2020 MiRPA Yearbook

Midwest Racing Preservation Association

Meadowdale, Motorsports & Memories September 2020

Welcome...

Dear Friend of MiRPA, What a year! Current events serve to remind me of the importance of our friends and the community to which we are all connected. I am all the more grateful for the bonds that have formed among our network of enthusiasts.

Through the activities and contributions of our volunteers and supporters, our vision of promoting and preserving the history of racing in the Midwest is brought to life. We work to safeguard the rich legacy of Motorsports through the accumulation of historical documents, collateral, photographs, movies and memorabilia.

Planning for the 12th Annual Meadowdale, Motorsports & Memories Car Show has been fraught with uncertainty. We’re moving ahead with our plans to bring this “ghost track” back to life in celebration of the historical significance of Meadowdale International Raceways.

On behalf of the Board of the Midwest Racing Preservation Association (MiRPA), I invite you to keep an eye on MiRPA’s calendar of events and participate in our activities that highlight the people and places that helped build the Midwest racing community beyond the “Monza Wall” of Meadowdale.

Coffee & Cars, held the first Saturday of each month, took a time-out in the spring and returned for the summer in an outdoor only format. At this time, special presentations and book signings are on hold. We will continue gathering as circumstances permit. The best aspect of this group of dedicated, fun-loving enthusiasts is the opportunity to meet friends, old and new, who share the passion of Motorsports. All are welcome!

MiRPA operates as an all volunteer organization that would not exist without the dedication of so many. I applaud our dedicated Board Members who are generous with their time, treasure and talents and thank our individual, corporate, community and government friends for their continued support. I am deeply grateful to all of you who donate your energies. If you have a bit of time to contribute, I invite you to ride along with this fun, energetic group!

The success of our mission depends on all of you.

Sharing the cars, the stories and the passion... in the spirit of the sport!

Linda

Linda L. Daro Founder/Chairman On the cover: Nickey Chevrolet raced the Scarab known as “Nickey Nouse” in 1959.

Driver Jim Jeffords thrilled spectators at racetracks around the country including a record-setting win at Meadowdale.

Original Art by Michael Scott Kent Cover Art Designed by Lucy DeLap

MiRPA Board of Directors Operational Directors

Linda Daro

Len Besinger

Don Devine

Bob McKee

Tom Stephani

Ronnie Kaplan

Dale Anderson

Jim Anderson

Lucy DeLap

Dave Gerber

Mike Jablo

Steve Merkle

Founder/Chairman

1926-2014

MiRPA Once an all but forgotten “ghost track,” Meadowdale International Raceways, located within Raceway Woods, a Kane County Forest Preserve in the northwest corner of Carpentersville, Illinois, lives again. The 50th Anniversary celebration in 2008 brought together the efforts of a hard working group of volunteers and applied a mix of “those that were there” with those that could only wish they were...

The beginnings of the Meadowdale International Raceways Preservation Association (MIRPA) took shape that day.

On September 12, 2020, we present our 12th annual Meadowdale, Motorsports & Memories car show. This is a great opportunity to visit with friends... old and new. Hundreds of race and street cars of all marques will line the front straight while Illinois NCRS takes its place in Corvette Corner.

MiRPA is committed to preserving Meadowdale and Midwest Motorsports Racing History. We are an all volunteer organization. Your time, talent and treasure are the greatest gifts you can share with us. We work to ensure the endurance of the motorsports legacy through our 501(c)(3) not-for-profit status.

Meadowdale was a great destination sixty years ago and still is today. The Raceway brought people to live, work, and play. Memories of its history will bring the track alive for generations to come. Enjoy what remains of the track — you can still hear the race cars roaring in the distance. Turn around quickly enough... you just might get a glimpse into the past!

September 14, 1958, marked the opening of the Raceway, a 3.27 mile road course featuring a steep 180 degree curve known as the “Monza Wall” which led onto the ¾ mile front straight.

Estimates of the first race crowd were upwards of 100,000 people. Meadowdale was the dream of Leonard W. Besinger. A developer of commercial and residential properties in the Carpentersville area, he envisioned the track as a destination for the national racing community and a way to bring people to the area.

