Newsmaker of the Week // Jake Lutz

The Race Of Champions was first run in 1951, making it one of the oldest continuously running events in auto racing. It has been run on both dirt and asphalt, on tracks ranging from less than half a mile to the two and a half mile at Pocono Raceway. This is a race whose history mirrors the history of the sport itself. To win the Race Of Champions is a coveted achievement.

Driver Jake Lutz outran multi-time Race Of Champions winner Matt Hirschman in a side by side struggle for supremacy that resulted in victory for Lutz, his team owned Joe Stearns, and the crew of the shiny black, always pristine number 14. This was a big win for auto racing pride in Western New York.

For winning one of the prestige races in the northeast, and for bring regional pride to his part of the state, Jake Lutz is a winner – and a Newsmaker!