Some people have been asking us about all of the dirt being moved at Lime Rock, asking us what are we trying to do. The answer is that we have a few goals. The first is to ensure Lime Rock’s future as a venue for major events. To do that we have significantly enlarged both paddocks and have dealt with all of the…

Most of my experience with TV journalists is that theyre not car people. More likely a weather woman doing a program in anticipation of a snowstorm. Thats pretty scary, but those folks dont come thinking theyre good drivers. The automotive press all know that theyre good. I will never forget doing the press…

We started a professional series at the school in the 1980s and raced largely at IndyCar events. The concept was identical cars with identical engines, which were turbocharged Saab motors. Montoya ran that series, Bryan Herta ran that series. We had tons of drivers that went on to be really successful. The engines…

What makes a racing car fun to drive is that if its well balanced and has enough power for the grip, there are cars that effectively handle too well (too much aerodynamic help) and those are boring. You need the power high enough for the grip level and the car to be nicely balanced. And then you can do anything with…

You obviously have to spend time in a race car to get good and then to show people youre good. I think your chances are poor of achieving that because of the cost. However, racing is no different than any other business in that you need marketing people, PR people, mechanics, business people, engineers, etc. And…

If you were sensible, step 1 is to get a good job. I ignored that advise. If youve done that and are making a reasonable amount of money, a racing school is clearly the way to go. I have no ax to grind when I say that. The second step, which we really started at the school, is to race a car thats similar to the cars…

This sounds like an Insider question. And it happened after I was no longer associated with the school. what I’ve been told is that he was very fast and took terrible chances in traffic and got thrown out of the series. Seems to me the instructors were pretty prophetic.

Good question. To be really successful, you have to have a lot of talent. At the same time, anybody can be taught to be better. You cant teach someone with very little talent to be good but you can teach them to be adequate. You left attitude out of your question, you cant teach that and the saddest thing to see is a…

Freshman year, the first day we were there, they bundled us all together and some dean said, you guys should all join the army or get a job. And he was right in my case, but I didnt take his advice. It turned out ironically that I loved my year in teh merchant marines and I probably learned more than in the preious…

Going to college wasnt right for me, I had gotten a big scholarship to Harvard and I really had to go but I wasnt interested. All I cared about was cars and driving out to Wellesley (girls college) and by the end of my junior year they kind of had enough of me. They negotiated my departure ‘cause I never went to class…

On the new Ford GT, I was at the reveal in Detroit and its a wonderful looking car. I question the visibility out the back, the good news is that theyre going to Le Mans. A probably very unreliable source says theyre already worried about the budget and may loose the spare car.

So back in 1967 probably before you were born, I had a Can-Am race car that I was desperate to sell, the only taker I had, had a street GT40, yellow. I was living in Boston at the time and had no garage, the GT40 became my street car and I made the deal with him late in November. I think we had record snow that…

First just to set the record straight, it isnt my school anymore, I sold it about 15 years ago. But up until then, we would regularly have a 1/3 of the field at Indianapolis every year. There have been 5 Skip Barber graduates make it into Formula 1. The big name in American open wheel racing is of course Andretti. And…

I sympathize with your 8 month stretches between track experiences. Its almost impossible to make progress that way. When I started racing and had no money, I’d end up running 3-4 times a year and by the end of a year, I’d be right about where I was at the end of the previous year. It drove me nuts

Jerry Seinfeld was a racing school graduate, he took his writers to Schools in California twice, once at Sears Point and once at Laguna Seca. I found out about the decal on the refrigerator the same way you did, saw it on a TV program. It was never talked about, we didnt pay him any money, and he didnt pay us any money