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Great Race Highlights 5/18/15 Great Race Highlights 5/18/15

Howard and Doug Sharp Win the Millville, NJ Rally!

New Yorkers dominated the Northeast Rally Club event in Millville, New Jersey, last weekend in preparation for the Great Race this summer. Howard and Doug Sharp, of Fairport, New York, and winners…

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Great Race Highlights 5/4/15 Great Race Highlights 5/4/15

Great Race Purse Increased!

The Great Race has announced an increase in the total payout for this year’s event by adding $11,250 in daily prize money. Each day on the nine day event will see the…

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Great Race Highlights 5/1/15 Great Race Highlights 5/1/15

Great Race to Visit the Unser Racing Museum!

The Unser Racing Museum has been added to the 2015 Great Race as a lunch stop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Susan Unser and the Great Race have announced. All 120 cars entered…

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Great Race Highlights 4/28/15 Great Race Highlights 4/28/15

New X-Cup Support Announced!

New features designed to foster even greater support for our younger X-Cup teams have recently come online! The first is a new AACA sponsored Grant program for eligible X-Cup Teams. Three $1000…

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Great Race Highlights 3/31/15 Great Race Highlights 3/31/15

Watch the Full Great Race 2014 TV Show Online!

In case you missed it, the 2014 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty TV show can now be watched anytime on the internet. The show was a huge success, but…

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Great Race Highlights 3/30/15 Great Race Highlights 3/30/15

Sights from the 2015 Great Race Route

As if you weren’t already excited enough about the 2015 Great Race along Route 66, we thought we would share these photos taken last week on the course from Kirkwood, Missouri, to…

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Great Race Highlights 3/26/15 Great Race Highlights 3/26/15

New Life for an Old Great Race Car

Back in the mid-1980s, just as the Great Race was getting started, a 1932 Ford Dirt Track racer entered the event. What made it unusual was the paint scheme – called “Stars…

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Great Race Highlights 3/24/15 Great Race Highlights 3/24/15

Champion Oil Announces New Great Race Award

Longtime Great Race sponsor Champion Oil has announced a new award – including a beautiful glass trophy and $1,000 in Champion Brands products – to the highest placing team in the 2015…

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Great Race Highlights 3/14/15 Great Race Highlights 3/14/15

Corky Coker Announces 2016 Great Race Route!

Corky Coker, owner of Coker Tire Company and the Great Race, has announced that the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty will travel the historic Lincoln Highway for its 2016…

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Great Race Highlights 3/2/15 Great Race Highlights 3/2/15

McPherson College to Build 1935 Indy Winner Replica

The boys from McPherson College, winners of the last two X-Cup Division titles in the Great Race, have a new challenge on their hands. Led by two-year race veteran Tony Di Valentin,…

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Great Race Highlights 2/28/15 Great Race Highlights 2/28/15

Great Race Visits Japan Part 3--Seeing the Sights

While in Japan recently to visit with 2014 Great Racer Toshi Akasaka and the eight Japanese teams signed up for the 2015 Great Race, I got to enjoy a lot of sites…

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Great Race Highlights 2/27/15 Great Race Highlights 2/27/15

Great Race Visits Japan Part 2--The Cars!

The spectators on the 2015 Great Race will get quite a treat this summer. Not only will they see the best classic and vintage cars from the United States – from a…

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Great Race Highlights 2/26/15 Great Race Highlights 2/26/15

Great Race Visits Japan!

Toshi Akasaka of Japan participated in the 2014 Great Race and at the closing banquet when he was awarded “Our Best Friend” plaque he told the crowd he was going back to…

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Great Race Highlights 2/24/15 Great Race Highlights 2/24/15

The Great American Tour--A Route 66 Adventure!

