Zak Brown, CEO of McLaren Racing, was honored at a gala dinner on Thursday with the 10th annual International Motor Racing Research Center’s Cameron R. Argetsinger Award for outstanding contributions to motorsports.Returning to the site of the inaugural award dinner held at the Corning Museum of Glass which recognized multi-race...

Watkins Glen's International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) is set to host its first conversation of the year - The Racing Legacy of A-Bay on Saturday, May 20.Motorsports historian (and Lime Rock Park public address commentator) Greg Rickes will host a 90 to 120-minute presentation to re-live history when they...

Following a two-year pandemic-related hiatus, the International Motor Racing Research Center, in partnership with the Society of Automotive Historians and the Watkins Glen Chamber of Commerce, is proud to present the Sixth Michael R. Argetsinger Symposium on International Motor Racing History, this Friday and Saturday, November 4-5.In previous years, the...

Visionary leaders start with a single idea. In 1948, Cameron R. Argetsinger staged the first post-World War II road race in the United States, run through the streets of Watkins Glen, a sleepy little village in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State. From that start came a permanent...

Bobby Rahal will receive the sixth annual Cameron R. Argetsinger Award for Outstanding Contributions to Motorsports in a June 27 dinner at the Corning (N.Y.) Museum of Glass hosted by the International Motor Racing Research Center and presented by Sahlen's, NASCAR, ISC, Watkins Glen International and IMSA.The award memorializes Cameron...

«» Jean Argetsinger, the matriarch of early American road racing and a leader in the creation of the International Motor Racing Research Center, died Monday, Jan. 16.Argetsinger was a true partner to her late husband, Cameron R. Argetsinger, who is credited with the re-birth of road racing in the United...

Richard Petty, the most decorated driver in the history of NASCAR, will start the August race weekend in Watkins Glen by receiving the Cameron R. Argetsinger Award for Outstanding Contributions to Motorsports, sponsored by the International Motor Racing Research Center.Petty, who earned a record 200 career races and seven NASCAR...