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| International Motor Racing Research Center, Watkins Glen; Events |
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| International Motor Racing Research Center, Watkins Glen; Events |
| DATE | EVENT | FEATURED | DESCRIPTION |
| 06/24/2023 | Corvette Racing Team, Behind the Lens |
Richard Prince Laura Klauser |
Richard Prince photographer with the Corvette Racing Team Laura Klauser GM’s Sports Car Racing Program Manager |
| 04/09/2023 | Model Show Including Legos |
Model Builders | 7th Annual Model Car Show Thousands or model and slot cars on display along with the Rochester Lego Club |
| 03/18/2023 | NASCAR and WGI History | JC Argetsinger Ken Parrotte Bill Green Rob Roessel |
Speakers talked about the 75th Year history of NASCAR and Watkins Glen |
| 04/06/2019 | Model Show Including Legos |
Model Builders | 6th Annual Model Car Show Thousands or model and slot cars on display along with the Rochester Lego Club |
| 03/23/2019 | Open Wheel Madness |
Herb Anastor and Stephen Bubb |
The dusty ovals and the wickedly fast board tracks |
| 04/14/2018 | Model Car Show |
Models and Slot Cars |
5th Annual Model Car Show Thousands or model and slot cars on display along with the Slot Car Club of the Twin Tiers (SCCOTTT) |
| 02/24/2018 | Brock Yates | Pamela Yates Stacy Bradley Joe Cali |
Driver, Author of many books, motorsports broadcast commentator Created the Cannonball Baker, and the Cannonball Run, wrote the screenplays for the successful films |
| 01/20/2018 | Watkins Glen Drivers Walk of Fame |
Bill Green Jim Scaptura Rick Hughey |
Honor to those who raced in Watkins Glen with markers on Franklin Street |
| 12/16/2017 | Steve Post Racing Journalist |
Steve Post | From the pits to the towers, TV and radio with a great racing personality he has experienced a lot in a more than 30-year career |
| 08/31/2017 | IMRRC Argetsinger Award |
Mario Andretti | Given to him for his contributions to auto racing Presented at the Corning Museum of Glass |
| 06/24/2017 | Honoring 50th Canadian Grand Prix |
George Webster Lionel Birnbom Timothy Meddaugh |
George Webster chief steward Formula 1 at Montreal 3 years; Lionel Birnbom motorsports famous photographer; Timothy Meddaugh flagged 65 Formula One races in Canada and USA |
| 05/06/2017 | John Fitch | Lawrence W Berman Bob Sirna Carl Goodwin |
He was a blue-water sailor, WWII P-51 fighter pilot, POW, professional racing driver, team manager, Lime Rock Park director, inventor, highway safety expert, automaker, entrepreneur and dreamer |
| 03/18/2017 | Model Car Show |
Frank Spena Jr Dave Van Duzer |
4th Annual Model Car Show Thousands or model and slot cars on display along with info about slot cars and the Slot Car Club of the Twin Tiers (SCCOTTT) |
| 02/18/2017 | Watkins Glen Drivers Walk of Fame |
Bill Green Jim Scaptura Rick Hughey |
Honor to those who raced in Watkins Glen with markers on Franklin Street |
| 12/10/2016 | Ford GT40 | Preston Lerner | Award-winning journalist and author Preston Lerner told the intriguing story of the Ford GT40 |
| 11/12/2016 | 2016 Jean S Argetsinger Symposium of Auto Racing |
Kristen Hall-Geisler Tom Adamich Dan Simone Giuseppe Valenza Aldo Zana Paul Baxa Peter Westin Mark Howell Jonathan Summers |
International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen partnering with the Society of Automotive Historians for an academic symposium on auto racing |
| 10/22/2016 | 50 Years of Trans-Am Racing |
Judy Stropus Chuck Cantwell John Woodard Lee Dykstra Don Cox Tommy Kendall Butch Leitzinger |
A panel of Trans-Am racing experts spoke about the 50-year history of the series |
| 08/13/2016 | Team Lotus | Lotus Racing | Bob Dance and Richard Parramint with combined 50-plus years renowned experts on Lotus |
| 06/30/2016 | IMRRC Argetsinger Award |
