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2003 and 2005; inducted into Georgia Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2005.


JOHN FERGUS     Powell, Ohio
John is Vice President and Treasurer of the Road Racing Driver’s Club ... A winner of both amateur and professional championships, John started his career with three consecutive SCCA Solo II National Championships in 1977-1978-1979 ... Switching his attention to road racing in 1980 resulted in being selected as the SCCA Road Racing Rookie of the Year … John has won the Sports 2000 National Championship at the Runoffs six times (1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008) and holds the track record at every course at which he has competed in the class ... He has enjoyed equal success in the ProSports 2000 Series, winning the championships in 1988, 1989, 1999 and 2000, with twice as many laps led, pole positions and victories than any other driver ...A frequent IMSA racer, John has 13 victories the 1991 GTU Drivers' Championship.


DAVID FINCH    Ann Arbor, Mich.
Five-time SCCA Runoffs Champion, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1995, 2004, all in the GT2 class and all with Porsches ... 1988 winner of Porsche’s Al Holbert Memorial Trophy ... Won the SCCA President’s Cup in 1989 ... RRDC’s Mark Donohue Award winner at the 2001 SCCA Runoffs.


DENNIS FIRESTONE    Yorba Linda, CA
Dennis didn’t start racing in America until he was 27 years old – with Formula Fords – but by 1976 he’d won not only the hotly-contested SCCA Runoffs National Championship, but the coveted Kimberly Cup … A foray into USAC’s version of Super Vees produced a Rookie of the Year title in 1978 and the series Championship a year later, along with seven wins in the two seasons … From there, Denis went to CAART racing and earned the Rookie of the Year trophy for that series in 1981 … his career best finishes were fifth places at Phoenix and Mexico City in 1980 … in all, he had 55 career starts in CART … now retired from racing, he owns a trucking company in suburban Los Angeles.


JOHN FITCH     Lakeville, CT
RRDC memberships are supposed to be for those who have worked to improve our sport by giving back in some way … they can also be for serious accomplishments behind the wheel … either way, John Cooper Fitch is exceedingly qualified … From his first SCCA amateur win at Thompson Speedway in Connecticut in 1949 behind the wheel of a MG-TC to a 1951 win in the Argentine Grand Prix while driving a Cadillac-Allard, the Indianapolis 500 in start 1953, a 1955 production car class win in the deadly Millie Miglia, Flying Mile records on the Daytona beach sands, Sebring, Nassau, Watkins Glen and the rest of them, if John was not a race winner on the rare weekend, at least he was a championship gentleman … Born in Indianapolis with a blue chip genealogy, he drove in the first race at the Lime Rock Park track built practically in his back yard and was the track’s general manager; he served as team manager and engineering consultant, for Chevrolet’s factory Corvette team … after graduating from Lehigh with an engineering degree, he volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Corps – as a combat pilot he flew over North Africa and over Europe where he scored a confirmed Messerschmitt kill … while strafing a German train, he was shot down and spent the final two months of the war in a German prison camp … he is credited with designing five cars with engineering points that lived decades longer than the cars’ badges … with auto safety as his goal, he designed the Fitch Compression Barrier, the Fitch Driver Capsule, and the Fitch Displaceable Guardrail, among other features … today’s sand-filled barrels in highway construction zones are also his invention – the Fitch (or New Jersey) Barrier, inspired by the sand-filled gas cans he used to protect his tent from Axis strafing …He also served as a design consultant for many American road racing courses … his final professional race was the 1966 12 Hours of Sebring in Briggs Cunningham’s Porsche 904.

EMERSON FITTIPALDI     Miami, FL
Twice F1 World Champion – 1972 with Lotus and 1974 with McLaren. In 1976 he set out to build his own Formula One car, but his dream of becoming a successful driver/constructor turned into a nightmare, causing him to retire from F1 in 1980. By 1984 he had regained his passion for the sport and launched a comeback racing Indy Cars… In 1989 he became only the fourth F1 Champion to win the Indy-500. He scored a second Indy win in 1993. He was also the CART Series Champion in 1989. Began racing karts and then Formula Vees in his native Brazil…moved to England where he quickly moved up through the ranks -from Formula Ford to Formula 2 and then made his F1 debut in the 1970 British Grand Prix. Two years later he became the youngest World Champion to date.

ELLIOTT FORBES-ROBINSON        Sherrills Ford NC
In an impressive career that spans five decades, EFR has scored over fifty major victories including the 1997 and 1999 24-Hours-of Daytona. Has competed in Super Vee, Formula Atlantic, F-5000, Can-Am, World Sports Cars, IMSA (GTP, GTO, and GTU), and Rolex Sports Cars. 1992 Trans-Am Champion. Ran 22 NASCAR races finishing in the Top-10 three times. A member of the Motorsports Hall of Fame. Won his first-ever sports car race in 1969  driving a Porsche at Sears Point. The creative force  behind Legends Cars.

JON FOGARTY      Palo Alto, CA
Jon and co-driver Alex Gurney captured the 2007 and 2009 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototype drivers' championships... competed in the Barber Dodge Pro Series from 1996 until 2000, finishing Series runner-up twice....moved to Toyota Atlantic in 2002 and edged Michael Valiante for the series championship. In 2004 he returned to full-time Atlantic competition and won yet another title...drove a Porsche 911 in the GT class of the ALMS. . moved to the Grand-Am series, co-driving with Gurney. The pair combined for a series-record seven wins and 10 poles in 2007 - winning the championship. Won a second title in 2009.

GEORGE FOLLMER      Post Falls, ID
George was one of the most successful road racers of the 1970s. He won the Trans-Am Championship in both 1972 and 1976 and was the 1972 Can-Am champion, substituting for the injured Mark Donohue in Penske Racing's Porsche 917/10. ….Raced in the USRRC Championship Car series and several Indianapolis 500 races. Won the 1969 Indy Car race in 1969 at Phoenix International Raceway. In 1973 ,he moved to Formula One  driving a Shadow and participated in 13 World Championship Grands Prix.  He achieved one podium, and scored a total of five championship points. The following year he competed in the NASCAR Winston Cup series ….Still competes in vintage races, often driving the very same cars that he raced  during his heyday.

DARIO FRANCHITTI    Franklin TN
A native of Scotland, Dario is the 2009 Indy Car Series Champion. Won the Indianapolis 500 in 2007, along with the Indy Car Series Championship... One of just three drivers to win the Indy-500, the Indy Car Championship, the Twelve Hours of Sebring, and the 24-Hours of Daytona (the others are AJ Foyt and Mario Andretti). Has competed in nearly 200 Indy Car races – scoring 23 poles and 23 victories. Raced a partial NASCAR Cup schedule in 2008, but returned  to to Indy Car racing in 2009 to reclaim the championship.



JIM FRANCE     Daytona Beach, FL
The 2005 winner of the RRDC’s prestigious Phil Hill Award, Jim France started his career at the International Speedway Corp’s home track of Daytona International Speedway by parking spectator cars and selling tickets at the gates ... He was elected to the ISC Board of Directors in 1970, named to the NASCAR Board of Directors in 2000, and became ISC’s Chief Executive Officer in 2003 … He is a son of William H. G. France, who founded NASCAR and Daytona International Speedway, seeing both grow into the headliners of American auto racing …His interest is not limited to just stock cars, but to the Grand American Road Racing’s Rolex Sports Car Series as well – specifically, the Daytona Prototype class … RRDC President Bobby Rahal, when presenting the Phil Hill Award, noted it was for France’s “efforts to rejuvenate this famous race with a new class of cars which are fast, affordable and good-looking.”

BRAD FRISSELLE    Aspen, CO
Turned his tenure as a successful SCCA Club racer into an equally-successful, however brief, professional driver. Started with a Datsun 2000 roadster in 1970 and in 1973 won the SCCA’s Kimberly Cup at the RunOffs. Joined IMSA in 1975 with his Datsun 240Z and won the Most Improved Driver award. Won the 1976 Camel GTU title, as a privateer against factory teams, with eight wins in 12 starts. Won 15 races over a five-year span, including an overall win in the 1977 12 Hours of Sebring driving a Porsche RSR, 1978 Talladega six-hour, and the GTU class at Sebring in 1980 his Chevrolet Monza was the only American car in the 1978 24 Hours of Le Mans. Developed the Frisbee Can-Am car. Returned to IMSA in 1980 with a factory Mazda, winning the GTU class at Sebring, then retired from racing at the end of the season. Now guiding son Burt’s growing racing career.

JOHN "Buck" FULP    Sandy Springs, S.C.
Starting with a two liter Ferrari in 1959, he won the Governor’s Cup trophy in the fabled Nassau races, and in 1961 (with Skip Hudson) was the Under 2 Liter winners in the 12 Hours of Sebring, an event where he raced seven times …In his Lola T70-Chevrolet, he won the 1966 Riverside and Watkins Glen USRRC races … He also tried his hand at NASCAR and in 1961 finished seventh at Charlotte.


MICHAEL GALATI    Olmstead Falls, OH
Born in Italy in 1959, Michael’s family moved to America in 1980, where Michael began his sports car racing career by winning his first race, and has shown little sign of backing down since that 1987 day … Starting in SCCA Club Racing, he notched an incredible five SCCA National Championship Runoffs titles in Showroom Stock B and C between 1989 – 1997 … in the professional ranks, he and his co-drivers shared six wins in the IMSA Firestone Firehawk Endurance series between 1993-95 … Michael has been a fixture in the SCCA SPEED World Challenge series since 1991, with 21 race wins and Drivers’ Championship trophies in 1996, ’98, ’99, 01 and ’02, plus the SCCA’s President’s Cup in 1994 … His career’s 100+ race wins at both amateur and professional levels have helped win the all-important Manufacturer Championships for Audi, Mazda, Honda, Acura and Toyota.

TOM GLOY    Incline Village, CO

Tom is a former Formula Atlantic and Trans-Am Champion. He also raced in the 1980 and 1984 CART Champcar seasons, with 6 career starts, including the 1984 Indy-500. Despite competing in only 3 events in 1980, he finished 14th in points, a result of finishing each race in the top ten. In 1979 he won the Formula Atlantic Championship. In 1985, he completed in the IROC series as the representative from  the SCCA - earned by winning the 1984 Trans-Am Championship. From 1997 to 1999 he owned a team in NASCAR's Craftsman Truck Series. Tom was later president of Blair Racing, which fielded a car driven by Alex Barron in the IRL IndyCar Series

MAX GOLDMAN   Harbor Springs, MI

JOHN GORSLINE     Rochester, NY
Race car driver insurance consultant John Gorsline’s company is widely-known for insurance packages geared to the needs of auto racers, since 1994 Gorsline, an Honorary Member of the RRDC, has made a financial investment in the careers of up-and-coming racers through the Human Performance Institute Scholarship, and a Driver Performance Enhancement Program.


JIM  GOUGHARY    Houston, Tex.
It took 10 years after Jim started racing in a Formula Vee Beach to reach true success, and he didn’t stop there … He won a Showroom Stock Divisional title in 1984, then turned semi-pro for a year or so, winning the Road America IMSA Firestone Firehawk race in a Porsche 944 with Tom Bagley … His winning the SCCA Northeast Division championship eight times between 1988-2004 helped earn him the Division’s 1992 Driver of the Year award .. His first SCCA Club Racing Runoffs National Championship came in 1998 in the GT2 class with a Nissan 300ZX, a title which he repeated in 2003 with the first big win for the 350Z model ... with two Runoffs wins, three seconds and three third place finishes make Jim the model of consistency.

GARY GOVE   Bothell, WA


DICK GREER     Delaware, Ohio
A vintage Brabham BT-8 was Dick’s first racing effort in 1982, at age 50. Won SCCA CenDiv championships in 1983 and ’86 .. 1991 IMSA Camel GTO Champion at age 59. Won GTU class at 1993 12 Hours of Sebring and 1991-92-93 GTU winner at 24 Hours of Daytona. 1991 IMSA American Challenge class season champion. Drove 11 races in 2000 SCCA Trans-Am series. 2001 24 Hours of Daytona winner in AGT class at age 69. 143 career IMSA race starts.

JAMES GUBELMANN   Morristown, NJ
James started road racing in 1963 with a two-engined go kart (!!), but switched to two wheels in 1970 for AMA moto-cross racing … he turned to AMA road racing in the early 1990s and finished third in the 1991-92 750cc. sportsman and grand prix classes … between 2000 and 2008, he raced four times in the Pan American Road Rally, winning the Historic Class C in 2000 and placing second or third in that class the other three years – his successes coming over 120 cars in his class.


BILL  GUBELMANN     Palm Beach, FL
In 1965, Bill was one of the first customers for Gerry Mong’s new Bobsy chassis for SCCA’s Sports-Racing classes in Club Racing competition, then switched to open-wheeled cars … in 1967 he was the SCCA Northeast Division titlist in Formula C with a Brabham BT18-Ford, then moved to the Formula B class, winning a pro race at Lime Rock in 1969 .. he spent the 1972 season in Europe, winning the British Formula Atlantic Championship, then raced the 1976 season in the European F/5000 series.


DAN GURNEY     Santa Ana, CA
Attracted to the burgeoning Southern California car culture of the late 40s through the 1960s, Dan began racing a Triumph TR2 in 1955 … There was the 1969 12 Hours of Sebring win in a factory Ferrari with Phil Hill and others, three Formula One wins at Rouen and Mexico City, sports car wins from Daytona to IRP and many others, but what vaulted Dan into the major spotlights were his five wins between 1963-68 in the Motor Trend 500 NASCAR races at Riverside in the Wood Brothers Fords, the 1967 Le Mans 24 Hour with A. J. Foyt in the Ford Mk IV, and the rainy win in the Belgian Grand Prix a week later in his own Gurney-Weslake Eagle .. with that win, he became the only American to win a F-1 race in a car of his own design .. only Dan and Mario Andretti can claim wins in F-1, Indy Cars, NASCAR and major international sports car races … In 1970, Dan retired as a driver, bought out partner Carroll Shelby to become sole owner of All-American Racers and went into high gear with design and production of the Eagle chassis for USAC Champ Car races … In the 1990s, AAR produced the cars for Toyota’s foray into the IMSA Camel GTP series … AAR Eagles for various series have won eight series championships, 78 individual races including the Indianapolis 500, 12 Hours of Sebring and the Rolex 24 At Daytona … Dan was also one of the founders of the Long Beach Grand Prix in suburban Los Angeles, America’s longest-surviving street race.


ALEX GURNEY    Irvine, Calif.
Alex, the son of long-time RRDC member Dan Gurney, joins Butch Leitzinger, David Donohue, Boris Said and a few others as a second-generation RRDC member …In 10 short seasons of racing he went from dominating the 1997 Barber Former Dodge Midwest Championship season to Formula Atlantic and then into the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series where he shared (with Jon Fogarty) the 2007 Drivers’ Championship in the Daytona prototype category … drove in 20 DP class races in 2005-06, but came alive in ’07 to share seven wins with Fogarty.


