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Swift Engineering Inc. was founded in 1983. Within their first year they built a racing car that went on to win the Formula Ford SCCA National Championship. This conformed and validated the companies mission statement: 'he design, manufacture and sale of successful racing cars, and the concurrent creation of an internationally renowned engineering company wîth recognized capabilities in aerodynamics, advanced composites, mechanical engineering and precision, limited volume, and rapid turnaround manufacturing.'
To date, the company has created over 450 cars that have won over 40 national and international racing championships. While producing this string of competitive successes, Swift has produced a wide range of cars from amateur category racing cars, like its Formula Ford, to professional, world class racing cars like its Toyota Atlantic chassis and the race winning 250 mph CART Champ Car, which, true to form, won its first race in 1997.Source - Swift
To date, the company has created over 450 cars that have won over 40 national and international racing championships. While producing this string of competitive successes, Swift has produced a wide range of cars from amateur category racing cars, like its Formula Ford, to professional, world class racing cars like its Toyota Atlantic chassis and the race winning 250 mph CART Champ Car, which, true to form, won its first race in 1997.Source - Swift
| Firestone Returns As Presenting Sponsor of RRDC Evening With Brian Redman in Long Beach | |
 | The Firestone brand will return as presenting sponsor of the Road Racing Drivers Club's fifth annual West Coast banquet honoring auto racing's most influential leaders. This year, on Thursday, April 18, prior to the running of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, the 'RRDC Evening with Brian Redman presented by Firestone' will highlight the career of one of the sport's most popular, talented and successful race-car drivers. This is the Firestone brand's fourth straight year as a supporter of the...[Read more...] |
| Road America Announces 2013 Season Schedule | |
 | Road America President and General Manager, George Bruggenthies, announced Road America's 2013 season schedule today. 'Road America has the most active and diverse schedule of any road race circuit in the U.S. and we look forward to hosting the AMA, NASCAR Nationwide Series, SCCA and three separate vintage events again in 2013,' said Bruggenthies. 'We also look forward to being the first circuit to have the opportunity to show the world what the new race format of the recently announced GRAN...[Read more...] |
| Honda, Acura Racers Claim Titles at SCCA Runoffs | |
| Honda and Acura racers won four Sports Car Club of America national titles and claimed a 1-2 finish in the inaugural B-Spec category, run as a exhibition class, in last weekend's SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Road America. More than three dozen Honda and Acura racers traveled to the classic Road America road course in Wisconsin for this year's 49th annual Runoffs, September 17-23, taking part in 13 of the 30 competition classes. Five drivers used the Honda L15A7 engine in Formula...[Read more...] | |
| The WeatherTech® CHICAGO REGION SCCA JUNE SPRINTS® | |
 | Winning the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) June Sprints at Road America has been every sports car driver's dream since the thrilling first event in 1956. That's when a tall, curly-haired chicken farmer from Texas named Carroll Shelby drove all night to make the race, jumped into the cockpit of a Ferrari 121 LM without even changing out of his work clothes - striped farmer's overalls - and won the 152-mile feature. No one back then knew that his win would set the tone for his momentous racing ...[Read more...] |
| Vintage Racing Ushers In The 2012 Season At Road America | |
 | It has been 62 years since racers tore through the streets of this tiny village about 60 miles north of Milwaukee. Still, every spring you would swear that the town speed limit doesn't exist when the sounds of historic racecars from days gone by seem to echo throughout the hillside. May 18-20 the Spring Vintage Weekend returns to Road America and kicks-off the start of a summer full of racing, from vintage and historic cars to motorcycles and even NASCAR. Racing came to Elkhart Lake in 1950...[Read more...] |
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