Thursday, November 06, 2008 More success for Skip Barber School and Series grads: Conor Daly on his way to winning the Walter Hayes Formula Ford Trophy at Silverstone. Photo by Jeff Bloxham Conor Daly on the podium with the actual Walter Hayes Trophy. Dad Derek is proud, obviously… Photo by Jeff Bloxham SILVERSTONE, England – Conor Daly capped an extraordinarily
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 The 2008-2009 F2000 and MX-5 Miata MAZDASPEED Challenge Western Series both got underway at Laguna Seca. There was some mighty fine racing – there were only three FCYs the whole weekend – and we saw Francisco Weiler and Max Riddle take first-time wins… Francisco Weiler (l.) and Max Riddle (r.) got their first Race Series wins
Monday, November 03, 2008 LAKEVILLE, Conn. – Skip Barber Racing School LLC and KTM North America, Inc., today jointly announced the creation of a new instructional program that pairs the world’s premier racing and driving school with a leading worldwide manufacturer of power sports vehicles. The two-day school will feature the new KTM 1190 RC8 supersport motorcycle, embodying high performance,
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Dennis Trebing (l.) and mateo Perez (r.), along with Robert LaRocca, all got their first series wins at CMP. Trebing won twice, in fact.. Recently reinvigorated Carolina Motorsports Park was the very hooked-up host of the start of the 2008-2009 F2000 Southern Series as well as the MAZDASPEED Southern championship. Now run by 1997 Eastern Region
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2006 SBN champ Jonathan Goring (that’s his father Keith on the right) added another title to his ledger: 2008 IMSA Lites One. Jonathan Goring, the 2006 BFGoodrich/Skip Barber National Presented by Mazda champion, continued his victorious ways by clinching this year’s IMSA Lites One championship with a decisive victory in the second-to-last race, at Mazda Raceway
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Josef Newgarden’s two years of ultra-competitive Skip Barber National experience — five wins and nine poles in 28 starts — prepared the 17-year-old to make Formula Ford history. Photo courtesy Team USA BRANDS HATCH, England – Josef Newgarden made history by winning the famed Formula Ford Festival (1600 Kent class) at Brands Hatch – the first
Friday, October 17, 2008 BRANDS HATCH, England – Expectations were high for Team USA Scholarship drivers Conor Daly and Josef Newgarden as they went into today’s official qualifying sessions for the Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch. Each was in a different group and when their 15-minute sessions were checkered, ”Newgy” was on pole for Heat One while Daly just
Monday, October 06, 2008 The 2008 BFGoodrich/Skip Barber National Presented by Mazda champion: Conor Daly. Photos from the finale weekend are here One-page pdf of final points and race-by-race box scores are here ALTON, Va. (Oct. 5) – Twelve races in the books, two to go. Four drivers within nine points of each other – first and second just five
Friday, October 03, 2008 ALTON, Va. – Conor Daly drew first blood by taking pole for race one as he and three others – Josef Newgarden, Felipe Polehtto and Fabio Orsolon – battle each other to win the 2008 BFGoodrich/Skip Barber National Presented by Mazda championship and its $350,000 prize. Just 10 points separate points leader Daly (with today’s pole,
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Photos from the weekend are here… Final points are here (then click on ”RA MIdwestern/ MX5 Finale Race Weekend”) The Midwestern Regional series wrapped its season at Road America, with 60+ drivers on hand. The two titles to be decided were the F2000 Regional, and Skip Barber Racing’s first-ever MAZDASPEED Challenge championship. In F2000, the 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. and LAKEVILLE, Conn. – Conor Daly and Josef Newgarden, currently first and second, respectively, in the BFGoodrich/Skip Barber National Presented by Mazda, were awarded the prestigious Team USA Scholarships for the 2008 season. Derek Daly’s teenage son Conor Daly, 16, from Noblesville, Ind., and Newgarden, 17, from Hendersonville, Tenn., will fly the
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Taking it like a man, title runner-up Corey Lewis reaches into the cockpit to congratulate Court Vernon, the 2008 Skip Barber Eastern Region champion. With the 2008 Skip Barber Race Series Eastern Region having run at VIR, Watkins Glen, Road America, Road Atlanta, Mont Tremblant and NJMP (Lightning), the championship was at ”new” Lime Rock Park