Photos courtesy Tommy Lee Byrd and Great Race.com. The Vintage Car Rally Association (VCRA), The Great Race, Hemmings Motor News, and the Race for Autism lost a great friend and hero this week, with ...
Photos courtesy Tommy Lee and Coker Tire For anyone interested in speed, time, distance rally racing but aren’t quite ready for the annual 10-day, 2,000-plus-mile Great Race, we suggest starting in o...
The finish line for day seven, Vancouver, Washington. Photos by author. Days seven and eight On day seven, racers had Mt. Hood to the driver’s side of their cars most of the day. Weather had improved...
Crowds await the finish of day five in Grants Pass, Oregon. Photos by author. Day Five – Wednesday, June 26 We are betting most of the race teams in open cars are glad to be out of Oregon as they wer...
Photos by author. Day Three – Monday, June 24 Leaving Gardnerville, Nevada on day three, racers skirted Reno and climbed to cooler temperatures and back into California via Truckee and on to the mini...
Ford Model A’s from the local chapter of the Ford Model A Club of America (MAFCA) at the start of Saturday’s leg. photos by author. Day One – Saturday, June 22 The start of the Great Race was on Miss...
A hosted social hour was held after the day’s rally followed by an awards ceremony for Friday’s Trophy Run. This day of rallying is a separate preliminary event to the Great Race, which began at Miss...
Husband and wife team Pat (driving) and Pat (navigating) Brothers. Photo by author. As we mentioned in our last driving post, Great Race teams spend some time between races practicing and fine-tuning...
This Hudson Hornet is a fan favorite. Photos by author. For those not familiar with time, speed, and distance racing, the objective of the Hemmings Motor News Great Race is not to get to the finish l...
2020 Motorcycle Cannonball route. Photos courtesy Motorcycle Cannonball. Jason Sims, director of the Motorcycle Cannonball announced on Sunday that the route for the 2020 Cannonball will begin in Sau...
A 1927 Bugatti Type 40 driven by Mark Gessler and his son, Kurt, on the 2018 1000 Miglia. Photos by Riccardo Palazzani, courtesy Historic Vehicle Association. Each May, the 1000 Miglia – the modern e...
Driver Jim Menneto and navigator Stephanie Sigot pose with the Hemmings Speedster. Photo courtesy Stephanie Sigot. Aided by a sixth-place finish on stage nine, the leg from Dartmouth to Halifax, Nova...
Carl Schneider and Jack Juratovic heading to the Mt. Washington summit in their 1955 Buick. Photos by Tommy Lee Byrd, unless otherwise noted. The Mount Washington Auto Road, which climbs to the summi...
Team Fredette’s 1933 Ford pickup touring eastern Tennessee at a furious pace. Photos courtesy of The Great Race. Jeff Fredette and his son Eric graced the cover of Hemmings Motor News in October of 2...