Tuesday, December 30, 2008 SEBRING, Fla. – At the 12th annual Skip Barber Karting Scholarship Shoot-out at Sebring International Raceway, 51 star karters spent three days driving Skip Barber F2000 open-wheel race cars in hopes of winning seat-time scholarships for 2009. In what the judging panel claimed was one of the most closely contested Shoot-outs in its decade-plus existence, four
Friday, December 19, 2008 2008 Skip Barber National Champion Conor Daly PALMETTO, Fla., Dec. 19 – Andersen Racing is pleased to announce that it will field a car for Conor Daly in the 2009 Star Mazda Championship presented by Goodyear. Daly, of Noblesville, Ind., earned the 2008 Skip Barber National Championship with five victories. As part of his winnings he
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Mother Nature didn’t necessarily cooperate for this weekends SBRS Western F2000 and MazdaSpeed Challenge Series, but considering the forecast from several days ago we were lucky……and we had fun. This is a strange time for racing. It is the middle of the off-season and there is not much on TV for those of us die hard’s
Thursday, December 11, 2008 LAKEVILLE, Conn. – The BFGoodrich/Skip Barber National Presented by Mazda today announced its 2009 schedule, the most impressive in the Series history, is a 14-race championship that begins mid-March. Now in its 11th year, the series awards its annual champion one of the largest title bonuses for young drivers: a paid season in the following year’s
Thursday, December 11, 2008 LAKEVILLE, Conn. – Fifty drivers representing seven countries and 19 States make up the final list of entrants for the 12th Annual Skip Barber Karting Scholarship Shoot-out, released today by Skip Barber LLC. The Shoot-out, December 27-29 at Sebring International Raceway, will award close to $130,000 in scholarships in the form of paid seat time in
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 LAKEVILLE, Conn. – Skip Barber Racing School LLC today announced its 2009 MAZDASPEED Challenge schedule, a 12-race championship that begins in early May. All races in the MAZDASPEED Challenge will be contested in newly-upgraded Skip Barber Mazda MX-5 Cup racecars. “In addition to a better variety of tracks in the series, there will be some pretty
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 LAKEVILLE, Conn. – Skip Barber Racing School LLC today announced its 2009 Formula 2000 Summer Series schedule, a 14-race championship that begins in early May. Driven by competitor response, this season the Midwestern and Eastern Race Series have been combined into the largest amateur race series in North America. All races will be contested in identical
Thursday, November 20, 2008 The first Skip Barber High Performance Driving Schools to utilize the Exige S will be held at Road Atlanta, Laguna Seca and Sebring, beginning in December. LOS ANGELES – The Skip Barber Racing School and Lotus Cars USA, Inc., today jointly announced that the Lotus Exige S will join the fleet of high-end sports cars used
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Reigning BFGoodrich/Skip Barber National Presented by Mazda champion Conor Daly started his preparations for the 2009 season when he completed 120 laps on the Sebring short course November 17 in an Andersen Racing Star Mazda. He was joined for the day by fellow Skip Barber National competitor and Team USA driver Josef Newgarden, as well as
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 LAKEVILLE, Conn. – The Skip Barber Racing School and the International Motorsports Academy (IMA) announced an agreement that will see IMA’s best kart racers win scholarships to the annual Skip Barber Karting Scholarship Shoot-out. IMA, based in Sarasota, Fla., offers a full-time kart racing school curriculum. ”We now have bridged the gap between IMA karting and
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 The 2008-2009 F2000 and MX-5 Miata MAZDASPEED Challenge Southern Series were at Road Atlanta, for rounds three and four. There were only two full course yellows – both in the same race – and as usual, the track and the drivers lent themselves to some darn good racing. Congrats to Mike Dorrbecker, getting his first Series
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Three FWT karters win not only an SBRS Three Day School, but also entry into the annual Karting Shoot-out. LAKEVILLE, Conn. – Skip Barber Racing announced an extension of its partnership with Formula Kart Productions, Inc., owner and promoter of the Formula Kart Racing Florida Winter Tour presented by Tony Kart, and will continue its award