Howard and Doug Sharp Win the 2024 Great Race
The 2024
Great Race presented by
culminated on Sunday, June 30th in front of thousands of spectators in Gardiner, Maine. The event, which began in Owensboro, Kentucky is a nine-day, 2,300-mile time, speed, distance rally that puts man (or woman) and machine to the ultimate endurance test. The Great Race is all about precision driving, and the team with the score that is closest to the Rally Master's pre-determined time wins the event and takes home $50,000. This year, it was Howard and Doug Sharp, a father-and-son team from Fairport, New York. They campaign a 1916 Hudson, which is fashioned after a Pikes Peak Hill Climb racer. Despite its age, the car is very reliable and gives the Sharps a scoring advantage, due to the "age factor" multiplier. Howard and Doug are always a contender for the win, and they strung together nine days of awesome rallying, which resulted in a final score of 1 minute and 00.16 seconds. The Sharps took home top daily honors on Stage 4 and Stage 6, earning them additional hardware, as well as Coker Tire gift certificates to go toward a new set of those Excelsior radials. Congratulations to Howard and Doug, who are now five-time Great Race Grand Champions.
