2025 CSRG Corkscrew Classic
June 22nd, 2025
June 20-22, 2025 WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca
Driver: Lindsey Hebert • Car: 1970 Titan Mk6 Formula Ford • 2nd Place in Sunday Race
Lindsey began her auto racing experience crewing for her dad, Art, in historic racing. In 2024 she drove her grandfather, Don Sandy’s, Porsche 356 at a SpeedSF driving school at Sonoma Raceway. Both of her racing grandfathers, Don and Bob Hebert, were thrilled that she was taking on the challenge of motorsports. In January 2025, Lindsey attended the VARA racing school with her cousin, Colin Capone, at Buttonwillow Raceway in Southern California. Lindsey drove the family 1970 Titan Mk6 Formula Ford, while Colin drove a Toyota Celebrity car that raced at Long Beach. Lindsey and Colin, along with a large group of under 35 year olds, successfully completed the school.
At the 2025 Corkscrew Classic, Lindsey drove in her first ever race, with the continuing help and support from everyone at CSRG, including but not limited to Ed Lauber, Becky Pengraph, Kate Roth, Petey Thornton, Cynthia Torp, Geoff Pitts, and so many more.
As Lindsey pulled up to the grid for her very first session in the Titan, grid star and mom to all of us racers, Becky Pengraph, discovered we had everything ready except Lindsey was not wearing her racing gloves! As the rest of the grid pulled onto the track, dad ran back to get the gloves. Moments later Lindsey was on her way. The session went very well, with Lindsey paying attention to the flags and her mirrors. The only hiccup came on the last lap in turn 5. Still trying to learn how to heel and tow downshift, she got the RPM’s wrong and the back end swung around with her now facing backwards on the track for a few seconds. First on the scene, Michael Silverman in his Echidna, deftly drove around Lindsey and was followed by two other cars. By then Lindsey had righted the car, and was back on her way. In the post session debrief we covered what went wrong and came up with a strategy to avoid that problem going forward. The day ended with a second session, three seconds disappearing from her lap times, better downshifts, and no spins! After some end of day footage review, Lindsey was ready for qualifying on Saturday.
Saturday morning dawned cool, bright, and sunny. At the driver’s meeting CSRG president Ed Lauber called 20 year old Lindsey and 16 year old Elden Formula Ford driver, Levi Zeidhack, up to the stage to introduce them to the gaggle of over 200 drivers. We were all thrilled to have “the youngsters” come join the party. Levi, a Coloradan and former kart racer, is now in his second year of Formula Ford racing. Lindsey and Levi were also joined at the track by other young up and coming race team members Sam Howard, Sam Barenbaum, and Tino Wait, who were looking after a whole slew of race cars under the Huffaker Motorsports tents. We were also treated to a wonderful lunch by Huffaker racers Glenn Meyers, Matt Schiefferly, Dave Hagan, Matt Lituchy, Mark Emmert, and Gary Rubio.
Back in their cars for qualifying, Lindsey and Levi kept lopping off more seconds per lap. Lindsey knocked off another three seconds which put her 12th in a mixed Group 1 grid of production cars, sports racers, and formula cars. Levi put his Formula Ford in the top 10 of the very competitive Crossflow Cup Formula Ford grid! Lindsey’s very first race was very busy and exciting, and provided an opportunity to learn about passing and being passed, where to present her car so that she could be seen by other drivers, how to point others by, and how to defend without cutting people off. She came in quicker still, and all smiles!
Sunday morning began with a fresh round of qualifying. This time Lindsey put the Titan 5th on the grid!
In the main event race on Sunday, two of the front five starters did not make the grid. That put Lindsey 3rd. As the green flag flew, Lindsey fell back to 4th and kept everything clean going through turn two. The top three cars continued to pull away for the first couple of laps while Lindsey was mindful to get herself, her car, and her tires up to temperature and speed. Then she began moving forward. A couple of laps later she braked late into turn 11, and carried the momentum onto the straight to make the pass for 3rd. Two laps after that she made the same move for 2nd place.
With the laps winding down, she took off after first place driver Kevin Adair in his beautiful 1959 factory alloy bodied Austin Healey 3000 S. With two laps to go, they were nose to tail. Then they encountered traffic, splitting cars left and right, even through the famous Corkscrew! A missed shift exiting turn 11 cost Lindsey a good shot at a pass, and Kevin pulled away again. Undaunted, Lindsey chased Kevin and the Healey down again. They crossed the finish line with Kevin a scant 1⁄2 second ahead, and Lindsey claiming the fastest race lap! The scene in the paddock post-race was as joyous as the racing on the track! We met up with the whole Adair family to celebrate their great race. Levi, after finishing an astounding 7th place in the Crossflow Cup race, came by to congratulate Lindsey. The drivers and crew from Huffaker Motorsports came by as did so many others to offer their congratulations and support. Then Lindsey did her own rounds, walking through the paddock congratulating other drivers, and thanking so many other people that made this race possible for her and all of us.
We loaded up the car and headed out, feeling like we had just been to a big family reunion that also happened to be a race. Thank you to everyone at CSRG for making this extraordinary moment in life possible for not only Lindsey, but her whole family who was either there or receiving reports from the track after every session. It’s not often that a race car driver gets out of their car and the first thing they do is call their mom, but that’s exactly what Lindsey did.
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