Metcalf Racing - Let US Be Your Unfair Advantage!

About Us

Metcalf Racing has a long, varied and successful history in racing. From Formula Fords to Indy Cars and Production Cars to GTP, we have run at tracks across the country, winning races - and sometimes losing, too. We have learned from each one.

As any professional racer will quickly tell you, you must be accomplished in a diversity of disciplines to succeed in racing. We have been racing long enough to be pretty good at a few of them. The links to the left will give you more detailed information on our experience and abilities in specific areas. As an overview, though, let us tell you about some of the projects in which we have been fortunate enough to participate over the years.

In 2002 we received the call you always dream of but never really expect to get. On the other end of the phone was a friend who said, "I just met someone with money who wants to go racing. What do I do?" Needless to say, we jumped into action and formed CGF Racing to contest the initial season of the Infinity Pro Series in IRL. It has since been renamed the Firestone Indy Lights Series but in that initial short season,

running against such teams as Panther, Hemmelgarn, Luyendyk and Foyt Racing, we scored a third place finish at Texas Motor Speedway and a WIN at Gateway International Raceway in St. Louis. The race there was the first in Indy Car history (since 1910) for a car to start from the pole and lead every lap for the win. Ryan Hampton did an excellent job for us as driver shown here at TMS diving under Ed Carpenter at 190 mph.

In 1986 we ran this March 83G-Chevy in selected IMSA GTP races. Brian Goellnicht is at the wheel here at Sears Point. Couldn't keep up with some of the better financed teams but it was great experience.

A very early project was this Hawke DL-9 Formula Ford. It came without engine or gearbox and received

a complete ground up rebuild before being raced. This was back in the mid 1970s. Robert Metcalf shown here a bit younger than now! The Race Car Restoration page has more details and the Gallery more photos.

In 1989 and 1990, Robert engineered for Craig Taylor. Craig was due for a Runoffs victory in Formula Continental and it came in 90. This is the SCCA National Championship victory lap in his DB-6 Swift at Road Atlanta.

1984 was a very special year. Robert had the opportunity to work with the brilliant Michael Roe that year when he won the '84 Can-Am Championship in this VDS-Chevy.

This unusual project came in as a Fabcar built Porsche 962 show car with a Buddy Baker Chevy in it. It had been crashed heavily and required a new carbon nose, new lexan windshield and much fabrication.

Since it was a show car, it was under-braked for racing as well as needing suspension upgrades. We stiffened the suspension mounts and fabricated driver adjustable anti-roll bars. Look for this one at the track. It's not often you see a Porsche powered by a Chevy! (Unless it's a street 911, of course.)

Another early project. This Lola T-140 Chevy Formula 5000 was Robert's in the mid 1970s right after a season in a Sprint Car. No images of the Sprint Car remain but this one was just as much a beast on the road courses. You'll find a few more photos of this monster in the Gallery.

This is the one and only long tail Gulf-Mirage coupe built by John Wyer for Le Mans, M6/603. It had never been developed very thoroughly. We made numerous upgrades to improve braking performance (see Fabrication page), and

suspension and aerodynamic modifications to improve stability. Originally fitted with a Gurney-Weslake V-12, it came to us with a 3 liter Cosworth DFV. After a few races, it was exchanged for a 3.9L DFL which powered it in this photo going into turn 11 at Road Atlanta. It has now been retired and re-fitted with the Gurney-Weslake.

Same car, different number. The long tail is much more evident here.

In 1991, Robert teamed with Dave Salls and designed and built a new state-of-the-art tubular front suspension for Dave's F/P Midget. It resulted in a victory lap at the Runoffs at Atlanta that year (that's Robert in the center of the top row) but the little team got caught up in a Denver power struggle and lost the title. (We still think we won it fair and square!) Read The Successful Race Car Driver for the whole sordid story.