Upcoming dates for the Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb have been announced, beginning with next year’s race falling on June 24, 2018.

All races moving forward will be scheduled for the last Sunday in June.

2019: June 30

2020: June 28

2021: June 27

2022: June 26 (100th Running)

2023: June 25


The Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) presented by Gran Turismo, also known as The Race to the Clouds, is an annual invitational automobile and motorcycle hill climb to the summit of Pikes Peak in Colorado every year on the last Sunday of June.

The self-sanctioned race is considered the most diverse one-day motorsports event in the world, with everything from sidecars, motorcycles and 1400-plus hp EV & unlimited racers able to compete in the same event.

For more information, visit www.ppihc.com.

Offering a top-level forum for professionals in the field of motorsports safety and science, the International Council of Motorsport Sciences (ICMS) will present its 29th Annual Congress December 7–8 at the 2017 Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Trade Show.

The ICMS Annual Congress was created to inform and educate the international motorsports community, different scientific and medical disciplines, sanctioning body personnel, automobile designers and constructors, race team managers and drivers, and industry corporations on improvements in safety and performance for motorsports participants and highway drivers.

The conference curriculum will be delivered in educational modules, including medicine and physiology, applied science, logistics and administration, and motorsports safety. It will be presented by some of the most experienced and knowledgeable practitioners from around the world.

“ICMS was founded on the principle of bringing the best medical, scientific, and educational individuals together to promote safety for the human aspect of motor racing,” said ICMS Executive Director Don Andrews. “We greatly appreciate PRI asking us to present at this show. The PRI Trade Show is the premier motorsports show in the world, and it makes perfect sense that we’re involved with it. This is a major event in the motorsports and motorsports safety industry.”

ICMS members have been instrumental in the creation of many life-saving procedures and products used across all forms of motorsports today. And the curriculum of the ICMS Annual Congress offers continuing education opportunities that are unsurpassed in motorsports, providing the latest information in the field and exclusive opportunities to learn from the experts.

The ICMS Annual Congress is among dozens of seminars and conferences scheduled for this year’s PRI Trade Show, which takes place December 7–9 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. The Congress, which will be held from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each Show day, takes place in rooms 205-207 of the Convention Center. For more information or to register, visit www.icmsmotorsportsafety.org.

Len Sammons Motorsports Productions will present indoor three-quarter-midget racing February 9-10, 2018, at Times Union Center in Albany, New York.

The inaugural Albany Indoor Race is a new event for New York State, modeled after events run previously in Atlantic City, N.J., and in recent years in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Trenton, New Jersey.

The last indoor auto racing of any sort in New York state was held in 2002 at the Niagara Falls Convention Center; that venue was since repurposed for a casino.

The two days of racing will consist of a full program of racing for TQ midgets on both nights, including features both days; slingshots will be scheduled for both nights.

The Albany race is the finale of the Len Sammons Motorsports Productions Indoor Auto Racing season, and will be where the 2017-18 series champion is crowned.

(Photo by David Sink)

It’s been 40 years since AJ Foyt recorded his record-setting fourth Indianapolis 500 win, and Performance Racing Industry is honoring the occasion with a special display at the 2017 PRI Trade Show.

AJ Foyt: A Legendary Exhibition traces the icon’s rise from the dirt tracks of Texas to the apex of auto racing, and pays tribute to one of the most diverse and successful careers in motorsports history. Lest we forget, Foyt is still IndyCar’s most prolific driver, with 65 career victories, and he remains the only competitor ever to take top honors at the Indy 500, the Daytona 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

In addition to rare memorabilia and photos from Foyt’s personal collection, PRI visitors will get to see the 1961 Bowes Seal Fast Special, 1964 Sheraton Thompson Special, 1967 Sheraton Thompson Special, and 1977 Gilmore Coyote that Foyt drove to 500 glory.

“We’re honored to have AJ Foyt: A Legendary Exhibition among the new events and exhibitions at the 30th Anniversary PRI Trade Show,” noted PRI General Manager Bill Miller. “It gives attendees a rare opportunity to see up-close some of the vehicles that Foyt raced in his legendary career.”

The display is being made possible through a generous partnership with Director and Curator Ellen Bireley and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, which is currently hosting the exhibit through October 31.

At PRI, it will be housed in meeting rooms 6000 and 6100 of the Indiana Convention Center, and will be accessible from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day of the Show, December 7, 8 and 9.

The NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week schedule has been announced.

In less than two months, the grounds of Oswego Speedway will be invaded by race cars, drivers, crew members, and DIRTcar Racing fans attending the 46th annual NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week at Oswego Speedway from October 1-8, 2017.

NAPA Super DIRT Week at Oswego Speedway kicks off on Sunday, Oct. 1 with the opening of on-site camping. The week-long event concludes on Sunday, Oct. 8 with the running of the NAPA Super DIRTcar Series Big-Block Modified crown jewel—the Oswego 200.

To the complete NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week Super DIRT week of events, visit here.

The NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports has elevated eight senior leaders into new positions, said to be designed to strengthen the 12-time and defending NASCAR Cup Series champions and enhance the team’s overall management structure.