Automobile, motorcycle, even snowmobile races were held at Meadowdale International Raceways. The track was home to events held by sanctioning bodies including USRRC, USAC, ARCA, SCCA, Midwestern Council, AMA, and Kart.

MiRPA hosts activities to keep the racing spirit alive year round. Events have been held at locations such as Heidts Automotive Group, Chicago Vintage Motor Carriage, McKee Engineering, Black Dog Speed Shop, Fall-Line Motorsports, ECC Motorsports, The Mueller and The Lederer Collections. As a kick off to the Indy 500, a presentation by IMS Historian Donald Davidson, along with Paul Goldsmith, was held at Collector Car Garage. A special members-only event was held at the Autobahn “garage” of Indy winner Bobby Rahal.

MiRPA’s Annual Winter Banquet honors the vision and contributions to the sport of racing made by outstanding representatives of the Motorsports community. We welcome to our “Monza Wall of Fame” those who have shared an undeniable passion for speed and excellence.

A sampling of lost tracks - Gone but not forgotten...

Illinois - Algonquin National Hill Climb • Chicago Armory • Chicago Motor Speedway • International Amphitheater • O'Hare Stadium • Raceway Park • Santa Fe Speedway • Soldier Field • Indiana - U.S. 30 Dragway • Illiana Motor Speedway • Jungle Park • Playland Park • Michigan - Grand Rapids Speedrome • Jackson Motor Speedway • Motor City Speedway • Ohio - Cleveland Arena • Dayton Speedway • Fort Miami Speedway • Wisconsin - Greenwood Roadway • Lake Geneva Raceway • Lynndale Farms Raceway • Wilmot Hills A few of the drivers who would become legends...

Tony Adamowicz • Tony Bettenhausen • Tony DeLorenzo • Mark Donohue • George Follmer • Paul Goldsmith • Dan Gurney • Carl Haas • Jim Hall • Harry Heuer • Jim Jeffords • Fred Lorenzen • Ken Miles • Gary Nixon • Augie Pabst • Roger Penske • Sam Posey • Jim Rathmann • Lance Reventlow • Peter Revson • Ricardo Rodriguez • Lloyd Ruby • Curtis Turner • Al Unser • Bobby Unser • Rodger Ward A significant number of Midwest racing venues showcased the early years of many a car, driver and race team...

If they raced then, they raced here!

Inductees Tony DeLorenzo and Tom Sneva with the MiRPA Board at the annual Winter Banquet

Race Car Courtesy of R. Parsons

Meadowdale, Motorsports & Memories, a car show featuring history and memorabilia, has been held each September since 2009 on the front straight of the old raceway. Special Guests have included: • Harry Heuer, Augie Pabst, Bill Wuesthoff & Don Devine (Meister Bräu Racing Team) • Nickey Chevrolet Purple People Eater Corvette with Jim Jeffords & Race Team • Ronnie Kaplan & the AMC Javelin Trans Am Team

• Tony Adamowicz, Class Winner - 1968 Trans Am • Tony DeLorenzo, SCCA Champion • Paul Goldsmith, AMA Champion/Race Car Driver • Horst Kwech, SCCA Champion • Bob McKee, Designer/Engineer • John Morton, Legendary Race Car Driver • John Weinberger, Victor at the last Meadowdale Race

“Monza Wall” of fame 2020 Honorees MiRPA has been privileged to recognize and honor those who have made extraordinary contributions to automotive and racing history.

Tom Sneva

Tony DeLorenzo

1983 Indy 500 Winner

To those who have shared an undeniable passion for speed and excellence...

2019

Bobby Rahal 2011 Inductee Presentation

2018

Johnny Rutherford Three-Time Indy 500 Winner

2014

David Hobbs

Champion Road Racer & Television Commentator

SCCA Champion

We Salute You! 2017

Lyn St. James

1992 Indy 500 Rookie of the Year

2013

Janet Guthrie First Female Indy 500 Racer

2016

Al Unser

Four-Time Indy 500 Winner

2012

Bobby Unser

Three-Time Indy 500 Winner

2015

Al Unser Jr.

