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Originally posted by doozer
Also her father was a famous driver and owned a speedway....
Courtney grew up in Orono, Minnesota, the daughter of famed SCCA racecar driver Jerry Hansen who owned Brainerd International Raceway in MN.
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She's Jerry Hansen's daughter? How cool is that?
Her dad ran a Minneapolis bank in the '70's and was a pretty well funded amateur who ran quite a few Can Am races. I was in awe of the guy when I was a kid.
He later dominated SCCA club racing in the midwest (Brainerd and Road America in particular) in some of the old big block classes (ASR, and also in his A Production Corvettes). He was, I think the winningest amatuer in SCCA history at one point in his bright orange #44 cars.
Brainerd, '71:
Hansen sitting on the right, with Carl Haas and Jackie Stewart the same year:
Tim