Welcome to The Villages Motor Racing Fan Club website!

You are cordially invited to view the pages in our site, all of which have been designed to keep our members and interested parties up-to-speed (pun intended!) on who we are and what we do.

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Our next meeting is on Nov. 3 at Colony Cottage Recreation Center, going green at 7 p.m.

Our guest speaker will be club member Chris Dirato. Chris is a former sportswriter turned public relations professional and has been in the PR business for 40-plus years.

While working for a New York City-based PR agency between 1993 and 2012, Dirato managed the PR efforts as connected to:

  • The Exide Batteries Racing Team in NASCAR (drivers Jeff Burton, Cup; and Kurt Busch, Trucks), as well as the Don Schumacher Racing Team in NHRA (Tony Schumacher, Top Fuel).
  • The U.S. Army Racing programs in NASCAR (various drivers with MB2 Motorsports and Stewart-Haas Racing), as well as in NHRA (Tony Schumacher, Top Fuel; Antron Brown, Pro Stock Motorcycles; and Angelle Sampey, Pro Stock Motorcycles) with Don Schumacher Racing.

Currently, Chris handles PR for IMSA driver Dylan Murry, who competes in the LMP3 class of the WeatherTech Sports Car Championship Series.

We look forward to hearing from Chris and maybe learning a little about the interesting personalities that he has encountered over the years.

Meetings are open only to club members, but Villages residents can join at the door. If you are interested, Click Here for more information.

TEXAS – Larson held off multiple contenders over six restarts in the final 60 laps to earn the win.

Doug scored a win with Larson. He has the points, but needs another win.

Wins mean everything. Our challengers have three races to overtake Melanie.

Standings After Texas

  1. Melanie Scott  2 wins, 255 points
  2. Doug Baker  1 win, 310 points
  3. Steve Poplarski  1 win, 247 points
  4. Jim Dropp  0 wins, 279 points
  5. Alan Sneider  0 wins, 265 points
  6. Art Staus  0 wins, 233 points

Click on the PREDICTION ROW tab at the top of this page so you can keep up with the competition from race to race. Check the notes at the bottom for an explanation of scoring.


 

Club member Hal Lynch has always been a classic car guy.

In the '80s he shared his uncle's dream to transform his uncle's 1970 AMC AMX from a daily driver to a road course muscle car.

When his uncle passed away in 1984 and left the classic AMX to Lynch, Hal began the task of building out the AMX to be a road racer.

He completed the task in 1991 and has campaigned the car on many tracks ever since.

Click Here to download the full The Villages Magazine article.


John Angiolo, Kyle Harvey, Jerry Conkle and Art Fehrman

August 21, 2021, Historic Auto Attractions Museum, Roscoe, Ill. -- Club board of directors John Angiolo, Jerry Conkle and Art Fehrman had the pleasure of inducting Kyle Harvey into our Hall of Fame.

Kyle was unable to attend induction ceremony in January 2020 because he was spotting for Tower Motorsport in the 24 Hours at Daytona.

John, Jerry and Kyle were attending the Illinois Stock Car Hall of Fame Festival & Induction Ceremony in Illinois. Art "Fireball" Fehrman is the founder of the Illinois Stock Car Hall of Fame and serves on its board of directors.