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New Race Track Announced For Chattanooga Motorcar Festival On Oct. 15-17 Monday, May 10, 2021
The 2021 Chattanooga Motorcar Festival announced an all-new two-mile (approx.) race course in downtown Chattanooga to host wheel-to-wheel competition during its second festival on Oct. 15-17, 2021.
The inaugural Chattanooga Motorcar Festival was held in 2019. The 2020 event was cancelled due to the pandemic.
Development and oversight of the course design was conducted by a renowned motorsports track planning and execution company. Construction is currently underway.The track will be named the Pace Grand Prix at the Bend, in memory of the late Jim Pace.
The purpose-built street course will have eight turns winding through city streets and sections of private property, with its main entrance at Blue Goose Hollow Park. It will continue to expand in the coming years, with a longer version planned for 2022.
Mecum Classic And Collector Car Auction Added To Chattanooga Motorcar Festival Oct. 15-17 Thursday, April 8, 2021
The Chattanooga Motorcar Festival announced it will add a Mecum Auctions live collector car auction on Oct. 15-16 to its ever-expanding lineup of special activities in the “Scenic City” along the Tennessee River.
The Festival, which had a successful debut in 2019, returns for its second event on Oct. 15-17.
The auction, hosted by Mecum the world leader of collector car, vintage and antique motorcycle, and Road Art sales will be held at the 100,000-square-foot Chattanooga Convention Center and is slated to feature an estimated 600 vintage and collectible cars crossing the auction block over the two days (Oct. 15 and 16), with offerings ranging from classics and muscle cars to Corvettes, race cars, customs, high-end exotics and more.
Research On Travel Plans And Safety Tops 2021 Chattanooga Tourism Summit Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Around 175 people tuned into the 2021 Virtual Chattanooga Tourism Summit to reflect on the past year and look ahead to the future of Hamilton County’s hospitality and tourism industry. Speakers from TripAdvisor, Miles Partnership and STR shared insights, research and best practices to help guide tourism’s recovery.
“A destination marketing organization can only succeed when the destination succeeds. Without a healthy, unique, and appealing product to promote, without each of you, the Chattanooga Tourism Co. and Chattanooga and Hamilton County cannot succeed,” Barry White, president and CEO of Chattanooga Tourism Co., told participants.
Corky” Coker Named Grand Marshal For Second Chattanooga Motorcar Festival Thursday, February 4, 2021 - photo by Cameron Coker
Joseph “Corky” Coker has been named the Grand Marshal for the 2021 Chattanooga Motorcar Festival. At the inaugural event, in 2019, Mr. Coker was recognized as the Festival’s “Honored Collector.”
Racing legend Brian Redman, the inaugural 2019 grand marshal, returns to this year’s Festival as grand ambassador of the Festival.
The 2020 Festival, originally scheduled for Oct. 16-18, was postponed until Oct. 15-17, 2021, due to pandemic restrictions. The Festival will return this year with an even more dynamic schedule of fun events for car fans and families alike.