Winners from Many Major Series To Compete in Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational at IMS
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​IndyCar Legend Tracy To Pull Double Duty in Pro-Am, Trans Am

INDIANAPOLIS, Wednesday, June 13, 2018 — The pedigree of the Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational on June 15–17 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is elite, for both machines and drivers.

More than 300 of the world's most exceptional vintage race cars will compete in 12 different Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) classes on the 14-turn, 2.439-mile road course at IMS this Friday through Sunday on Father's Day weekend. And the featured event — the Indy Legends Charity Pro-Am Presented by RACER Magazine — on Saturday, June 16 will include drivers who have won at the Indianapolis 500, Le Mans 24 Hours and 12 Hours of Sebring and in IndyCar, NASCAR, IMSA, and USAC competition.

That list of legendary names competing in the Pro-Am includes two-time Indianapolis 500 winner and CART season champion Al Unser Jr., NASCAR champion, Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400 winner Bill Elliott, IMSA champion and 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Geoff Brabham, Champ Car season champion Paul Tracy, IMSA race winner and Indianapolis 500 pioneer Willy T. Ribbs, CART season champion Jimmy Vasser and 24 Hours of Le Mans class winner and ALMS and SCCA champion Ron Fellows. Female racing pioneers Lyn St. James and Sarah Fisher also are racing in the Pro-Am, with Fisher joining multiple Le Mans podium finisher Max Papis as defending champions in their respective classes.

The Indy Legends Charity Pro-Am Presented by RACER Magazine is the Saturday feature event of the Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational, starting at 1 p.m. The cars are 1963 to 1972 vintage Corvettes, Camaros and Mustangs of SVRA "Group 6" A and B Production.

Professional drivers are paired with amateurs. New rules this year include the requirement that amateur drivers will start the race and be required to drive a maximum of seven laps, and that pro drivers qualify the cars. Qualifying is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday.

Here's the complete lineup of pro drivers competing in the Indy Legends Charity Pro-Am Presented by RACER Magazine: Tom Bagley, Donnie Beechler, Geoff Brabham, Matt Brabham, Mark Dismore, Bill Elliott, Ron Fellows, Sarah Fisher, Davey Hamilton, Scott Harrington, Jimmy Kite, Bob Lazier, Jaques Lazier, Darren Manning, John Martin, Max Papis, Johnny Parsons, Willy T. Ribbs, Lyn St. James, Dick Simon, Paul Tracy, Rick Treadway, Al Unser Jr. and Jimmy Vasser.

The charity event will benefit IGNITE - the Autism Society of North Carolina's community center for young adults with high-functioning autism or Asperger syndrome - and the Morgan Adams Foundation founded to fight children's cancer.

Another feature event during the Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational is the Trans Am professional series race at 3:15 p.m. Sunday. Among the notable drivers competing will be reigning series champion Ernie Francis Jr. and current NBCSN IndyCar Series analyst Tracy, who is reviving his driving career this season in selected Trans-Am events and will pull double duty this weekend in the Pro-Am and Trans-Am races.

Tracy is driving Doug Peterson's No. 87 Chevrolet Camaro in the TA2 class. He finished seventh in March at Road Atlanta in his return to pro racing.

The event weekend also presents the Hagerty Insurance Show & Shine car show, vintage motorcycle racing and more than 300 vintage racers ranging over 100 years of automotive history racing in SVRA Groups 1 through 12. An oval exhibition featuring the iconic 1950s roadsters will close the day Saturday and Sunday.