The clock is counting all the way down to probably the most anticipated weeks of the yr for automotive fanatics, automakers, sponsors and native Monterey companies. WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca kicks off this Monterey Automobile Week by naming Corvette legend Ron Fellows because the Grand Marshal for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
With a particular version Corvette named after him, Fellows also can depend 27 wins, three American Le Mans Sequence championships, two wins on the 24 Hours of Le Mans and 4 consecutive years because the “Most Widespread Driver” from ALMS followers to his file. Arguably one in every of North America’s most versatile and profitable street racing drivers, Ron Fellows was inducted into the Corvette Corridor of Fame in 2011, the Canadian Motorsports Corridor of Fame in 2012 and was known as to the Order of Canada in 2020.
“I’m excited to make it again out to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca to have a good time the seventieth Anniversary of Corvette,” mentioned Fellows. “This can be my fourth time visiting the historic races and it’s by no means a nasty journey to be on the spectacular Monterey Peninsula.” Fellows can be giving out the Awards on Saturday together with the coveted Spirit of Monterey and the famed John Fitch Award. “I’m honored on the alternative to be named Grand Marshal and can cross my fingers I’ve a chance to get behind a wheel of one of many automobiles on observe.”
Celebrations start with the 14th annual Monterey Race Automobile Present held downtown Friday, Aug. 11. Thirty non-street-legal race automobiles will go away WeatherTech Raceway beneath CHP escort to benefit from the automotive present amongst followers and households to kick off the Monterey Pre-Reunion, Aug. 11 and 12, and Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion Aug. 16-19.
The Race Automobile Present and Monterey Pre-Reunion are preludes to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, which was named final yr’s Motorsport Occasion of the Yr by the internationally acclaimed Historic Motoring Awards. Guests will expertise among the world’s greatest genuine and historic race automobiles in 14 totally different teams at velocity. And this yr, there’s a particular observance of Corvette and its seventieth anniversary.
Every of the 14 race teams could have day by day 25-minute periods to make sure followers can expertise all eras of motorsport historical past. And in between periods are particular exhibition laps, automobiles making their World or North American debuts, and way more. The total schedule could also be seen HERE.
To wrap up the week’s festivities, the Corkscrew Hillclimb & Neighborhood Day returns for its second yr to current a distinct type of racing on Sunday, Aug. 20. These racers compete towards the clock, and their very own abilities, by launching from the Begin/End line reverse course towards Flip 11 and up by means of the Rainey Curve and cresting the Corkscrew as they take the checkered flag. The drivers had a blast and the followers lining the open pit lane and fences alongside the Corkscrew cheered their favorites.
Extra particulars, together with ticket and schedule data, may be discovered HERE.
