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COKER TIRE CHALLENGE

Celebrate the last days of summer with the 2008 Coker Tire Challenge, a 3-day Great Race style rally throughout southeastern Tennessee, northern Georgia and Alabama. The 3rd annual Coker Tire Challenge is scheduled for September 19-21 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, home to Coker Tire’s international headquarters.

“Coker Tire is pleased to once again host our vintage rally friends who not only have great collector cars but get them out and drive them,” said Corky Coker, president of Coker Tire. “Besides … you can’t get the smiles unless you do the miles!”

Low score wins in this regional rally for classic cars manufactured in 1969 or earlier. Great Race’s world-class course designer, John Classen promises another unique and challenging rally through the region with a few surprises thrown in for the competitors.

The Coker Tire Challenge is based on the Great Race competition format, a street-legal rally on public highways. Precision driving is required from the driver and navigator who follow a specific set of course instructions that indicate every turn, speed change, stop and start that the race teams make throughout the day. (Please follow this link to read more.)

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Great Race Texas 2008 Results

Granbury, Texas, March 9, 2008 – The 20th annual Great Race Texas wrapped up in Granbury Texas today with Barry and Irene Jason taking home the top prize in the Championship class and $2,250 for wining the competitive 3-day event. Driving their 1935 Ford, the Jason’s finished with a total score of 23.92 seconds, 13 seconds ahead of David Haverty and David Hewitt, who drove a 1937 Ford to a 36.92 second score.

Great Race Texas 2008 was hosted in part by Sandi and Sister McCrae, the wife and sister of Great Race founder Tom McRae in Granbury, Texas, a small community located 30 miles southwest of Fort Worth, Texas. The 3-day event began with a traffic stopping snow flurry, which blanketed most of the Dallas metro area last Thursday night. The snow had little affect on the competition though and quickly melted under sunny, but cool skies for the rest of the weekend. Great Race’s Director of Competition John Classen devised the course that routed its way around the hill country surrounding Granbury.

41 teams began the event, driving a number of unique classic cars including a muscular 1965 Daytona Coupe and a tiny 1979 Citroen 2CV, with a poodle in the back seat. (To read more, please follow this link.)