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 The official start of this year's Great Race will take place June 23
in Traverse City, Michigan, and this year our friends to the north will
get a chance to see it come through their towns.
The race winds its way into Canada shortly after the start on day two
when the cars cross north of the border from Sault Ste. Marie,
Michigan, on Sunday and begin three-plus days of touring the highways of
Ontario. It then returns to U.S. soil in Watertown, New York, on
Wednesday, June 27, at the end of Stage 5. From there, the race will
continue across New York state, through Buffalo, and across the
Pennsylvania panhandle into Ohio, before finishing on July 2 at the
Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
Each day, the Great Race will leave from a different city, stopping for
lunch in another city and stopping for the evening in a third city
further along the route, where they will display the race cars and talk
to spectators at a parc fermé for approximately an hour and
then set up camp at a local hotel for the night. The process repeats
each day, with Great Race and racer support crews packing up and moving
on several times a day. With 100 cars participating, it can be a
difficult logistics process to get all of those race cars and support
teams across borders, fed each lunchtime and housed together each night,
but Great Race Director Jeff Stumb and crew have been working since the
finish of the 2011 Great Race, here in Bennington last June, to get
this year's edition coordinated to come off without many hitches.
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