About

The International Motor Racing Research Center collects, shares, and preserves the history of Motorsports. Spanning continents, eras, and race series, the Center’s collection embodies the speed, drama, and camaraderie of amateur and professional motor racing throughout the world. The Center welcomes serious researchers and the casual fans alike to share stories of race drivers, race series, and race cars captured on our shelves and walls, and brought to life through a regular calendar of public lectures and special events.The Center’s collection documents the history of racing in the more than 4000 books or 250 different Motorsports magazines and newspapers titles; club and sanctioning body records; race results, programs, and posters; papers of Motorsports journalists and scholars; correspondence of race organizers; and still and moving images housed onsite and in our expanding offsite collections storage facilities. Its knowledgeable research and archives staff assists hundreds of scholars, journalists, authors, documentary film makers, drivers, and race car owners from all over the globe with inquiries about Motorsports history every year.Our extensive collection includes thousands of hours of film and video, hundreds of thousands of photographs, as well as thousands of cubic feet of periodicals, newsletters, rare books, race results, race programs, artwork, trophies, and more. We are dedicated to preserving and sharing these priceless artifacts that might otherwise be lost to future generations.