JANET GUTHRIE     Aspen, Colo.
Janet began racing in SCCA in 1963 in her 1956 Jaguar XK140MC. While working as an engineer in the aerospace industry, she finished 6th overall in the Jag in the first Watkins Glen 500 (1964), powered by the first engine she ever built herself. First in class in the Sebring 12-Hour in 1967 (GT6) and 1970 (Under 2-Liter Prototype)…In 1977, she became the first woman to earn a starting spot in the Indianapolis 500, and also in the Daytona 500, where she finished 12th and Top Rookie. In a career total of 33 NASCAR Cup races, her best finish of 6th (Bristol, 1977) remains the best by a woman in the superspeedway era. In 1978, she finished 9th in the Indianapolis 500 with a team she formed, owned and managed herself. Her best finish in a career total of 11 Indy-car Championship races was 5th (Milwaukee, 1979). She earned top-10 starting positions and posted top-10 finishes in both Indy-car Championship races and NASCAR Cup races, and is the only woman ever to lead a NASCAR Cup race…She is a member of the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. Her helmet and driver’s suit are in the Smithsonian. Her own book “Janet Guthrie: A Life at Full Throttle” (2005) was described by Sports Illustrated as “an uplifting work that is one of the best books ever written about racing.”

BOB HAGESTAD     Irving, TX
Successfully raced Porsche’s latest-and-greatest cars in the mid-70s and early-80s to promote the family’s Porsche dealership in Denver as a performance-oriented store. Competed in IMSA’s Camel GT series and SCCA’s Trans-Am Championship for 11 years with his Porsche Carreras and 934 Turbo entries. Had a stellar 1977 season with Trans-Am wins at Nelson Ledges and Watkins Glen (with RRDC member Hurley Haywood), then the Camel GT win at Mid-Ohio.

JIM HALL     Midland, TX
Jim competed in Formula One from 1960 to 1963, participating in 12 World Championship Grands Prix and numerous non-Championship races. However his place in motorsport history came as the owner and driving force behind Chaparral Cars of Midland, Texas. During the 1960s in the United States Road Racing Championship, and later in the CanAm, his Chaparrals were the most innovative cars in racing. He was a very early adopter of aerodynamics applied to race cars and was leading proponent of that technology for an entire decade. Jim returned to prominence as a team owner in CART Champcar racing - scoring two wins in the Indianapolis 500  (1978 and 1980.

MICHAEL HALL   Schaumburg, IL

PETE HALSMER    Bloomfield Hills, MI
Peter parlayed an engineering degree from Purdue into a successful career as a racer, where he could speak to his crew in the technical language they could understand, and vice-versa … He quickly moved through the SCCA Formula Vee and Ford ranks into the professional USAC and SCCA Super Vee series in 1979-80, then leapfrogged into CART where he made 33 starts over a five-year span with a best finish of 2nd at the inaugural Cleveland race …road racing was still Peter’s forte, so solid seasons with Mazda’s IMSA GTO and Camel GTP programs, plus racing Mercury Cougars and Merkurs for Jack Roush, and factory Mazda RX-7s, lead to Camel GTO season championships in 1989 and ’91, as well as three class wins in the Rolex 24 At Daytona, and a ride in the 1992 IROC series … multiple wins were added to Peter’s resume during his long tenure with the Honda of America Racing Team in Grand-Am Cup … other major wins include the 1985 Camel GTP race at Riverside in Jim Busby’s Porsche 962, and seven SCCA Trans-Am series wins in 1986-87 for Jack Roush.

HOWARD HANNA     Malvern, PA
Howard began his racing in 1952 in the small-bore SCCA Production classes with MG and D-B cars staying there until 1957. In 1958 he finished 2nd in the 12-hour race at Rheims, Germany. Won the Class A race that year in Nassau, and finished third in the Trans-Am series points driving an Alfa-Romeo.

JERRY HANSEN

Jerry holds the record for the most SCCA National Racing Championships – an amazing 27 – more than twice that of his leading competitor. His multiple titles include A-Production, A-Sports Racing, B-Production, B-Sports Racing, C-Sports Racing, Formula A, Formula B, and GT-1. Although some of his amateur competitors accused him of “rolling up the score”, Jerry proved himself a top competitor in professional racing – running up front in the Can-Am, F-5000, and other sports car series

TREVOR HARRIS   Sunland, CA

JOE HAUSER     Odenton, MD
Known to everybody in the paddock as 'Colonel Joe' following his illustrious United States Air Force career. Won his first SCCA National Championship at the Runoffs at age 55, and as of September 2003, was still a viable threat to win the Runoffs at age 84. Competed in the Runoffs every year between 1969 and 1996. Four-time Runoffs National Champion. 1974 in G Production in a Sprite; 1976, 1981 and 1982 in a G/P Datsun Spl. 311. Bought his first sports car, a MG-TD in 1953 while on duty in Germany. Began racing in 1964 with his Sprite, then became the Dean of racing vintage Datsuns in a high-tech world. 4-time Washington DC Region champion in the 1960s. SCCA Northeast Division champion 22 out of 29 years between 1969 and 1997. Went into semi-retirement in 1997 after he and his late wife, Lois, were seriously injured in a highway accident, but unable to stay away from racing forever.

STUART HAYNER    Yorba Linda, CA

Stu is one of America’s top production car drivers – winning in the Trans-Am, the Grand-Am and other professional sports car series. Began his career racing karts.

HURLEY HAYWOOD           Jacksonville, FL
America’s all-time winningest endurance driver – Has won the 24-Hours-of Daytona a record five times and LeMans three times. Began racing under the guidance of Porsche driver Peter Gregg in the late 1960’s and went on to score most of his major wins in Porsches.- although he captured the 1988 Trans-Am Championship behind the wheel of an Audi Quattro. Recorded his most recent victory this past fall in the Rolex Sports Car race at Homestead, Florida. A member of the Motorsport Hall of Fame, he is VP of Brumos Porsche in Jacksonville, Florida.


JIM HAYNES     Tampa, Fla.
Jim joined SCCA in 1956 so he could race his MG-TD, then graduated to an E Production class Morgan the next year … He raced open-wheel cars the next year, first a Cooper Mk. 5, then a Mk. 10 … Raced a Crosley-powered Three-Quarter Midget at the Teaneck, N. J. Armory under the pseudonym “Eddie James” to avoid attracting the attention of the SCCA, which frowned on their members racing professionally … Jim added an SCCA National Championship to his resume in 1959 with a Formula 3 Cooper Mk. 13, and a second one in 1963 with a Formula Junior Lotus 20 …In 1959, he took time from his job at IBM to race an F-2 Cooper-Climax in Europe with races at Zandvoort, Snetterton, Mallory Park, and a hillclimb at Bouley Bay …Drove the 1960 12 Hours of Sebring in a Bandini and was the highest-placed American finisher in the F-Jr. support race …Assumed management of Lime Rock Park in 1964, then sold it in 1987 to Skip Barber … his final professional race was the 1966 Daytona 24-hour in a Porsche 904 GTS with Sam Posey …He continued vintage racing until 1984 with a Porsche RSK and the Fitch-Whitmore Special … served as VP of Special Projects with SCCA from 1987-89, then became President of Road America until his 2000 retirement.


JOHN  HEINRICY     Royal Oak, Mich
Since John Heinricy is the retired Director of High-Performance Vehicles for General Motors, it is no surprise that 249 of his 250 professional road races were in cars powered by GM engines … In fact, a General Motors V-8 engine powered all but three of the cars he has ever raced … John remains a living legend to Corvette owners around the world for his career’s development of the car they love so much, and his success racing them … Along with eternal co-driver and fellow RRDC member Don Knowles, the duo became the most dominant Street Stock endurance racing team in American history … has nine wins in 32 24-hour Street Stock races … member of a team of Corvette ZR-1 drivers who, in 1990, set three world land speed records and nine FIA international speed records at Ft. Stockton, Texas … over 40 professional racing wins in 7 series … 1989 IMSA Firestone Firehawk and SCCA Escort Endurance championships in the same year for different teams …1996-97 IMSA Endurance Champion in Pontiac Firebirds, winning the ’97 title on the last lap of the season … ultra-successful in SCCA Club Racing, too, where his 11 wins are the highest wins-to-starts percentage of any competitor … He and a fleet of General Motors-based race cars have been the all-time dominant force in the Runoffs Touring 1 class, winning the National Championship in 2001-02-03-04-05, the GT-1 National Championship in 1993, the American Sedan title in 2003-04-05-06, and Showroom Stock C in 2007 … so dedicated to racing that his 1993 marriage to his wife, Rita, took place in the Sebring paddock.


CHUCK  HEMMINGSON     Des Moines, IA
Chuck gave the Subaru Impreza brand its first SCCA Runoffs championships in 2005 and 2006, events sandwiched between two outstanding stints in the professional IMSA International Sedan, Firestone Firehawk and Grand-Am Koni Challenge series … He was the 1987 SCCA VW Cup titlist, ’91-’92 International Sedans, and won six Firehawk races in 61 starts over 13 seasons, has four wins in SCCA World Challenge and one in the former SCCA Racrtrucks series .… He’s also raced ARCA and ASA stock cars, too, and in 1992 was part of an Oldsmobile Aurora Aerotech team that set 26 world records …At Bonneville’s Salt Flats in 2001 he drove a Ford Ranger to a record 202.434 mph … He’s now content driving one of the factory Subaru Impreza sports cars in the Koni Challenge where he and co-driver won at Mid-Ohio and Lime Rock in the brand’s rookie season.

BRYAN HERTA   Valencia, CA
Bryan is a former Team USA Scholarship winner. Began racing karts at age 12… moved up to the Skip Barber Series where he scored 14 victories in 16 races. Won the Indy Lights Championship in 1997.  Was one of the top drivers in  CART/Indy Car racing where he won four races and ten poles in an illustrious career. Also a winner in ALMS. Founder of the “Stars of Tomorrow” karting championship series

JOHN HIGGENS     Dayton, Oh.
Any driver with a win in the 12 Hours of Sebring can rightfully be proud of his career; John’s win came in 1987 in the Camel Lights class, followed by another win a few weeks later at West Palm Beach … He was also on the podium in the 1987 and 1988 Camel GT races in San Antonio, Texas, as well as the 1984 Sebring race …John has now turned to Vintage racing in a great collection of rides which includes a Chevron B21, Fabcar-Porsche and a Porsche 910 which he and fellow RRDC member Howard Cherry drove to a 2000 win at the Daytona Rolex Enduro, and which he and RRDC President Bobby Rahal drove to a three-hour race win at Mid-Ohio in 2003.

MIKE HISS

Mike raced in the USAC Championship Car Series in the 1972-1976 seasons, with 28 career starts, including the Indianapolis 500. Was the 1972 Indy-500 Rookie of the year…finished in the top ten 13 times, with his best finish a 2nd position in 1972 at Ontario. In the 1978 Indy 500, Mike qualified a Penske Racing Cosworth for Mario Andretti, who was racing Formula 1 during qualification weekends.



ROB HINES     Arlington, Va.
Rob began racing in 1995 with a Mazda RX-3. He was the Washington DC Region’s Paul Norair Cup Driver of the year in 1997 … in 1998, won the Kimberly Cup, the SCCA’s most-prestigious award for amateur drivers, which he honored the following year by capturing the Touring 2 National Championship at the Runoffs in a Chevrolet Camaro …That title earned him his Region’s Pohanka Trophy as its top owner/driver of the year … Finished second in T-2 the following year and made his professional debut in the Motorola Cup series, earning three top 10 finishes in four starts … Moved to the SCCA’s Speed World Challenge series in 2001 and finished with a single top 10 finish … Win the Northeast Division T2 class in 2004 and finished second at the Runoffs … Repeated his Divisional standing in 2005 with seven podium finishes in eight starts.


DAVID HOBBS     Milwaukee, Wis.
Before he became the widely-recognized Formula 1 color commentator for SPEED TV, David was a successful racer in his native England and throughout Europe, but achieved his greatest successes once he focused on American racing … Started with the SCCA’s Formula 5000 series in 1969, won 13 races in a four year span, and became the series champion in 1971 … followed that with a 1983 championship in the SCCA Trans-Am series, where he won four more races … had 11 wins in IMSA Camel GT events between 1977-83 in the GT and GTP classes … Finished 5th in his 1974 Indianapolis 500 debut for Roger Penske, one of four times he competed in the 500 … Led two laps in the 1976 Daytona 500 and did the Michigan 400 later that year ... raced in the 1979 IROC series … Back in Europe, he won the GT class and finished 8th overall driving a Lotus Elite in the 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans … His Le Mans career spans 20 races with third places in 1969 and 1984 ... Drove seven Formula 1 races between 1967-74 for McLaren, Honda, BRM and Penske, with five top 10 finishes and a career best of 7th in his final F-1 race, the 1974 Austrian GP, for Yardley-McLaren … Won four European Formula 5000 races between 1969-74, and the 1968 Monza 1000K World Sports Car Championship race … also has a 1969 European Touring Car GTU class win in the Nurburgring 6-hour, one in 1972 Tasman Cup, plus many non-championship sports car race wins from Kyalami to Mid-Ohio.


IRV HOERR     Peoria, Ill.
Began racing in 1976 in IMSA Radial Challenge. 1986-87 IMSA Kelly American Challenge champion. 1992 IMSA GTO champion. 1993 IMSA Radial Challenge champion. 1995-96 IMSA GTS champion. More than 50 pro race wins ... now operates Hoerr Racing Products and hrpworld.com, supplying race car components to teams worldwide.

SCOTT HOERR

HOWDY HOLMES     Ann Arbor MI
Formula Atlantic Champion…Indianapolis-500 Rookie of the Year in 1979 - with seventh place finish...raced in the CART series for 7 seasons (1979-1980, 1982-1985, and 1988), with 72 career starts, including the Indianapolis 500 in each of those years except 1980. He finished in the top ten 26 times, with his best finish in 2nd position in 1984 at Phoenix. Holmes is currently the President of Chelsea Milling Company, the manufacturer of Jiffy mix baking mix, which was invented by his grandmother, Mabel White Holmes.

