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• Vintage Race Group (V) is for Corvettes manufactured and prepared to 1972 and earlier racing specs. PROOF• Historic Race Group (H) is for Corvettes with post-1972 specs regardless of year of manufacture; and certain earlier PRESENTS cars that may be deemed more appropriate for this group. • Contemporary Race Group (C) classified by race and tech directors. • HPDX Group (X) is for track-day Corvettes all years of manufacture and will be subject to a safety inspection. No speed limit, experience required, helmets, passing zones defined. • Touring Group (T) is open to Corvettes all years of manufacture. 70 mph speed limit, seat belts are required, follow pace cars. PROOF:25/'75,%87( Lang Background Photo Courtesy of Todd Saturday August 20, 2011 W OH 7:00am – 5:00pm Registration Gate 6 and parking \ R HD HYU 8:00am – 9:15am 1.25 Hr race, SCCA Trans Am UVRI&K PROOF9:00am – 5:00pm Field of Dreams, Corvette Club displays, vendor areas and Corvette Corral open Thursday August 18, 2011 10:00am – 11:00am >Road America Center, Corvettes racing thru time Session 3, The Outlook for the Corvette 7:00am – 5:00pm Registration Gate 6 and parking Racing Hobby and Collecting, celebrity guests, 9:00am – 5:00pm Corvette Field of Dreams set-up and open panel presentations, Q & A, selected in North Paddock display cars Corvette Corral opens 11:25am – 12:50pm >Track Touring 11:25-11:50; Vendor area opens in Midway HPDX 11:50-12:25; Vintage, Historic, PROOF 10:00am – 10:30am Track orientation with Carl Jensen and Contemporary race car groups Jack Woehrle, all participants welcome, 12:25-12:50 practice location TBD 3:00pm – 7:00pm 4 Hr race ALMS Corvette Racing team 11:30am – 1:15pm >Track Touring 11:30-12:10; HPDX and Dinner via advance sign up and pay, time, Vintage, Historic, Contemporary race groups place TBD. Showing of Quest Documentary combined, 12:10-1:15. HPDX rules apply in PROOF film to be confirmed. this session. 4:30pm – 5:30pm Meet and greet reception, Road America Center Sunday August 21, 2011 PROOF 7:00am – 5:00pm Registration Gate 6 and parking Friday August 19, 2011 7:00am – 9:00am Breakfast bar 7:00am – 5:00pm Registration Gate 6 and parking 8:00am – 8:30am Track participants meeting V, H, C, X 9:00am – 5:00pm Corvette Field of Dreams, vendor areas and and T groups Corvette Corral open 8:30am ALMS Corvette racing team autographs, 10:00am – 11:00am >Road America Center, Corvettes Racing thru meeting PROOF time Session 1 Driving Corvette Race Cars 8:30am – Noon Concours assembly including race cars on at the Limit, celebrity guests, panel display, vendors open presentations, Q & A, selected display cars 8:30am Autocross begins 11:40am – 1:05pm >Track Touring 11:40-12:10; 8:30am Practice Vintage group HPDX 12:10-12:35; Vintage, Historic, 9:00am Practice Historic and Contemporary group Contemporary race car groups 9:30am HPDXPROOF group 12:35-1:05 practice 10:00am Touring group Noon – 1:05pm ALMS Corvette racing team autographs 10:30am ALL CORVETTE RACE CAR PHOTO at turn in Competition Paddock PROOF 6 newly re-christened Corvette Bridge 1:30pm – 2:00pm CWT Race car drivers meeting, orientation, 11:30am – 1:30pm Lunch tent open location TBD 12:30pm Qualifying Vintage group 2:00pm – 3:00pm >Road America Center, Corvettes Racing thru 1:10pm Qualifying Historic and contemporary group time Session 2 Preparing Corvette Race Cars 1:50pm HPDX group to Win, celebrity guests, panel presentations, 2:30pm Touring group PROOF Q & A, selected display cars 3:00pm Race Vintage group 3:25pm – 3:40pm Qualifying, ALMS Corvette Racing team 3:40pm Race Historic and contemporary group 4:30pm – 5:30pm >Corvette Corral, Corvette Racing Team Doug 4:20pm HPDX group Fehan and #3 Corvette crew chief Dan Binks, 4:50pm Touring group presentation and benefit auction Camp Anokijig 5:20pm Awards and farewell (An-oh-ki-jig). PROOFSchedule Subject to Change. Don Yenko & Ed Lowther, Dick Jim Jeffords, Dick Thompson, Jim Jeffords, Dick Thompson, Dick Lang, SCCA BP Dick Lang, Thompson, 1963 1960 1961 1962 PROOF 1958 SCCA BP 1959 SCCA CM SCCA BP SCCA CM SCCA BP Enduro SCCA AP SCCA AP 4 | Corvette World TributePROOF PROOF PROOF PROOF PROOF PROOF PROOF PROOF PROOF PROOF PROOF PROOF No one appreciates the exhilarating sound of an engine at full throttle more than the people PEAK POWER NEEDS Computer-controlled inverter at Briggs & Stratton. But when the race is over technology adjusts engine and it’s time to relax, we’re just as passionate speed to meet your power needs and delivers quiet, about peace and quiet. The Briggs & Stratton LOW POWER NEEDS efﬁcient, consistent power ™ PROOF POWERSMART SERIES is UP TO 38% that traditional camping QUIETER THAN TRADITIONAL generators can’t match. PROOF CAMPING GENERATORS.

