For 20 years–and counting–Georgia Tech’s Wreck Racing has been a mainstay at our annual Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge presented by Tire Rack.
To mark the occasion, a 20th Anniversary T-shirt and Hoodie that feature all of the team’s unique $2000 Challenge entries are now available for preorder.
What will the team show up with at this year’s event? We’ll …
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So, basically, the team now has members not alive when the first team joined us in Gainesville.
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MegaDork
2/19/25 1:07 p.m.
I didn't realize my first year (2004) was also their first year. I thought they were an established entity.
That shirt should have a picture of the sofa. 😂
David S. Wallens said:
So, basically, the team now has members not alive when the first team joined us in Gainesville.
They are the GRM Lynyrd Skynyrd
The last car I worked on there was 5 cars ago. I'm getting old!
FYI if the $15 shipping is kinda high, they can probably deliver to the Challenge next month.
JG Pasterjak
Tech Editor & Production Manager
2/20/25 4:32 p.m.
It's hard to pick a favorite from that list, but that Insight was pretty impressive, especially considering how ungainly it looked when it first showed up. That may have been the biggest performance glow-up in their lineup froom where it started to where it ended up.
In reply to JG Pasterjak :
In 2017 that thing beat my supercharged Miata , and Ed Malle's turbo LS Foxbody by well over a second on a 35-36 second course ! It wasn't even a contest.
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MegaDork
2/20/25 10:11 p.m.
In reply to JG Pasterjak :
The year the Insight won the Concours was the year I was the competitor judge.
We (the judges) got SO MUCH GRIEF over that!