Status: Memoriam
Juan Manuel Fangio 1911-1995
Juan Manuel Fangio by many measures was the greatest racing driver of all time. Statistically, he has few rivals, particularly in the Formula 1 World Championship, winning five titles in eight years on the strength of 25 victories in 51 starts. In non-championship F1 races, he won eight of 24. He still holds the record […]
Robert Fergus
Bob Fergus began racing in a 1949 MGTC, a car he owned until his death in 1999. Bob enjoyed a successful racing career, winning many races and being invited to join the Road Racing Driver Club in 1954. Bob won his class at the inaugural Sebring event in 1952 and was proud to have raced […]
Jim Fitzgerald
Jim Fitzgerald was an incredibly successful competitor in SCCA Club Racing, earning more than 300 career race wins and two National Championships during his 30-year career. However, he was best known as a driving instructor and mentor for young drivers until his tragic death behind the wheel in 1987. The jovial Irishman was a valued […]
Justin Wilson
Justin began racing karts in 1987. In 1998, he was a finalist in the McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award and won the inaugural Formula Palmer Audi championship, taking nine race wins, including six of the final seven. A year later, he graduated to the FIA International Formula 3000 Series and won […]
Thomas D. Yeager
Began his racing career on the streets of Marion, Ohio, with a highly customized 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 […]
Pete van der Vate
Like Ed Diehl, Randy Canfield and Brian Fuerstenau, van der Vate was noted as much for his car prep as for his driving. He prepped Pierre Mion’s ’59 National E Production Champion AC Bristol. The Sebring Sprite he piloted in 62 and ’63 was prepared for Pat Mernone, daughter of Ed Mernone who later was […]
John F. Weinberger
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 […]
John Surtees, OBE
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 […]
Dr. Richard K. Thompson, Jr.
“The original “Flying Dentist”, Dick 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 […]
Robert C. Tullius
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 […]
Carroll H. 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 […]
Monte R. Shelton
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 […]
Allen G. Speyer
Al joined the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in 1974 and held several technical and management positions in motorsports before being tapped to manage the company’s return to open wheel racing in the mid-1990s. Since 2001, Al has served as Executive Director of Motorsports for Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, directing the company’s racing programs, as […]