JOE HUFFAKER   Sonoma, CA

Joe Huffaker was one of the most successful constructors of racecars in the 1960’s and continued building and preparing winning cars for the next thirty years.  His career started after World War II when he built dirt track cars which were driven by rising stars such as Bob Veith and Bob Sweikert.  In 1954, he was contracted by Mick Marston to build an Austin-Healey Special.  The car, known as the Huffaker-Healey, was a common site on race tracks in Northern California in the late 1950’s. In 1959, Joe was asked by Kjell Qvale to join British Motor Cars Ltd in San Francisco to open a competition department.  Known as BMC Competition Department, this partnership would spawn a very successful string of cars including the BMC Formula Juniors and Genie Sports Racers From 1964 to 1966, Joe and Kjell Qvale also turned their attention to the Indianapolis 500 and built the famous MG Liquid Suspension Specials for which Joe received and engineering award for design and development.  Their drivers included Bob Veith, Walt Hansgen and Jerry Grant. …In 1967, Joe left BMC and formed Huffaker Engineering where preparation of winning cars continued.  These included MG Midgets, MGBs, Triumphs and Jensen-Healeys.  Jensen Motors ran a factory team to capture the SCCA D Production Championship in 1973 and 1974. In the 1980’s, Huffaker Engineering built Pontiac cars for the Trans-Am and IMSA series,

RYAN HUNTER-REAY
Ryan was the 2007 Indy Car Series Rookie of the Year and the Indy-500 Rookie of the Year in 2008….winner IRL race at Watkins Glen. Grand-Am winner in 2007. Also raced in the A1GP Series. Scored three Toyota Atlantic race wins in 2002. Began racing karts…was a nine-time WKA/FIA National Series Champion…three-tine Grand National Champion. Moved up to the Barber Dodge Series in 1999. 

WOLFGANG HUSTEDT     Raleigh, N.C.
One of many RRDC members who has contributed to the sport not through driving prowess, but rather through his work, since 1975 Wolfgang has been the Manager of Motorsports for the Robert Bosch Corp. In that capacity, he has always given the sport a little more spark
JOHN IGLEHEART    Seabrook, SC

CARL JENSEN     Loxahatchee, FL
Although Carl started racing in 1964 with a TR-3, and 45 years later is still driving a thunderous GT-1 class car in SCCA Nationals, his big love is vintage car racing … For the past 10 years he has been Competition Director for the Sportscar Vintage Racing Assn., where he races a 1969 Camaro, and is Chief Steward for the Historic Grand Prix series … He also participated in the Rolex 24 At Daytona and La Carrera Panamericana.


AMOS JOHNSON     Oldsmar, Fla.
Amos carved two small niches in racing history when he won his Touring Under class in the first-ever IMSA GT race, 1971 at Virginia International Raceway, and two years prior raced in the first Talledega 500 … VIR was the first of 17 race wins for Team Highball in American Motors and Mazda cars in the GT classes, including the Daytona 24-hour in 1985-86-87-88; the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1982 and 1988, and twice in the Riverside six-hour … Amos and partner Dennis Shaw also excelled in IMSA’s International Sedan class (formerly “Baby Grand”) with another 17 wins and the 1973 season championship … he also competed in IMSA’s Kelly American Challenge, Renault Cup and Firehawk series, as well as SCCA Trans-Am … in the 1970s Amos led two-car American Motors assault on the Nurburgring 24-Hour race with fellow RRDC members Dennis Shaw, Lyn St. James and Jim Downing as his drivers …After retiring from the cockpit, Amos gave back to the sport by becoming IMSA’s Competition and Technical Director, where he wrote the rules for the World Sports Car class … he also held the same role in the former North American Touring Car Championship series.

PARKER JOHNSTONE    Wilsonville, Ore.
Rising through the ranks as an instructor at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving at Sears Point to pay the racing bills, Parker was a champion in IMSA’s Renault Cup series and won an SCCA Club Racing national title. … He won an IMSA record 54 races in the Renault Cup, Firestone Firehawk, International Sedans, and Camel Lights …all but the Renault series wins were in factory-aided Hondas and Acuras which Parker and teammate Doug Peterson engineered and prepped ... Parker won the International Sedan series in 1987-88, was the 1987 Rookie of the Year in Formula Atlantic, and IMSA GTP Lights titlist in 1991-92-93 … open-wheel racing remained one of his ambitions, so when Honda went CART racing, Parker was the driver who gave Honda its first pole position and set a world closed-course speed record in the process.

DAVY JONES Genova, NV
Winner of the 1996 24 Hours of Le Mans driving a Porsche….also placed second to Buddy Lazier in the 1996 Indianapolis 500, and won the 1990 24 Hours of Daytona driving a Jaguar XJR-12. In 1983 he finished 3rd in the British Formula Three Championship behind Ayrton Senna and Martin Brundle. In 1986 he drove for the Factory BMW McLaren Team in IMSA GTP with teammate John Andretti and earned the only BMW GTP Victory that season at Watkins Glen.. Jones also made seven Winston Cup starts in 1995 for Jasper Motorsports with a best finish of 20th at Darlington Raceway and participated in the 1992 and 1993 editions of the International Race of Champions finishing 8th and 9th respectively.




R. W.  KASTNER     Oceanside, Calif.
Vowing to never be beaten by equipment, R. W. “Kas’ Kastner literally not only wrote the books on how to win races and championships with Triumph race cars, but ran the Triumph Competition Department as its manager from 1960 to 1972 ... before that he raced a Triumph TR-3 to an SCCA California Sports Car Club championship … As an independent engineer, he designed and built performance parts for many kinds of race cars, and even managed race teams … In 1986 he took on the task of making Nissan the force that Triumph had once been, only on a larger scale … he began as Motorsports national manager for Nissan North America then moved on to be Vice President of Operations for Nissan Performance Technology during the height of they IMSA GTP program, with a staff of 225 under him … Kas served on the SCCA’s Cal Club’s Board of Governors, authored the top tech story of 1963 in the SCCA’s member magazine, and in 1964 headed the club’s driver training program.

MARTY KAUFMAN    Parrish, Fla
Marty is a veteran Chief Steward of world-class races …His five-plus decades of racing involvement began in the mid-1950s as a racer on Southern California’s drag strips, then SCCA autocross and Club Racing … Taking time from his business world in marketing and finance for several large corporations, he promoted some SCCA Nationals through the San Francisco Jaycees, leading to his current administrative roles in racing … From 1984-86 he traveled with the Trans-Am series and became its Chief Steward in 1986 … then joined IMSA as its Race Director 1987 … His first race at the helm was the Rolex 24 At Daytona … He continues to be “the man in the tower,” as the final word, at all American Le Mans Series races.


CHARLIE KEMP     Jackson, MS
Charlie first became visible in IMSA Camel GT racing, sharing the 1972 GT class win at Daytona … he raced a Lola T222-Chevy in the 1972 SCCA Can-Am series, then made a quantum leap to one of the ex-Penske Porsche 917/10K cars – paired with George Follmer – for team owner Bobby Rinzler … Charlie had the honor of scoring the team’s first win in its first race, at Mosport.

TOMMY KENDALL    Santa Monica, CA
One of the Trans-Am’s greatest drivers. Tommy began his racing career driving a Mazda RX-7 in IMSA GTU competition –winning the 1986 and 1987 championships….also won the 1986 Firehawk Championship. He went on to dominate the SCCA Trans-Am Series in the 1990s, scoring four Series Championships. His greatest year came in 1997, when he won eleven  consecutive Trans-Am races- breaking Mark Donohue’s record. Competed in six IROC Championships… Ran in fourteen NASCAR Winston Cup races between 1987 to 1998… also had one start in the Australian Bathurst 1000. In the 2000s, Kendall became a television analyst for the Champ Car Series. He is also the host of the Speed Test Drive promotional television series



LARRY KESSLER     Webster, NY
Larry earned his competition license in 1964 from the Long Island Sports Car Assn … His first race car was a Triumph TR-4 for SCCA Club Racing events … In 1987 he not only turned semi-pro while racing in IMSA’s Firestone Firehawk Endurance Championship series, but he became an event sponsor as well, backing the Burger King 24-Hour Firehawk race at Watkins Glen through his Burger King chain … Over the years, and most recently in SVRA and HSR events, Larry has driven a garden salad variety of cars such as Peugeot, Mitsubishi, Alfa Romeo, Mustang and an Elva Mk VIII.


MICHAEL KEYSER     Butler, Md.
Strong Porsche runner in early days of IMSA’s Camel GT series. Scored his first GTU class win at Summit Point in 1971. Switched to Porsche 911 in 1972 and won Mid-Ohio plus twice at Daytona. Wins in 1973 at Pocono, Mid-Ohio and Lime Rock. Won again at Lime Rock in 1974, then not again until 1976 when he switched to a Chevrolet Monza after a 12 Hours of Sebring win and knocked off Mid-Ohio and Daytona. Also did 24 Hours of Le Mans 1972, ’74, and ’76


JAMES KING    Belleville, Ill.
James began racing a Porsche Roadster 1600S while a senior in college, but an army-sponsored tour of duty in Vietnam put his racing on hold until 1969 when he earned his first of three consecutive invitations to what is now the SCCA’s Runoffs, in the Formula Ford class … He jumped to the Formula B Club Racing class, then to professional Canadian Formula Atlantic series, driving for the late Doug Shierson … along the way, there were five more trips to the Runoffs … James became a factory March driver on its Formula 3 team in 1977, earning a sixth place in the BP F-3 Championship, and winning the series event at Cadwell Park, England … Between 1979 and ’87 he raced the Formula Atlantic class in both Club and pro series events, winning the Runoffs in 1982 with a Ralt … He put a roof over his helmet in 1987 long enough to finish second in the Camel Lights class of the Rolex 24 At Daytona with John Higgins, Howard Cherry and the late Chip Mead …The 1993 saw James change courses again, becoming deeply involved in Vintage racing through Shierson, winning the Watkins Glen F1 reunion in an ex-Brambilla March 761 … Since then he has raced historic F1, F2 and other sports cars on equally-historic circuits throughout Europe and the U. S., cherishing his third place finishes in an ex-Dan Gurney Brabham-Climax V8 F1 … In 1999 he drive the March 761 F-1 car to a fifth place in the FIA Thoroughbred Grand Prix Championship … In 2000 he co-founded Historic Grand Prix, which organizes and sanctions races throughout the U.S. for 1966-83 three-liter F1 cars.


GORDON KIRBY    Mt. Sunapee, NH
One of the most widely-traveled and respected motor racing journalists in the business, Gordon’s byline has appeared in well-known magazines from America’s Road & Track to England’s Autosport …starting with a 1987 book with Emerson Fittipaldi on “The Art of Motor Racing,” Gordon has since authored biographies on Rick Mears, Bobby Rahal, Mario Andretti, Greg Moore, the Unser family, and is currently writing one on the history of Newman/Haas Racing.


JEFF KLINE     Topanga, CA
Began racing in 1966 with a Lotus Super 7, and proudly claims he has never owned a race car. Won 87 SCCA Nationals between 1966-78. Major IMSA Camel GT series career with 19 wins in 127 starts, including 2 at Daytona, 3 in the 12 Hours of Sebring, 4 times at Riverside and Road America. Drove the TWR Silk Cut Jaguar in the 1989 24 Hours of Le Mans. Active Vintage racer for the last decade with European experience at Monaco and Goodwood


RICK KNOOP     Laguna Beach, CA
Rick's first professional wins came in 1979 in IMSA Goodrich Radial Challenge 6-hour at Talladega in an AMC Concord, followed by GTU win at Road America in a Mazda RX-7. Won a Camel GTU class race at Pocono in 1981. First major win was 1983 Rolex 24 at Daytona’s GTO class in Mazda RX-7. Also that year won GTO class at Mosport. Won Group C2 class in 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans with Jim Busby in a Lola T-616, then won The Longest Day at Nelson Ledges in a Porsche with Busby and Fred Baker. Also drove selected Winston Cup races in 1981 and 1987. Since then has been frequent competitor in Historic Stock Car Series, plus Vintage and Historic races


DON KNOWLES     Pittsboro, N.C.
Following two SCCA Runoffs titles in the 1978-79 Showroom Stock B class with SAAB cars, Don graduated to endurance racing in the professional IMSA Firehawk and SCCA Escort series, learned his analytical mind had master strategist capabilities, and became one of the most successful drivers to ever compete in either series … has won a world record 14 24-hour races, and in both 1987 and ’88 won three 24-hour races … 12 race wins in 1989 Firehawk and Escort series alone … all-time Escort series winner with 19 wins … has 35 career wins in those two series plus VW Rabbit Cup, Renault Cup and IMSA Camel GT (with the factory Dodge team) … top American finisher at the 1982 Renault Cup International Challenge at Paul Ricard, France … team member of a Corvette team which, in 1990, set three world land speed endurance records and nine international speed records at Ft. Stockton, Tex., averaging over 175 mph for 24 hours … 1989 IMSA Firehawk Driver of the Year … Don then waited 27 years to get back into Club Racing and took up right where he left off, winning the 2006 SCCA Runoffs title in the Showroom Stock B class with a Pontiac Solstice, then back it up with  2007 and 2009 wins in the T2 class in a more modified version of the Solstice .. Don was featured in a 1990 Sports Illustrated story … talented writer who has won the 1980 Best Article award in SCCA’s Sports Car magazine, and has written about his win in a Canadian ice race for Road & Track … retired Director of Protected Resources for the National Marine Fisheries Service; former staffer on the U. S. Senate Committee on Appropriations; former Associate Deputy Secretary of U. S. Department of Interior.

OSCAR  KOVELESKI    Scranton, PA
A member of the SCCA’s Philadelphia Region SCCA 1950, Oscar drove a 1948 MG-TC to his first SCCA Regional race win at Bone Stadium in September 1951. The following August he finished third on the Thompson (Conn) road course … He’s competed in hillclimbs, on public roads, airports, and real race tracks both small and world class … Drove many interesting cars, such as Ferrari, Cisitalia, Triumph, Ace Bristol, Lotus, Corvette, Cobra, Cooper-Chevrolet, Cooper-Ford, Alfas-Romeo, McLaren, and BMW, and competed in the SCCA’s Can-Am series … Won the A Sports-Racing class by :00.1 sec. in the inaugural SCCA American Road Race of Champions (now the Runoffs) at Road Atlanta … Finished second in the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash with teammates Tony Adamowicz and Brad Niemcek … Now teaches school children how to race safely with “no bumping” rules.

HORST KWECH    Gurnee, Ill.
Long before Horst took his Alfa-Romeo GTA’s to the small-bore professional sedan fight against Nissan, he was already a prominent Club racer, winning four consecutive Central Division championships, the first B Sedan National Championship in 1966 and with it, the SCCA’s President’s Cup … The next year he won the Under 2 Liter title in the SCCA Trans-Am Championship … In 1968-69 he, along with Peter Revson, were Shelby Racing’s factory Mustang drivers in the primary Trans-Am series class, but he returned to his beloved Alfas in 1970 and beat Nissan for the U-2 class title … In 1973, he tried the Formula 5000 series for a year with a Lola T300-Chevrolet., but in 1974 joined forces with noted engineer Lee Dykstra to build the DeKon Chevrolet Monzas which went head to head with Porsche in the IMSA Camel GT series; Al Holbert won two AAGT class championships with these cars … Back to driving, he won two VW Cup Super Vee races in 1980.

