Bertil Roos brings legendary instruction to Lime Rock Park

Friday, 09 March 2018




Legendary track, legendary instructors, legendary school.
Bertil Roos Racing School, the nation's leading school for high-quality, European-style road racing, will now conduct programs at historic Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Connecticut.
Beginning in late April, the iconic school will hold both 3-Day Introductory, and 2-Day Advanced programs, and a Roos F-2000 Race Day event. The dates became available after the 2017 bankruptcy of the original Skip Barber Racing School.
"Once the primary home of the Skip Barber Racing School, dates and opportunities for other schools were hard to come by," Bertil Roos President Dennis Macchio said. "Both the track and the school were owned by Skip Barber. Skip sold the school more than two decades ago. With the breakup of the school, the opportunity to run programs at Lime Rock Park was just too enticing."
Lime Rock Park is 1.5 miles of up and down dale, a track that looks deceiving simple but is immensely challenging. Almost all of the sport's greats have raced at Lime Rock from Parnelli Jones, Mark Donohue and Peter Gregg in the 1960's and 70's to current drivers like 2016 Indianapolis 500 champion Alexander Rossi and IndyCar series champion Simon Pagenaud.
Three of the top four finishers in this year's Daytona 500 – Austin Dillon, Darrell Wallace Jr. and Joey Logano – have raced at Lime Rock, the nation's oldest continually operating road racing venue.
Earlier in the year, Macchio met with Mr. Barber, still the principal owner of the track, about bringing Bertil Roos Racing School to the historic course.
"Skip welcomed the idea of Roos coming to Lime Rock," Macchio said. "I've known Skip for close to 40 years. He used to rent dates from me when I operated the Bridgehampton Race Circuit. Seems like we've come full circle."
BRRS Lime Rock Dates are as follows:

• April 30, 2018 – Roos F-2000 Race Series
• May 1-3, 2018 – Three Day School
• May 2-3, 2018 – Two Day Advanced School
• May 2, 2018 – A.M. Lapping Sessions

Bertil Roos Racing School features legendary instructors like Bruce MacInnes, formerly the senior instructor at the original Skip Barber Racing School where he worked with such figures as Tom Cruise and Paul Newman, who famously won the SCCA Trans-Am race at Lime Rock in 1986, and NASCAR drivers A.J. Allmendinger, Boris Said and Ken Schrader, all former Lime Rock winners.

To enroll in the 2018 programs at Lime Rock and check out other Bertil Roos programs, where you can receive the same legendary instruction, call 1-800-722-3669 or visit www.racenow.com.