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1956 June Sprints. Dick Thompson drives the 1960 June CP Corvette #11 in the 44 mile C Production Sprints. Dick 6 race. Thompson was just startingPROOF to make his Thompson, 1 1 6 name as a Corvette driver of great renown. However, in the Sting Ray now in this race he was a non-finisher. Two other Cor- painted silver and with vettes finished first and second, driven by Bark Henry aerodynamic improvements, and and Fred Windridge. Augie Pabst, in the Meister Brauser Scarab, staged a race for the ages in 5 1959 SCCA September National weekend. Jim the 140 mile feature event. Pabst and Jeffords drives the famous Nickey Chevrolet Thompson swapped the lead several times 2 “Purple People Eater” Corvette to overall victory before the Sting Ray’s brakes began to fade. Pabst in the 120 mile large bore production race. In the first won overall and in Class BM, while Thompson was PROOFphoto he is lapping an AC Ace-Bristol, exiting Canada second overall and first in CM. Thompson drove the Corner. Sting Ray the entire season, winning the SCCA CM National Championship. The next photo shows Jeffords accelerating 2 through Thunder Valley. Jeffords achieved fame 1960 Road America 500 next four photos. The 3 as one of the country’s best Corvette drivers. Bill Mitchell entered Sting Ray is in the pits prior He won both the 1958 and 1959 SCCA B ProductionPROOF 7 to the 500. Dick Thompson is the driver, with National Championships with a long series of wins James Johnston scheduled to co-drive. In the event, in the Nickey Corvette. In addition to the National a couple lengthy pit stops for brake repairs meant PROOF 3 crowns, he also won the 1958 Nassau Tourist Trophy that Johnston never got into the race. In this photo race in the Nickey Corvette, and the 1960 Grand Prix one can see the rudimentary pit layout used in the of Havana in a Corvette entered by early days of the track. The pits, such as they were Camoradi USA. back then, were a row of benches behind which the crews worked and kept their equipment, re-fuelling 1959 Road America 500. Dick Thompson’s Cor- rig, spares, and such. The cars merely pulled off PROOFvette Sting Ray makes a pit stop during the 500. the racing surface onto a gravel area which 4 The Sting Ray, co-driven by Anatole Lapine, separated the track proper from the row of dropped out of the race after 67 laps of the four mile benches. Accepted practices today such as a course. The Corvette started life as the SS “mule” or pit wall, concrete barriers, and separate pit the 1957 Sebring 12 Hour race. After General Motors road were simply not thought of back then. made one of its periodic withdrawals from racing, Bill Mitchell, GM’s Director of Styling, purchased the car, PROOF upgraded it, and clothed it in a body that foretold the production Stingray of 1963-68. It was painted red for the 1959 season. PROOF The earlier Corvette SR-2, a modified Corvette with a headrest, fin, extended nose, and side 5 brake scoops, was built for Jerry Earl, the son of GM chief styling executive Harley Earl, to race. At the end of the 1957 season the car was sold to Jim PROOFJeffords, who raced it at Sebring and four other races during 1958. Jeffords scored an overall win in May, 1958, at the SCCA Regional in Milwaukee. In 1959 4 the car was sold to Indianapolis Chevrolet dealer Bud Gates, who raced it sporadically. Gates is pictured 7 exiting Thunder Valley early in the race. His co-driver was Max Goldman. PROOF Gary Carlin, Rick Stark, Phil Currin, Jim Durovy Babe Headley, Babe Headley, & Bob Kerns, Buzz Fyhrie, Jerry Hansen, Dick Danielson, Ron Weaver, SCCA AP, Paul DePirro, SCCA BP SCCA AP SCCA AP SCCA BP & TA SCCA AP BP & TA SCCA BP 1974 1975 PROOF 1973 1977 1980 10 | Corvette World PROOFTribute PROOF PROOF PROOF PROOF PROOF

