Car Driving Race School

The Skip Barber Racing School is headquartered in Lakeville, Connecticut, United States.

It conducts racing schools, driving schools ("defensive" driving and/or high-performance schools), six separate amateur and professional racing championships and corporate entertainment schools.

It is the largest racing school in the world, and is intended for those intent on racing careers. Barber started the school in 1975 with two borrowed Formula Ford race cars and four students. It uses up to 30 race tracks across the United States and Canada, and owns 120 race cars. The school was affiliated with Dodge until 2006. As of 2007 the school is officially affiliated with Mazda .

Overview

Since 1975, Skip Barber Racing operates a fully integrated system of racing schools, driving schools, racing championships, corporate events and OEM events across North America.

The offerings

The Skip Barber Racing School —held at more than 20 race tracks in North America

The Skip Barber Driving School —five different locations

The Skip Barber Race Series is collectively six separate open-wheel, equal-car racing championships—four regional amateur series, a national championship for drivers over 40 (with professional rules), and an entry-level professional national series that awards $100,000 to its season champion.

The Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Challenge is a race series using Mazda MX-5 cup cars with specifications closely matched to those of the SCCA Pro Racing Playboy MX-5 Cup series.

The Skip Barber National Championship is an entry-level professional racing series that takes drivers to several venues each season, and exposes them to bigger racing markets. Each season's champion earns a $100,000 scholarship to help advance their racing career.

The Skip Masters National Championship is a racing series for drivers over the age of 40 who are looking to race in a professional-level series without becoming full-time professional racers.

The Corporate Events unit creates custom Racing and Driving programs for companies of any size that desire special events to train, entertain, educate and reward.

OEM Events provides specialized automotive-related training, analysis, evaluation, logistics and consultation.

The vehicles

Over 120 racecars: With 60 Formula Skip Barber open-wheel school cars and race-prepped Mazda MX-5 Cup cars for the Racing School, Racing Series and Corporate Events and 60 Skip Barber Formula 2000 racecars for the six racing championships.

More than 75 passenger/street cars: Porsche 911s, Boxsters, Caymans, Lexus IS-F sedans, Lotus Exiges, BMW M3s, 330i sedans, Mazda 3 s, MX-5s, and RX-8s for use in the High Performance Driving School, Driving School, and Corporate Events.

30 transport and support vehicles: Ford F-350 pickups and E-350 Econoline vans.

The founder

Main article: Skip Barber

John "Skip" Barber competed in the Formula One World Championship. He won three straight SCCA national championships in the mid 1960s. When his racing career ended, Barber's belief that auto racing was "coachable" in the same manner as any other sport -- at the time, a distinctly minority position -- led him to create the eponymously named Racing School, and a year later, the equal-car Race Series.

In 1975, with two borrowed Lola Formula Fords and four students, Barber started the Skip Barber School of High Performance Driving. In 1976, it was renamed the Skip Barber Racing School and that same year, he created the Skip Barber Race Series.

References

See also

• BFGoodrich/Skip Barber National Presented by Mazda
• Skip Barber Formula Dodge Series
• Barber Dodge Pro Series
• Barber Saab Pro Series

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