Mark Raffauf's guest appearances

Mark Raffauf

Cars Yeah

Sports Car Unleashed

The Marshall Pruett Podcast

A Racing Revolution

Vic Elford

Jim Glickenhaus

Jeff Braun

Dorsey Schroeder

Mitch Bishop

Sam Schmidt

Tommy Kendall

Paul Pfanner

Bob Varsha

Paul Tracy

Kyle Petty

Alexander Rossi

Kevin Bobbitt

Will Buxton

David Hobbs

OwlTail

We open our short-form, eight-part series of celebrating John Paul Jr's career in sports cars with veteran IMSA official Mark Raffauf, who watched Jr go from a teenage helper on his father's team to an IMSA champion and master of the fastest, craziest Porsche 935s and GTP machinery the series produced. Follow: @MarshallPruett  Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast

We open our short-form, eight-part series of celebrating John Paul Jr's career in sports cars with veteran IMSA official Mark Raffauf, who watched Jr go from a teenage helper on his father's team to an IMSA champion and master of the fastest, craziest Porsche 935s and GTP machinery the series produced. Follow: <a href="https://twitter.com/marshallpruett" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@MarshallPruett </a> Subscribe: <a href="https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe</a> Join our Facebook Group: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast</a>

MP 1066: Remembering John Paul Jr's Sports Car Career with Mark Raffauf

Mark Raffauf is the Senior Director of Race Operations at IMSA. He has been involved in professional motorsports for over 40 years, spending most of his time officiating for IMSA from the early 70s through the 90s and then in Grand-Am from 1999 through 2013. He has been part of developing numerous sports car categories including GTX, AAGT, GTP, WSC, Ferrari Challenge, Firestone Firehawk, Exxon World Sports Car, Rolex Sports Car, plus prototype cars. Mark has also been involved in the creation and updating of many racing circuits in North America. He is the current United States delegate to the FIA, International historic Car Racing commission and he is an Honorary member of the Road Racing Drivers Club known as the RRDC, in the United States. Mark is currently the FIA Historical Race car Commission U.S. representative.  Mark is a co-author on the new book IMSA 1969–1989 along with past Cars Yeah guest, Mitch Bishop. It is the inside story of how John Bishop built the world’s greatest sports car racing series in the world.

Mark Raffauf is the Senior Director of Race Operations at IMSA. He has been involved in professional motorsports for over 40 years, spending most of his time officiating for IMSA from the early 70s through the 90s and then in Grand-Am from 1999 through 2013. He has been part of developing numerous sports car categories including GTX, AAGT, GTP, WSC, Ferrari Challenge, Firestone Firehawk, Exxon World Sports Car, Rolex Sports Car, plus prototype cars. Mark has also been involved in the creation and updating of many racing circuits in North America. He is the current United States delegate to the FIA, International historic Car Racing commission and he is an Honorary member of the Road Racing Drivers Club known as the RRDC, in the United States. Mark is currently the FIA Historical Race car Commission U.S. representative.  Mark is a co-author on the new book IMSA 1969–1989 along with past Cars Yeah guest, Mitch Bishop. It is the inside story of how John Bishop built the world’s greatest sports car racing series in the world.

1275: Mark Raffauf is Senior Director of Race Operations at IMSA.

Mark Raffauf has spent most of his adult life as part of the IMSA family. Dating back to his teens in the 1970s where he became an integral part of the organization during its GT glory days, he went on to become the key person behind its GTP era before shifting his attention to Grand-Am, and today, the relationship continues with his leadership role in the new IMSA championship. Raffauf sat down for an episode of My Racing Life and Career in September of 2018 to share some stories about growing up in IMSA, living through amazing times--even some of the narco controversies that his the series--and the new book, 'IMSA 1969-1989', he's written with Mitch Bishop, son of IMSA founders John and Peggy Bishop. If there's one person who serves as the living embodiment of IMSA, it's Mark Raffauf. Visit https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast for our full podcast archives. Subscribe: Apple (https://tinyurl.com/yaafkvch)  Android (https://tinyurl.com/yconvyl3)  Google (https://tinyurl.com/y8qtcuax)  Spotify (https://tinyurl.com/yby3lzr2)

Mark Raffauf has spent most of his adult life as part of the IMSA family. Dating back to his teens in the 1970s where he became an integral part of the organization during its GT glory days, he went on to become the key person behind its GTP era before shifting his attention to Grand-Am, and today, the relationship continues with his leadership role in the new IMSA championship. Raffauf sat down for an episode of My Racing Life and Career in September of 2018 to share some stories about growing up in IMSA, living through amazing times--even some of the narco controversies that his the series--and the new book, 'IMSA 1969-1989', he's written with Mitch Bishop, son of IMSA founders John and Peggy Bishop. If there's one person who serves as the living embodiment of IMSA, it's Mark Raffauf. Visit <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast</a> for our full podcast archives. Subscribe: Apple (<a href="https://tinyurl.com/yaafkvch" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/yaafkvch</a>)  Android (<a href="https://tinyurl.com/yconvyl3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/yconvyl3</a>)  Google (<a href="https://tinyurl.com/y8qtcuax" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/y8qtcuax</a>)  Spotify (<a href="https://tinyurl.com/yby3lzr2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/yby3lzr2</a>)

MP 458: Mark Raffauf, My Racing Life and Career