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Great Race Highlights 5/26/15 Great Race Highlights 5/26/15

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…

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Archive 5/24/15 Archive 5/24/15

Vicari Auction Supports the 2015 Great Race

Vicari Auction Company , owned by Pete Vicari of Harvey, Louisiana is a successful collector car auction business that draws hundreds of cars, and thousands of spectators and bidders to each event.…

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Archive 5/23/15 Archive 5/23/15

AACA X-Cup Grants Awarded to Three Teams

Three Great Race X-Cup teams – McPherson College of Kansas, Alfred State College of New York and a high school team from Ponca City, Oklahoma, has been awarded the first-ever X-Cup grants…

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Archive 5/22/15 Archive 5/22/15

Registration and Tech Inspection Schedule

The 2015 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty is packed with 120 classic cars and trucks. In order to stay on schedule, we're going to have to work as a…

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Archive 5/22/15 Archive 5/22/15

Tune into National Geographic's "Driving America"

During last year's Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty, we were approached by a videographer, who was gathering footage for a TV Show called Driving America. It was to air…

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Archive 5/21/15 Archive 5/21/15

Best Western is the Official Hotel of the 2015 Great Race

A huge part of the Great Race involves your experience at a different hotel each night. The nature of the Great Race means that racers, support crews and staff move from town…

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Archive 5/19/15 Archive 5/19/15

Reliable Carriers Returns as Official Transport Company

The route for the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty changes every year, and folks from across the country participate. Some folks haul their own cars, but many Great Racers…

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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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Archive 5/17/15 Archive 5/17/15

Coker Tire's Support of the Great Race is Never Ending

Coker Tire Company is a special place. It was founded in 1958 as a regular tire shop and service center, but as the years went on, Harold Coker branched out and began…

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Archive 5/15/15 Archive 5/15/15

Hagerty Returns as Presenting Sponsor of Great Race

Without question, Hagerty is the front runner in the collector car insurance world, and it's because of a dedicated staff that takes care of their customers. We're glad to have Hagerty on…

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Archive 5/12/15 Archive 5/12/15

Hemmings Motor News Returns at Title Sponsor

Hemmings Motor News has been "The Bible of the Collector Car Hobby since 1954" and returns as the title sponsor for 2015. The involvement of Hemmings is huge, not just from a…

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Archive 5/7/15 Archive 5/7/15

Attn Rookies: A Very Important Car Safety Check List

The Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Hagerty is a little over a month away. It takes a lot of preparation to get a vintage car ready for such an intense…

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Archive 5/8/15 Archive 5/8/15

Alfred State College X-Cup Team Needs Your Help!

We love extraordinary Great Race vehicles, and this 1953 Dodge wrecker is a cool one! It is being campaigned by the Alfred State College X-Cup team, and they are working hard to…

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Archive 5/4/15 Archive 5/4/15

Knowles/Gentry Win VCRA Rally in Joplin, MO

Beth Gentry and Jody Knowles won the annual VCRA All-Stars for Autism rally in Joplin, Missouri, last weekend as part of their preparations for the 2015 Great Race. Gentry and Knowles, from…

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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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Archive 4/29/15 Archive 4/29/15

1954 Chevrolet Great Race Car Up for Grabs

A three-year veteran Great Race automobile will be for sale at the end of this year’s event. The father and son team of Mike and Oli Hallowes bought their 1954 Chevrolet Bel…

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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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Archive 4/20/15 Archive 4/20/15

Nethercutt Collection to Host Great Race Stop June 28

One of the Top 5 automobile museums in the world, the Nethercutt Museum and Collection in Sylmar, Calif., will host the Great Race participants for a private lunch and viewing on Sunday,…

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View fullsize For this week's Throwback Thursday, we're not going too far back. Felicia Morgan captured this soaking wet photo back in 2023 during a summertime storm that drenched the competitors. One of the most popular questions about the Great Race is "Wha
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
View fullsize Throwback Thursday comes to you from Gallup, New Mexico, when we visited in 2015. Check out that row of vintage motels and a row of cool classic cars.
View fullsize Great Race city stops are the BEST way to see the cars and drivers up close. We have a lunch stop and evening stop each day, (but typically no hosted lunch stops on Day 1 or Day 9), giving spectators great opportunities to watch the cars roll into to
View fullsize Independence Day 1986, Washington D.C. a great setting for this Throwback Thursday!

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
View fullsize STOP SCROLLING and head over to www.greatrace.com. We have a brand new website that has way more cool features and a great new look. It's still a work in progress, but we think you'll like the new setup. Go check it out!
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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.
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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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