2010 Thursday July 8: The Darlington Historic Racing Festival September 24-26 Will Again Present All Types Of Historic Oval Racing Festival Oval Racing Cars In Two Days Of On-Track Exhibition Sessions. Stock Cars, Indy Cars, Champ Cars, Big Cars, Sprints, Midgets, Modifieds, Super Mods are also invited to one of the oldest and most challenging paved ovals in North America. This is the third year that the festival has been held. Entrants call 843-395-8900.
            This is a spectator event both Saturday and Sunday. There are many on-track sessions each day for all types of cars to enjoy. There are autograph sessions by past oval racers, a vender area for food and souvenirs, a Car Corral for enthusiasts, a swap meet for parts. Adults tickets are $15 per day, $25 for the weekend, children 12 and under are free. Spectators call 843-395-8802 (SC) or visit www.darlingtonraceway.com.

2010 Tuesday June 1: Fan Laps, Glen Club Parties For July 2-4 IZOD IRL At The Glen To Support The International Motor Racing Research Center. From Mark Steigerwald to IRL and Glen Fans  
   Dear Friends & Supporters of the International Motor Racing Research Center,
   The International Motor Racing Research Center is pleased to announce an exciting, once- in-a-lifetime fund raising event called The Hot Lapz Experience as part of the Camping World Grand Prix at the Glen, IZOD IndyCar Series race, July 2-4, 2010. Three separate Hot Lapz Experience packages will be offered on Ebay, starting on Sunday May 16th, over a period of three weeks. The three auction format will allow bidders multiple chances to win one of these exciting packages. Race fans interested in bidding should go to the Ebay website and enter the keyword Hot Lapz for a direct link to each auction as well as additional details.
   Each winner will get three, at-speed, laps around the challenging 3.4 mile Watkins Glen International circuit in race prepared Porsche Cayman, driven by IZOD Indycar Series star  Ryan Hunter-Reay, winner of the 2008 Indycar race at the Glen, and driver of the #37 Team IZOD, Andretti Autosport Dallara

1. Exclusive Crown Royal Club at the Glen VIP event admission tickets with infield parking, access to the pit and garage areas, buffet luncheon and complimentary cocktails  for each winner and  guest. 
2. Three nights of accommodations for each winner and guest at the Glen Motor Inn overlooking beautiful Seneca Lake.
3. A set of four Firestone passenger car or light truck tires for each winner.
4. A evening cocktail cruise on Seneca Lake aboard a private yacht. Participants will be able to view the fireworks display over the scenic Watkins Glen harbor
5. Selected # 37 IZOD racing attire for each of the winners and their guests.
6. In addition, the highest overall bidder in the three auctions will receive two admission tickets to Andretti Autosport Hospitality area for the weekend as a special prize.
7. Invitation to the opening reception for artist Douglas Wilkens' art exhibit, featuring works honoring racing legend AJ Foyt

Please note that transportation to and from Watkins Glen is not included. While many of you are, or were, involved in racing and possibly not interested in bidding on this great package, I am sure that each of you have countless friends, family members and acquaintances who might be. I ask that each of you forward the attached Hot Lapz Experience flier, with a brief note, to those who you think might enjoy this program and encourage them participate in these upcoming auctions on Ebay.

2010 Tuesday May 25: The Southern California Indy/ Hot Rod/ Lakester/ Bonneville Scene Before And After World War Two Is Being Saluted At Indy This Week With The Indy Roadsters Of The 50s On-Track And On Display. Later This Year It Will Be Saluted In July At The Millers At Milwaukee Event And At Pebble Beach Concours With Indy, Hot Rod And Land Speed Car Entrants And At Phoenix International Raceway In October With Historic Champ/ Indy Cars On-Track. Who knows how Southern California became the center of auto racing construction and design at that time. Perhaps it was Harry Miller’s early carburator company and later his famous Miller Indy and Championship Trail Cars all made in Southern California in the early 20th century that started it.     

2010 Tuesday May 18: Mario Andretti, Vintage And Historic Racers Converge On Barber Motorsports Park May 21-23 For The Big Inaugural HMP Bobby Rahal’s Legends Of Motorsports Vintage Racing And Lifestyle Weekend Saluting Lotus. Mario Andretti, FIA Formula One World Driving Champion driving a Lotus, will be at the Saturday evening gala. Bob Varsha of Speed TV will be the evening emcee. All this will take place in the on-site Barber Motorsports Museum
            The on-track activity will feature invited great vintage and historic racing cars of all types in numerous practice and racing sessions. There will be Sunday Features on this challenging track. Info on HMP and Racers visit www.legendsofmotorsport.com for event and gala tickets go to www.barbermotorsports.com    

