Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course hosts Chamber event

By Alberta Stojkovic -

Mor­row County Cham­ber of Com­merce mem­bers enjoyed a relaxed evening at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course near Steam Cor­ners last Thurs­day evening. Ten lucky draw­ing win­ners got to ride around the track in one of the track’s fleet of 60 Hon­das. The Mor­row Cham­ber shared the event with the Mans­field Cham­ber and net­worked on the Mid-Ohio Patio with a pic­nic supper.

Mid-Ohio Pres­i­dent, Craig Rust intro­duced Tom Yea­ger of Mar­ion who will be the Grand Mar­shall in the Vin­tage Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio to be held the week­end of June 22–24. Yea­ger talked about the his­tory of the Mid-Ohio Course, which will be in its 51st sea­son of rac­ing this summer.

This is the 30th year for the Mid-Ohio to host the Sports Car Vin­tage Rac­ing Asso­ci­a­tion. Yea­ger encour­aged the Cham­ber audi­ence to come to the track to see the show­case of his­toric race cars from every era.

Mar­ket­ing and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Direc­tor, Jesse Ghiorzi, named sev­eral Mid-Ohio pro­mo­tions to bring race fans to the Mid-Ohio track this sum­mer. He said kids 12 and under are admit­ted free and there is free park­ing. Sea­son tick­ets are avail­able that include major events and events every other week­end. Although there are plenty of ven­dors on the grounds with food, fam­i­lies can also bring their own cool­ers and picnic.

A high­light of the Cham­ber event was watch­ing the 10 draw­ing win­ners take a turn rid­ing around the track with dri­ver Max Gee. Gina Flan­nery said she watched the speedome­ter and saw it go over 100 miles an hour on the straight-away of the 2 and ½ mile track.

“That was the most fun I had in my life,” exclaimed Kayla Davies as she climbed out of the Acura TSX pacer.

“Really awe­some,” com­mented Card­ing­ton eighth grader, Austin Yake as he fin­ished his ride.

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