Great Race of Marietta, LLC

10/29/2024

07/24/2024

Marietta has won a 2024 Hemmings Motor News Great Race award after participating as one of the event’s overnight stops in June. Marietta has won the Best Overnight Stop award, David Haas, a co-chair of the Great Race Committee Marietta, announced on Tuesday afternoon in front of the Marietta Armor...

07/24/2024

07/23/2024

Thank you to the teams participating in the 2024 Hemmings Motor News Great Race for voting Marietta, Ohio as the Best Overnight City Award. We cannot wait to welcome you back to Marietta to visit! Thank you to our Marietta community for helping host this historic event in Downtown Marietta, Ohio. We are truly grateful for this honor! We share this award with ALL of our Marietta community!

07/11/2024

The Great Race Marietta Committee, LLC cannot THANK the community enough for their part in helping with 2024 Hemmings Motor News Great Race stopping for an overnight visit in Marietta as well as one of the largest Motorsports Shows held in Marietta, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all involved from the 49 business and individuals who stepped up to be Sponsors, to the 170 volunteers including from our service clubs - Marietta Rotary Clubs Rotary Club of Marietta District 6690, Kiwanis Club of Marietta Ohio , and Marietta Noon Lions , the Downtown Merchants & Restaurants who opened on a Sunday, and Memorial Health System who sponsored a Free Kids Zone. Thank you WMOA WJAW , WTAP Television, Parkersburg News and Sentinel, The Marietta Times, Visit Marietta Ohio for all of your help advertising and helping cover this historic event. Over 15,000 people were in Downtown Marietta, Ohio that day to be a part of this event! THANK YOU, THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts -- it took a community to put this event on! May we all remember that one hot day in June, 2024 when the love our community has for Marietta helped to welcome complete strangers to our city who left as family!

07/11/2024

This morning on " Talk of the Town " Dave Archer and Jill Witucky presented Johnny Wharff and WMOA one of the ceremonial " Great Race 2024 " flags, and recapped that fun weekend. Thanks as always to Carlos Pomares of the " Bloomfield Cruisers " joining us on the phone. You can follow their story Great Race Car 145 .

07/11/2024

07/03/2024

Congrats to all the Great Race winners and the teams that finished the 2200 mile adventure. “To finish is to win”.

Coverage from the Great Race Awards Banquet is up on the website. Go check out the photos and see who won the special awards, as well as the top finishers in each class. Congratulations to Peter Prescott for receiving the Tom McRae Spirit of the Event Award!

https://www.greatrace.com/news/2024-great-race-awards-banquet.html

07/02/2024

Thank You, Thank You to our BRONZE Sponsors of the Great Race of Marietta Committee, LLC. We are grateful for their support and continued generosity to our Community! Your generosity to Marietta, Ohio and our surrounding community doesn't go unnoticed!

07/02/2024

Thank you WMOA WJAW for capturing the 2024 Hemmings Motor News Great Race stopping in Marietta, Ohio! Your support as a Platinum Sponsor as well as the interviews with Bloomfield Cruisers and Great Race Car 145 along the way kept all your listeners up to date daily. Thank you Marietta and beyond for cheering and welcoming the race teams to Marietta! The support of our community is second to none! From the 49 sponsors, the 170 volunteers, to the 15,000 people who attended --thank you!