AL LADER     Gresham, OR
Became one of the Pacific Northwest’s top open-wheel specialists after winning the 1966 Runoffs title in G Sports-Racing .. 1971 champion of the Formula Continental series (now Toyota Atlantic series). His five wins scored more points than any driver in the 1973 Players Pacific series for Atlantic cars, but the rules allowed only Canadian drivers to win the championship. Stayed away from the cockpit for two decades, but returned in 1995 in an SCCA Club Ford and won many races between then and 2001

ANDY LALLY       Northport NY
Andy is a three-time Rolex GT Champion and  two-time GT class winner of the  24-Hours of Daytona – most recently 2009.. .Has rolled up 19 Rolex GT class victories. Results also include a second in class at the Petit LeMans, a second at Sebring and third in class at LeMans. Made his NASCAR debut in the Nationwide Series in 2007… his first Sprint Cup  start was at Watkins Glen in 2009 where he qualified an impressive 15th. A former Team USA Scholarship winner, he began racing in karts where he won two National Gold Cup Championships.


DARREN LAW    Phoenix, AZ
Like so many top drivers of the latter part of the 20th Century, Darren began his racing career in go karts, encouraged by his father Peter Law, who, in the late 1960s, was a fabricator for Mark Donohue’s Penske Racing cars. At age 14 he was already the IKF Junior national champion in Karts ... In 1987 Darren won the WestPro Sports 2000 Group B road racing series … His first prime visibility came in the 1996 North American Touring Car Championship, followed by Motorola Cup and Grand-Am Cup, with 11 race wins between the three series … He was the Grand American Road Racing Association’s GT class champion in 2001, then joined Brumos Racing in 2003 when the new Daytona Prototype class debuted, driving the team’s Red Bull Porsche-Fabcar ... also a strong competitor in selected American Le Mans Series races, he won the GT class at Mid-Ohio in 2004, driving a Porsche.

BOB LAZIER     Vail, CO
Bob was CART's Rookie of the Year in 1981. He finished 9th in points for Fletcher Racing Team …finishing fourth at Watkins Glen and Mexico. Lazier also competed in the 1981 Indianapolis 500 -starting 13th and finishing 19th. after a blown engine caused him to retire….competed in many forms of motorsport in the 1970s including Formula 5000 and the SCCA Pro Super Vee series…In 1972, he placed third in the Formula Bchampionship series, one victory to his credit, and fifth in the Formula Super Vee Championship standings. He also was first in the MiDiv Formula Vee which qualified him for the American Road Race of Champions where he placed second. In 1971, competing in Formula B and Formula Vee, Lazier won both divisional titles and the National Formula B crowns.

JAQUES LAZIER     Vail, CO
Jaques ran in U.S. Formula Ford competition from 1989 to 1997 and also drove part-time in Indy Lights in 1997. In 2001 he drove for four different teams including TeamXtreme and Sam Schmidt Motorsports, he got his best chance with Team Menard, replacing Greg Ray. He won his second start for the team at Chicagoland Speedway…entered the 2004 season without a ride, but was the relief driver for Robby Gordon in the Indy 500 as he had to leave for Charlotte to drive in the Coca-Cola 600. Later that season he made eight starts for Patrick Racing after Al Unser, Jr. retired and posted several good results. In 2005. He struck a deal with the new Playa del Racing team to contest the Indy 500 but their funds were good only for that race. When veteran owner Chip Ganassi fired British driver Darren Manning, he called on Lazier to replace him for the remaining oval races of the season.. Without a full-time ride in 2006, Lazier returned to the 2007 Indy 500 with Playa Del Racing. He led for the first time at Indy for two laps when he stayed out on the track when the leaders pitted. However, he crashed late in the race and finished 27th.


BOB  LEITZINGER    State College, PA
Bob won his first of five SCCA Division championships in 1965 driving a Lotus Elan … a decade later he became one of Datsun’s primary racers in the U.S. with four Division titles in B Sedan and C Production between 1975-77 … turned to IMSA’s pro series with a Nissan 240SX and won the 1989 Camel GTU Drivers Championship … Brought his son, Butch, and stepson Chuck Kurtz into IMSA racing with a Nissan … Butch became a Le Mans and Daytona 24-hour winner and a four-time winner in NASCAR Busch North … Bob’s late wife, Sandra, was one of America’s best artists through her paintings of racing themes.


BUTCH  LEITZINGER     Rebersburg, PA
A second-generation racer and second-generation champion, Butch has driven and won in a variety of cars from off-road trucks to NASCAR Busch North to Busch Grand National to Winston Cup. Made his strongest mark in IMSA, SCCA and Grand-Am pro racing. World Sports Car champion in 1997 and 1998 with 10 wins in Dyson Racing R&S Fords. SCCA USRRC Rolex 24 at Daytona winner in 1999. 9 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series wins in 2000-2001-2002 and a third place in the 2001 24 Hours of Le Mans driving for Bentley. 3 SCCA Trans-Am series wins in 2002. Won IMSA ALMS race in 2003 at Infineon Raceway. As an example of his character, he once turned down an offer to be Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s backup driver because he had already committed to another (and possibly lesser) team.

BOB LOBENBERG

One of the USA's best-ever amateur open-wheel drivers.. Won multiple SCCA National Championships in Formula Ford and S-2000 in the sport's most competitive era. Along with fellow RRDC member Dave Weitzenhoff, Bob dominated SCCA open-wheel racing in the 1980's. Also competed in IMSA GT racing

PATRICK LONG Belleair FL
A Porsche factory driver since 2003, Patrick is one of America's top young sports car talents...Has scored 16 major ALMS and Rolex wins – including two Daytona 24- Hour class victories, two LeMans class victories, a win at Sebring, along with multiple wins in the Petit LeMans.  2009 Daytona 24-Hour GT winner. Team Penske Porsche ALMS Prototype driver. Began his racing career in karting in the USA and  Europe. Skip Barber Series Scholarship winner. Raced Formula Fords and Formula Renaults in England winning many major races.

DAVID LORING    Conway, NH
One of America’s top open wheel drivers in the 1970’s….began racing as a teenager in Canada where he won multiple Formula Ford  races. Returned to the USA where he continued to dominate competition. Drove a US- built Dan Gurney Eagle to the SCCA Formula Ford National Championship in 1978. Went on to score victories in other open-wheel classes.

PETE LOVELY     Tacoma, WA

BRETT LUNGER    Wilmington, DE

Competed in F1, the Can-Am, F-5000, the Trans-Am and major international sports car races. Started 43 F1 races, but is best remembered for helping rescue Niki Lauda from his burning Ferarri at the Nurburgring. Brett scored a string of top finishes in the L&M F-5000 Series in the early 1970's...took a second place in the European F-5000 Championship race at Brands Hatch in 1973. Came home second in the Six Hours of Watkins Glen in 1974...Finished fourth in the 1978 BRDC International Trophy Race at Silverstone.

PETE LYONS     Big Bear City, CA

Pete began his career reporting on the North American scene for the British magazine Autosport, regularly attending great events like the Daytona 24-hour and 500-mile races, the Sebring 12-hour, the Indy 500, and the annual Formula One Grands Prix in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. A special favorite was the Can-Am and those glorious years are the basis for two of Pete’s books, CAN-AM and CAN-AM PHOTO HISTORY…Pete then went international, and spent four years as the F1 correspondent for both Autosport and AutoWeek….After several years as editor of  the US racing monthly, which at first was called Formula and later renamed Racecar, Pete chose to become a freelancer once again. Today he contributes to a wide variety of automotive publications.

WALT MAAS    Nevada City, CA

BRUCE MacINNES   Sheffield, Mass.

Bruce has been a Senior Instructor at The Skip Barber Racing School for over 30 years. He is a two time Pro-Formula Ford Champion, set 18 lap records, won the Lime Rock Can-AM, and was voted Formula Magazine’s Driver of The Year twice. He currently spends much of his time teaching Skip Barber Programs, Coaching, and flying his home built aircraft.


GORDON MacKENZIE     Millbrook, N.Y.
In 1953, aided by Dr. John Knight and Chandler Lawrence, Gordon organized one of the SCCA’s first Driver Schools, held at Thompson, Conn. … Gordon, himself, began racing that year in the C Production class, then switched to C Modified in 1958 through 1967 … In 1955 he drove one of the Morgan factory’s cars in the 12 Hours of Sebring, finishing fifth in class E with clothing designer John Weitz … in his C Production era, he finished 72% of his 85 starts in the top three of his class, an during that era set fastest time of day in the Mt. Equinox Hill Climb … in the late 1990s he re-started his career, this time in Vintage racing, and now with a Lotus Europa … even in his 80s, he’s still on the track, having fun.


ROGER MANDEVILLE     Moore, SC
One of IMSA’s most-dominant drivers during the 1970s and 1980s .. Scored his first pro win at VIRginia Int’l Raceway in 1971 in AMC Gremlin with Amos Johnson. 1979 champion in IMSA Champion Spark Plug Challenge. 1983 IMSA Camel GTU titlist, and 1984 IMSA Camel GTO champion. Three-time GTU winner at 12 Hours of Sebring. 20 career IMSA race wins, putting him 9th on all-time IMSA win list

TOM MANKIN     Missouri City, Tex.
Alfa Romeo fanatic who began racing them in 1971. Won his first SCCA National Championship in 1983, then backed it up with consecutive repeat wins in 1988-89

DON  MARSH     Columbus, Ohio
Racing since 1953 with MG-TC. 1985 IMSA Camel Lights winner at 24 Hours of Daytona and Road America

BURDETTE MARTIN     Northfield, IL

Burdie began his career in hot rod racing in 1946 and went on to compete in midgets on the dirt ovals and in hydroplane races. In 1950, however, he began a long association with the Sports Car Club of America as a road racer. He then became active as an official with the SCCA and in 1965 became the organization's chief steward. Four years later he was elected head of the SCCA Chicago region and was give the club's highest award, the Wolf Barnato Trophy. In the early 1970s he served as chief steward for Trans-Am, Can-Am,  Super-Vee and North American F1 races. By 1974 he was assistant director of the SCCA's racing department. In 1983 he was appointed head of ACCUS, the sporting authority of the United States, and became America's delegate to the FISA Executive Committee. He later served as a Vice President of the FIA.

DAN MARVIN    Berkeley, CA

Dan primarily competed in CASC North American Atlantic Championship competition from 1981 to 1984 and won the series title in 1984. He also drove in the SCCA Single-seater Can-Am Series and later drove in IMSA Camel Lights, winning several class victories in 1992 with teammate Parker Johnstone and finishing third in 1993 for Comptech Racing.

JOHN McCOMB     Milford, PA


HERSHEL  McGRIFF     Green Valley, Ariz.
The ultimate 'been there, done that' driver. Began racing in 1945 at Portland (Ore.) Speedway in what would now be a NASCAR Nextel Cup-type car. Won the fabled 1950 Pan-American Road Race in an Oldsmobile. Competed in 86 Winston Cup races in three stints (1950-54, 1971-78, 1980-93). Finished sixth in 1954 season points after winning four of the season’s last nine races. His 14 professional race wins at the now-defunct Riverside Int’l Raceway are the most by any driver. 1986 Winston West champion (at age 59!!). While still competing in Winston West in 2001 at age 74, he was named one of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers.

TERRY McKENNA    Manchester, MO

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Rick Mears dominated Indy car racing in the 1980s - winning the Indy-500 a record four times. He won a total of twenty-nine Indy car races for Team Penske- seven of which were on road courses. He won the coveted pole position forty times and he drove more miles during that decade than any other driver. Most impressively Mears won a record number of pole positions in 500-mile races, including six at the prestigious Indianapolis 500 race. Mears was also the Indianapolis 500 champion four times, tying two other drivers for the most wins at the Brickyard. Mears was named "Driver of the Decade" by the Associated Press for winning twenty races during the 1980s. After retiring in 1992 Mears continued to work for Roger Penske as a driving coach and adviser.

LEO  MEHL     Hudson, Ohio

Never a driver, but the best friend many racers, series or sanctioning bodies throughout the world ever had during his 1959-1996 tenure as Director of Worldwide Racing for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. His tireless (sic) work truly made Goodyear the 'Number 1 name in Racing' for many years. After retiring from Goodyear, became Executive Director of the Indy Racing League from 1997- 2000, and remains a vital consultant to the IRL. Leo is currently the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Motorsports Hall of Fame., and is President of the Chemical Engineering Academy at his alma mater, West Virginia University

STEVE MILLEN Costa Mesa, CA
Steve began his racing career in hillclimbing in 1969. He then moved to the Formula Ford series…started competing in rally cars in the mid 1970s… switched to off-road racing in the Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group (MTEG) stadium series in the early 1980s. He won the 1986, 1988, and 1989 Mickey Thompson Off-Road Grand Prix Grand National Sports Truck Championships. He also won two Indy Lights races in the series' inaugural 1986 season….switched to the IMSA Camel GT series in 1990. He was the 1990 24 Hours of LeMans Rookie of the Year. He won three races and took five pole positions in 1990. Had seven poles and five wins in 1991..won the 1992 IMSA GTS championship in a Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo car. He won the 12 Hours of Sebring and had top five finishes in the first four events before his 1993 season ended with injuries at Watkins Glen International. Returned in 1994, and won the IMSA GTS championship…won the 1994 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring, and was first in class at the 24 Hours of LeMans. In 1995, he won the 12 Hours of Sebring and was invited to the International Race of Champions (IROC). Has the most all-time wins in IMSA GTS history – 20. His 23 pole positions are also a series record. [2]

EDDIE MILLER    Colorado

JIM  MILLER    Woodbridge, Va.

Arch-rival to Randy Canfield. 3-time Runoffs winner in H Production with a Sprite -- 1975-83-84. Has 6 more finishes in the top 5

KENPER MILLER     Pittsford, NY

BILL MITCHELL    Cheshire, CT
DOUG MOCKETT    Manhattan Beach, CA
Doug attended his first race, a New Jersey board track event, in 1949 at age nine but didn’t become involved in the business until he was out of high school and began crewing for a neighbor – Mark Donohue … Mark went one way in racing while Doug went another – working with Westinghouse Broadcasting on its race broadcasts … He then turned to motorcycles from the promotion side ... The American Motorcyclist Assn., named Doug its Commissioner in 1977, but he eventually left racing and went into business making furniture components … He bought his first vintage F-1 car – a Cooper – in 1997, and added two more ... He’s raced in Historic and Vintage events from New Zealand to Monaco to South Africa with many wins … He now provides his stable of F-1 cars to young American drivers to showcase their skills to a new audience of potential sponsors, and has been a significant supporter of the development of young American road racers.

