Thursday, June 17, 2010
Skip Barber Racing School's shop on Winder Highway in Braselton
Skip Barber Racing School announced the November move of its main shop and factory from Lakeville, Conn. to its facility at 5290 Winder Hwy. in Braselton, Ga., just outside the entrance of Road Atlanta. The move will bring additional engineering, fabrication, race car build (open wheel and MX-5 Cup), and engine and transmission rebuild facilities and will include the transfer of seven positions from Connecticut to Hall County. "The Atlanta market presents us with a tremendous growth opportunity," said Michael Culver, CEO and Chairman of Skip Barber Racing School. "This move places our operations in a location central to all of the tracks we run programs at in the eastern United States and Canada." "Simply put, we’ve outgrown our current shop in Connecticut," added Kevin Seidl, Senior VP of Operations for Skip Barber Racing School. "After exploring options in the northeast we determined that the best solution was to move our shop to our existing but underutilized facility at Road Atlanta." The Road Atlanta facility was recently outfitted with equipment necessary to take repairs of Skip Barber’s Mazda Miata-based MX-5 Cup race cars in-house. Skip Barber Racing School’s headquarters will remain in northwest Connecticut, while west coast operations will continue at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, Calif. with East Coast winter operations continuing at Sebring International Raceway in central Florida. Jim Altemus
