Long-time RRDC member and current FIA Senate President Nick Craw was presented with the prestigious Phil Hill Award at the annual RRDC dinner/meeting at Daytona Beach.

Named in honor of the USA’s first Formula One World Champion, the Phil Hill Award is given each year to the person who the RRDC feels has rendered outstanding service to road racing.

Nick Craw is interviewed by SPEEDTv's Bob Varsha

After receiving his award, Nick engaged in a lively question and answer session with SpeedTv’s  Formula One broadcaster Bob Varsha. A lawyer by training, Varsha grilled Nick about the inner workings of the FIA and the recent Formula One off and on-track scandals. Nick’s candid, off-the-record comments were enlightening to say the least.

Nick has been an FIA Senate member while also head of the American Automobile Competition Committee of the U.S. (ACCUS) - an umbrella body representing NASCAR, NHRA, IRL, SCCA, IMSA-ALMS, Grand-Am, USAC and WKA. He had left his position as U.S. SAILING Executive Director in 2004 to concentrate on ACCUS full-time. Previously, he had been President and CEO of SCCA for 17 years.

A Princeton graduate with a Harvard MBA, he had been involved with the Project HOPE hospital ship, VISTA and the Peace Corps, and was a sports-car racing driver from 1968-1977, mainly as a factory BMW driver.   
He resigned as Peace Corps Director in 1974 in order to race full-time and, as a professional race-car driver, claimed the IMSA Goodrich Radial Challenge Championship twice, in 1973 and 1975.

RRDC President Bobby Rahal congratulates Nick Craw on winning the Phil Hill Award