Two-Time Indy 500 Winner

2011

Bobby Rahal

Indy 500 Winner

Friends of MiRPA

2012 Tony Adamowicz Trans Am Champ

2017 Donald Davidson IMS Historian

2010 Tony DeLorenzo Corvette Racer

2015 & 2019 Don Devine Meister Bräuser

2015 Paul Goldsmith All-Arounder

2009 Harry Heuer Meister Bräuser

2011 Jim Jeffords Nickey Race Team Driver

2010 Ronnie Kaplan Nickey Chevrolet & AMC Javelin

2012 Horst Kwech Trans Am Champ

2011 Lindy Lindheimer Nickey Race Team Director

2011 & 2019 Bob McKee Design & Engineering

2013 John Morton Multi-Class Champ

2017 Tom Schultz Road America Historian

2010 Tom Stephani Nickey Chevrolet

2015 John Weinberger SCCA Champion Meadowdale Track Record 1968

2014 Meister Bräuser Racing Team (l to r) Don Devine, Bill Wuesthoff, Augie Pabst, Harry Heuer (Owner)

Since Last We Met…

A beautiful day unmarred by any hint of foul weather led to the largest, most successful event to date. The 11th Annual Meadowdale, Motorsports & Memories featured two presentations as part of our historic speaker series held in the big top tent nestled amongst the 300 plus classic, muscle, and exotic cars on display. Bob McKee, engineer, regaled the crowd with stories of his exploits designing and building cars, then taking them to the test lab... Racetracks! Don Devine shared memories of his laps around the Monza wall and some of the many exploits of the Meister Bräu Racing Team. ILNCRS hosted a judging meet at our MCACN sponsored event.

The MiRPA Winter Banquet is an opportunity to honor esteemed members of the motorsports community, those who exemplify a “dedication to speed and excellence.” Tom Sneva, Indy 500 Winner, and Tony DeLorenzo, SCCA Champion, are the 2020 “Monza Wall of Fame” Inductees.

Each was presented with commemorative art highlighting their successful careers.

Fall-line Motorsports and Black Dog Speed Shop’s new location were the morning’s VIP activities for banquet attendees. These amazing shops had an impressive number of exciting racing machines surrounded by the workings of these active leaders in the industry.

Members and guests of MiRPA enjoyed an exciting evening of camaraderie at the Winter Banquet! Inductees Tom and Tony signed limited edition prints of their commemorative art.

Our own Larry Fulhorst led first Tony and then Tom through some highlights of their successful careers. The silent auction drew lots of attention and lively bidding. The gift box raffle netted the winner a fabulous weekend at Road America with four-day VIP tickets to the Indy Car race, a two-night stay at the Blue Harbor Resort and dinner at Trattoria Stefano. This year a second and third prize were added to the raffle including tickets to the Indy Grand Prix.

In spite of the very unfortunate cancellation of many motorsports events this difficult year, MiRPA managed to attend a number of activities including: Dinners with the Elkhart Lake Historic Race Circuit Preservation Association; Races at Road America, Autobahn Tony was impressed by FallLine’s massive race shop Country Club & Blackhawk Farms; NASCAR and NHRA events along with Mecum Auctions. We will continue to partner with the Village of East Dundee in the planning and execution of their cruise nights when Motor Monday returns.

Tom & 1983 crew member, Buddy Urbanski, We continue to host our monthly review his racing recap Coffee & Cars (the first Saturday of each month) as guidelines permit.

Bring a car (or not!), show off your slot car skills, and enjoy a snack, old race movies and some bench racing with fellow enthusiasts.

Motor Monday in East Dundee shall return!

Save the Date!

MiRPA’s Winter Banquet is scheduled for Saturday, February 6, 2021

Some of the “usual suspects” at Coffee & Cars

We exist and thrive only because of the many volunteers who share their time, talent and treasure in support and dedication to MiRPA’s mission to promote and preserve the history of Midwest motorsports.

We are very grateful... Thank You!

