Won ’04 SCCA Formula Russell championship, second in ’05 Pacific F2000 championship and Team USA Scholarship winner. Is the ’06 U.S F2000 National champion and ’09 Indy Lights champion. Tested Formula 1 for Force India team, contested two IndyCar races in ’10, setting fastest lap of race at Infineon Raceway. As a rookie in ’11 […]
Started in karting, then finished third in the ’03 Bridgestone Academy F2000 Series. Was ’04 Rookie of the Year in Formula BMW USA with four poles and three wins. Moved to Star Mazda then ChampCar Atlantic Series and Firestone Indy Lights, finishing second with three wins in ’10. Rookie of the Year in IZOD IndyCar […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Hunter-Reay won the 2012 IndyCar Championship at the Fontana finale. He was the 2007 IndyCar 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 […]
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.
One of the most versatile drivers ever, Ickx was a dominant force worldwide for two decades…21 F1 podiums including six victories; a then-record six LeMans 24 victories including three with Derek Bell. First raced a 50cc Zundapp motorcycle, winning eight of 13 races and the European 50cc trials title. In ’65, took European saloon car […]
A multi-time SCCA Sports-Racing Champion began racing in 1952, driving a Crosley Special at Thompson Speedway. Over the next half dozen years, Igleheart was a regular at the tracks in and around New England driving the Crosley, an Austin-Healey 100, a Nardi ND4 Sypder, an O.S.C.A. 750 in which he scored 10 victories plus the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Raced Formula Ford in 75, ran IMSA Showroom Stock in ’90-’96, with 11 wins, ’92 GS champion, raced Supercup in ’92-’94, earning sixth in Monaco. Six class wins in ’94-’97 IMSA GT, including two at Sebring 12. Raced in FIA GT and Le Mans 24 in ’97-’98 and Grand-Am in ’04-’10, scoring eight class wins, […]
Joey began karting in 1995 and accumulated three US Championships, and seven National Championships. In 1998-1999 he raced in the Formula Mazda Pro Series scoring eight poles and nine wins. Drove for Valvoline Team USA in 1999-2000, competing in the Formula Palmer Audi series in England. Has raced in the Toyota Atlantic Championship, the Grand […]
Trevor Harris began designing and building racing and high-performance cars as young teenager with a highly modified 1937 Lincoln Zephyr street rod dubbed the “Travarri” he would always get cash for junk cars he used to have, this way he would save money to buy and modify new cars. While still in high school, he […]
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.
America’s all-time winningest endurance driver, Haywood is one of a handful of drivers to compete in the Triple Crown of endurance racing. He has won the 24-Hours-of Daytona five times overall, the 24 Hours of LeMans three times and the 12 Hours of Sebring twice. He began racing under the guidance of Porsche great Peter […]
Won ’79 and ’80 Ontario Formula Ford championship, raced in IMSA and Trans-Am in ’81 and ’82. Robert Bosch Super Vee Rookie of the Year in 83, winning at Phoenix in ’83 and 84. Drove prototype in Le Mans 24. Raced in Trans-Am and IMSA GTP in ’84-’86 and in IndyCar in ’87-’90, finishing 13th […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After 10 years as an International skier representing Great Britain at three Winter Olympic Games. Divina Galica, O.B.E. took up motor racing by a chance invitation in 1974 and has never looked back. During her career she has raced everything from Formula One to Semi Trucks and still occasionally drives in vintage events. In F1, […]
Chip Ganassi has touched every major form of North American motorsport plus the ultimate international road race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He has fielded highly successful teams in INDYCAR, NASCAR, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and Extreme E. Before he became a team owner, Chip was a driver…and a very good one. He […]
Stalwart Porsche driver/owner/entrant in the ’70s and early ’80s. Successes included winning the ’78 Sebring 12-Hour in a Dick Barbour Racing Porsche 935 alongside Brian Redman and Charles Mendez, and the ’81 Daytona 24-Hour in a Garretson Developments Porsche 935 K3 with Brian Redman and Bobby Rahal. Also won the ’81 World Endurance Championship title. […]
Started as British club racer winning the McLaren BRDC Award in ’91. Autosport British Club Driver of the Year in ’92. Moved to F3 and was British F3 champion in ’95. Signed by Corvette as a factory team driver in ’02 after an impressive third in class for Saleen in the ’01 24-Hours of LeMans, […]
Paul Gentilozzi’s motorsports career has spanned more than 48 years, as a driver, team owner, race promoter, and series owner for both Trans-Am and Champ Car. Paul has progressed from sportsman drag racing to NHRA Pro Stock to IMSA GTS and Trans-Am road racing, as a driver and team owner. With a serious bent for […]
Peter Giddings (www.petergiddingsracing.com) became interested in sports and competition cars in the late 1950s, he started getting his equippement little by little until he was able to get dock equipment in las vegas nv, and has rebuilt/ supervised the restoration of a number of historic landmark racing cars, including the 1924 Lyons GP Bugatti, the […]
Memo began his career racing Karts. In his early years, he sold his apartment to fund his career and spent 4 months living in his car. He worked at the Jim Russell racing school as a mechanic to fund his career…eventually getting a chance in Champ Car with Derrick Walker in 1999, although this was […]
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 […]
Raced in CART and IRL in ’87-’96, scoring eight victories in 136 starts including 12 straight Indy 500s. Most notable were a second to Al Unser in the ’92 Indy 500, a near-win loss to a penalty in the ’95 Indy 500, and second to Arie Luyendyk in ’97. Finished third in class in his […]
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.
