The Trans Am Series presented by Pirelli does a quick turnaround from Lime Rock Park to the city of Detroit, where the Detroit Grand Prix returns to the downtown streets for the first time since 1991.
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How Trailblazer Lyn St. James Conquered Sexism in Her Racing Career
St. James, 74, is still knocking down walls and empowering others to follow their racing dreams.
By Bradley Brownell
Lyn St. James has had the kind of career most racers would be jealous of.
In a decades-long path, she raced at every major endurance sports-car event in the world, qualified for the Indianapolis 500 seven times, and set some impressive speed records. She didn’t come from a racing family or start karting as a toddler. She just had the sheer force of will and determination to push herself into a sport largely devoid of women.
SPEAKING OF WARNER As a longtime Road & Track photographer and writer, Warner was present at hundreds of noteworthy races. The Other Side of the Fence: Six Decades of Motorsports Photography, Warner’s new book, debuted at the Concours, and it contains some never-before-seen images from F1, NASCAR, IndyCar, IMSA, Le Mans and other sanctioning bodies taken from 1959 to the present day. It will be available on Amazon.com June 1.
SEMINARS A SUCCESS
As usual, there were a pair of well-attended seminars on racing topics: Friday was on “Chevy Thunder,” the history of Chevrolet’s small-block V-8 engine, introduced in 1955, with the basic architecture still in use today. Panelists included moderator Ray Evernham, racer Dale Earnhardt, Jr., former GM racing head Herb Fishel, NASCAR’s Dr. Eric Warren, and racers David Hobbs, Brian Redman and George Follmer.