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,...
Augie Pabst, described as “one of the fastest, most charismatic and popular drivers in his day” by the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, into which he’ll be inducted later this year, was named the recipient of the 2010 Bob Akin Award by the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC). The...
Four-time Indy 500 winner and three-time National Champion Rick Mears was honored at the Road Racing Driver’s Club annual West...
Automobile manufacturers have long used racing as a tool for both exploring new technologies and advancing marketing agendas, and one...
George Follmer, Can-Am champion, Trans-Am champion and a winner in virtually every form of racing he tried, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with its 2012 Phil Hill Award at the RRDC dinner prior to January’s Rolex 24 at Daytona. RRDC president Bobby Rahal presented the award. Since...
Chaparral creator Jim Hall was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club during the 4th annual RRDC Dinner at the...
Telling about cannibalizing a pickup truck engine for his racecar, he said, “Any of you would have really enjoyed” that...
Tall Texan Tales Dear Editor, Your excellent June issue included Pete Lyons’ review of the happenings while Jim Hall was honored during the RRDC dinner at Long Beach. One of Jim’s recollections was how he used the engine of his Chevy pickup truck when the Chevy V8 in his Lister conked out in the prelim at...
• Plans are proceeding for the re-paving and re-opening of the historic road course at Thompson International Speedway in Thompson,...
Pete Brock, stylist for the Corvette Sting Ray, designer of the Cobra Daytona Coupe, founder of BRE and a multi-disciplined...
Safe Is Fast is a site presented by the Road Racing Drivers Club and supported by the FIA Institute for Motor Sport Safety and Sustainability that provides advice and answers to common (and probably uncommon) questions faced by aspiring racers. In this case, the word “safe” is really an acronym...
Brian RedmanPhoto: John Zimmermann Honored with his own night by the Road Racing Drivers Club this year at Long Beach,...
Photo: Brian Cleary Hurley Haywood and Peter Sachs have been honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club at the annual...
Vic Elford is this year’s recipient of the Phil Hill Award from the Road Racing Drivers Club. RRDC President Bobby...
Bobby Unser will be the honored guest at the Road Racing Drivers Club annual Long Beach banquet on April 16....
The Road Racing Drivers Club’s seventh annual pre-Long Beach Grand Prix banquet this year honored three-time Indy 500 winner Bobby Unser with an “Evening with Bobby Unser presented by Firestone,” at the Long Beach Hilton. RRDC president Bobby Rahal again served as Master of Ceremonies and guided Unser through the...
Five-time Grand-Am Prototype champion and five-time Rolex 24 at Daytona overall winner Scott Pruett has been named as the 2016...
George Follmer has been named the Guest of Honor at this year’s annual pre-Long Beach Grand Prix Road Racing Drivers...
On the Thursday evening of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach race weekend, the Road Racing Drivers Club hosted its traditional banquet at the Hilton hotel on Ocean Boulevard, this year convening to honor George Follmer. Before a room filled with racing royalty, Master of Ceremonies Bobby Rahal, the...
Chip Ganassi, who fields 14 cars for 18 drivers in six major series worldwide, was named the 2017 recipient of...
Two-time Formula One World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi (above, Roger Dixon photo), who also won a pair of Indy 500s and...
The concept of the annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner in Long Beach was expanded this year to recognize the 50th anniversary of the Ford Motor Company’s all-American triumph in the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans with drivers Dan Gurney and A. J. Foyt, in addition to the regularly...
Emerson Fittipaldi, two-time Formula One World Champion, two-time Indy 500 winner and the 1989 Indycar National Champion, was the guest...
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,...
Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and 1980 Indycar National Champion Johnny Rutherford will be the guest of honor at the 10th...
The annual Road Racing Drivers Club dinner on the eve of the 44thToyota Grand Prix of Long Beach celebrated an Evening with Johnny Rutherford Presented by Firestone before a capacity crowd at the Long Beach Hilton last Thursday, April 12. The three-time Indy 500 winner joined RRDC president Bobby Rahal...