About Us - Motorsports Market

Art Hebert with racing legend Jackie Stewart at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, August 2017.

ART HEBERT - Founder, Driver, Dealer Principal, Instructor

Historic race car driver, as well as our founder, dealer principal and instructor.

Art Hebert founded Motorsports Market to fulfill his life-long passion for the automotive industry and historic auto racing.

Art has over three decades of experience in the automotive industry. An inspirational teacher and skilled negotiator, he brings a unique skill set, a winning racing history and an infectious passion for automobiles and racing to his work. His years as a practicing attorney in Los Angeles and San Francisco gave him the ability to expertly represent the interests of his clients. His experience working for AMCI and JD Power & Associates evaluating automotive practice and introducing new automobiles to the U.S. market provided a deep understanding of the automotive industry, and his decades of vintage racing lend a keen knowledge of the vintage market and an inspiring enthusiasm for all things automobile.

Caitlin Burke - Head of Operations

CAITLIN BURKE - Head of Operations

Caitlin handles the day to day operations including race car listings, dealer education, student and race car client communications, tech support, social media, branding and marketing.

She brings a fresh perspective and endless enthusiasm to Motorsports Market, and acts as an excellent resource for students, current and prospective dealers, and race car clients. While she's yet to get on the race track, she certainly plans to.

Gunnar Hebert - Race Car Prep & Research/Driver

GUNNAR HEBERT

Gunnar is a Graduate of Redwood High School and now a Santa Rosa Junior College attendee.

He races a 1970 Titan Mk.6 Formula Ford with Motorsports Market and works in race car prep and car history research.

Kevin Capone - Race Car Market/Driver

KEVIN CAPONE

Kevin has been a GIS Professional in the IT industry for the past 30 years and an auto enthusiast since childhood, having owned and restored several American and European sports cars. He grew up around the race track both on crew and driving in SCCA, IMSA and various other vintage racing events. He has performed ground up restorations on classic road cars and has raced both modern and vintage racing cars. Kevin is now concentrating his efforts on Motorsports Market race car sales, and has joined our marketing team both on and off the track - representing our car listings domestically and abroad, as well as racing his 1987 Apache S2000. In his spare time he and his family volunteer as Puppy Raisers and Group Leaders of Guide Dogs for the Blind. And in case you were wondering…no he is not related, although it makes for good conversation.

Andrew Wait - Consultant/Driver

ANDREW WAIT

Andrew has traveled the world managing companies and taking them from small startups to hugely successful public companies. He currently advises, and sits on the boards of multiple companies, including such iconic brands as Fender Guitar. When Andrew is not launching some new company, he is launching historic racing series, such as the Formula Ford Crossflow Cup, which has been hugely successful. He is a highly talented racing driver, with the mind of an engineer, which makes him very hard to beat. When he gets bored of racing on the ground, you can find him piloting his biplane over San Francisco Bay and beyond. We are very fortunate to have Andrew as a team driver, consultant, and most importantly a friend.

Bob Hebert

BOB HEBERT

August, 2024

We are sad to share the recent loss of Art’s father, Bob Hebert. A great father, wonderful husband, extraordinary racer, and daring spirit, Bob lived life on the edge of adventure, always accelerating.

In 1968, he brought home his first race car – a Formula Ford. His natural driving talent was immediately apparent when the SCCA sent him home early from racing school after he beat his instructors. Two short years later, Bob became a factory team driver for Lotus, racing their Formula B cars. This would take him from his small town of Monterey, Massachusetts to race in Canada, as well as in Colombia and Venezuela where he competed against some of the best up and coming drivers in the world.

Bob began racing vintage sports cars in the 1980's. As part of the Brian Donovan racing team, he raced the fastest E-type Jaguars in the US. They won races from Laguna, to Lime Rock, to Daytona, and in 2000 he was voted SVRA’s Driver of the Year. In 2012, Bob was inducted into the Road Racing Driver’s Club. He won over 100 races in his career, including his very last race.

Bob is survived by his wife Linda, two children Cindy and Art, four grandchildren Ryan, Matt, Gunnar, and Lindsey, daughter-in-law Heather, and Cindy’s partner Chris. Today the grandchildren carry on Bob’s memory and racing legacy, having learned how to drive and go fast right in Grampa Bob’s own backyard. Smiles all around.

We will carry on in your honor, and we will miss you terribly.

Don Sandy

DON SANDY

June, 2024

We recently lost one of the pillars of our family, and a great racer and mentor, Don Sandy.

Don began his racing journey in a vintage Porsche 356 that he bought from Chuck Parsons, and would later drive at his wedding. His wife, Carol, was supportive of his racing, and gave Don a Sears Point Racing School certificate for his birthday. This started his decades long adventure of great racing, and bringing more friends and family members into the sport.

Don's passion for motorsports, and his racing mentorship, continued even after he hung up his helmet. He got his sons-in-law, Art Hebert and Jim Sirois, behind the wheels of his red and silver 356 Porsches. Ultimately, Don began to oversee and manage the racing operations of Motorsports Market, including Formula Junior, Formula Ford, Sports 2000, and Formula Atlantic. Under his guidance, the team went on to win vintage racing national championships and special events, including the Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and the vintage Formula Atlantic support race for the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, Texas.

Not content with mentoring just the next generation of family racers, in his later years Don taught his grandson, Gunnar Hebert, to race Formula Fords in the Crossflow Cup Series. And this year his granddaughter, Lindsey Hebert, joined the fold. Lindsey attended her first racing school this past February, and will be completing her SCCA novice license school in August. Don, Jim, Art, Gunnar, and Lindsey all got started racing in Don's red 356 Porsche - truly "The Family Porsche!" Even when Don was no longer able to attend races in person, he would insist on reviewing the in-car-videos from each session, critiquing how we could get better, and always asking what he could do to help.

Don will be forever remembered as the guy hovering over operations in the paddock and chewing on that ever-present-cigar, which he never lit. We used to tease him that we knew we had run a really good race when the cigar was just a nub by the end! Everyone loved Don, and always looked forward to catching up with him at the track.

Thank you, Don, for the family you created and nurtured on every level, all the time. And thank you for the amazing experiences and memories of a lifetime. None of it would have happened without you, and your always supportive guidance.

We will carry on in your honor, and we will miss you terribly.