WAYNE  MOORE     Brooklet, Ga.
An SCCA Formula Vee standout who began racing in 1974, became Southeast Division champion in 1979 and validated that with 1979 and 1980 National Championships at the Runoffs. SCCA President’s Cup winner in 1980 after winning the Runoffs from a 26th place on the grid


JOHN  MORTON     El Segundo, Calif.
John was just another talented West Coast SCCA Club racer with big aspirations and little money to make them happen until the 1970 season when the merger of John’s talents and personality and Peter Brock’s new affiliation with import car newcomer Datsun put both men and Datsun on the racing radar … The results were the 1970-71 SCCA National Championships in C Production, and 1971-72 SCCA Trans-Am 2.5 Challenge titles … John also won the C2 class in the 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans driving a Lola-Mazda, and two years later placed third overall in a Joest Porsche 956 … Focusing on IMSA’s Camel GT series for many years with the Group 44 Jaguar and Electramotive Nissan teams, he won 11 races including the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1993-94-95, and in 1994 again won his class at Le Mans …His focus in the 21st Century is Vintage and Historic racing from Goodwood to Monterey

STIRLING MOSS    London, England

Sir Stirling Moss OBE is arguably the greatest all-round racing driver of all time and a true icon of the motor racing world. Known during his career as ‘Mr Motor Racing’ he became a professional driver in 1948, at the age of 18, racing a Cooper 500.His early career was meteoric, with works drives for both Jaguar and HWM. 1955 was a seminal year; he was signed by Mercedes-Benz to partner the legendary World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio. That year saw Stirling shadow the great Argentine in most Grands Prix, famously beating him to win the British GP at Aintree. In that same year, he also won the epic 1,000 mile Mille Miglia road race, at an astonishing average speed of 97.9mph on public roads, the Targa Florio road race and the Tourist Trophy at Goodwood.For four years he would finish runner-up in the Formula 1 Drivers World Championship, his sportsmanship at the Portuguese GP allowing Mike Hawthorn to win the 1958 Championship title by half a point at his expense. After Mercedes Benz retired from motor racing following the 1955 Le Mans tragedy, Stirling led the Maserati and Vanwall teams. He raced more than 80 different types of car, across all classes of motor sport, during his remarkable career.In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, he led the changeover to rear engined Formula 1 cars, achieving the first victory for such a car at the 1958 Argentine GP and was in a class of his own during this period. A near-fatal accident in a Lotus at Goodwood in 1962 ended it all.

LOTHAR MOTSCHENBACHER     Santa Ana, CA

Lothar was best known for his racing in the SCCA Can-Am series in the lates sixties and early seventies against such famed drivers as F1 world champions Dennis Hulme, Jackie Stewart and Mario Andretti as well as Mark Donohue, Dan Gurney, Peter Revson, Jo Siffert, Chris Amon, Bob Bondurant and more. Motschenbacher was one of the fastest private entrants, usually driving the previous year's McLaren chassis but often ran with the factory teams, such as when he qualified second at Mid Ohio in 1971.

JIM  MULLEN     S. Hamilton, Mass.
Began racing in 1975 in Formula Ford and progressed to IMSA Camel GT series. 1982 GTU class win at Riverside. Overall winner at 1983 12 Hours of Sebring. Also raced IMSA GTO and GTP. Now drives HSR in Chevrolet-Spice GTP car

DAVID MURRY    Atlanta, GA
David’s career began in Formula Fords, leading to the Sports Renault series. From 1981 to 1991, while driving everything he could get his hands on, he won numerous races and the 1985 Sports Renault Championship. In 1991,He drove an Esprit for the Lotus factory and immediately won two races, so impressing Porsche that they hired him away from Lotus as a factory driver…Driving a Porsche 968 in the Firestone Firehawk Series, Murry recorded three wins in the 1992 and 1993 seasons. In the same 968, he won five races and claimed the 1994. Firehawk Drivers Championship and the manufacturer’s title for Porsche while finishing second in the prestigious World Porsche Cup standings. David won the World Challenge Championship in a Porsche 911 Turbo and also drove for the Porsche factory at LeMans in their LMP1 car competing for the overall win.

TOM  NEHL     Jacksonville, Fla.
That Tom has only two professional road racing wins, 1970 at Daytona and 1972 at Talladega in the IMSA Camel GT serries, is not indicative of what he has contributed to sports car racing … in 1972 he purchased Georgia’s defunct Savannah International Raceway and turned it over to the local SCCA region to operate for a $1 @ year fee … In 1978 he matched whatever funds the Region was able to raise, and loaned the balance needed to re-pave the facility, then sold the track in1991 to the Buccaneer Region … the track is now re-named Roebling Road in honor of Robert Roebling, a landmark of Savannah society, who initially built the track in 1958 … Tom was born in Oregon and raced sprint cars from 1947 to 1987 … relocating to Jacksonville, he was also a part owner of an Indy Car team between 1963-82 and is a member of the Indy 500 Oldtimers Club … He claims more than 50 wins in SCCA Nationals … in 1980 he received the SCCA Area III’s John C. Reuter Award.

BILL  NOBLE     Manhattan, Kan.
There is virtue in doing something relatively small and doing it better than anybody else, and thus, Bill’s five SCCA Runoffs titles in the hotly-contested Formula Vee class are a remarkable achievement. Bill was the national Vee champion in 1982, 1989-90 and 1993-94. He also won professional Formula Vee championships in 1976 and 1995, and earned the RRDC’s Mark Donohue Award after his second National Championship.

JON NORMAN    Berkeley, CA

Jon raced this 1971 Alfa GTV in the original Trans-Am series, and still drives it today in historic events. Also raced Formula Atlantic. Led the SCCA Competition Board in the 1980's

BILL O'CONNOR     Carmel, IN

Bill was a top driver in the glory days of Pro Formula Atlantic racing, competing against the likes of Bobby Rahal, Giles Vileneuve, and Price Cobb.

VICKIE O'CONNOR   Carmel, IN

For many years Vickie was the driving force behind the Toyota Formula Atlantic Series, handling sponsorship, promotion, and administration. Prior to that she was the office manager for Carl Haas Auto Imports and the Haas Auto Racing Teams.

J.J. O'MALLEY     Port Orange, Fla.
While his racing career has been limited to running marathons (including Boston 12 times), J.J. O’Malley has covered motorsports in many capacities since 1973, when he was asked to interview Brian Redman to promote Pocono International Raceway’s upcoming IMSA Camel GT race … A native of Pittston, Pa., and graduate of King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., he was news editor for National Speed Sport News, sports writer for The Pocono Record, longtime communications director for Watkins Glen International, and public relations director for Homestead-Miami Speedway …Currently, he is senior editor for ISC Publications in Daytona Beach, Fla. … He has written several books, including two histories of racing at Watkins Glen, and most recently, a history of the Daytona 24 Hours … He is now writing a biography of NASCAR legend Geoff Bodine, and a biography of NASCAR founder William H.G. France …J.J. is also a frequent contributor to racingone.com and a number of leading motorsports publications. He formerly held an SCCA National announcers license, and does PA interviews from the pits at Daytona International Speedway, Homestead-Miami Speedway and Barber Motorsports Park … He is currently working on his master’s degree in pastoral ministry from St. Leo’s University in Tampa.

ROBERT OVERBY    Jacksonville, FL


AUGIE  PABST     Oconomowoc, Wis.
One of the true gentlemen in road racing, despite being the man who did auto racing’s legendary 'All-Time Guy-Thing' -- on a dare by Roger Penske and Peter Ryan -- by driving a Hertz rental car into a hotel swimming pool in Monterey, Calif. Started racing in 1956 with a Triumph TR-3, then an AC Bristol, and a Ferrari 2.5 Testa Rosa. Drove his first of six 12 Hours of Sebring races in 1958 in a Corvette. Became the U. S. Auto Club’s road racing National Champion in 1959 and won the pre-Runoffs SCCA National Championship in the 1960 B Modified class, both driving one of the famed Meister Brauser Scarab-Chevrolets for the Peter Hand Brewing Co. His other famous car owners have included Briggs Cunningham, Luigi Chinetti, Holman-Moody, Alfred Momo and John Mecom Jr. 1961-63-64 Road America 500 winner. Competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the first time in 1960, at age 26, and finished second in class driving a Ferrari; fourth the following year in a Maserati. Won the 12 Hours of Sebring’s GT class in 1963, and finished fourth overall, with young Roger Penske as his co-driver in Mecom’s Ferrari GTO, as part of an unprecedented Ferrari sweep of the top six places. Started to back down his racing in 1964 at age 31 but returned to the famed June Sprints at Road America in 1984 to win the Sports 2000 class. Multi-time winner since then in Road America and Watkins Glen Historic races with his famed Scarab


Dr. DONALD  PANOZ     Braselton, Ga
Dr. Donald Panoz, the son of a boxer, went on to create a successful pharmaceutical business, Mylan Laboratories in Morgantown, WV, then relocated to Ireland where he founded Elan Laboratories and created the method for transdermal delivery of medication … In1980, he and his wife, Nancy, returned to the U.S. and started building world-class resorts and wineries, such as Chateau Elan near Road Atlanta, the St. Andrews Bay Resort and Spa in Scotland, and the Diablo Grande Winery & Resort near Patterson, CA … His involvement in racing began with his son, Danny’s interest in building a high-performance street car called the Panoz Esperante, and was quickly followed with the Panoz GTR-1 race car in 1997 … The following year Panoz created the highly-successful American Le Mans Series for high-tech cars, returning international road racing to the U.S. … His Elan Motorsports Technologies now builds the chassis for the Star Mazda series cars, as well as all the chassis for the Champ Car World Series.

DAN PARKINSON    Canyon Country, CA

JOHN PAUL JR.    Las Vegas, NV

John raced in IMSA, CART, and the Indy Racing League. In 1982 he won the Twelve Hours of Sebring co-driving with his father John Paul, Sr. After becoming the youngest-ever IMSA champion, he made 21 CART starts from 1982 to 1985 - scoring a win at Michigan International Speedway. He also finished 2nd in the 1984 24 Hours of Le Mans with Jean Rondeau in a Porsche 956. In 1998 he won the  Lone Star 500 at Texas Motor Speedway and finished an IRL career best 11th in points. In seven Indy 500 starts his best finish was 7th in 1998.

JAMES PAULEY

JOE PENDERGAST    Tampa, FL

ROGER PENSKE     Bloomfield Hills, MI
Roger's semi-professional racing career was short, 1961 to 1965, and included wins in a 1963 GT class win at Sebring, USRRC Manufacturers race at Pensacola, and a NASCAR Winston West race at Riverside; plus an eighth place in the 1961 U. S. Grand Prix … his retirement in 1965 was to focus on his first business, a Chevrolet dealership in Philadelphia … With his work ethic, attention to detail and resources to do whatever it takes to represent his sponsors in a professional manner that may never be rivaled, through the start of the 2008 season, Penske Racing cars’ 295+ major race wins included 14 at the Indianapolis 500, the 2008 Daytona 500, 21 National Championships, 75 stock car races, 134 Indy car wins and 19 in the American le Mans Series … Regardless of whether Penske Racing fielded entries for Chevrolet, Porsche, Dodge, Honda or others, it was always understood that his team would have the latest and greatest equipment – much of which they developed – and as a reward, more than often delivered the desired results – race wins and championships …Among the team’s more notable drivers have been Mark Donohue, Rick Mears, Rusty Wallace, Danny Sullivan, Gil de Ferran and Helio Castroneves …Roger’s single Chevrolet store in Philadelphia grew into the Penske Automotive Group which has 300+ retail dealerships representing 40 brands … the Penske Corporation employs 40,000 people worldwide with revenues in excess of $20 billion, and includes, among other entities, Penske Performance and Penske Racing, and Penske Truck Leasing.

DOUG PETERSON    Rancho Cordova, CA


PETE  PETERSON     Lumberton, N.C.
Pete didn’t start road racing until 1988 with a Toyota MR2 in Showroom Stock, but quickly became one of the most dominant forces in SCCA Club Racing … Always racing Toyotas, since he is a Toyota and Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge dealer, he earned his first SCCA Runoffs National Championship title in 1991 with a GT3 class Toyota Corolla … added the second championship in 1995, and four more in 1999, 2001, 2004 and 2007 … Winner of the RRDC’s Mark Donohue Award in 1997.

DAVID PHILLIPS     Pittsburgh, PA
After an undistinguished, two-year “career” racing Formula Fords in 1976-77 (highlighted by a 7th place out of 48 starters in a Regional race at Summit Point, turned to motorsports journalism ... After doing PR work for Chip Ganassi, covered Super Vee, Indy Lights and Indy Cars for [the late] On Track magazine from 1985-89 … covered Indy Cars for Autoweek from 1990-95 … has been a senior writer for Racer magazine since 1997 … has also contributed to Autosport, Motoring News, Sports Car, Motorsport and SPEED TV.com. ... now an associate editor for iRacing.com.

FRED PHILLIPS    Shreveport, LA

ANDY PILGRIM    Boca Raton, FL
Began racing an IMSA Renault Cup Alliance in the 80's. His serious professional racing began in 1996 when he made his 24 Hours of Le Mans debut. He joined the Chevrolet Corvette factory team in 1999. In 2001 he was selected as Dale Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s teammate in the 24 Hours of Daytona and the team finished second in class. He left the Corvette program in 2004 but stayed with General Motors, driving for the winning team at the Daytona 24 in a Doran-Pontiac and spending the rest of the season driving for the new Cadillac CTS-V factory team in the SPEED World Challenge GT Series. The following year he won the driver's championship in that series in his CTS-V. Staying with the team, he finished 3rd and 2nd in the series in 2006 and 2007. He also made his NASCAR Busch Series debut, driving two road course races for Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s JR Motorsports team. In 2008 he continued to drive the SPEED World Challenge CTS-V, although it is now a privateer team rather than a factory program, sponsored by Remington. In 2009, Andy joined Randy Pobst as part of the K-Pax team, campaigning the Volvo_S60 in the SPEED World Challenge.

SAM POSEY   Sharon  CT
Sam is the RRDC’s true renaissance man – a top international race driver, author, ABC television broadcaster, architect/designer, and raconteur. Drove a F-Vee to fourth place in his first race in 1965. Quickly moved up to a Porsche 904. Went on to race in the USRRC,  Can-Am, Trans Am, the Indy-500, F1 and Formula-5000 – finishing second in the Series in 1971. Drove a NART Ferrari to third overall at LeMans in 1971. Works driver for the BMW Motorsport 3.0 CSL Team... Sam, is  a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and designed the chalets at Lime Rock Park – his home track.

