Race team owner Chip Ganassi 2022 honoree at The Amelia concours

The 27th iteration of Northeast Florida’s longest-jogging common car party, and one of the nation’s leading concours d’elegances, has a modern-day racing legend coming in March as its 2022 honoree.

The Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance also is gaining a new title as well for the New Calendar year.

Renamed The Amelia, the yearly occasion March 3 via 6 will honor racer and winning race crew proprietor Chip Ganassi in and all over the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island.

The concours, started in 1996 by Jacksonville businessman Bill Warner, was purchased final year by Hagerty.

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The automotive life style manufacturer and insurance policies organization also owns other big typical car or truck occasions these types of as the Concours d’Elegance of America, the California Mille and the Greenwich Concours d’Elegance. Hagerty started publicly buying and selling late past year on the New York Stock Exchange. 

“Honoring a hero from the racing neighborhood is an essential component of The Amelia DNA,” Hagerty CEO McKeel Hagerty explained. “From the inaugural honoree, Sir Stirling Moss, to the current celebration of Lyn St. James, The Amelia has anchored the celebration of the car to the outstanding persons who have devoted their lives as ambassadors for driving.”

Chip Ganassi’s legacy

Ganassi’s racing legacy signifies Hagerty’s adore of driving and enthusiasm for the wellness of other people, the CEO reported.

Ganassi started his racing profession in 1981, driving open up-wheel Super Vee race autos, then started out his initially Indianapolis 500 in 1982. He retired from racing in 1984 just after a crash at Michigan Intercontinental Raceway but did race just one extra time at the 1987 24 Several hours of Le Mans.

3 several years later on he founded Chip Ganassi Racing, which has turn into the only crew to win the nation’s greatest races in just a 12-month period of time: the Daytona 500, Indianapolis 500, NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 and the 24 Several hours of Daytona.

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The staff has an overall eight victories in the 24 Hours of Daytona, in addition 8 IndyCar Championships and four Indianapolis 500 victories.

Ford Chip Ganassi Racing arrived in first, 3rd and fourth in class at the 2016 24 Hrs of Le Mans. And Ganassi currently fields groups in INDYCAR, NASCAR, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and Extreme E.

Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance’s legacy

The Amelia was started out by Warner to provide an automotive destination occasion to Northeast Florida, every year honoring famous race car motorists like Hurley Haywood, Sir Stirling Moss, Brian Redman and Bobby Allison.

The a few-day event, normally in early March, characteristics an RM Sotheby’s typical vehicle auction, gala dinners and racing seminars as 300-plus volunteers every year enable operate it.

The 2021 party noticed an estimated 13,000 fans view 240 typical autos and additional on May possibly 25, two months later on than its usual date due to COVID-19 fears. Warner, who led the occasion for the past 26 decades, stays on as chairman emeritus.

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Together with the event’s identify improve, Hagerty has retitled an expanded and popular Saturday function that lets regional proprietors of classics, warm rods and unique cars to exhibit their autos on the identical Golf Club of Amelia Island program as concours’ classics do the up coming day.

Now called Automobiles & Group, the extensive-jogging vehicle function will be joined by a 1980s and 1990s-centered RADwood display screen, the Concours d’Lemons present of the unique and weird and The Amelia’s initially-ever Kids Zone.

Formerly totally free to spectators, the expanded Automobiles & Neighborhood event’s tickets are now $20 for older people, $10 for youth as well as armed service and very first responders, and free of charge for children 12 and young.

Sunday concours tickets are $150 for older people (improves to $175 on March 1) $85 for armed service and 1st responders $75 for children 13 to 22) and cost-free for individuals younger than 12. Every ticket bought for the concours automatically includes absolutely free admission to Autos & Community.

The Amelia has raised about $4 million for space charities like Community Hospice of Northeast Florida, Spina Bifida of Jacksonville and other folks. 

Tickets and data for The Amelia’s 2022 situations are available on-line at AmeliaConcours.com web-site.

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