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Great Race Highlights 6/9/21 Great Race Highlights 6/9/21

RPM Foundation X-Cup Team Introduction

The RPM Foundation is also proud to be administering The Great Race X-Cup's grants, scholarships, and awards. The X-Cup Division enables youth to experience these classics in a way that few can.…

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Great Race Highlights 6/4/21 Great Race Highlights 6/4/21

John and Scott Hudson Win Delaware Rally

The annual Pumpkin Run was held last week in Millsboro, Delaware, and it was one of the largest fields ever at the event as teams prepared for the Great. John and Scott…

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Great Race Highlights 3/19/21 Great Race Highlights 3/19/21

RPM Foundation Joins Forces with Great Race to Revitalize X-Cup program

Chattanooga, TN -- The RPM Foundation, a member of America’s Automotive Trust, is proud to announce that they have joined forces with the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers…

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Great Race Highlights 3/19/21 Great Race Highlights 3/19/21

Three-Time Great Race Champion Irene Jason Passes Away

Irene Jason, a three-time Great Race champion driver, passed away today. The Keller, Texas, school teacher and her husband, Barry won the race three straight years – 2012-14, something that had never…

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Great Race Highlights 3/11/21 Great Race Highlights 3/11/21

Great Racer Cameron Coker Passes Away

Cameron Coker of Chattanooga, who participated in multiple Great Races as a navigator, has passed away after a tragic one-vehicle car wreck two days ago. Cameron participated with his dad, Corky Coker,…

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Great Race Highlights 11/24/20 Great Race Highlights 11/24/20

Great Race Winner Model A Up For Sale

A rare and unique opportunity to own a Great Race winning vehicle has come up, and it would be perfect to use in the event in the coming years after a 21-year…

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Great Race Highlights 10/5/20 Great Race Highlights 10/5/20

Veteran Navigator John Sears Passes Away

Great Race Grand Champion John Sears, a veteran navigator since the 1960s, passed away in Tucson, Ariz., Sept. 30. He was 77 years old. Sears won the Great Race in 1996 as…

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Great Race Highlights 6/8/20 Great Race Highlights 6/8/20

Peter Prescott Collection Featured on Crusin’ New England TV Show

For those lucky enough to be on the 2018 Great Race from Buffalo to Nova Scotia they will remember the overnight stop in Gardiner, Maine. That’s the hometown of Peter Prescott and…

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Great Race Highlights 5/18/20 Great Race Highlights 5/18/20

Olivia Gentry Gets First Career Victory at Senoia Raceway

Olivia Gentry comes from a racing family, as her father Oliver is a veteran dirt track racer and her mother Beth is a Great Race Grand Champion. The 19-year-old from Newnan, Georgia…

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Great Race Highlights 5/7/20 Great Race Highlights 5/7/20

Great Race Rescheduled for August 22-30

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 6, 2020 – The 2020 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers Club has been rescheduled for Aug. 22-30 from San Antonio, Texas, to Greenville, S.C., due…

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Great Race Highlights 11/19/19 Great Race Highlights 11/19/19

Sharp Shooting in Texas

Three-time Great Race Grand Champion Howard Sharp also loves to hunt during the fall and winter, and each year he makes a week and a half long trip to northwestern Texas for…

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Great Race Highlights 11/14/19 Great Race Highlights 11/14/19

Great Race TV Coverage to Air on Motor Trend this Saturday

The 2019 Great Race television show will air this Saturday, Nov. 16, at 7 a.m. Eastern Time on Motor Trend TV (part of the Discovery channels on what was previously known as…

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Great Race Highlights 11/5/19 Great Race Highlights 11/5/19

Great Race Legend Rex Gardner Passes Away

Rex Gardner, two-time Great Race Grand Champion, lost his short battle with cancer Monday night in Oklahoma. He was 81. Rex started competing in the Great Race in 1985 and was a…

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Great Race Highlights 10/28/19 Great Race Highlights 10/28/19

Great Racer Howard Jameson and Brother Killed in Helicopter Crash

Tragedy has hit the Jameson and Socquet Great Race families as three-year veteran Howard (Ben) Jameson and his brother Scott Socquet have been killed in a helicopter crash outside of Las Vegas.…

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Great Race Highlights 10/28/19 Great Race Highlights 10/28/19

Great Race Veteran Rex Gardner Diagnosed with Lung Cancer

Two-time Great Race Grand Champion Rex Gardner has informed us he has lung cancer. It was just diagnosed this week and he is going to Tulsa for further tests to find out…

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Great Race Highlights 10/21/19 Great Race Highlights 10/21/19

John and Scott Hudson Win Northeast Rally Club Fall Rally

John and Scott Hudson won another regional rally this weekend in their 1940 Chevrolet in the Northeast Rally Club’s annual fall event, this year in Beach Lake, Pennsylvania. The Hudsons, who were…

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Great Race Highlights 9/24/19 Great Race Highlights 9/24/19

The 2019 Coker Tire Challenge is in the Books!

This past weekend was the 14th annual Coker Tire Challenge. The event is a three-day cloverleaf rally based out of Coker Tire's home town of Chattanooga, Tennessee. This year, the event was…

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Great Race Highlights 6/30/19 Great Race Highlights 6/30/19

Great Race 2019 Day 9 -- Crossing the Finish Line

Wow, what a crazy adventure. Nine days and approximately 2,300 miles later, we're in Tacoma, Washington for one of the most awesome Great Race finishes in quite some time. The LeMay -…

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Great Race Highlights 4/9/19 Great Race Highlights 4/9/19

1935 Ford Great Race Car For Sale

Another fantastic Great Race rally car has come up for sale. It is a 1935 Ford that has been in several Great Races with a couple of different owners, most recently Bryan…

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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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