RANDY POBST
Randy is the 2003, 2007, 2008 SPEED World Challenge GT champion and a two-time class winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona, in 2001 and 2006. From 2004-2007, he drove for Tri-Point Mazda in the Speed World Challenge Touring Car series, finishing second in 2007. In 2007 and 2008, he won the Speed World Challenge GT Championship with K-Pax/3R Racing in a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Car. In 2008 he raced a Volkswagen GTI for APR Motorsport in the KONI Challenge Series and for Stevenson Motorsport at the 24 Hours of Daytona in a Pontiac GXP.

ANDY PORTERFIELD     Costa Mesa, CA

KENT  PRATHER     Wakarusa, Kan.
1986 SCCA Kimberly Cup award winner … 1986-90-95-2002-03-05 Runoffs winner in G Production, all with venerable MG-A racer, an ancestor of the car in which he started racing in 1980


JUSTIN PRITCHARD    Granville, OH
Justin’s drive to win the hotly-contested SCCA Runoffs in Formula Ford in 2002 also went a long way toward his winning the RRDC's Mark Donohue Award that year … He is a three-time SCCA Runoffs National Champion in Formula C and Formula Ford – 1996 in F/C, 2002-03 in Fords … There are also two FC class pole positions and three in Fords on his resume, as is a notation that he has the innate talent to develop new cars to the point they work very well, and quickly.

SCOTT PRUETT      Auburn, CA
One of the USA’s most successful and versatile road racers ever. Has competed in nearly every major American racing series -including NASCAR, CART, IRL, IMSA GT, SCCA Trans-AM, IROC, and the Rolex Grand Am Sports Car Series. Has won ten major professional championships including multiple Trans Am, IMSA GTO, and Rolex Sports Car  titles.  1989 Indy-500 Co-Rookie of the Year. Winner of the CART Michigan 500. Runner-up in the 2009 Rolex Sports Car Series.  Scott is a former World Karting Champion and perhaps the ultimate example of achievement of success by an American driver.



BOBBY  RAHAL     New Albany, Ohio
A teenage aspiring amateur racer who drove his first race in Canada with a slightly-fudged date of birth, Bobby became an American racing icon as a driver, car owner, and administrator. Won a Formula Atlantic championship then took a hiatus from racing to work for a Chicago ad agency. Became CART’s 1982 Rookie of the Year, driving for Jim Trueman’s Red Roof Inns team. Won the Indianapolis 500 in 1986 , CART Champion in ’86, ’87 and ’92, and the series’ Driver of the Year in ’86 and ’92. Only owner/driver to win a CART title. In 17 years of CART racing won 24 races in 165 starts, on the podium 88 times. Has given back to the sport which made him famous. Owner of Team Rahal along with CBS Late Show host David Letterman, which now fields cars in Indy Racing League and Toyota Formula Atlantic. In 2004, Buddy Rice drove the Rahal-Letterman car to the Indianapolis 500 pole and race win. Spent nine months as CEO of Jaguar Formula One Racing, six months as Interim President and CEO of CART. On Boards of Directors for Central Ohio Children’s Charities and The Bobby Rahal Foundation. Still carries a 10-handicap in golf. President of the Road Racing Drivers Club. 1975 winner of the SCCA’s President’s Cup and Runoffs champion in Formula B

MIKE  RAND     Sharon, Conn.
Mike began racing with a Lotus 20 in 1968 and after winning an SCCA Divisional championship, he switched to a Brabham BT21 and won the 1970 Formula C National Championship Runoffs at Road Atlanta … He switched between Formula B and C cars in the 1970s, then won the pole at the Runoffs in 1980 … Has raced Formula Fords since 1992 with four wins and a 1994 NARRC Club Ford class title … Also left a positive mark in racing outside the cockpit as an instructor/manager of the Skip Barber Racing School between 1981-88, manager of the Barber-Saab Pro Series from 1986-88, vice president and general manager of Lime Rock Park between 1992-98, and oversaw the high-quality resurrection of VIRginia International Raceway in 1999-2000 and is currently the Series Administrator of the F2000 Championship Series. … his wife, Tracy, is the daughter of RRDC member Dan … his wife, Tracy, is the daughter of RRDC member Dan Carmichael.


BRIAN  REDMAN     Vero Beach, Fla.
Turned his 1959 racing start with a Morris 1000 Traveler into one of the world’s most impressive endurance careers. Four wins at Spa 1000km, three at Rolex 24 At Daytona, two each at Nurburgring 1000km, Kyalami 9hr, 12 Hours of Sebring, Imola 500km, Brands Hatch 6hr, Osterreichring 1000km, one each at Spa 500km, Nurburgring 500km, Vallelunga 1000km, Targa Florio, Dijon 1000km, Norisring, Mosport 6hr, and Watkins Glen 6hr. Has raced Formula One for SEFAC Ferrari, UOP Shadow, Frank Williams, BRM, Chevron. Raced Prototypes for John Wyer Gulf Porsche, Dr. Ing. H.c.F Porsche AG, Group 44 Jaguar, BMW Motorsports, Proteus Aston Martin. Raced Formula 5000 for Haas/Hall Chaparral team. 1974-75-76 Formula 5000 series champion for Haas/Hall. 1970 South African Springbok Champion. 1981 IMSA Camel GTP Champion. Currently races Lola, Chevron and Ford GT-40 cars in Vintage/Historic races. Promotes many of the country’s most-prestigious Vintage/Historic events. Contributing editor to Road & Track magazine, past president of the RRDC, life member of the British Racing Drivers Club. Inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Detroit in 2002

BUDDY RICE       Phoenix,AZ
Winner of the 2004 Indianapolis-500…went on to finish third in the IRL Championship Series, scoring three wins and five poles. Began racing karts when he was eleven.
Buddy’s professional car racing career began in 1996, when he drove in one U.S. F2000 event, finishing eighth…also drove in the Dodge Shelby Pro Series, winning from the pole at Las Vegas. In 1997 he finished fourth in the F-2000 Series.…also won the 1997 Valvoline Team USA Scholarship, and represented the United States in Europe’s Nations Cup. In 1998 he finished seventh in the Toyota Atlantic Series and won the Gilles Villeneuve Memorial Award. He finished fifth in the Toyota Atlantic championship the following year and in 2000 he won the Series Championship.

TOMMY RIGGINS     Jacksonville, FL
After a 1967 start on North Florida and South Georgia dirt ovals, by 1976 Tommy was NASCAR Busch Grand National races at Daytona, Talladega and Charlotte … he then made a switch to road racing with the new Kelly American Challenge series in 1977, earning the Most Improved Driver award and three times finished in second place … Since Tommy was more than just a driver, he deservedly won the Kelly series’ Mechanic of the Year award in 1982, and two years later the Drivers’ Championship, repeating that honor in 1985 …Ensuing years saw many ventures into IMSA GTO, SCCA Trans-Am, NASCAR Winston Cup, ARCA and F.I.A. races offshore, resulting in a 1987 GTO class win at Sebring, four IMSA GT wins, and two in Camel Lights … he returned to the cockpit in a big way in 2003, winning Grand-Am’s Rolex Series GTS class Drivers’ Championship.

EDWARD ROBINSON    Augusta, GA


STANLEY  ROSS     Columbus, OH
Veteran Vintage car racer since 1987 who has had the privilege of driving some of the world’s most-famous marques, including Ford GT40 MkI and MkII, Ferrari 250 Testa Rosa, Lotus 11, Porsche 962C, ex-Rahal CART Lola-Cosworth, March-Chevrolet, and 1989 Formula 1 Ferrar.

HENRY RUDKIN Jr.     Norwalk, CT


PETER  SACHS     Stamford, Conn.
Used a Turner 950 to begin his sportsman racing career in 1960. Switched to a Lotus 23 to become the 1963 Runoffs champion in F Modified. Won a Divisional title in 1964 with a Brabham BT5. Has been involved in Historic racing since 1979. IMSA Firehawk and Grand-Am Cup since 1994, mostly in Ford Mustang Cobras

BORIS  SAID     Carlsbad, Calif.
If it has wheels and looks like a fun vehicle to drive, Boris has raced it and probably put it in the winner’s circle … A native of New York City and son of late RRDC member Bob Said, Boris was inspired to go four-wheel racing when a friend gave him tickets to the Detroit Grand Prix and watched neighbor Bob Sharp race a Nissan in the Trans-Am support event … His first race was an SCCA Escort Endurance 12-hour at Road Atlanta in a Mustang, an event which he not only drove the whole thing by himself but was his own one-man pit crew … He won SCCA Runoffs National Championships in Showroom Stock GT in 1989-90-91, and his first professional title in 1992 while racing a Dodge Stealth in the IMSA Firestone Firehawk Endurance Championship … He won the 2002 Trans-Am series driving title and in the process, Ford’s 100th win in the series … He graduated to the NASCAR Truck Series for the 1997-98 seasons and scored one win, but along the way befriended many Nationwide and Nextel Cup series drivers and team owners, making him much in demand as a test driver and occasional racer in the Nextel Cup series … His fee for testing the late Dale Earnhardt’s car prior to a race at Watkins Glen was to have his picture taken driving the car …In 2003 he won the pole at Sears Point, and in 2005 finished third in the Cup race at the Glen … During the 2005 season he shared a BMW M3 GTR in the 24 Hours of Nurburgring and won the race by five laps in weather ranging from sunshine to rain to snow.

JOHN  SAURINO     Tulsa, Ok.
How deeply is John into racing? The names of his children are Nigel, Hans, Jacques and Senna … John began racing 19 years ago and made it to the podium at the SCCA’s Runoffs by 1992, but it took another 12 years for him to reach the top step when he won the F Production National Championship with his MG Midget … that drive, and John’s spirit, made him an easy choice to received the RRDC’s Mark Donohue Award for 2004 … He validated that year’s drive in 2005 by winning the GT-3 National Championship in a Nissan 240SX.

BILL SCHMIDT    Wilton, CT


DORSEY  SCHROEDER     Little Torch Key, Fla.
In 1971, at age 19, Dorsey became the first person under age 21 to be awarded an SCCA National competition license. It turned out to be a good move on SCCA’s part, and a good one for American road racing as a whole …In 1985, his first professional racing season, he won the SCCA Lucas Pro Sports Renault title, followed that four years later with a Trans-Am championship in a Jack Roush Ford Mustang, and the 1990 Trans-Am title in a Roush Mercury Cougar … His longest tenure was 81 races in 11 years of Trans-Am racing, where he won 17 races and finished on the podium 43 times … He also had 56 starts in the IMSA Camel GT series and 42 in the IMSA Firestone Firehawk series, where he was a stalwart on Paul Rossi’s factory Dodge team …In all, Dorsey won 40 pro races in 242 starts on 47 circuits around the world … His other talents have earned him a sit-in keyboards job with the rock group “38 Special,” and a job with SPEED TV as a commentator-who-has-been-there.


LARRY  SCHUMACHER     Cincinnati, OH
Larry began racing in1968 with a Formula Vee, then turned semi-pro in 1974 in IMSA’s BFG Radial Challenge series with a BMW 2002. He won his first professional race in 1993 at age 57, in IMSA’s Firestone Firehawk Endurance Championship series, driving a Pontiac Firebird with Doug Goad at Road Atlanta. He was named the series’ Rising Star that year… racing against men young enough to be his sons, he won his first series Drivers Championship , IMSA’s 1996 Exxon GTS-2 title, at age 60; and his fourth driving title in 1999 at age 63. His other three pro racing championships are a 1997 repeat of the IMSA GTS-2 title, again in 1998, and the 1999 SCCA U. S. Road Racing Championship series honors, in GT2; all with Porsches. His major class wins include the 1996 12 Hours of Sebring. Even though he has won over 20 races in five different series at 11 different tracks, his 1972, 1978 and 1987 efforts to retire were utter failures, and to this day he continues to be a force in professional racing.

VERN SCHUPPAN    Adelaide 5000, Australia

Vern drove in many categories, but arguably most of his success was as a sports car driver and was heavily associated with Porsche. He was the 1983 Japanese Sports-Prototype Champion, and followed his 1976 5th place finish and 1977 1982 2nd place finishes in the 24 hours of Le Mans by winning in 1983 driving a Porsche 956 with Al Holbert and Hurley Haywood. With Japanese backing, he also produced a road going evolution of the Porsche 962 called the Schuppan 962CR. He won the 1974 and 1976 Macau Grand Prix races… participated in 13 Formula One World Championship races, mostly for Ensign and Surtees….competed in three Indianapolis 500 races (1976, 1979, 1981), with a best result of third in 1981 driving a McLaren-Ford. Also won the Rothmans International Formula 5000 Series Championship.

TOM SCHWEITZ    Winchester, VA

Tom is a four-time SCCA National Champion - winning in GT-4, Formula Ford and F-2000. Also finished second in GT-3. Top competitor in the F-2000 Pro Series.

DON SESSLAR     Lancaster, OH
The fabled dead-of-winter races in Nassau, Bahamas during the late 1950s and early 60s was the first place where Don’s talent excelled, with overall wins in the 50-mile and 200-mile races there in 1958 in his Porsche 550 RS … The new Porsche 718 RSK the next year, and a stellar co-driving job by Bob Holbert, resulted in a class win and fourth overall finish in the 12 Hours of Sebring … The SCCA’s highest award in Club racing, the President’s Cup, was earned by Don in 1959 at Marlboro, MD, with that Porsche RSK, along with the SCCA’s F Modified National Championship .. Don won his second National Championship in 1964, with his F Production Sunbeam Alpine.

BOB SHARP

Bob holds six Sports Car Club of America National Championships - less than a dozen drivers have won more. Not only an immensely talented race car driver, Sharp also was a successful race team owner, working with such noted drivers as Jim Fitzgerald, Brad Frisselle and legendary actor/race car driver Paul Newman. Actor Tom Cruise and NFL Hall of Fame running back Walter Payton also have driven Bob Sharp Racing cars.

SCOTT SHARP     Jupiter, FL
Scott is the 2009 ALMS P1 Co-Champion (along with fellow RRDC member David Brabham)..... Finished third in ALMS P2 in 2008. SCCA GT-2 National Champion in 1986... GT-1 Champion in 1987 and 1988....SCCA Trans-Am Champion in 1991 and 1993. Indy Racing League Co-Champion in 1996..... Scored nine victories in Indy Cars. Began racing in karts when he was eight years old – winning fifty out of seventy-five races.... The son of long-time RRDC member Bob Sharp.


