FW: For Immediate Release- Mazda is the Marque - 2015 Grand Prix Festival Weekend
Casey Creamer
From: Carole Pierce [mailto:prom...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 2:35 PM
To: 'Carole Pierce'
Subject: For Immediate Release- Mazda is the Marque - 2015 Grand Prix Festival Weekend
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Carole Pierce, Watkins Glen Promotions Director of Special Events
(607) 535-3003; eve...@watkinsglen.com
MAZDA IS THE MARQUE –
at the 2015 Grand PRIX FESTIVAL WEEKEND
IN WATKINS GLEN
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (March 20, 2015) – This is the year that Mazda owners can proudly boast, “We Drive the Old Course!”
Mazda owners have long hoped to be named the featured marque for the annual September Watkins Glen Grand Prix Festival, designed this year as a three-day celebration Sept. 11-13.
The festival’s focus on the early years of racing in Watkins Glen has, however, mandated that featured marques have historical significance.
Selection of a featured car has also been linked to criteria of the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association, which has traditionally been part of the vintage celebration with its three-day competition at Watkins Glen International.
“But things will be somewhat different this year, due to the repaving of the race track that gets fully underway in August,” said Carole Pierce, director of events for Watkins Glen Promotions, organizer of the Grand Prix Festival Weekend.
“So, in response to requests by Mazda owners and supporters of the festival’s Stone Bridge Driver events, this is the perfect year to be flexible in defining an appropriate marque to feature for the weekend,” Pierce said.
“The ball is now in the hands of Mazda drivers. We are hoping to see strong support at all appropriate events, especially the Tour de Marque,” Pierce said, adding, “We are not limiting this to Miata, as we would love to get some gnarly-sounding Wankel rotary engines in the mix.”
The Tour de Marque, presented by Chateau Lafayette Reneau in Hector, is one of many exciting driving, skill, scenic and historic events that will be part of the three-day 2015 Grand Prix Festival Weekend.
The opportunity to increase activities for both festival participants and observers is the result of changes to the SVRA’s 2015 schedule, which was altered due to the re-paving project at WGI. SVRA will be at the track July 24-26 for the Glenora Wine Cellars U.S. Vintage Grand Prix presented by Welliver.
Festival Friday will offer a full slate of downtown activities, from the re-enactment of race car technical inspections at historic Smalley’s Garage on Franklin Street to the arrival throughout the day of hundreds of vintage and classic sports cars at the end of their road rallies through the region. Stunning fireworks over the Watkins Glen State Park gorge will close the day, but not the fun.
Saturday’s schedule will include historic and scenic organized tour opportunities in the village and throughout the region and some “just for fun” parking lot competition at the race track.
The International Motor Racing Research Center, a Grand Prix Festival partner, will be presenting a daylong program on Can-Am racing, and the historic Glen Theater will be showing racing films.
Sunday’s schedule will offer more of the same.
Full details about the Grand Prix Festival weekend will be announced as they are finalized.
For more information and to register for events, as well as to take a look at past Grand Prix Festivals, go to the website www.grandprixfestival.com.
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