2010 Friday May 14: Gill Campbell CEO and general manager Of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Will Be The Featured Speaker For The June 16th Racers Lunch At AutoVino In Menlo Park, California
            Gill Campbell and her staff are adding new racing events and expanding traditional racing events at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.  Gill’s vision for the track and Motorsports events at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca grows from a real passion and excitement for auto racing.  This program will be an exciting glimpse into the future.  The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion in August will be one of the topics.
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca is host each year to great racing events and has been since 1957. The road circuit was first built in 1957 by military personnel on Fort Ord in cooperation with SCRAMP, Sports Car Racing Association of Monterey Peninsula, as a replacement site for the road races held at Pebble Beach, which began in 1950. The circuit has been the site of great professional and amateur road races since 1957. Over succeeding decades it has been the site of races from many great series: United States Road Racing, Can-Am, Trans-Am, IMSA GTP and GT, Federation International Motorcycle, American LeMans, Grand-Am and CART. The San Francisco Sports Car Club of America has held regional and national races there since it’s opening. Vintage racing arrived in the late 1960s, first with CSRG then with General Racing and HMSA. An international level of vintage racing was achieved by the 1980s as the Monterey Historics grew to attract worldwide recognition and participation. It has grown into a week long Monterey Auto Festival with five auctions, four concours, numerous marque gatherings and over 150,000 visiting over two weekends and a week every August. Today the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion and Pre-Reunion will continue and build on that tradition next August from the 7th through the 15th.
            For information on the Racers Lunch or RSVP a reservation contact Tim at 650-722-2171.          

2010 Monday April 26: The Daytona International Speedway Oval Will Be Completely Repaved After The Coke Zero NASCAR Race July 3rd. This will possibly affect many oval and road racing events during the repaving period expected to last many months. It is not clear if an operable road circuit is available that does not use the oval. More soon.

2010 Friday, April 9: The Millers at Milwaukee event is an impressive U.S. gathering of Pre-W.W. II and Post W.W. II Indy/Champ Cars, Indy Roadsters and Laydowns. Vintage racecars designed by Miller, Dusenberg, Mercer, Alfa Romeo, Kurtis, Bugatti and Studebaker participate in this exhibition. All front engine pre and post W.W. II Indy Cars and Champ Cars are invited to attend, along with the Indy Roadster and Laydown Cars. No rear engines.
            The 2010 Miller event will again offer a Friday afternoon and Saturday venue. The gates at the Milwaukee Mile will open at 11:00 A.M. on Friday July 9, 2010, with cars running the oval track from 12:00 p.m. to 4 p. m. On Saturday gates open at 8 a.m., with the cars running the oval track from 12:00 p.m. to 4 p.m.
            The Harry Miller Club was founded by the late David Uihlein, Sr., with the help of Buck Bouderman, Mitch Rasansky and the late Charles Davis and Bob Sutherland. Dana Mecum, of Mecum Auctions in Masrengo, IL is the club president. The club’s goal is to honor Harry A. Miller (1875-1943), considered to be the greatest and most influential of American racing car designers. Miller based cars and or engines dominated championship competition in this country during the 1920’s, winning 39 Indianapolis 500 races!
            Entry fees for this historic event are $300 per entrant (not per car) and may be obtained by writing the Harry A. Miller club at P.O. Box 1008, Germantown, WI 53022 or call Lenore Heinzelmann at 262-253-2661.

2010 Friday April 9: The Chaparral Gallery Of The Petroleum Museum In Midland Texas Will Host A Big “Racing In The Roaring Sixties” Festival Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1, 2010. Highlights include Friday, the grand opening of a Ford GT40 Mark IV exhibit; celebrating Ford’s 3rd LeMans win. Also celebrated will be Chaparrals FIA campaign in Europe in the 1960s. Chaparral live drives, Autograph sessions with Chaparral creator and racer Jim Hall and an evening cocktail reception and gala dinner including a dinner program of “A conversation with Jim Hall, road and oval racing legend and Dan Davis, publisher of Victory Lane and Vintage Oval Racing Magazines” On Saturday there will be Super Car drives, live drives with Jim Hall, Autograph sessions with Jim Hall, a West Texas Cruisers show and shine session. Net proceeds of the big fund racing weekend will benefit the Chaparral Gallery, a 501(c) 3 non profit educational institution which seeks to motivate youth into engineering. All the Chaparral types are housed in the Chaparral Gallery including winners from the Can-Am USRRC, FIA World Manufactures Championship Race, The Indy 500 and the US Championship Trail. The Chaparral Gallery is located just outside Midland, Texas next to Interstate 20 west near where all the Chaparrals were designed, tested and built.
            For tickets, donation sponsor and general information call 432-683-4403 and also visit www.petroleummuseum.org.

2010 Tuesday March 8: The HCICA Historic Champ/Indy Cars Were On The Big Two-Mile Oval Each Day Friday, Saturday, Sunday March 5,6,7. Two thirty-minute on-track sessions, at reasonable speed, no pace cars were scheduled each day. They all took place except for a rained out Saturday afternoon session. The Open Wheel Cars included Indy Roadsters of the 1950s and early 1960s, mid-engined Indy Cars of the 1970s and 1980s, and some Pre-World War Two Indy Cars. By invitation there were Sprint Cars requiring push starts in a trial for consideration in two separate grids for future HCICA features. The event was organized by Victory Lane Motorsports Marketing for the Historic Champ/Indy Car Association, Dan Davis Chairman, Pam Shatraw Events Manager, phone 650-321-1411 (CA).