Linda

A 2020 Corvette is among recent Coffee & Cars participants

Meadowdale, Nickey Chevrolet & the Scarab

by Tom Stephani

Nickey Chevrolet’s 1958 foray into sports car racing with their “Purple People Eater” (PPE) Corvettes was rewarded with a B-Production National Championship, but they were looking for more. The RAI (Reventlow Automobiles Inc.) Scarabs were all the rage that year and were getting a lot of press. At the end of the season, Nickey’s driver, Jim Jeffords, had a chance encounter with Lance Reventlow who offered him the opportunity to purchase the 002 right hand drive car for $17,500.

Jeffords didn’t have the money but he convinced Jack Stephani, one of Nickey’s owners, to buy it with the condition that if and when they sold it, they would sell it to him for the same price.

After completing the deal for the Scarab, the car was sent to the shop of Dean Jeffries in Glendale, California Meadowdale hosted another three-heat for modifications to the seat USAC race on the Fourth of July in order to accommodate weekend with Ruby and Pabst, as the six foot, three inch well as Indy 500 winner Rodger frame of Jeffords. A play Ward giving road racing a shot. on words inspired by Jeffords would again breeze to the recently opened victory in all three heats and Disneyland Park and lowered his own lap record its celebrity mouse, by another full second! the racer was named While the Scarab delivered “Nickey Nouse” — on its promise of great now repainted purple publicity and usually good and white in the Nickey results, it was very expensive tradition. The enclosed to run as opposed to the trailer was soon dubbed Corvette. The Corvette's parts “Nickey Nouse’s House.” were relatively inexpensive as The PPE MK III Corvette well as readily available right off An o was relegated to traveling on og of Nickey’s Parts Department shelf.

Ea l an open trailer. rly se u Scarab parts were different. Most had o Vers ion of the Nickey N After a rough start to the 1959 season, to be custom made by RAI and were very the Scarab hit its stride at Meadowdale’s expensive. Plus, they had to be shipped from Memorial Day USAC sanctioned event. Although most the West Coast. The cost of running the Scarab was of the top USAC drivers were at Indy, Lloyd Ruby, starting to wear on Jack and E.J. Stephani.

Augie Pabst, and Ricardo Rodriguez were entered.

After a semi-successful run on the West Coast, Nickey Three-heat races were run with Jeffords easily winning decided to sell it to Jeffords and Bob Wilke of Leader all of them, but not without some quick pit work by the Card Racing for the agreed upon price. Re-named the Nickey Team. Led by ace mechanic Ronnie Kaplan*, “Sportor,” Jeffords raced the car at Meadowdale on the clutch and transmission were both replaced after Labor Day weekend and finished second. The team ran the first heat. Jeffords clocked a new track record it for the last time at Riverside before selling it to the besting Chuck Daigh’s 1958 record, set in the same Meister Bräuser Team** at the end of the year. car, by four seconds. Without a doubt, the performance at Meadowdale was a publicity home run leading to a *MiRPA Founding Board Member story on the front page of the Sun Times Sports Section **The Scarab’s racing history led to its valuation at over on Monday, along with live radio coverage of the event. ten million dollars when recently sold to a private collector

Nickey Chevrolet Showroom on Irving Park Road in Chicago Left: Nickey’s Pit Crew Inset: Jim Jeffords

Lance Reventlow eyes Nickey’s Scarab with Jack (l) & E.J. (r)

Life Is Like a Monza Wall

by Phil Friedman

Trying to see too far ahead gives you a stiff neck, even if you don’t crash...

In my early twenties, when I still lived in Chicago, I raced sports cars. Not professionally, but in what was known in those days as “club racing.”

Club racing enthusiasts were “amateurs.” That is, they were unpaid and earned, at most, trophies and kudos for winning. They paid for, owned, transported and, for the most part, maintained and repaired their own cars.

Their pit crews were composed of wives (or in some cases, husbands), parents, siblings, friends and others who were dumb enough to want to do a pile of scut work on the off-chance of being treated afterward to a hamburger and a beer.

