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Our Team
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Glenn Long
Owner
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Glenn has been involved with the motorsports industry since the 1970’s. His initial involvement was focused on autocrosses, rallies and time trials with local sports car clubs. He joined SCCA in 1982 and drove an FP Sprite at Lime Rock, Pocono and Bridgehampton in regional races.
In the mid 80’s he ran in the Playboy Escort endurance series. He continued to campaign several cars up and down the east coast, most notably a Cosworth Vega in ITA for many years. Glenn funded his racing by a small part time car repair business.
During the 1990’s Glenn’s attention turned towards giving something back to the racing community in the way of instructing for national marque clubs and SCCA. He also became a committed SCCA worker, specializing in flagging and communications. As the past Regional Executive for the North Carolina Sport Car Club of America region, he has the ability to work directly with sanctioning organizations, tracks and race teams.
In 2001, Glenn formed Long Road Racing (LRR), initially to support his son Tom Long in his early years of racing with SCCA. LRR supported Tom in becoming the 2005 Pro Spec Miata national champion.
Since then, LRR has become a recognized center of excellence for a full slate of racing services. LRR’s primary focus is customer service in support of race team management for both pro and amateur racing teams and individuals, car preparation and enhancement for all brands.
Glenn is also the crew chief for the Freedom Autosports Grand AM effort of multiple ST cars and also supports various GS teams when required.
Glenn received his project management certification from PMI in 2002, which helps him both professionally and in his team management role at LRR.
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Eric Arms
Grand Am Program Owner
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Eric continues to work up through the ranks with a high attention to detail and the willingness to ensure that every time a racecar comes off the trailer it has the capability to either grab the pole or win. Eric credits his skills and work ethic to his father, who always told him to keep an open mind to making things better, lighter, faster.
Eric starting out as a Grand Am Car builder in Indianapolis, specializing in Mazda RX-8’s was his first step into professional racing. Eric quickly absorbed the high value skills and processes that make race teams successful. It didn’t take long before he was promoted to the crew chief position for a championship contending World Challenge Mazda team. The team was also awarded “Crew of the Year” and finished second in the championship.
Ready for the next big thing, it was back into Grand Am racing, in a quest to drive a team all the way to the top. Now employed by Long Road Racing and taking on the Freedom Autosport program, Eric’s has very high expectations for the 2011 season. Eric said “This season is going to be great! New cars, new drivers, new crew and a factory backed Mazda race team….what more could you ask for!!"
If you can’t find Eric at Long Road Racing’s Shop in Raleigh, you will hear the exhaust tone of his Harley on the way out to the coast. See you at the races!!!
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Tom Long
Coaching, Sales and Logistic
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Tom has been racing competitively since 1992. He is the Team Manager and a driver for Freedom Autosport in the GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Street Tuner class. He currently works as a professional driving instructor with BMW Performance Driving School, Skip Barber Racing Schools and at Long Road Racing.
He is VIR Certified ‘House Driving Coach’ for Members Club Events and graduated from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte in 2004 with a degree in business marketing. Tom garnered his first Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge victory in Street Tuner class at Virginia International Raceway in 2009.
He earned first Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Grand Sport pole at Watkins Glen International and landed career-best seventh-place Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge GS points finish in 2007. In Tom’s spare time he enjoys other sports like running, mountain biking, and tennis. He also spends quite a bit of off time in Greenville SC instructing for the BMW Performance Driving school.
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Mark Canup
Club Racing Operations Program Owner
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Mark has been with Freedom Autosports since its inception. (Freedom Autosports is managed by Long Road Racing) He brings us several years experience working with Spec Miatas as well as with the racecar drivers.
Mark worked closely with both Racers Edge and Dempsey Racing in the “Rolex Series” as well as many Daytona 24hr races. He has built both World Challenge and Grand Am racecars. He is a Car Chief as well as a Crew Chief of the #55 GTS Mustang in “World Challenge” through Long Road Racing.
He is the head of our Spec Miata Program and also the motor coach driver for the owner of Freedom Autosport. In his spare time, Mark enjoys spending time with his family and driving a Sportman car at the local dirt tracks!
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Jessica Mace
Inventory, Parts and Graphics
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Jessica Mace Comes to us from a small town in Ohio and has taken over the Parts and Graphics programs at Long Road Racing. Growing up in the shadows of Mid Ohio Sports Car Course and following her grandpa around to SCCA events, Jessica passion for auto racing started at an early age.
While attending The University of Akron, she continued to pursue positions in motorsports. These positions were held with Mid Ohio Sports Car Course, Grand Am, and NASA working as an official. With the past positions Jessica has a high level of dedication to everything that she is a part of.
In Jessica’s spare time she enjoys running, hunting, fishing, shooting, and cooking. One day she would like to have a competition race license, so every chance she gets she is on track with her SVT Focus working on her skills.
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Nic Kaminski
Race Car Maintenance
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Nic up in Illinois and attended Wyotech where learned how to work on cars.
He later worked at Skip Barber Racing School where he perfected his skills on race cars.
In Nic’s free time, he likes to ride dirt bikes and go karts and hang out with friends.
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Guinness
Head of Security
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Guinness has been with Long Road Racing since its inception, and head of security for over 5 years. As you may know, he is a rescue dog from Animal Protection Society of Durham. In a rare interview he recently said “they keep calling me a rescue dog, so I knew what I had to do… rescue someone. I picked Glenn and Alana and then figured out that Glenn needed to be rescued from the corporate world. That’s why I suggested that he start Long Road Racing.”
Guinness brings several unique qualities to the team, as an example he can smell lunch faster than any other team member, loves to ride in the toter for Freedom Autosport and enjoys his Long Road Racing security job.
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Heather Reifschneider
Webmaster
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Heather has over 15 years experience in marketing, advertising and website administration. After attending UNCG for Communications, she worked for an IT consulting company as their E-Business Development Manager and the News & Record as an online account manager.
When she moved to Raleigh in 2002, she started her own freelance business conceptualizing and launching marketing tools for client companies as a marketing and web consultant. She also works as an advertising account executive at the News & Observer. She loves to travel, volunteer, soccer and spending time with her family.
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"I was referred to Long Road Racing when Glenn was working by himself. Since then he has been my “go-to-guy” for anything that has to do with suspension and set-up. He and his crew have always done exceptional work in the friendliest manner possible. They have always been there for information on anything to do with racing and the car that you are driving. If there is something that I can’t do to my car, Long Road Racing is the first place I go to for help! I have referred many people to Glenn and would not hesitate to continue to send referrals his way! In all honesty I hope I never have to find another shop to work with concerning my race car! You will be in good hands with the crew at Long Road Racing!" - Michael Smith
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