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Bill Mitchell consistently brought various GM show cars to Road After the 1963 season the Doane and Davis America to display and test public reaction. One such is the Corvette & Grand Sports were returned to the factory 8 XP-700, which Mitchell brought to the 1960 500. In this picture, Road 12PROOF13 where they were updated substantially. A much America founder and President, Clif Tufte, is about to be given a lap around bigger 377ci engine with four double Weber carbs on a cross over manifold his track. Leaning in to speak with him is long time Chief Steward and was put under the hood, while the fenders were punched out to accept fatter starter, Bud Seaverns. tires. Three cars were once again wheeled out the back door, this time to the Mecom Racing Team which ran all three at Nassau with some success. It Dick Thompson hustles the Sting Ray down the Moraine Sweep early is believed that John Mecom footed the bill. Once GM found out, the three in the race. Thompson ran in second place for the first 120 miles of cars were recalled once again. For 1964 one car was ‘sold’ to Jim Hall of 9 the race, behind the Maserati T-61 of Jim Jeffords. Then the brake Chaparral fame, who ran it in three races. It was not originally scheduled problems which seemed to plague the Sting Ray throughout its racing life to race in the 1964 Road America 500. Hall had entered two Chaparrals began to appear. The brakes began to fade and Thompson had to drop back but one could not be prepared in time and was a DNS. The Grand Sport PROOFand eventually pit for repairs. was substituted and was at a disadvantage to the new rear engine V-8 sports racers which were now dominant. Thompson raises his arm to warn following cars that he is slow- Nonetheless, the driving trio of Hap ing down. The brakes had failed entirely and he was heading to Sharp, Roger Penske, and Jim Hall 10 the pits for a very lengthy pit stop. In fact, part of the repairs con- finished third overall in the 500. In sisted of replacing the master cylinder. However, no such spare was avail- this shot, Hap Sharp corners the able, and the crew cannibalized a Plymouth in the paddock for its master Grand Sport in turnPROOF five early in cylinder, which was installed in the Sting Ray. Thompson finished the race, the race. The next photo shows but far behind. Fifty years on, Vintage racers running the few straight axle Jim Hall in turn three late in the 12 PROOF Corvettes equipped with drum brakes, have mastered the technique for get- race. Hall ran the Grand Sport ting the right parts and installing and servicing them for reliable operation. once more that year, numbered #82 with Roger Penske winning the Nassau Tourist Trophy race. Zora Arkus-Duntov reacted to the Cobra with the This is Grand Sport Chassis #005. Corvette Grand Sport, a lightweight tube frame It is now owned and was restored by PROOF11 racer clothed in a production Stingray-like body. Bill Tower, a well- known Florida based However, the project had just gotten underway before Gen- collector of Corvette race cars. eral Motors once again pulled the plug on racing. Hence, Duntov turned his back while a couple Grand Sports Notice: These copyrighted images are owned and were wheeled out the back door on loan to long time provided by Tom Schultz solely and exclusively for use Chevrolet entrants and pipelines Dick Doane and Grady herein. All rights reserved. Any unauthorized duplication, Davis. Doane was a Chevrolet dealer in Dundee, alteration or usage in whole or in part is a direct violation of 13 applicable copyright laws. ViolatorsPROOF are subject to prosecution Illinois, who for years had been the front and damages. 9 for Chevrolet’s clandestine racing efforts. Doane raced his Grand Sport, painted Tom’s images are available for sale by contacting him at PROOF light metallic blue in a number of events [email protected] during 1963. In this photo it is early in the 1963 Road America 500 and Doane powers out of turn 14 with the Lister- Chev of Charlie Hayes following. PROOF10 ® PROOF

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Photo Courtesy of Wayne Ellwood add the world). Lance has also grabbed onto racing with welcome Jim Jeffords and the Nickey Chevrolet Purple a passion. Meet Lance and People Eater Mk II to the Corvette World Tribute at Road PROOFlook for him driving a white We America where much of its history played out. Jim Photo Courtesy of Lance Miller 1959 Straight Axle # 3 in the Jeffords drove this car to win the SCCA B Production National Vintage race group. Championship in 1959. Chip Miller and friends discovered the car by In 2000, Chip Miller acquired the accident and restored it exactly as it was. first Corvette to win its class at the world renowned Le Mans 24 Most of us in the Corvette hobby know that Chip Miller was a victim hour endurance race. The of Amyloidosis, a rare un-curable blood disease; and left us in March, legendary Corvette is known

2004. Chip will always be remembered and was inducted into the as the Briggs Cunningham Photo Courtesy of Lance Miller PROOFCorvette Hall of Fame. team car #3. Kevin Mackay of Corvette Repair restored the car The story of Chip Miller and Corvettes at Carlisle is legend. Back in to its exact configuration. Lance fulfilled Chip’s dream to take the car 1980, Chip Miller and his 1953 Corvette were rejected by the Antique back to Le Mans last year for a tribute on the 50th anniversary of that Auto Club of America at their famed Hershey Car Show. A natural win in 1960. Film maker Michael Brown researched and captured born salesman and a visionary, Chip and friend Bill Miller rented the that story in aPROOF brilliant 84 minute documentary. Pennsylvania State Fairground in Carlisle and started their own car PROOF show and swap meet. Chip Miller loved Corvettes and began collecting them as Carlisle Events grew into one of the leading car shows and swap meets in the world. Chip also loved the racing aspect. Today the Chip Miller family collection boasts a number of historic Corvette race cars. /HDUQIURPDOLYLQJOHJHQG PROOFThere were big shoes to fill at Carlisle. Seven years onward, Chip’s son Lance Miller is the active managing partner and carries the PROOF 1990 R9G

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