Skip Barber Racing School has announced that it will move its main shop and factory in November from Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn., to its facility in Braselton, Ga., just outside the entrance of Road Atlanta. The move will bring additional engineering, fabrication, racecar build (open-wheel and MX-5 Cup), and engine and transmission rebuild facilities, and will include the transfer of seven positions from Connecticut to Hall County.
“The Atlanta market presents us with a tremendous growth opportunity,” said Michael Culver, CEO and Chairman of Skip Barber Racing School. “This move places our operations in a location central to all of the tracks we run programs at in the eastern United States and Canada.”
“Simply put, we've outgrown our current shop in Connecticut,” added Kevin Seidl, Senior VP of Operations for Skip Barber Racing School. “After exploring options in the Northeast, we determined that the best solution was to move our shop to our existing but under-utilized facility at Road Atlanta.”
The Road Atlanta facility was recently outfitted with equipment necessary to take repairs of Skip Barber's Mazda Miata-based MX-5 Cup racecars in-house. Skip Barber Racing School's headquarters will remain in northwest Connecticut, while West Coast operations will continue at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in California and East Coast winter operations continuing at Sebring International Raceway in central Florida.