However, make no mistake. Club racing was serious wheel-to-wheel competition, car against car. And while club racing drivers were technically amateurs, they pushed their cars and themselves to the limits most of the time — and occasionally beyond.

I held competition licenses from both the Midwestern Council of Sports Car Clubs (MCSCC) and Sports Car Club of America (SCCA). I competed mostly at midwestern tracks, including Wisconsin’s Wilmot Hills and Road America along with the Meadowdale International Raceway in Carpentersville, Illinois — all “road courses.”

Road courses are those with both left-hand and right-hand turns, S-curves, slaloms, 180-degree switchbacks, hills and irregular-length straightaways.

This in contrast to oval tracks, where racing is in a counterclockwise direction, with all left-hand turns in a basically flat elevation.

I began my racing sojourn in a Triumph TR3, a two-seat, front-engine, rear-wheel drive roadster built in Britain with a 2-litre inline-4 engine. It was a fun car both to drive and race but had one troubling characteristic.

The TR3’s front wheel track was a bit more than 1% narrower than its rear wheel track. Pushed too hard and too deep into a sharp turn, it had an admittedly unconfirmed tendency to trip and roll over.

On two occasions, TR3s against whom I was racing did roll in similar circumstances... Which convinced me that prudence was the better part of courage and led me to the love of my relatively brief racing life, a diminutive Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite.

The Bugeye had a tiny 947cc inline-4 OHV engine. The engine was so small that when we needed to service it, two of us could simply hook a spreader bar and chain to it and manually lift it out of the engine compartment.

Club racing was “class racing,” meaning cars raced primarily in designated classes against one another.

Because a full field could rarely be made up of a single class, a number of classes usually raced at the same time, with the bigger, faster cars (with better qualifying times) being placed at the head of the starting pack.

There would be “overall” winners — first to finish out of all the cars on the track — and “class” winners — first to finish in their respective designated class.

I raced my Bugeye in G-production class, which allowed me to make certain modifications to the engine, drivetrain, and chassis. The result was that, at the bottom of “The Chute” at Meadowdale, a long, steep downhill straightaway, my diminutive slightly “improved” G-production Bugeye could, in the right circumstances, clock 130 mph.

The Bugeye was also a roller-skate of a car, with tremendous agility and cornering ability due to an exceptionally low center of gravity and a relatively wide track. And although the Bugeye was not stunning when it came to raw speed, it performed much better than you might expect on a road course. Primarily because you did not have to slow much at all in the turns. And it was not unusual for one to slip past a faster, more powerful car in a tight 90-degree turn.

A “Bugeye” Sprite & Triumph TR3 lead the pack back in the day

In a Bugeye ,you hung about six inches back from the bigger car’s rear inside fender coming up to a tight 90-degree or better turn and waited for the driver of the bigger car to pick his line into the turn. You downshifted, followed him on the same line into the turn and waited for the heavier car to slide somewhat toward the outside, pushed by greater mass and centrifugal force.

As soon as you saw the slide start, you broke off the bigger car’s line and aimed the Bugeye, pedal-to-themetal, straight toward the apex of the turn. If you did it just right — and if you had good tires and your engine was well-tuned and you picked a gear to give you redlined rpm — you’d slide by the bigger, “faster” car with the Bugeye feeling as though it were on rails.

Man, there was no better feeling in the world... Unless it was running — and surviving – the Monza Wall at Meadowdale Raceway!

The “Monza Wall” at Meadowdale International Raceway was a high banked 180-degree switchback turn, named in honor of a similarly banked turn at the world-famous automobile racetrack in Monza, Italy.

A banked road surface enables fast moving cars to take advantage of centrifugal force to improve, rather than detract from traction when in the turn. Thus, race cars can generally maintain higher speeds in banked turns.

They can also use a momentary downward line on the bank to pick up a tiny margin of speed and momentum in the process of trying to blow past another car. All of which makes for excitement among race fans — and, I suppose, drivers as well.

The problem is that, in a 180-degree highly banked turn, when you look forward in the normal fashion, what you mostly see is road surface. And not too much of it, at that.

