By Great Race
March 4, 2013
Raime Brown has joined the Great Race staff in Chattanooga to help with administrative duties, and Great Racers will get to know her over the coming months on the phone and in person, Director Jeff Stumb announced. She will be helping with registration duties and working with participants, sponsors and everything Great Race related as well as continuing in her role as Tour Coordinator of the Coker Museum, which she has held for more than two years. “And Raime will be with us on the Great Race this summer so everyone will get to meet her,” Stumb said.
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By Great Race
July 1, 2012
As we wind down from our enormous awards banquet and dinner at The Henry Ford Museum, we reflect on the past 9 days, and the incredible journey we have completed. We started in Traverse City, Michigan on June 23rd, and now we are in Dearborn, Michigan after 2,300 miles of intense rallying around the Great Lakes. We made stops in Canada, as well as New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, and we have finally reached the end of our trip! But before all that we still had a great route for the final day of competition, which involved a great deal of scenic farmland before blasting into Ypsilanti, Michigan for lunch. While there, we visited the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum, which is actually the last remaining Hudson dealership in the country.
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By Great Race
June 29, 2012
Whew, it’s hot! Today’s route was challenging enough on its own, but when you add heat and harsh sunlight into the mix, it certainly gets interesting. We’ve been blessed with great weather during the multi-day event, but we definitely had summer-like conditions during today’s epic drive. We started the day in front of the beautiful Adam’s Mark hotel in downtown Buffalo, New York.
Jody Knowles and Beth Gentry on a nice country road during today’s route.
By Great Race
June 28, 2012
Today’s Great Race route took us through scenic New York state, leaving from our overnight stop in Watertown. Lots of farmland and orchards made for a beautiful drive in the country side of the glorious Northeast. We drove through Pulaski and even went to Mexico…we didn’t even know that was a town in New York! From there, we motored through the hilly landscape of rural New York.
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By Great Race
June 26, 2012
We’re still rollin! Today, we had a long route that took us from our overnight stop in Barrie, Ontario to a lunch stop in Barry’s Bay, Ontario. It was a scenic drive with awesome views of multiple lakes and the chance to see some good ole Canadian wild life. Several of our guys saw some moose out in the wild, and the moose gets bigger every time the stories get told! We had a great ride into the small town of Barry’s Bay, where a great crowd turned out to greet the racers!
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By Great Race
June 24, 2012
This morning, we packed up and headed for the border as our first task of the day. All racers, staff and support crews made it through customs with absolutely no issues, and we were on our way to the starting point for the day. By factoring in a few minutes of buffer time in case customs took a while. So, as the racers made their way into Canada, they had an extra long speedometer calibration period and a bit of free time before officially going on the clock. From there, it was quite a bumpy ride, as the day’s route sent racers onto a secluded road that snaked through miles of twists and turns, as well as a few one-lane bridges.
Crossing into Canada early this morning!
By Great Race
June 23, 2012
The beautiful town of Saint Ignace, Michigan welcomed the Great Race convoy for an awesome lunch stop! We had great car positioning, right on the main drag through town, which was very, very close to the water. All in all it was a great stop, and we were also welcomed by a nice car show in conjunction with our parc ferme in town. Check out some of our favorite shots at the stop, as well as a few photos on the way to the stop!
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By Great Race
May 10, 2012
If you would like to try a Great Race style rally to get ready for the Great Race, check out the Northeast Rally Club 3-day rally in beautiful northeast Pennsylvania on May 18-20. This is a fun rally with instructions and rules very similar to the Great Race. Got to the Northeast Rally Club website: http://www.northeastrallyclub.com/ and click on “Forms and Paperwork” for more information and an entry form.
By Great Race
May 2, 2012
I love my job. The other day, we had a group from a magazine company here at Coker Tire and Great Race world headquarters to do a story on the history of tires from 1910 through today. And for the article, they wanted a car to represent each decade, and we provided one for eight of the 10 decades. Our good friend Jeff Lane of the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville provided the other two cars.
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By Great Race
April 3, 2012
The entrants roster for the 2012 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Insurance is available online. You can also see the complete roster, event schedule and more by visiting the 2012 Event page.
