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Congratulations, Carl Goodwin!
Veloce Today Correspondent Carl Goodwin Wins the Carl Benz Award
HERSHEY, PA., October 14, 2012…Carl Goodwin, longtime VeloceToday correspondent, has won the prestigious 2012 Carl Benz Award of the Society of Automotive Historians for a three-part article titled “Flying Low,” published in Vintage Motorsport magazine. The articles chronicled the era of airport races for sports cars from 1948 to the present, including the famous SAC Base races and featured original racing stories from 27 early drivers and 39 photographs of the era.
The award was presented at the Society’s annual awards banquet at the Hershey Golf and Country Club at Hershey, PA. Additional details can be obtained on the web site www.autohistory.org. In presenting the award, Douglas Leighton, President of Society of Automotive Historians said, “this award is given annually to an article which represents outstanding writing and original research, published in the previous calendar year.”
Vintage Motorsport, the magazine that published the Benz Award winning article, is a leader in the coverage of the golden era of sports car racing as well as other periods of the sport. The website is www.vintagemotorsport.com.
Carl Goodwin began writing about sports car racing in 1964. He raced a Fiat-Abarth Zagato and an Alexis 18B Formula Ford for a combined five years, at eleven road courses and one airport course in the East and Midwest. In addition to writing for Vintage Motorsport, he has a book out titled “They Started in MGs,” published by McFarland & Company. He is currently working on a book about the Put-in-Bay road races.
Recent articles written by Carl Goodwin for VeloceToday can be found below:
Carroll Shelby and the OSCA
Otto Linton, from “They Started in MGs”
Boniface Picnic
Racing the Alfa Giulietta
Congratulations to Carl. Carl has significantly added to the the body of “motor racing history” with the articles he’s written over the years. I like his approach to find and interview those who were there rather than depend on the sometimes mistaken period reports. Well deserved…
Congratulations to Carl. His articles are always so very well researched and informative as well as interesting.
Felicitations Carl. Excellent!
Congratulations Carl. well done
Roberto
CONGRATULATIONS Carl, So very good for you. It was a great story and really well researched ,,by a guy who was there…. And someone who loved his time and place in the sport. Good luck from all of your buddies in Cleveland, we are proud of you.
Love velocetoday…….keep up the good work
Tim LaGanke, Novelty,Ohio
Congradulations for my friend Goodwin for his continued contributions to raciong history.Lovedhis drivers beginning in M.G. book
“Rattlesnake Jim”(sitz)
G.P. Oregon