Annual Dinner Events
Dinner Events are typically held three times per year concurrent with the vintage race weekends in May, July, and September in Elkhart Lake. All three dinner events include a pre-dinner reception, and a full course sit down dinner followed by a Program featuring luminaries from sports car racing past and present.
Remember, HRC members receive a discount on the dinner reservation. If you would like to become a member, please click on the “Become an HRC Member – Sign Up Today” page.
Spring Dinner
Welcome to the first event of 2026 for the Elkhart Lake Race Circuits Preservation Society. This first event, The Spring Dinner Program will be held at Historic Siebkens May 14, the evening before the SVRA Spring Vintage Festival at Road America.
Our guest speaker is Bob Birmingham, an internationally acclaimed racing author with six books to his credit. Bob recently turned 90, and all motorsport enthusiasts have benefited from his longevity, personal relationships with legendary race drivers, his own racing experience, and his love and recollections of the early years of road racing. Without those contributing factors, and his enthusiasm for telling a great story, the racing world would have been denied a great portion of the uniquely special Midwestern/Wisconsin road-racing history. The majority of Bob’s writings center around Midwestern-raised drivers who achieved International success competing against the best drivers in the world. Without Bob’s pen and passion most of these stories would have been lost.
Bob himself is no stranger to racing. He was employed by Pabst Motors, served on the SCCA Milwaukee Region’s Board of Directors, was a SCCA National Chief Stewart, and was with Firstar Bank 27 years, retiring as a VP.
Also known by his internet name “Spiderbob,” he just completed his latest book titled “Jim Jeffords – A Racing Natural” and he’ll share stories from the book. All remember Jim Jeffords as an exceptional driver; his skill, determination, and savvy, took him to National and International success in a variety of race cars. However, like Augie Pabst, and Bill Wuesthoff, Jim’s competitive career was not as long as it should have been. Each of those successful drivers had family, business, and/or health considerations that shortened their racing careers. There was little prize money in those days, but there was a lot of risk. With that reality, each driver had a good reason to focus on a different direction and Jim Jeffords was no different. He quickly proved himself a successful entrepreneur in a variety of different businesses, remaining close to the automotive world and his racing passion.
Bob’s previous HRC programs have focused on his other five books, including:
Mis-Shifting Fast Cars, Fond Memories, Fine Frendships” Remembering the Early Days of Auto Racing
Augie Pabst: Behing The Wheel
Brooks Stevens And The Stevens Family Legacy
Bill Wuesthoff: Smooth and Fast. Nuff Said
Gentleman At Speed: Fred Wacker Jr
Bob now lives in Mequon with his co-driver/navigator Sally and has 3 children and six grandchildren,
We welcome you and guests to enjoy another entertaining evening of “Spiderbob’s” storytelling about the legendary Jim Jeffords, another great Midwesterner, who competed against the best drivers of his era, and beat them. The agenda for the evening is:
5:00 PM – Cash Bar
6:30 PM – Buffet Dinner followed by the Program by Bob Birmingham
The Siebkens staff will serve the fabulous Wisconsin Buffet dinner of certified Angus short rib beef tips and gravy, herb roasted chicken breasts with jus, roasted vegetables, whipped Yukon potatoes, mixed leafy greens with Siebkens’ dressing, and dinner rolls. Dinner also includes a coffee station and desert.
To assist you in making your reservations for the dinner, there are, as always, three ways that it can be done. Either by: (1) downloading the reservation form and mailing it in to HRC, PO Box 51, Elkhart Lake, WI, 53020, (2) By making use of HRC’s online registration capability at www.historicracecircuits.com and (3) You will also receive, by snail mail, an invitation that can be mailed in as in the past.
Thank you for your support, and we look forward to seeing you on May 14th!
