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Great Race Highlights 6/24/22 Great Race Highlights 6/24/22

Great Race 2022 - Day 7 - Wisconsin Dells, WI to Duluth, MN

The Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers Club is a time, speed, endurance rally. Today, we learned about endurance, as the racers tackled some of the toughest roads in…

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Great Race Highlights 6/23/22 Great Race Highlights 6/23/22

Great Race 2022 - Day 6 - Plainfield, IL to Wisconsin Dells, WI

As the race wears on, we made our way into Wisconsin, after a tough battle with rush hour traffic near Chicago. Once we got off the Interstate, things got better, as today's…

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Great Race Highlights 6/22/22 Great Race Highlights 6/22/22

Great Race 2022 - Day 5 - Perrysburg, OH to Plainfield, IL

As we make it past the half way point of this year's Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers Club, we cross two more states off the to-do list. We…

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Great Race Highlights 6/21/22 Great Race Highlights 6/21/22

Great Race 2022 - Day 4 - Erie, PA to Perrysburg, OH

Wow, what a difference a day can make! We've spent the entire first three days of the 2022 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers Club with unseasonably chilly temperatures.…

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Great Race Highlights 6/20/22 Great Race Highlights 6/20/22

Great Race 2022 - Day 3 - Binghamton, NY to Erie, PA

We covered a lot of ground on Day 3 of the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers Club. We started our day in Binghamton, New York, after last night's…

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Great Race Highlights 6/19/22 Great Race Highlights 6/19/22

Great Race 2022 - Day 2 - Windsor Locks, CT to Binghamton, NY

Day 2 of the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers Club brought a number of challenges for the drivers, navigators and of course, the cars. We rolled out of…

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Great Race Highlights 6/18/22 Great Race Highlights 6/18/22

Great Race 2022 - Day 1 - Warwick, RI to Windsor Locks, CT

We've been waiting on this day all year! This morning, we dropped the Green Flag at beautiful Rocky Point State Park in Warwick, Rhode Island. Actually, the green flag duties were handled…

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Great Race Highlights 6/17/22 Great Race Highlights 6/17/22

2022 Great Race: Hagerty Trophy Run

The Friday before the green flag drops is always an exciting day on the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers Club. We started the day with a huge meeting…

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Great Race Highlights 2/24/22 Great Race Highlights 2/24/22

McCollister's Announced as Official Transporter of the Great Race

McCollister’s Auto Transport has been named the Official Transporter of the Great Race, director Jeff Stumb has announced. McCollister’s has 35 years of experience in the enclosed auto transport business, and they…

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Great Race Highlights 2/9/22 Great Race Highlights 2/9/22

Nine Great Racers Advance to New Division

When Olivia and Genna Gentry won the 2021 Great Race in Greenville, South Carolina, everyone knew that they would be competing in the future in the Grand Championship division. But they are…

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Great Race Highlights 6/27/21 Great Race Highlights 6/27/21

Olivia and Genna Gentry WIN the 2021 Great Race!

The 2021 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers Club is in the books! We saw record crowds at our hosted city stops, we saw a rookie team take the…

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Great Race Highlights 6/27/21 Great Race Highlights 6/27/21

Great Race 2021 Day 9: The FINISH in Greenville, SC

The temperatures were hot and so was the action today on the FINAL day of the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers Club. Today's route sent us into South…

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Great Race Highlights 6/26/21 Great Race Highlights 6/26/21

Great Race 2021 Day 8: Beckley, WV to Mooresville, NC

After seven days of rallying, the competition always intensifies on Championship Days. The final two days of competition are always challenging and our Director of Competition John Classen gave the teams a…

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Great Race Highlights 6/25/21 Great Race Highlights 6/25/21

Great Race 2021 Day 7: Lexington, KY to Beckley, WV

The landscape is quickly changing on the 2021 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers Club. The scores are settling in, but that can all change on the last two…

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Great Race Highlights 6/24/21 Great Race Highlights 6/24/21

Great Race 2021 Day 6: Owensboro to Lexington, Kentucky

Day 6 of the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers Club kicked off in Owensboro, Kentucky and it was a day PACKED full of rally maneuvers. Today was less…

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Great Race Highlights 6/23/21 Great Race Highlights 6/23/21

Great Race 2021 Day 5: Cape Girardeau, MO to Owensboro, KY

On the road again! We had a little less ground to cover today, so the route featured lots of turns, speed changes and maneuvers compared to previous days. We left Cape Girardeau,…

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Great Race Highlights 6/22/21 Great Race Highlights 6/22/21

Great Race 2021 Day 4: Joplin to Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Day 4 of the 2021 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers Club sent us on a long haul across the state of Missouri. We started the day in Joplin…

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

Great Race 2021 Day 3: Oklahoma to Joplin, Missouri

Day 3 of the 2021 Great Race kicked off from our hotels in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and we covered a lot of ground before ever going on the clock. Long transits were common…

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Great Race Highlights 6/20/21 Great Race Highlights 6/20/21

Great Race 2021 Day 2: Temple to Nocona, Texas

Day 2 of the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty Drivers Club kicked off with intense sunshine, as we motored north of Waco before peeling off the interstate and starting…

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View fullsize The Hilton Head Tour 2026 by Great Race had an amazing first day of driving. After sneaking out of Nashville, we hit the open road. Our friends at @cokertireco hosted a lovely lunch, followed by a tour of @thecokermuseum. Our afternoon drive featured
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View fullsize One of the most memorable moments in the 2026 Hemmings Great Race presented by Coker Tire was the splash zone after torrential rains somewhere between Elk City, Oklahoma and Shamrock, Texas. Quite a few racers encountered it, but Dan Stahl took the a
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View fullsize The 2027 Hemmings Great Race presented by Coker Tire is a nine-day adventure from Mobile, Alabama to Buffalo, New York. The competition is intense as more than 120 cars and trucks (built in 1974 or earlier) compete for $160,000 in prize money. The ca
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The Great American Race as it was then called traveled from Disneyland to New York City. Newspapers and TV stations across the country covered this event, which cont
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