DENNIS  SHAW     Raleigh, N.C.
Dennis quickly caught the racing bug after spectating a 1969 race at Virginia International, and in 1971, at age 18, won the first race he entered, an invitational IMSA event at Daytona … He quickly became the engine builder for Amos Johnson’s Team Highball between 1974 and 1992 , but also matured into a winning driver with 14 race wins and the 1985 series championship in IMSA’s BFG Radial Challenge and its successor series … Switching to the IMSA Camel GTU class with Johnson’s Mazda RX-7 cars, he is a three-time winner (1986-’87-’88) of the Rolex 24 At Daytona, and knocked down a 12 Hours of Sebring win in the same class in 1988 … In the meantime, he won a 1982 IMSA Renault Challenge race … He now runs Dennis Shaw Racesports Performance Engines.

JEREMY SHAW     Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
Began writing about the sport while at school in England in 1974....has remained a contributor to Autosport magazine to this day....moved to the U.S. in 1985 to become Editorial Director of On Track magazine....edited the Autocourse CART/Champ Car Official Yearbook and provided the English language international television commentary for the CART/Champ Car World Series from 1994 to 2007....currently announces for the American Le Mans Series Radio network....founded the Team USA Scholarship as a means of helping young American race car drivers in 1990....organized the RRDC’s first West Coast dinner (honoring Dan Gurney) as part of the Grand Prix of Long Beach in 2009, and is hosting the "SAFE is FAST" RRDC/FIA Young Driver Symposiums....has raced himself in a variety of cars and series since 1978....highlights have included a lap record at Oulton Park, overtaking David Hobbs during the 1983 Tourist Trophy at Silverstone ("he won’t remember but I do!") and winning the Masters class during Pacific F2000 Championship races in 2006 and 2007.

CARROLL SHELBY
The legendary father of the Cobra and the Shelby Mustang, Carroll was also one of the USA’s top racing drivers in the 1950’s. His first race was behind the wheel of a friend’s MGTC which he not only won, but defeated the bigger Jaguar XK120’s in the process. Moved up to racing a Cadillac Allard…winning nine out of nine races in 1953. Went on to race extensively in Europe… driving sports cars for Aston Martin, Ferrari, and Maserati. Raced F1 cars for Aston Martin and Scudaria Centro Sud. Won the USRRC Championship in 1960. Retired from driving in 1960 due to a heart problem…sold his first Cobra two years later


MONTE  SHELTON     Portland, Ore.
Famous throughout the Pacific Northwest for his 43 years in racing, starting with an Austin Healey 100 in 1960. Has raced in Can-Am, Formula 5000, IMSA Camel GT and SCCA Trans-Am (5 wins). 11 times at 24 Hours of Daytona. Has raced great collection of cars including Lola T-70, ex-Team McLaren M8F, Eagle, Cobra, 8 models of Porsches including 917. Now races a Porsche 935 hybrid in Club events.

KAL SHOWKET    Napa, CA

KRIS  SKAAVNES    East Sparta, NJ
The 2004 winner of the SCCA’s Sportsman of the Year title and 2005 winner of the RRDC’s Mark Donohue award, Kris is one of many drivers who have parlayed that award into an invitation to join the Club … Starting in 1982 with a SCCA Showroom Stock Ford Mustang, Kris also competed in 56 IMSA Firestone Firehawk and Speedvision Cup races between 1986 and 1997, winning 13 of them, the 1993 Rising Star award and the 1995 Compact class Drivers’ Championship … Now a factory driver for the Subaru of America team in the Grand-Am Koni Challenge series – alongside RRDC member Chuck Hemmingson – Kris and Chuck won the 2007 season races at Mid-Ohio and Lime Rock.

KEN SLAGLE    Annapolis, MD

MURRAY SMITH    Washington DT, CT

Murray is a well-known competitor in all forms of motorsports in a wide variety of vehicles but perhaps less recognized for his management experience in the field.  He is past Chairman of BMP, the organization which runs the four major British Championships, Formula 3, British Touring Cars, GT and Superbikes and he is also a past member of the FIA Formula One Management Commission.  Smith was the founder of the extraordinary Louis Vuitton Classic at Rockefeller Centre and also the instigator and organizer of the Legendes Historic Racing event at Mont Tremblant in Quebec.  He was also the first to recognize the commercial potential of historic and classic car events and has been successfully involved with sponsorship development at Goodwood. Nurburgring, Monterey, Silverstone, Monaco and with Barrett Jackson in Scottsdale.

BENGT  SODERSTROM     Greendell, NJ
Began racing in 1955 with a Porsche Speedster, a stalwart of the grand era when road racers were "gentlemen, with no prize monies or factory assistance. We drove our cars to and from the races as far away from our home in New Jersey to Kansas City and Elkhart Lake, Wis.". Won an SCCA National Championship in his rookie year in what became F Production, then repeated the feat the next year in E Production. Won many hillclimbs and local club events using a Porsche-powered Volkswagen, and later, his Porsche Speedster

JOE  SPOSATO     Arcadia, Calif.
While not otherwise-occupied running his fire equipment business, Joe became one of the more successful sportsman open-wheel racers in the country … In the late 1970s he won SCCA Regional championships in both Formula Ford and Formula Atlantic, then earned the Canadian Automobile SportsClub’s 1979 Atlantic title …In 1990, he finished second in the Atlantic pro series.

KEN SQUIER     Waterbury, CT

The voice of Ken Squier has been easily recognized, for the last 50 years, by a few thousand fans at the high banks of Vermont's Thunder Road, or a few million listening to the "Great American Race" from the high banks of the Daytona Speedway. Ken started out as an announcer at Mallets Bay and the Northeastern Speedway in the 1950's, before opening Thunder Road, the Barre, Vermont. quarter mile oval, which he still owns. Ken is one of the founders of World Sports Enterprises and the Motor Racing Network, where he served as announcer and play by play commentator. Ken worked for CBS Sports for over 25 years. It was there that he announced the first live flag to flag coverage of the Daytona 500 in 1979. He has received Emmy nominations for Outstanding Edited Sport Series and Outstanding National Sports Broadcaster..


LYN  ST. JAMES     Phoenix, AZ
Gave up a potential career as a piano teacher to become legendary proponent for bringing women into racing. First appeared on the radar screen when she placed second in an IMSA Kelly American Challenge race , IMSA GTO class wins at Road America, Watkins Glen and Daytona in 1985, then the 1987 Rolex 24 at Daytona. Her Watkins Glen win was the first solo GT race win by a woman. Second woman in history to race in Indianapolis 500. Indy 500 Rookie of the Year in 1992 after an 11th place finish; her first of seven starts. Qualified sixth there in 1994, highest start for a woman in America’s most-fabled race. Set a female driver world record closed course speed of 225.722 during the ‘95 race’s qualifying. Holds 31 international and national closed circuit records, two starts in 24 Hours of Le Mans, 53 SCCA Trans-Am starts and 62 in IMSA GT classes. Honored as Sports Illustrated’s top 100 women athletes of the 20th Century. Selected by Working Women magazine as one of 350 women who changed the world between 1976-96. Recipient of the 2001 Guiding Women in Sports award from the National Association for Girls and Women in Sports. Frequent television talk show guest and commentator on ESPN and ABC-TV. 1990-93 President of the Women’s Sports Foundation and active on a lengthy list of national advisory boards. Currently heads her Lyn St. James Foundation and working on Women’s Driver Development Programs. Her autobiographical book, 'The Ride of Your Life,' was published in 2002.

FRED STEVENSON    Lakeville, CT

JACKIE STEWART     Northlants, England
Sir Jackie is a three-time F1 World Champion – winning in 1969, 1971, and 1973. Scored 27 Grand Prix victories. Won two Can Am races in 1971 driving for Carl Haas against the McLaren juggernaut. Began racing Porsches and AC Bristols under the assumed name of "A.N Another " to hide his motorsport aspirations from his parents. Won his first F3 race in 1964 in the rain and went on to win 11 of 12 races that year. In his first USA race, he won the 12-Hours of Marlboro driving a Cortina.. After retiring from competition he became an ABC Television commentator. Founded the Stewart Grand Prix Team with his son in 1997 and the team won the Nurburgring GP in 1999.


RAY  STONE     Boiling Springs, PA
Another devotee of the Austin-Healey Sprites … began racing in 1963 and in 1991 won his first H Production Runoffs title, then combined that with the SCCA President’s Cup honor, backed it all up with a repeat Runoffs championship in 1992. In addition to his two Runoffs championships, Ray has finished in the top 10 spots 11 times.

JUDY STROPUS     Ridgefield, Conn.
Although Judy has spent some time behind the wheel of race cars ranging from VW Rabbits to Chevrolet Monzas to her vintage Osca, she is better known for her dual careers in racing public relations and as the person who, working for Penske Racing, brought the art of race timing and scoring into the 20th century, then wrote a best-selling book (in the racing market) about how do that … Judy was the RRDC’s secretary for many years, after her help was requested by Mark Donohue, and her well-outfitted hospitality RRDC motor home was an annual fixture at the SCCA Runoffs, with its door open to not only RRDC members, but to anybody in the racing community … Her corporate public relations business has listed companies from General Motors to Dunlop, Pirelli and BMW over the years; her current focus is Don Schumacher’s multi-championship in NHRA drag racing …her editing talents were used by the publishers of the Auto Racing USA book in the 1980s, and her racing-oriented affiliations include the Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Assn., and the Madison Avenue Sports Car Driving and Chowder Society ... in 2009 was honored with the Jim Chapman Award for Excellence in Motorsports Public Relations.


HANS STUCK    Ellmau, Austria
Son of a famous pre-World War II driver by the same name, Hans won the 24 Hours of LeMans in 1986-87. Won the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1986, ’88 and ’93, 24 Hours of Nurburgring in 1970 and ’98, 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps in 1972, 1972 and ’90 German Touring Car champion, 1979 BMW Procar Series winner, 1985 Sportscar World Champion. Won the ADAC Supercup in 1987, and IMSA’s Bridgestone Supercar Championship in 1995. Has also raced Formula 1, Formula 2, European Touring Car Championship, SCCA Trans-Am Championship, and FIA GT Championship. Driving in SCCA SPEED World Challenge for BMW in 2003

DANNY SULLIVAN

Danny participated in 15 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, all during 1983, debuting on March 13. He scored two championship points. The following year Sullivan returned to America, where he competed in the CART Championship Auto Racing Team open-wheel series winning the Indianapolis 500 in 1985. The "spin and win" footage of his red and white Miller American spinning through 360 degrees down the south short chute (between turns one and two) at Indy after passing Mario Andretti for the lead in the race's 120th lap has been played on countless motorsports programs. Recovering from the spin undamaged except for flat-spotted tires, Sullivan went into the pits for new rubber, then returned to the track and passed Mario a second time twenty laps later to go on for the win. Danny would set the pace at Indy again in 1988, leading 91 of the first 101 laps, until he drifted out and hard into the turn 1 wall. Nevertheless, he went on to win the CART series title for Roger Penske that year. In 1986, Sullivan was a guest star on the television show Mimi Vice playing a race car driver accused of murdering a prostitute.

JOHN SURTEES    Kent, England

The only man to win World Championships on two wheels as well as four… After winning four World 500cc World Motorcycle Championships riding for MV Augusta,
he switched to cars - making his Formula 1 debut racing for Lotus in the Monaco Grand Prix ….he scored a second place in only his second Formula One race - the 1960 British Grand Prix. He moved to Ferrari in 1963 and won the World Championship in 1964. Competed in the inaugural Can Am series in 1966, winning three of six races to capture the Championship. In 1970 he formed his own race team and spent nine seasons competing in Formula 5000, Formula 2 and Formula 1 as a constructor.

Dr. DICK THOMPSON     Wellington, FL

Known as "The Flying Dentist", he won numerous Sports Car Club of America championships and was inducted in the Corvette Hall of Fame. In the 1970s, he raced for the factory Corvette team of Briggs Cunningham. He began racing in 1952 in one of the first 12 hour races at Sebring International Raceway driving to the track in his MG TD. He caught Corvette engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov's eye in 1956 when he was the only driver to compete in a production Corvette… won the SCCA championship in his Corvette in 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961 and 1962 in Classes A, B and C. He was selected to test drive a new Corvette Grand Sport at Sebring in December 1962. In 1963, he drove a Corvette Grand Sport to victory at Watkins Glen International. He took third place that year at Daytona International Speedway and won the GT class in 1970.


BOB TULLIUS     Sebring, Fla
Started in 1953 on oval tracks with a 1937 Ford Coupe. Multi-time Runoffs champion, 1962 E Production, 1963-64 D Production, 1975 B Production. Brought the MG and Triumph brands to America’s forefront with Group 44 team which took professionalism in amateur racing to a new level. Progressed to Jaguars first in Club Racing, then in IMSA Camel GT series. Now restores World War II fighter planes


LAKE UNDERWOOD     Stuart, Fla.
Lake took up amateur sports racing when it was still in its infancy, 1952, driving an MG in the SCCA’s E Production ranks … He switched to a “bathtub” Porsche 356 and won back-to-back F/P National Championships in 1956-57, then a third in 1963 with a larger engine … He also raced a rare Porsche 550 Spyder during that era .. Lake did himself well in his few professional races, finishing sixth in his class in the 1959 12 Hours of Sebring racing a Lister Jaguar with fellow RRDC members Stirling Moss, Briggs Cunningham and Russ Boss … Lake and Cunningham paired to win their class at the 1964 Sebring in a 904GT; and won again in 1965 racing a factory Porsche 904 with Gunther Klass as his co-driver, against a plethora of Chaparral, Ford GT40, Ferrari 330 and Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupes, they finished 5th overall that year … Lake’s final Sebring race saw a fourth place finish in the Sport Prototype class, driving a Porsche 906 with Ed Hugus.


ARCHIE  URCIUOLI     Casey Key, Florida
First raced Jaguars (XK140MC & E-type) in New England SCCA regional events in late 50s and early 60s ... Returned to racing in 1988 in Barber Formula Ford, and VSCCA, SVRA and HSR vintage classes ... From 1990 – 1996 campaigned a D-type Jaguar, Ford GT Mk IV and Ralt Formula 2 at tracks across the United States, with a number of podium finishes …Winner, Skip Barber Racing Cup, 1994 … Ran Ford GT40 Mk IV at Bonneville speed week in 1996, at top speed of 226 and one-mile average of 187 mph ... Co-drove G &W Motorsports First Union Bank Porsche GT3 in Rolex 24 At Daytona (DNF in 1998; 9th in class in 1999) … Also continued vintage racing and won Monterey Historics Award in 1997 ... Continued in HSR/SVRA vintage GTP and FIA classes with Chevron B-36, Porsche 956, and Ford GT/40 from 1999 to present ... Many podium finishes from 1988 to present: 1st in class, 5th overall at 2002 Sebring Rolex Enduro, 1st in class and 6th o/a at 2003 Sebring Rolex Enduro, 1st in class and 4th o/a at 2003 Road Atlanta HSR Enduro ... Winner of GTP 2 in 2003 HSR/SVRA GTP/Group C Series Championship ... Overall winner of HSR Historic GTP/Group C series championship in 2005.