Roger Penske | Given to him for his contributions to auto racing Presented at the Corning Museum of Glass |
| 01/23/2016 | Watkins Glen Drivers Walk of Fame |
Bill Green Jim Scaptura Rick Hughey |
Honor to those who raced in Watkins Glen with markers on Franklin Street |
| 11/14/2015 | The Syracuse Mile | Many Drivers and Announcers |
The History of the famous Syracuse Mile, and the 1980 Gary Balough Batmobile |
| 08/06/2015 | IMRRC Argetsinger Award |
Richard Petty | Given to him for his contributions to auto racing Presented at the Corning Museum of Glass |
| 04/18/2015 | Pacific Northwest Racing History |
Martin Rudow | Author and publisher of: Long Straights and Hairpin Turns; 1950-1961 Weekends of Glory; 1962-1970 |
| 03/28/2015 | Model Car Show |
Oscar Koveleski | 2nd Annual Model Car Show and Oscar, co-creator of Auto World, the beacon for model car hobbyists in the 1960, 1970, 1980 |
| 02/21/2015 | Shifting Gears | Tony Vickio | His Book; Shifting Gears, Tales of pistons, paint cans & personalities about his painting many race track logos |
| 01/24/2015 | Historic Race Items | Bill Green | He has more than 3,000 hard and soft cover books, racing posters, photographs, motorsports magazines collected since 1948 at Watkins Glen |
| 12/13/2014 | Panamericana Rally Mexico |
Tom Overbaugh Paul Wendt |
History and Competing in the Panamericana Rally Mexico challenge of 2,000 miles in seven days, across mountain ranges and along serpentine Mexican roads |
| 11/08/2014 | USRRC | Mike Martin | A Record of the United States Road Racing Championship - 1963-1968 |
| 10/18/2014 | Milwaukee Mile | Steve Zautke | Starting in 1903, the track has hosted at least one auto race every year, with the exception of the World War I and II years |
| 08/07/2014 | IMRRC Argetsinger Award |
Chip Ganassi | Given to him for his contributions to auto racing Presented at the Corning Museum of Glass |
| 05/10/2014 | F5000 | Sam Posey Jacques Dresang Bob Mayer |
History of the F5000 Series The 1968 LeGrand Mk7 #001 Formula 5000 race car on display, driven by Sam Posey and Peter Revson |
| 02/08/2014 | Holland Speedway | Geaorge Ott George Skora |
Constructed in 1960-1/3 mile dirt oval, 1964-3/8 mile,1968-3/8 located in Western NY |
| 12/07/2013 | Burt "BS" Levy | Burt Levy | Author of The Last Open Road talked about his racing and more books |
| 11/02/2013 | Tazio Nuvolari | Joe Tierno | Photographs and film to illustrate Nuvolari’s career and the world in which he became a champion |
| 05/18/2013 | Book Authors | Famous Authors | Michael Argetsinger, Bill Green, Philippe Defechereux and Clark Lance talks about their auto racing books |
| 03/13/2013 | Porsche 917 | On Display at the IMRRC |
Porsche 917 presented in Martini & Rossi colors |
| 03/13/2013 | Karl Ludvigsen | Karl Ludvigsen | Prolific author and auto industry insider, talks about he called My Motoring Lifetime |
| 03/02/2013 | Supermodified at Oswego Speedway |
Dick Berggren Steve Miller Jamie Moore Dan Kapuscinski Perry Adams |
Continuously run weekly since August of 1951 dozens past and present competitors have competed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway including Gordon Johncock and Mario Andretti |
| 08/25/2012 | Joe Freeman | Joseph Freeman | Joe Freeman, Car collector and owner of Racemaker Press book: Road Racing in America: 1904-1940 Was the past president of the Society of Automotive Historians |
| 08/25/2012 | Donald Davidson | Donald Davidson | Longtime historian at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway attended his first Indianapolis 500 in 1964 |
| 03/21/2012 | Winning 1975 McLaren M23/09 |
On Display at the IMRRC |
Took the checkered flag as winner in its very first outing at Argentinian Grand Prix January 1975 with Emerson Fittipaldi and the July British Grand Prix Silverstone |