In order to see far enough ahead to be aware of developing trouble — a car spinning out or hitting the outer wall or blowing a tire or whatever — you have to look up over your head. If you look too far up, you can’t see what’s going on closer in front of you. And that could lead to just as much, if not more trouble.

The drill was to size up the relative positions of all the cars already on the wall, as well as those running with you, as you headed into the 180-degree turn. Then pick your line, put the accelerator all the way down as you entered the turn, and concentrate on rapidly shifting your gaze back and forth from, more or less, straight ahead to looking “up” for the longer view. It felt like I imagined riding a tiger would. And I was personally happy just to get through the Monza Wall turn without getting into a dust-up with another car or cars on the track, never mind making an advance in race position.

High on the Monza Wall, a steep turn at Meadowdale, fashioned after the famous banked turn on the Monza Italy Racecourse, three sports car drivers “pour it on.”

Drivers are Harry Heuer in car No. 2, an American Chaparral; Ernie Erickson in car No. 27, a German Porsche, and Wayne Burnett in the unnumbered Ferrari

I ran on the Monza Wall only twice during my sports car racing years, once in a drivers school session and once in a race. By the end of my first season, a couple of serious race accidents on the banking led officials and raceway management to stop using that part of the track for club races.

For my part, I was happy to have made my bones by running on the wall — which you had to do at or near top speed because it was the centrifugal force generated that held your car up high on the banked surface and not slipping sideways toward the infield.

Years later, I was writing a piece and scanning through my mental library of metaphors. And wham! There it was right before me: The Monza Wall is a metaphor for Life:

Keep the pedal-to-the-metal, pick your line, then go like hell. Don’t look just at what’s directly in front of you, but also don’t try to look too much or too far forward into the future.

For if you do, you’re likely to crash.

Excerpted from the original article which can be found at www.bebee.com/producer/@friedman-phil/life-is-like-a-monza-wall

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If There Is No Indy 500 – Is It Still May?

by Linda Daro

When I was a little girl watching the Indy 500 with my father on the television, I was under the impression that it was the only car race run each year. Just where everyone went the rest of the year was something I never even considered.

Just two months before the 1917 Indianapolis 500, with the threat of war eminent, Allison announced that track officials were canceling the race. Two weeks later the United States would enter World War I. Allison believed the materials used for racing were critical to the war effort and the talented mechanics would be better utilized by the government in that endeavor.

Indianapolis Motor Speedway was thrust into wartime service. The track was offered as a landing strip and maintenance/refueling station for military aircraft traveling from Wright Field in Ohio to Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois. Now referred to as the Speedway Aviation Repair Depot, work included repairing airplanes damaged in combat or training. The Indianapolis 500 would resume after the war in 1919.

What would have been the thirtieth running of the Indianapolis 500 was canceled due to United States involvement in the Second World War.

However, from 1911 until 1993 the Indy 500 was the only sanctioned race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. After its opening in 1909, the Speedway founders saw attendance dropping with each event they held. There were balloon races, motorcycle, airplane and more than 60 auto races held throughout the 1910 season. James Allison, President and one of the four founders, believed they were giving the public too much racing.

It was decided instead to have one spectacular race. In 1911 the Speedway held only one event - a 500 mile race. Ticket prices were raised and attendance was huge. In 1912 the purse was doubled to $50,000, ticket prices were raised again and again attendance grew.

If it wasn’t already, the Indianapolis 500 became the world’s most consequential automotive speed contest.

And then came 1917… You may have noticed that the 100th anniversary and the 100th running of the Indy 500 were not in the same year. THE race has been canceled just six times, all due to war.

On December 28, 1941, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, now the President of the Speedway, announced the race would be suspended for the duration of the war to allow men and materials to divert to the war effort. Rickenbacker, World War I flying ace, stated that “tradition and priorities demand that we again voluntarily abandon the annual 500-mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the interest of a full-out victory effort.”

And then came 2020… The 104th running of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” will be the first time the race will be run without spectators. The race was moved from its traditional May date to August in the hopes that fans would be able to attend. While first proposed to run with 50% capacity and then quickly reduced to 25% fan involvement, it was ultimately decided to run without the fans in attendance at all.

