Rick McKone Posing with the Indy 500 Winner
While we are all gearing up for the 2015 Great Race in a few weeks, there was another race of some magnitude run Memorial Day weekend -- the Indianapolis 500. Although there…
Champion Brands Are Back for the 2015 Great Race
Champion Brands is a company based out of Clinton, Missouri and its focus is high tech lubricants for collector vehicles. Champion Brands produces and blends more than 300 products, including fuel, oil…
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…
Great Race Purse Increased!
The Great Race has announced an increase in the total payout for this years event by adding $11,250 in daily prize money. Each day on the nine day event will see the…
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…
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…
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…
Sights from the 2015 Great Race Route
As if you werent 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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…