Augie Pabst, described as “one of the fastest, most charismatic and popular drivers in his day” by the Motorsports Hall...
Bobby Rahal, Indy 500 winner, driver, team owner, businessman and President of the Road Racing Drivers Club, was honored by the RRDC with the 2019 Phil Hill Award. The 2018 award recipient, David Hobbs, made the presentation at the annual RRDC members’ dinner on January 23 prior to the running of the...
Brian RedmanPhoto: John Zimmermann Honored with his own night by the Road Racing Drivers Club this year at Long Beach,...
Vic Elford is this year’s recipient of the Phil Hill Award from the Road Racing Drivers Club. RRDC President Bobby...
Emerson Fittipaldi, two-time Formula One World Champion, two-time Indy 500 winner and the 1989 Indycar National Champion, was the guest of honor at the ninth annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner held in conjunction with the 43rd Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach last Thursday evening. The gala event at...
The concept of the annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner in Long Beach was expanded this year to recognize the...
Jack Roush, racer, former Ford engineer, college physics teacher, and current CEO of a number of engineering-related companies, was honored...
Telling about cannibalizing a pickup truck engine for his racecar, he said, “Any of you would have really enjoyed” that caper. And a grinning Jim Hall went on to explain that early in his career, when “I was already into the hot-rodding of race cars,” he built a Lister-Chevy with...
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Tall Texan Tales Dear Editor, Your excellent June issue included Pete Lyons’ review of the happenings while Jim Hall was honored during...
June 2017 • Master automotive craftsman Joe Cavaglieri was named the 2017 recipient of the Racing History Project’s Peter Bryant Challenger Award at the project’s “Tribute to IMSA Dinner presented by Mazda,” held in early April at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, California. The award recognizes outstanding...
• Plans are proceeding for the re-paving and re-opening of the historic road course at Thompson International Speedway in Thompson,...
Four-time Indy 500 winner and three-time National Champion Rick Mears was honored at the Road Racing Driver’s Club annual West Coast dinner with the Phil Hill Award by Hill’s widow Alma and son Derek. The award, an Al Brinkworth model of Hill’s 1961 World Championship-winning Ferrari 156, recognizes not only...
Four-time Indy 500 winner Rick Mears was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club in front of a capacity crowd...
Rick Mears, four-time winner of the Indianapolis 500® and three-time INDYCAR SERIES champion, will be honored by the Road Racing...
Rob Dyson, retired American sports-car racing driver and owner of Dyson Racing, was named the 2019 recipient of the RRDC Bob Akin Award. He was presented the award at the annual Road Racing Drivers Club members’ dinner on January 22, prior to the running of the Rolex 24 At Daytona,...
The Road Racing Drivers Club has announced that it will be hosting an “Evening with Rick Mears” Dinner with proceeds...
George Follmer, Can-Am champion, Trans-Am champion and a winner in virtually every form of racing he tried, was honored by...
David Hobbs, whose career as a champion racecar driver spanned three decades and his stint as a television commentator four more, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with its 2018 Phil Hill Award. RRDC president Bobby Rahal made the presentation at the annual RRDC members’ dinner on January 24,...
On the Thursday evening of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach race weekend, the Road Racing Drivers Club hosted...
The Road Racing Drivers Club’s seventh annual pre-Long Beach Grand Prix banquet this year honored three-time Indy 500 winner Bobby...
Pete Brock, stylist for the Corvette Sting Ray, designer of the Cobra Daytona Coupe, founder of BRE and a multi-disciplined Renaissance Man in his spare time, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with its Phil Hill Award at the organization’s annual banquet in Daytona Beach prior to the...
Five-time IMSA champion Jim Downing, one of the creators of the HANS Device, is the latest recipient of the Road...
The Road Racing Drivers Club has chosen Monterey Historics founder Steve Earle as the recipient of its Bob Akin Award,...
Photo: Brian Cleary Hurley Haywood and Peter Sachs have been honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club at the annual RRDC banquet preceding the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Haywood was recognized with the club’s Phil Hill Award, while Sachs was presented with the RRDC’s Bob Akin Award, both in recognition...
Chaparral creator Jim Hall was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club during the 4th annual RRDC Dinner at the...
The annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner on the eve of the 44thToyota Grand Prix of Long Beach celebrated an...
Two-time Formula One World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi (above, Roger Dixon photo), who also won a pair of Indy 500s and an Indycar National Championship, will be honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club at the “RRDC Evening with Emerson Fittipaldi Presented by Firestone” in Long Beach, California, on Thursday, April...