Stories Steve Hedke #45 Stories Steve Hedke #45

A Little Triumph and a Whole Lot of “Exhaust”

Great Race is all about the people you meet and the stories you bring home, and we certainly do have memories that are funny now, but at the time, not so much.

In 2000, from Boston to Sacramento, it rained for the first 4 days. We were running our little 1957 Triumph TR3, easily the smallest car in the event and the first to take advantage of Tom McRae’s expansion of eligibility to ’50s sports cars.

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Great Race Highlights, Stories Buddy Green #22 Great Race Highlights, Stories Buddy Green #22

The Spirit of the Race

My Great Race journey started in 2012 at the waterfront lobby of a Holiday Inn located in Traverse City Michigan. A few months earlier my dad (Bill Green) 79 at the time, had seen a documentary of Great Race on either The History Channel or something similar. He immediately called me and asked if we'd grab a car from "The Money Pit Garage" and give it a try. Having never said no to an invitation from my dad, off we went…

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A New Chapter

For the past 15 Great Races, it has been my job to capture the event in photos, write about it in articles, and post about it on social media channels. I began working in the Marketing Department at Coker Tire in 2009 and became familiar with the Coker Tire Challenge, a regional rally event that was based out of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Then, in 2010, the Coker Tire staff was informed that Corky Coker bought the Great Race and that we’d be reviving the event in the summer of 2011…

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