2018 Inductee, R
Bill Ray has been selected to receive a Jerry Van Dyke award in recognition of his 57 year career supporting Colorado Motorsports. His interests began watching stock car racing at Macon County Speedway in Decatur, Illinois. After moving to Colorado in 1953, he...
Agajanian Award, P
The legendary Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is the second oldest race held in the United States, and has been promoting and preserving this legacy since 1916.Since the inaugural race sponsored by Spencer Penrose, competitors have matched their machines against...
2018 Inductee, W
Jeff Walters’ career began in 1978 as he raced go-karts in Boulder and Longmont. He graduated to full-sized race cars while competing in the Bomber/Pure Stock class–first at Lakeside Speedway, then at Colorado National Speedway in 1981. As his career...
2018 Inductee, O
Jim Opperman’s racing career began in 1957 at Englewood Speedway, where he competed in the modified division in a car sponsored by The Competitor’s Company, a business Jim owned with his brother Ray. In 1974 he won his first main event and finished the season as the...
2018 Inductee, M
John Metcalf got his start racing go-karts as an 8 year old against his brother and father in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He continued to race go-karts until he was 15, when he built a 1955 Chevy stock car the he and his brother raced, winning many races at the local...
2018 Inductee, S
Randy Schranz has watched or participated in every Pikes Peak Hill climb since moving to Colorado in 1959. He beganhis racing career in 1967, competing in the Rainbow Falls ice races in a 1955 Jeep pickup and drag racing through the late 1960’s at Continental Divide...
2018 Inductee, O
In 1975, after a few high school friends who were involved with motorcycle racing talked him into giving it a try, Ricky Orlando started his racing career in South Florida at the Moroso Raceway in West Palm Beach. He moved to Colorado the next year, and began...
2018 Inductee, W
Rob “Robby” Williams grew up on a farm in Keenesberg, Colorado, surrounded by mechanical devices and people who knew how to work on them. At age 12, his grandfather gave him a twin-engine go-kart; at age 14 he purchased a Harley Davidson Super 10 motorcycle, from...
2018 Inductee, G
Rod Guilford has enjoyed a long and successful career as a drag racer, competing in NHRA events in Colorado and many other states. He has also been a successful car owner/engine builder and crew chief for numerous drag racing and circle track racing teams, winning at...
2018 Inductee, B
Cars and racing were a big part of Ron Berry’s early life, as his dad sponsored a race car at an oval track in Montrose, Colorado. Ron started driving at age 7, and built his first motor at age 13. He began racing in the 1950’s, when he first drove a V-8/60 midget...
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