Scott Lampe, Ken Howes, Jeff Andrews, Brian Whitesell, Jim Wall, Darian Grubb, Diane Holl and Michael Landis have all received promotions within the NASCAR team group.

Most notably, vice president and chief financial officer Lampe has been promoted to executive vice president, making him Hendrick Motorsports’ third-ranking officer after owner Hendrick and team president Marshall Carlson. Lampe will continue as CFO with responsibility for core business functions that include accounting, aviation, human resources, information technology, legal affairs, purchasing, and real estate.

Veteran racer Ken Howes, who has 32 years of service with Hendrick Motorsports, has been named vice president and chief of staff.  Director of engine operations Jeff Andrews has been elevated to vice president of competition. Nos. 5 and 24 team manager Brian Whitesell has been promoted to the new position of vice president of operations.

For a detailed list of the promotions, visit the Hendrick Motorsports website.

Must See Racing and SPEED SPORT have announced a continuation of their partnership with the production of Saturday night’s Engine Pro Fast Car Slash at Berlin Raceway in Marne, Mich.

It will be the third Must See Racing sprint car race to air as part of the Suzuki Presents SPEED SPORT series on MAVTV, following recent productions of the 69th Pay Less Little 500 from the Anderson Speedway and the Mother’s Day Celebration Presented by Engine Pro from Berlin’s seven-sixteenths-mile asphalt oval.

Gates at the Berlin Raceway open at 3 p.m. for those fans interested in attending The Engine Pro Fast Car Slash. Tickets can be purchased on-site or at www.BerlinRaceway.com.

The MAVTV broadcast of the event will air Thursday, Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET on MAVTV.

For more information on Must See Racing or regarding Saturday’s event, visit www.MustSeeRacing.com.

As recently reported, the iconic Skip Barber Racing School (SBRS) has received US Bankruptcy Court approval in New York to sell all their assets and intellectual property to Liquid Asset Partners, bringing one of the longest and most storied histories in the driving-instruction game to an end.

Now, a group of former SBRS coaches has banded together to start a new school that continues the Skip Barber tradition while also addressing some changes.

Headed by former Skip Barber Master Instructor Peter Stolz, the LevelUp Racing School just held its maiden event on August 10 a few hours north of Chicago at Blackhawk Farms Raceway.

Considered a “soft start,” the school began with seven student drivers and instruction from Ray Scott, Steve DeBrecht, Jim Pace and Keith Watts.

Similar to Skip Barber, students spent two days receiving driving instructions and practicing in Spec Miatas, with all of the traditional elements of Skip Barber: a morning classroom talk by Jim Pace, the reliance on the “stop box” coaching in which drivers are observed from corner stations, and the high number of minutes spent watching and evaluating fellow would-be racers at speed.

A couple of changes from Skip Barber include more track time, better-condition Spec Miata’s, and a supply of Hoosier SM7 tires, which are said to provide more grip than the BFGoodrich street tires previously used by Skip Barber.

Terry Earwood is also listed as a LevelUp Racing School instructor, according to the website. For more information, visit www.levelupracingschool.com.

McLaren Technology Group has appointed Tim Bampton to lead its strategic, corporate and brand communications, including McLaren Racing and McLaren Applied Technologies.

In his role of Group Communications Director, Bampton will report to McLaren Technology Group's Chief Marketing Officer, John Allert. Bampton will oversee and direct the group’s media operations, corporate and brand communications, and consumer and lifestyle communications for its partners and initiatives such as McLaren’s e-sports project, the World’s Fastest Gamer.

With more than 25 years’ experience in motorsport communications and sponsorship, Bampton’s involvement in Formula 1 began in the mid-1990s with a six-year spell at Williams in its media and marketing team. This was followed by a period managing Honda’s F1 communications in the early 2000s, before consulting to the Interpublic Group on its motorsport assets through Octagon’s management of Silverstone and the British Grand Prix.

Bampton then co-founded a sponsorship communications agency, working first with British American Tobacco in its time as owner and title sponsor of BAR Honda, followed by Diageo and Johnnie Walker, still a sponsor of McLaren today. He later joined the motorsport marketing agency JMI, where he built the company’s global marketing communications group servicing a wide variety of international brands and corporations.

Bampton comes to McLaren from CSM Sport & Entertainment, the global sports marketing agency, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer.

Wells Fargo has donated $25,000 towards the Bryan Clauson Suite Tower construction at the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum in Knoxville, Iowa. Half of the $3.4 million-dollar project had been funded by generous donors prior to the 57th Annual 5-hour ENERGY Knoxville Nationals.

Museum Executive Director, Bob Baker, accepted the donation from Wells Fargo representatives, Christine Ball, Dameon Larson and Jason and Jay Hoch.

The ground was broken for the new tower in Mid-June. Over one hundred people attended the ceremony that both celebrated Bryan Clauson’s contributions to the sport, and also dedicated the tower in his name that will house twelve suites high above the Knoxville Raceway in turn two, as well as an observatory roof.

To donate to the Bryan Clauson Suite Tower project, call Bob Baker at 641 842-6176, or e-mail sprintcarhof@SprintCarHoF.com. For more information on the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum, visit www.SprintCarHoF.com.