For more than 30 years, the Great Race has been traveling the best back roads of America in cars built before 1972. While the Great Race is geared toward competition, with $150,000…

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Great Race Highlights 1/12/15 Great Race Highlights 1/12/15

Learn More About the Great Race X-Cup Division

Throughout the history of the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty, it has been a priority to encourage youth to participate, be it as a racer or part of the…

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Great Race Highlights 12/15/14 Great Race Highlights 12/15/14

Six Months and Counting--Get Ready for Great Race 2015!

Believe it or not, in just six short months Great Racers will begin arriving in Kirkwood, Missouri, for the start of the 2015 Great Race along Route 66. We are completely sold…

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Great Race Highlights 11/17/14 Great Race Highlights 11/17/14

Harold Coker, Founder of Coker Tire, Passes Away

Harold Coker, the founder of Coker Tire and a nine-year participant in the Coker Tire Challenge each September, passed away Sunday morning, Nov. 16. He was 84. He was the father of…

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Great Race Highlights 10/27/14 Great Race Highlights 10/27/14

Sights from the 2015 Great Race Route!

Great Race rally master John Classen has made his first of three trips along the 2015 route from Kirkwood, Missouri, to Santa Monica, California, and his driver, longtime scoring team member Fred…

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Great Race Highlights 9/29/14 Great Race Highlights 9/29/14

Great Racer's Car Collection Featured

Clem Lange, a longtime Great Racer from Southern Indiana, and his car collection were spotlighted on WDRB Channel 41 in Louisville, Kentucky, recently. Clem is also owner of Best Home Furnishings, which…

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View fullsize The Wandering Troubadours of Finland disturbing the peace at the Petrified Forest National Park in their 1918 American LaFrance.
View fullsize The Great Race motto is "To Finish is to Win", and seeing teams cross the finish line after nine days of rallying always puts that into perspective. The smiles, the tears and the sighs of relief...
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View fullsize Here are just a few of the cars that are participating in the 2026 Hilton Head Concours Adventure! You still have time to sign up and join the fun...we'll be taking off from Nashville, Tennessee and finding our way through the mountains, eventually l
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View fullsize Great Racers enjoyed a cool pitstop in downtown Sapulpa, Oklahoma this year. If you're in the area, be sure to check out the newly revitalized downtown area! The buildings are historic, and the streets and sidewalks were recently revamped for a great
View fullsize Brandon Melendrez shared some insights from his experience during the 2026 Great Race. Check out a short segment here, but click below to read the full article. 

My Great Race experience started a few years back as our shop, Mustang Country Internat
View fullsize We’re working hard to finalize the route for the 2027 @hemmings Great Race presented by @cokertireco! We’re starting in Mobile, Alabama and ending in Buffalo, New York and we have SO MANY cool things to see in between. We’ll update
View fullsize Great words from our friends, the Hermansons aka team Maxinkuckee Mayhem. Here's a brief snippet but be sure to click the link to read the entire article. 

"It’s hard to explain to people what we do for 9 days in a truck with no cell phon
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View fullsize Go to the website and check out Charlie Brittingham's timeline and history with the Great Race. He spends his days wrenching on a 1913 Chevrolet but has plenty of Great Race memories along the way.

"I have always enjoyed working with and rebuil
View fullsize Get yourself and your favorite car on the road with the 2026 Hilton Head Concours Adventure! Check the link in our bio to read more.
View fullsize Ron Rowland gave us an amazing retrospective look at Great Race rally days before the invention of the Timewise speedometer. He wrote a great article that tells a lot of his history with the race, and how the event has changed through the years. Here
View fullsize That stretch of Highway 104 between Tucumcari and Las Vegas, New Mexico was TOUGH on Great Race cars. Although Tucumcari seems like a low-lying area, it's actually at 4,000 feet of elevation. Highway 104 gradually climbs in elevation to nearly 7,000
View fullsize Cool cars of ALL ages are invited to our 2026 Hilton Head Concours Adventure! (Just as long as you can keep up with highway speeds)

Check the link in our bio to learn more 🚗
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