Early Board Tracks of Colorado

Colorado Heritage Race Tracks

DENVER ATHLETIC CLUB Members of the Denver Athletic Club (DAC) proved very susceptible to the bicycle craze of the 1880’s and 1890’s. As early as 1885 they invited spokesmen from the Colorado Wheel Club to address the membership. Soon afterward the DAC formed its own...

William B. Felker

Colorado Motorsports Pioneers

  William B. Felker was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1866. His family moved to Denver when he was 15 and he graduated from the old Denver High School. His father was noted as a Lawyer, Railroad Commissioner, State Senator anda Judge. The Colorado Silver Boom hit...

Tom Vanswearingen

2018 Inductee, V

Tom Vanswearingen received a 2018 Jerry Van Dyke Award for contributions made to Colorado Motorsports during his 50 years of involvement in racing as an event announcer, pit steward, and race official for numerous organizations and race tracks.Tom was the announcer...

Bill Ray

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...

2018 The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

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...

Jeff Walters

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...

Jim Opperman

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...

John Metcalf

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...

Randy Schranz

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...

Ricky Orlando

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...