Roger Penske, just the fourth owner, purchased the Speedway in January. While his disappointment must be huge, his affection for the Speedway and the fans is clear. He stated in an interview, “We didn’t buy the Speedway for just one year; we bought it for generations to come…”

This time, however, the Speedway did not see any action and was ultimately part of a four-year nationwide ban on automobile racing. It was completely closed and neglected, falling into a terrible state of disrepair.

As the war ended, Rickenbacker wanted to devote his attention to other business endeavors. Wilbur Shaw, three-time Indianapolis 500 winner, introduced Rickenbacker to Terre Haute businessman Tony Hulman who would purchase the track in November 1945 and restore it back to life.

If the last 110 years are any indication...

I would say he is right!

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Tom Sneva The Gas Man Tony DeLorenzo Winningest Corvette Racer Bobby Rahal The Graceful Champion Johnny Rutherford Lone Star J.R. Lyn St. James Passion to Win Al Unser Jr. Once Is Never Enough Al Unser & Al Unser Jr. Generations of Winning David Hobbs Fast Master Janet Guthrie Full Throttle Bobby Unser A History of Winning Ronnie Kaplan Ronnie Meadowdale’s 1968 Win on Sunday...

Trans Am: Tony Adamowicz, Ronnie Kaplan, Horst Kwech, Ed Wachs & Roger Penske

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PAUL KREUTZIGER about the artist…

Automotive artist and former SCCA member, Kreutziger has worked in art direction, design, & illustration for nearly thirty years.

Paul works in pen and ink, watercolor, gouache, and oils.

He accepts commissions on sports and racing cars.

To purchase prints, contact MiRPA at mirpa.org@gmail.com

MiRPA Acknowledgments We thank the many friends of MiRPA who have contributed to our success.

We also gratefully acknowledge the companies and organizations who have honored us with their support!

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Organizations...

CAMBr • Chicagoland Sports Car Club • Dundee Township • Dundee Township Park District • Great Lakes Slot Car Club • Illinois Chapter NCRS • Kane County Forest Preserve • Midwest Council • Northern Kane County Chamber of Commerce • Chicago Region SCCA • Village of East Dundee

Donors...

AMC Theater Corporation • Dale Anderson • Jim Anderson • Bell Racing USA • Blue Harbor Resort & Spa • Boone Creek/Prairie Isle Golf Clubs • CleanTools • Linda Daro • Tim & Lucy DeLap • Don Devine • Duluth Trading Company • Bill Ficht • Indianapolis Motor Speedway • IPIC Theater • Mike Jablo • Jameson’s Charhouse • Jiffy Lube • Lectric Limited • Burt Levy • Marmot • MCACN • Mecum Auctions • Metropolis Performing Arts Centre • Patrick Morgan • Nickey Performance • Racer Magazine • RedTail Golf Club • Road America • Superior Car Credit • Superior Self Storage • Team Stradale • Trattoria Stefano • Wildfire Restaurant • Steve & Susan Zautke

The Last Checker... Members in Memoriam Shawna Daro • Barbara Deja • Jim Enger • Ross Fossbender • Dan Gurney • Frank Hartl • Harry Heuer • Ronnie Kaplan • Roy Kumnick • Vern Nelson • Ken Rochocki • Gary Urbauer • Gary Weis

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Barone’s Restaurant

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150 S. Kennedy Dr. Carpentersville, IL 60110 847-551-1000 F.I.S.H. Food Pantry Gods Ministries H & S Gifts HR Compton’s Cleaners L & S Printing La Michoacana Ice Cream Lesly Beauty Supply Meadowdale Currency Exchange

Metro by T-Mobile New Hunan Chinese Restaurant Perks Thrift Reliable Staffing Rent-A-Center Sonia’s Hair Salon Tractor Supply Company U.S. Post Office Zumba

Liberty Lanes Luke’s Meadowdale Performance Garage New China Restaurant

Starbucks Taco Bell Torres Auto Repair Village Fresh Market Wingstop

Juanita’s Mundos Tel

Jackson-Hewitt Tax Service