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Great Race Highlights 6/30/24 Great Race Highlights 6/30/24

Great Race 2024 - Day 9 - Rallying to the Finish in Gardiner, Maine

There was so much action on Day 9 of the 2024 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Coker Tire that we had to split it up into multiple posts. Here, we'll…

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Great Race Highlights 6/29/24 Great Race Highlights 6/29/24

Great Race 2024 - Day 8 - Seal Cove and Owls Head, Maine

The Championship Run began today with Stage 8 of the 2024 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Coker Tire. The Championship Run is important, because it means no scoring legs can…

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Great Race Highlights 6/28/24 Great Race Highlights 6/28/24

Great Race 2024 - Day 7 - Providence, Rhode Island to Freeport, Maine

Welcome to Maine! We've finally made our way into Maine after seven days of rallying through 12 other states. Today, we started off in Providence, Rhode Island and quickly made our way…

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Great Race Highlights 6/27/24 Great Race Highlights 6/27/24

Great Race 2024 - Day 6 - Binghamton, New York to Providence, Rhode Island

Day 6 of the Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Coker Tire was an interesting day, to say the least. We started our day in Binghamton, New York and made an…

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Great Race Highlights 6/26/24 Great Race Highlights 6/26/24

Great Race 2024 - Day 5 - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Binghamton, New York

Today, we crossed over the halfway point on the 2024 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Coker Tire! Day 5 started where we left off in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and headed north…

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Great Race Highlights 6/25/24 Great Race Highlights 6/25/24

Great Race 2024 - Day 4 - Frostburg, Maryland to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Another day of Great Racing is in the books! We started the day in sunny and cool Maryland, and took a nice drive on U.S. 40 Scenic, eventually making our way back…

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

Great Race 2024 - Day 3 - Marietta, Ohio to Frostburg, Maryland

We marking states off the list quickly on our first three days of rallying. Today, we left the host hotel and immediately crossed into West Virginia for a long day of rollying…

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Great Race Highlights 6/23/24 Great Race Highlights 6/23/24

Great Race 2024 - Day 2 - Lawrenceburg, Indiana to Marietta, Ohio

What a day! It was a long trek from our start hotel to the actual starting point of the day's timed course, and we had to fight a little traffic along the…

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

Great Race 2024 - Day 1 - Owensboro, KY to Lawrenceburg, IN

The 2024 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Coker Tire is officially underway! Today, more than 135 teams took the Green Flag in downtown Owensboro, Kentucky, much to the delight of…

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

Great Race 2024: Trophy Run Coverage

It's the moment we've been waiting for! Our whole gang is in Owensboro, Kentucky awaiting the Green Flag, but as always, there are plenty of pre-race activities to mark off the list…

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News 6/17/24 News 6/17/24

McCollister's Delivers Great Race Cars to Owensboro, Kentucky!

The anticipation is building for the 2024 Hemmings Motor News Great Race presented by Coker Tire, as cars begin to arrive in Owensboro, Kentucky, by way of McCollister's Auto Transport & Logistics…

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Great Race Highlights 5/17/24 Great Race Highlights 5/17/24

Great Race Cars Turn Out for Owensboro Show

Five Great Race related cars turned out for the Kentucky Champions Invitational car show in Owensboro last weekend to help promote the start of this year’s event in that city next month.…

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Archive 5/8/24 Archive 5/8/24

Great Race Spring Rally Weekend Wrap Up

We hope everyone is back home and gearing up for the Great Race (6 weeks away), but wanted to provide a weekend wrap up for our Spring Rally presented by Stahls Automotive…

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Great Race Highlights 5/5/24 Great Race Highlights 5/5/24

Day 3 - Great Race Spring Rally presented by Stahls Auto Collection

Here we are on the final day of competition of the 2024 Great Race Spring Rally presented by Stahls Auto Collection. We enjoyed a long weekend in Chesterfield, Michigan and had a…

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Great Race Highlights 5/4/24 Great Race Highlights 5/4/24

Day 2 - Great Race Spring Rally presented by Stahls Automotive Collection

Day 2 of the Great Race Spring Rally presented by Stahls Automotive Collection sent us back into familiar territory, but with a whole new set of instructions to tackle the mostly flat…

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Great Race Highlights 5/3/24 Great Race Highlights 5/3/24

Day 1 - Great Race Spring Rally presented by Stahls Automotive Collection

Last year, we started a new regional rally event with the support of our good friends at the Stahls Automotive Collection in Chesterfield, Michigan. The event's original goal was to provide a…

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Archive 4/27/24 Archive 4/27/24

Sponsor Spotlight: Zip Corvette

Zip Corvette got its start in 1977, when Wayne Walker, a Corvette owner and enthusiast, needed a gas line for his 1961 Corvette and decided to make one of his own. What…

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News 4/17/24 News 4/17/24

Sponsor Spotlight: Early Ford V8 Foundation

The Early Ford V-8 Foundation exists to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history and heritage of the products manufactured by the Ford Motor Company between 1932 and 1953. The Museum is…

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Great Race Highlights 4/11/24 Great Race Highlights 4/11/24

BBQ & Barrels Event Announces TOP 12 Awards

Our 2024 Great Race start city (Owensboro, KY) is hosting a HUGE event on May 10-11, 2024. The annual event is called BBQ & Barrels and it’s a celebration of authentic Bar-B-Que…

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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.
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...
View fullsize We'll always remember the WARM welcome we got in Albuquerque!
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
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