PETER  URIA     Plantation, Fla.
Peter started racing in 1977 with a Triumph Spitfire, then became was one of the stars of IMSA Camel GT racing in its GTU class during the early 1990s, sharing his class win in the Rolex 24 at Daytona four times 1991-93, and picking off a 12 Hours of Sebring win in 1993 … His 1991 Daytona triumph earned him MOMO’s “Driver of the Race” honor.

JIMMY VASSER
A former RRDC Team USA Scholarship winner, Jimmy went on to become one of Indy- cars most successful drivers – winning the CART Champ-Car Championship in 1996, finishing second in 1999 and third in 1997. Scored ten CART victories in 232 starts. Was the 1987 SCCA Formula Ford Champion. Won the Formula Atlantic  East/West Challenge in 1990 and finished second in the Formula Atlantic series in 1991.Currently the co-owner of the PKV Indy car team.    

TOM  VAN CAMP     Haslett, Mich.
Started racing in go karts, but quickly jumped to cars .. 1987 Runoffs winner in Showroom Stock C with a Volkswagen GTI, and 1995 Runoffs champ in Spec Racer. 7 SCCA Divisional championships in 3 different classes. All-time leader in National race wins for Spec Racer and Spec Racer/Ford class. Has National wins in 6 classes

SAREL VAN DER MERWE    Johannesburg, South Africa

JOE VARDE    Orlando, FL

Joe has four major driving championships to his credit - including the 2000 Motorola Cup (predecessor to Continental Tire Challenge) Super Grand Sport title. He began competing in sports cars in 1977 as a driver, and has crewed during several seasons as well -  most notably earning the 1995 Crew Chief of the Year in the Ferrari Challenge. He has also worked on NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series teams. Overall, he has 56 professional race victories in six professional series spanning all of his different positions.

TERRY VISGER     Santa Clara, CA

ED  WACHS     Lake Bluff, Ill.
In the heyday of the SCCA Trans-Am Championship’s 2.5 Challenge division, Ed was one of the strongest Alfa Romeo competitors, driving his Alfa GTV … Between 1967 and 1983, he scored numerous podium finishes in that series, plus SCCA Super Vee, VW Scirocco Cup, Bilstein Rabbit Cup, the two-liter Can-Am class, and even USAC stock cars …Now focused on Vintage racing, he’s won nine races and the SVRA’s BOSS Championship.

ANDY WALLACE

In an impressive career Andy has finished on the podium in more than 70 major events, winning more than thirty - including the Le Mans 24 Hours (1988), the Daytona 24 Hours (1990, 1997, 1999), the Sebring 12 Hours (1992, 1993), the Silverstone 4 Hours (1995, 1996) and the Petit Le Mans (1999). Before that, the British born driver  was also a star in single-seaters, winning the British Formula 3 title in 1986 with an impressive 11 victories. In recent years he has been one of the dominant performers in American sports car racing, mainly at the wheel of the Dyson Racing MG Lola EX257  in the American Le Mans Series. In March of 1998, driving a Mclaren F1, he set what was then a world speed record for a production-based car - 240.14 miles-per-hour.

E.J. WALSH Jr.

ROB  WALTON     Bentonville, Ark.
Since starting his on track career in 1994, Rob has primarily focused his efforts on racing vintage sports cars ... Over the years, Rob's involvement has expanded to include a variety of cars from 1600 c.c. Alfa Romeos to 427 Corvettes ... He has competed in over 60 events in the U. S., Europe, Africa, and Mexico ... In a form of motorsports best known for not giving trophies or awards, he has achieved considerable success ... Notable achievements include winning the Monterey Cup at the 2000 Monterey Historic Races, and the Rolex Award for Outstanding Presentation and Performance at the 2004 Lime Rock Vintage Fall Festival. He has several class wins in the multi-day, multi-race Tour Auto in France, and Vintage race wins at Road America, Laguna Seca, Sears Point, and Lime Rock .. In addition to his vintage activities, in 1995 – 98 Rob also competed in the IMSA Speedvision Cup. Sharing a Pontiac Firebird with Don Knowles … their best finish was a 1997 third place at Road Atlanta.


BILL  WARNER     Jacksonville, Fla.
Although his efforts in organized professional and amateur road racing have netted him one win in the former SCCA Escort Endurance series, Bill’s major contributions to the sport have been in preserving its history and significant cars. In 1996 he founded the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance; the show has raised over $1.2 million for the care of terminally-iIl children and adults .. In 1997 he was named the Volunteer Fund Raiser of the Year by the National Society of Fund Raising Enterprises. Has also judged at the Meadow Brook and Louis Vuitton Concours shows. In 2002 was named Meguiar’s Collector Car Hobbiest of the Year. One of the first participants in the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash in 1971 and 1975 (the latter in a Hertz rental car). Has driven factory-sponsored cars for Saab in part of the world speed/distance record run at Talladega. Also widely-regarded as a professional photographer and writer for Road & Track and countless others, with many peer awards


JOHN  WEINBERGER     Naperville, Ill
Like so many others before and after John, his first race car was a Porsche Speedster … 10 years later he was in a new Porsche 911S which won a Chicago Region SCCA class championship and set a class track record at the old Wilmot Hills circuit … By 1968 he was racing a Porsche 906 which set a track record at Meadowdale and also won the Central Division and National Championship in the B Sports-Racing class … Starting in 1989, John, along with his son, Joel, became deeply-involved in racing vintage cars, including a Porsche 906, Lotus 23, Ferrari F-2, Maserati A66CS and an Alfa Romeo TZ1 … In these rides, he has won the 2001 USRRC Under 2 Liter title, and scored dozens of race wins at Road America, Laguna Seca and a street race in Grand Rapids, Mich. … his wife, Lisa, also does Vintage racing with an ex-Janet Guthrie Toyota Celica; and Joel made it to the SCCA Runoffs in 2006 in D Sports-Racing


DAVE  WEITZENHOF     Bath, Ohio
1972 RRDC Mark Donohue Award winner. 1977 SCCA President’s Cup winner. 7 Runoffs wins: 1972 Formula Vee, 1977-79-81-87 Formula Ford, 1992-98 Formula Continental, 1977, 1979-83 Champion of American Formula Ford Assn. Competed in 1985 Formula Ford Race of Champions at British Grand Prix. Has also raced IMSA GTP and GTU.. 187 pro and SCCA National race wins and 55 track records set since 1968.  Was the development driver for the SCCA Spec Renault (now Spec Racer Ford).


TED  WENZ    Savannah, GA
With a college degree in mechanical engineering, Ted has been able to apply his education to racing as a talented driver, an engine builder and chassis developer for many front-line racing teams in historical, amateur and professional racing from road courses to Bonneville …As a driver he’s won six various Historic racing championships in F/5000 and Indy cars … Ted also became a life member of the 200mph Club at Bonneville with a class record average speed of 252.623mph …As an SCCA Club racer he drove everything from a Lotus S-7 to a Lola T300 F/5000 car, winning several regional championships … The list of cars he’s developed and/or raced range from Sprites to ex-Formula 1 cars, not to mention a dirt track Modified car … He is currently Chief Technical Advisor and Director of Competition for the Monoposto series, and Technical Advisor for the HSR BOSS series … He started building engines in 1969 and continues that to this day with his company, Marcovicci-Wenz Engineering, with clients in amateur and professional racing.

ROGER WERNER Greenwich, CT
A top competitor in vintage and club racing, Roger made his greatest contribution to the sport as founder of SPEEDVISION – which he sold to Fox. Now as SPEEDTV, it is the prime television venue for road racing. Coverage includes: F1, the Rolex Series, the ALMS, and the SCCA National Championship Runoffs. Roger is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business and a former president of ESPN.

DON WESTER    Carmel Valley, CA

DAVID WHITE Sr.      Tampa, FL


GEORGE  WINTERSTEEN     West Grove, PA
George’s road racing career was comparatively short – only a decade – but he squeezed two decades worth of success and fun into those years when there were only SCCA and FIA to contend … The popular hillclimbs in eastern Pennsylvania first caught George’s fancy, and by the time the 1962 season rolled around, he’d already traded his Porsche 1600 for an ex-Pedro Rodriguez Porsche RSK which he bought from Bob Holbert. That car, on SCCA road courses, the next year earned him an E Modified championship for the Northeast Division …The next rung on the ladder was a huge one, buying an Elva-Porsche, but first he shared Ed Lowther’s thundering 427 Cobra at Sebring to an unremarkable result … The Elva was used in the Mosport Players 200 race to a seventh place, then was quickly replaced with Roger Penske’s Cooper-Chevrolet for the West Coast series … A good run at Riverside until the engine broke encouraged George to step up the ladder and purchase Penske’s Corvette Grand Sport Coupe which he drove in the famed Nassau Speed Weeks events. The SCCA noted the quality of George’s presence and his driving ability by awarding him their coveted Kimberly Cup for the year. … He started 1965 with a soggy 14th place finish in the infamous Sebring “deluge” race with the Corvette, and after some USRRC races was invited to England for the Guards Trophy at Brands Hatch in a McLaren.Mk-1A … in 1966 George became the driver for Penske’s first races as a non-driving entrant, driving the Corvette at both Daytona and Sebring, the latter to a 9th place finish and winning the GTO class, then bought the Corvette (chassis #002) and raced in selected USRRC events … won the SCCA’s Formula B National Championship in the Northeast Division with a Brabham …went open wheel racing in 1968 with a Gurney-Eagle in the SCCA’s Formula 5000 series, winning at Lime Rock Park and Donnybrooke Raceway, and even though he had to miss two races, he still took the championship down to the final race of the season. …1969 was a consistent season in F/5000, finishing inside the top five at every race he entered, and became a feature in actor/driver James Garner’s “The Racing Scene” movie by destroying his Lola in the first lap at St. Jovite. …Gerorge paired with Dick Smothers for the 1970 F/5000 season using a pair of Lotus 70s. His best finish was his third consecutive rnner-up finish at Laguna Seca in three races.


BILL  WUESTHOFF     Mequon, WI
Successful amateur racer starting in 1955 with succession of MG, Alfa-Romeo and Porsche cars, but really made his mark in the fledgling professional and semi-pro events of the time. Ran the 1000km Nurburgring races in a Porsche Carrera GT Speedster as early as 1958. Shared an Elva-Porsche with fellow RRDC member Augie Pabst to win the 1963 Road America 500. Finished second overall to Jim Hall in the 1964 U. S. Road Racing Championship series, and won the Under 2 Liter class, third overall behind two 3-liter Ferraris in the 1962 12 Hours of Sebring classic, sharing a 1.5 liter Porsche RS60 with Frank Rand and Bruce Jennings, and won the event's quirky Index of Performance award for their fuel efficient effort.

TOM YAEGER     Naples, FL
Began his racing career on the streets of Marion, Ohio, in a lowered 1950 Mercury, then progressed to sports cars with an MGA and an Austin-Healey 100. Attending SCCA races as a spectator got him afflicted with 'the bug', and by 1962, he was racing a Lotus 7 in organized events, raced a Merlyn Mk 6 in Regionals and Nationals, and even placed 10th overall in the 1964 U. S. Road Racing Championship event at Mid-Ohio. Moved up to a Shelby Mustang GT-350 and a 289 Cobra in 1965. Turned professional in 1966 with the advent of SCCA’s new Trans-Am series, driving a notchback Mustang with some Shelby and Ford Assistance. Tom and co-driver Bob Johnson won the Trans-Am races at V.I.R. and Mid-America Raceway; the first Ford wins in Trans-Am ; their points clinched the Manufacturer’s Championship for Ford. Drove a Mustang to 2nd in class at the 1967 Rolex 24 At Daytona. Retired from active racing that year to become an SCCA-licensed instructor for Production car drivers. Now active in SVRA racing with Lotus, Spice and Chevron cars. 1996 SVRA Driver of the Year and winner of the Chopard Award at the Monterey Historics event. Restoring a ’64 Merlyn, identical to his fist real race car, and plans to race it in 2004.

DECEASED MEMBERS

ROBERT AKIN, III
WILLIAM ANSPACH
FRANK BAPTISTA
JOHN GORDON BENETT
RUSSELL BOSS
C.T. “Ted BOYNTON
BOB BUCHER
RONALD BUCKNUM
HARRY CARTER
PAUL CERESOLE
LUIGI CHINETTI
MILES COLLIER
PETER COLLINS
GEORGE CONSTANTINE
GEORGE COUZENS
ED CRAWFORD
JERRY CRAWFORD
JACK CRUSOE
BRIGGS CUNNINGHAM
RICHARD  DAVENPORT
MARK DONOHUE
ROBERT DRAKE
RENE DREYFUS
ERNEST ERICKSON
MIKE EYERLY
JUAN MANUAL FANGIO
ROBERT FERGUS
JAMES FITZGERALD
G. WILLIAM FLEMING
BRIAN FUERSTENAU
CHARLES GIBSON
RICHIE GINTHER
MASTER GREGORY
ROBERT GROSSMAN
PAUL HACKER
E.L. HALL
WALT HANSGEN
CHARLES HASSAN
JACK HINKLE
GRAHM HILL
PHIL HILL
ALVAH HOLBERT
ROBERT HOLBERT
WILLIAM HOLBROOK
J. EDWARD HUGUS
BRUCE JENNINGS
BOB JOHNSON
SHERWOOD JOHNSTON
JOHN KELLY
JOHN KILBORN
JAMES KIMBERLY
PETER KUHN
ED LESLIE
GORDON ‘Tippy” LIPE
EDMUND LUNKEN
JACK McAFEE
BRUCE McLAREN
ARCH McNEILL
H. TALBOT  “Chip” MEAD
JOHN VAN MEYER
MILT MINTER
CHARLES MORAN, Jr.
LEE MUELLER
PAUL NEWMAN

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EMIL ‘PUP” PUPULIDY
CHARLES RAINVILLE
GEORGE C. RAND
PETER REVSON
PAUL RICHARDS
ART RILEY
ANDY ROSENBERGER
BOB SAID
VINCE SARDI, Jr.
BILL SCOTT
ROY SCOTT
CARL SHAFER
HAP SHARP
BOB SNODGRASS
WILLIAM SPEAR
HAL STETSON
PHIL STILES
MARTIN TANNER
PAUL TIMMINS
EDWARD  TOBIN
WARREN TOPE
JERRY TRUITT
LAKE UNDERWOOD
DOLPH VILARDI
CHARLES WALLACE
PHILLIP WALTERS
RODGER WARD
GEORGE WEAVER
JOHN WEITZ
ROBERT WILDER
FRED WINDRIDGE, Jr