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Monday, February 21, 2005 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Ask Barry Waddell, lead instructor at the Road America SBRS three-day in 1990 that 19-year-old Jeff Gordon enrolled in, if he saw the huge talent that was ready to blossom. Well, in that school's "dirt," Waddell wrote: ''Get this guy into our...

Friday, February 18, 2005 Of the 43 starters for Sunday's season-opening Daytona 500 Presented by Skip Barber Racing, 13 (30%) are Skippy grads. I've taken the liberty of "asterisk-ing" those guys… Enjoy the race! Daytona 500 starting lineup: 1) Dale Jarrett, No. 88 UPS Ford, 47.793sec/188...

Monday, February 14, 2005 ... F1 someday? The February 10 issue of Autosport features a story (screenshot below) on John Edwards, a standard bearer for the proven system that all of us -- especially you, the racer -- are proud to be part of. Below the screenshot is the text of the article (much than...

Friday, February 11, 2005 LAKEVILLE, Conn. - Skip Barber Racing will again award the champion of its Skip Barber National Championship Presented by RACER a cash prize of $100,000, a dollar amount designed to significantly assist the driver on his/her next career step, as 2004 Skip Barber National ch...

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 Over the 30 years that we've held our racing series, we learned that there are lots of very good race car drivers who do not have hard-core professional aspirations -- in other words, they're not trying to get themselves into an IRL, Champ Car or F1 seat as a career -- but...