Put-In-Bay Road Racing Reunion

ENTIRIES ARE CLOSED FOR POST 1963 GUEST STREET CARS AS OF AUGUST 4, 2015

Please enter early next year. You may still come to Put-In-Bay as a spectator for the old course tour, racing on Monday and Tuesday, and the car show on Wednesday.

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2015 PIB Road Races Reunion To Feature Two Days of Racing On Improved and Expanded Racing Surface

The 7th annual Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion (PIBRRR) will feature an expanded race program this year with racing at the historic Put-in-Bay airport on two days rather than one, as in the past. 

Much more than just a vintage race, the Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion also welcomes owner-drivers of non-racing vintage sports cars of all types to come and participate in various events and activities.  Featured marques this year include MG and Turner.  A healthy turnout of both MGs and Turners is expected as the PIBRRR is featured on the 2015 “Featured events calendar” of the MG Vintage Racers and is once again the official venue for the annual USA Turner Reunion.

Jack Woehrle, race director of the event since the founding of PIBRRR in 2009, says he is excited not only to be able to expand the amount of track time for the racers but to also offer a significantly upgraded racing surface thanks to recent repaving and an added taxiway. “Besides the airport upgrades, we are also very fortunate that the entire Put-in-Bay community has embraced this event and are making things happen that should help ensure its continued success in the future,” said Woehrle.

Beginning with a small event in 2009, the Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion celebrates sports car races that were held on the streets of the town of Put-in-Bay on Ohio’s South Bass Island from 1952 to 1959 and in 1963. The steadily growing, three-day reunion engages racers and non-racers alike in an event that reaches back in time to capture the history and re-create the atmosphere of sports car racing of that era in a uniquely beautiful setting. So book-ended around a day and a half of sports car racing at the island’s airport is a balanced mix of events honoring the island’s racing history, a few social gatherings, a car show, original course and airport-track touring, rocker cover races and plenty of unstructured time as well. 

Put-in-Bay is a nostalgic island enclave and a short ferry ride off the shore of Lake Erie near Sandusky, Ohio. A summer resort community little changed from the ‘50s, it is one of the very few places in North America where post-war sports cars raced through towns and countryside on public roads and where those roads exist today virtually unchanged.

For PIBRRR details see the racecar eligibility form, registration form, general race rules & regulations, preliminary event schedule and other information under the registration section at www.pibroadrace.com.

PIB Racing Video

WPIB Radio Interview (The Patrick Myers Show)

Art Brow at Round Table (2011)

In-Car Lap of the Course (2013) Racing Exhibition

Put-In-Bay Weekly Car Parade "On Any Sunday"

All attendees who arrive by 1PM Sunday are encouraged to participate in the Sunday car parade. It is free and is a good way to get a preview of the island and it always ends at a picnic or gathering of some sort.