Great Race Texas 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.

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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.

The top Rookie finisher was Joe Drumheller behind the wheel of the Daytona with Scott Harrison doing the navigating. 2008 New York to Paris entrants Brian and Anita Hanaburgh finished third and Russ and Bradley Cmolik finished 4th in the rookie division. Both teams will take the green flag on May 30, in New York City for the 19,000-mile rally across three continents to Paris France.

In Championship Class, the third place finishers were the surprising team of Gary and Jean-Ann Martin who participated in their first Great Race event just last summer. Leonard Harpenau and Tom Kucera finished fourth and Bill Loubiere and Richard Fredette came in fifth.

For many years, the Great Race organization was based in Granbury. It was also the home to Great Race Texas from 1996-2002 and is the current residence for Sandi and Sister McRae, the wife and sister of the late Great Race founder, Tom McRae.

Dallas, Texans Tom McRae and Interstate Batteries Chairman, Norman Miller created the Great Race in 1983 to provide classic car enthusiasts with an opportunity to drive their cars on the roads of America. It quickly became an American institution, attracting competitors from all over the world.

Great Race Texas is a shorter version of the national Great Race, currently in its 26th year of competition.

Each team’s score is determined by their ability to follow the designated course instructions precisely. Each second off perfect time, early or late at secretly located checkpoints, is as a penalty point, low score wins. Veteran teams can discard their 2 worst legs, and Rookies their 3 worst, on the first 2 days of competition.