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CHARLIE GIBSON

Charlie Gibson, one of the partners of Sasco Sports, has literally spent most of his adult life involved in car racing, and more particularly in vintage racing over the past 25 years.

Charlie, who was born in New York, attended Williams College and Harvard University and earned his MS in Engineering and ultimately an MBA from Harvard. While attending college, he was a very active as a competitive alpine skier and later served as the President of the U.S. Ski Association.

In 1962, he began working for IBM in marketing and held a number of different assignments in marketing, engineering and business before his retirement in 1988.

Charlie started racing a Sprite in '59 and then acquired a two-year old Lotus 23, which he still owns. In 1967, Charlie was the SCCA champion with it in GM. From 1972 to 1976 Charlie ran a Formula Atlantic March in the Canadian Players Atlantic Series against such luminaries as Bobby Rahal and Gilles Villeneuve. In 1977, he started Sasco Motorsports with Dave Handy in a shop which was part of his house preparing his own and customers' cars. Today they have seven employees in a much larger building. In 1977, Charlie acquired a McLaren M6B Can Am car which he started racing in vintage. Charlie doesn't like to part with his cars and he still owns the McLaren today. He also held onto a Lola Mk 1 sports racer.

Charlie and Dave are always present at the track, and they attend more than than 35 events each season, both as competitors, as the suppliers of racing tires representing Dunlop, Goodyear and Avon, and as supporter of a number of customer racing cars. You will always find Charlie "working his tail off", mounting tires, dealing with customers' tire problems, customers' vehicle problems and then hopping into a car and being totally competitive on the track. The amazing thing is that he does all these things very well and continues to maintain a happy and friendly outlook.

Sasco Sports has been a major Formula 70 sponsor since its inception five years ago, and Charlie and Dave have been leading competitors. Charlie, in fact, is a two-time winner of the Gilles Villeneuve Memorial Trophy, which is the top trophy for the series. Charlie remains one of the most approachable, interesting and knowledgeable people in vintage racing today. He is a tremendous asset to our sport.

- Dick Baker
Monoposto Racing Newsletter, May 1999